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Google Arts & Culture update brings new icon, ditches the museum look

Starting today, Google Arts & Culture has ditched its classic icon, styled after a museum, for something more modern. Google Arts & Culture is the company’s portal to the wide world of artwork, history, and fun, bringing the learning experience of a museum to your own home. Matching that feel, the app has long been represented by a Material Design styled logo made to look like the…
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Google Meet rolling out in-call emoji reactions

In addition to raising your hand or using text chat, Google Meet is adding emoji reactions that appear “as a small badge in the sender’s video tile.” This feature has been planned since 2021. Besides the top-left corner, emoji reaction will float up the left side of your screen as they’re sent, with Google noting how you’ll see a burst of emoji “when there are multiple user…
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Google Meet adding 360-degree backgrounds on Android and iOS

Google Meet already offers a number of effects to customize your video feed and will soon add 360-degree backgrounds.  These 360-degree backgrounds move with your mobile device by taking advantage of gyroscope/orientation data. Google tells us that the backgrounds are…
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First official Samsung Galaxy S23 pictures arrive showing off colors [Gallery]

The Galaxy S23 from Samsung is set to be announced on the first day of February. Even though that’s a given, we haven’t seen official marketing photos of the Galaxy S23 leak, at least until now. A new set of official-looking marketing photos have surfaced showcasing the device in four new colors. The Galaxy S23 is set to be the best of the best, though not much has really surfaced other than…
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iPhone 15 Pro won’t feature clicky volume and power buttons

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is doubling down on his prediction that the iPhone 15 Pro models will switch from physical volume and power buttons to new solid-state buttons. If iPhone users “respond well” to this change, Kuo explains that Apple will likely roll out the change to other high-end devices in the future. Kuo first reported on this change in October, explaining that the clicky volume…
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