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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 into a checkmark with that circle then shrinking to make way for the Google Pay logo.  During the holidays, the blue checkmark can morph into any number of characters. One of the more elaborate animations is a cat… Source link

Getty Images The company once regarded as the frontrunner for NFL Sunday Ticket has opted to take a Sunday drive, instead. Buried in an item on Puck.news from Dylan Byer and Julia Alexander regarding recent changes at the top of Disney is an NFL bombshell: Apple has bowed out of the bidding for the out-of-market package the DirecTV will relinquish in only 23 days. Here’s the key quote, from Byer: “I’m now told that Apple, once… Source link

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 17 ― Google rivals on Thursday unveiled a project to make freely available data sets for map features to be built into online offerings. Alphabet-owned Google dominates online mapping, selling its services to other companies or platforms and using location and navigation capabilities to enhance its other offerings, including online advertising. Meta, Microsoft, TomTom and Amazon Web Services have now introduced what they call the Overture Maps Foundation, the goal of… Source link

The Google Home Wear OS 3 app has been updated and includes a new list view and performance improvements. Back in October, Google announced a Public Preview of its Google Home app for Wear OS smartwatches. The app was only compatible with Wear OS 3 smartwatches, and at the time, it was pretty bare-bones, lacking many advanced features. But at least it was something. Today, Google took to Twitter to announce that it had made some updates for the Public… Source link

Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google. The company announced the beta, which Workspace administrators can sign up for until January 20th, in a blog post on Friday. Once the feature is enabled and set up for a workspace’s users, they’ll have an additional option when using the web version of Gmail. Clicking on a padlock will let them… Source link

Command your 2023 Accord Touring with Assistant Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are quite effective at smartifying your car’s infotainment system and bringing the familiarity of your smartphone OS to your commute. Android Automotive takes things a step further, letting your car run Android OS natively. Honda initially planned to introduce cars with AAOS in 2022, but it looks like things will finally kick off next year, as the car-maker confirms plans for the… Source link

Apple, Google, and Mozilla, the makers of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, are teaming up to create a next-gen browser benchmark called Speedometer 3, according to tweets from all three companies. This means that the major players in the web browser and rendering engine space will have a say in a benchmark that’s meant to test how their apps perform with the latest tech that websites may be using. In a Twitter thread, Mozilla says that a benchmark built by several web companies will help… Source link

Enlarge / The Overture Maps logo. Overture Maps Foundation Google Maps is getting some competition. The Linux Foundation has announced Overture Maps, a “new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide.” It’s an open source mapping effort that includes a list of heavy hitters: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom,… Source link

Skiff cofounders Andrew Milich (left) and Jason Ginsberg (right) are building an end-to-end encrypted workplace suit. They met while planning a hackathon in Stanford. Skiff “Google, Amazon, and Facebook have sort of turned the private human experience into the raw material of the digital economy,” Skiff CTO Jason Ginsberg says. The world needs an alternative workspace suite to Google, says Dan Guido, a long-time user of Skiff, a private and end-to-end encrypted email provider. Now,… Source link

Home to the famed UFO Alley, interest in the area has spiked in part thanks to a History Channel series. Courtesy of Skinwalker Ranch Located about 150 miles away from both Salt Lake City and Grand Junction, Gusher — an unincorporated area in northeast Utah — is an unlikely location for Google Maps’ top searched cultural landmark in Google’s Year in Review 2022. But Gusher’s Skinwalker Ranch, famed for its paranormal activity, was No. 1 on the list this year. “Recognized as the most… Source link