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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized. Original 8/18: The Android 13 media controls start with a new size that’s taller than what was on Android 12. (There’s a compact…
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AI art: Death of creative industry, or its savior?

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. With the arrival of AI-generated art and the proliferation of tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E, questions have been rife in circles across the creative industry. Is this a…
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OnePlus 11 appears in official teaser

OnePlus hosted an event today in China to celebrate its ninth anniversary, and as expected, it teased the OnePlus 11 that we’ve been hearing about for some time now. The video shared by OnePlus doesn’t entirely reveal the OnePlus 11, but you can see the circular island on the smartphone’s rear has four circles – one for the flash and three for the cameras. The island sports…
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Google Wallet adds whimsical Pay animations for the holidays

If you recently used Google Wallet on Android, you might have noticed a touch of holiday whimsy on the Pay screen. Normally, tapping your Android phone to an NFC reader shows the card used and a loading animation just above it. The blue circular progress indicator morphs…
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Samsung's new ad tells iPhone users that "the Galaxy awaits you"

Samsung thinks there are a lot of people out there who are “sitting on the fence between Apple and Samsung”. So it made a new ad trying to entice them to come over to its side. An ad that features a literal guy sitting on a literal fence, because that’s literally the most literal joke that anyone could ever come up with. So, to the people on the fence, be it literal or not…
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Google enables Matter across Nest Home and Android devices

This Thursday, Google officially launches support for Matter on Google Nest and Android devices. Matter is a new unified smart home platform that aids the interoperability between ecosystems and lets one platform borrow an incompatible device’s support. Google has…
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Google spotted beta testing state ID cards in Android Wallet in Maryland

A report from confirms that Google is beta testing support for digital identification cards in the Google Wallet app. Apple Wallet currently supports adding ID cards from three states including Maryland, Colorado, and Arizona. A tipster sent in screen shots to and shared the process required to add a new ID card to the Wallet. First scan the front of the ID > scan the back > take a short…
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