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Shazam’s new Android widget lets you stay on the homescreen

November 23, 2022
Homescreen widgets have seen a new resurgence in the past year with Android 12+, and Shazam has just revamped theirs to be more than just a shortcut that opens the app. The old Shazam widget was just a larger shortcut that immediately opened the app on-click to start listening. Version 13.7 introduces a widget that lets you “Shazam music directly from your home screen.” A “Tap to Shazam”…
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Pixel Watch confirmed to support transit cards in Google Wallet with future update

November 23, 2022
The first Pixel Watch app update has widely rolled out at this point, with Google last week sharing a few other community updates, including future transit card support. In a vaguely newsletter-esque forum post called “The Google Pixel Watch minute,” a “Trending topics in the community” section provides some interesting answers. As we’ve expected, the company is “planning to bring”…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

November 23, 2022
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…
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EA's return to college football games will arrive in summer 2024

November 23, 2022
A year after it was first announced, EA’s return to college football has a release window. In an interview with ESPN, Daryl Holt, the vice president and general manager of the company’s EA Sports division, said the publisher plans to release the game in the summer of 2024. If another year-and-a-half of development sounds like a lot for what will become an annual release for EA, it’s because…
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Sonicware's latest groovebox is made for lofi beats

November 23, 2022
You know that lofi beats have taken over when companies are designing entire instruments around them. Sonicware has introduced the Liven Lofi-12, a groovebox devoted to producing subdued tracks. The machine centers around a 16-bit, 12/24kHz sampling engine with a 12-bit…
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iOS 16 notifications: Three ways to change the new design

November 23, 2022
To coincide with the new Lock Screen widgets, Apple has also redesigned the notification system in iOS 16. Starting this year, notifications now appear at the bottom of your Lock Screen rather than at the top below the clock. This change is proving to be controversial for many iPhone users, but there are a few settings you can tweak that might improve the experience for you… iOS 16…
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