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Is your smartphone about to replace your doctor? Probably not, but if you own a Pixel phone from Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, you’ll soon be getting some basic medical diagnostic capability on your device. Next month, with an update to the Google Fit app, the cameras on such models will be… Source link

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Google is adding new biometric features to smartphones. Angela Lang/CNET … Source link

Google’s latest Pixel phones, the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A 5G follow last summer’s launch of the Pixel 4A. The… Source link

Andrew Hoyle/CNET Google released five different Pixel phones in the US in 2020, but only three… Source link

TipRanks Is Bionano Stock Still Worth Buying After Its 2,300%-Plus Rally? Analyst Weighs In To say it is all coming together nicely for Bionano Genomics (BNGO) would be a bit of an understatement. The life sciences company’s rise has been particularly eye-catching; Over the past 2 months, BNGO has surged by a breathtaking 2,344%. Investors have evidently gotten wise to the opportunity Bionano represents in the world of cytogenetics and genomics, due to the potential of its genome imaging… Source link

(CNN) —   Google’s Pixel smartphone line may not be as popular as Samsung’s Galaxy S series or Apple’s iPhone, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider any one of these Android phones. Currently, the Pixel lineup consists of the $349 Pixel 4a, $499 Pixel 4a 5G and $699 Pixel 5. And the highlight of any of these are the Google-exclusive features. Those tweaks add valuable features like call screening or live captions… Source link

Pixel 5 and 4a 5G users can no longer use their ultra-wide cameras to take pictures of the stars: Google apparently removed the lens’s astrophotography capabilities with the Google Camera 8.1 update. The feature was a selling point of the Pixel 4, and was available on the regular and telephoto cameras. When the 4a 5G and 5 were announced with new wide-angle lenses, the feature was added to those as well. Now it’s been taken away. The astrophotography feature lets users capture the… Source link

Enlarge / Google’s Messaging app. It’s broken now. Google If the text messages on your Android phone have suddenly stopped working, you’re not alone. Google pushed out a bad copy of the Carrier Services app, and the result was broken SMS on many Android phones. It also sounds like the company is rolling back the update and fixing the problem. Carrier Services is a little-known Android system component that popped up on the Play Store in 2017…. Source link

Google has started to push out version 8.1 of its Google Camera app to Pixel phones, meaning owners of older devices will be getting some of the functionality from the new Pixel 5. Version 8.0 of the app was previously only available on the Pixel 5, but 9to5Google reports that 8.1 should work on phones as old as the Pixel 2 and 2 XL. The update was first noticed by Kelvin Peralta on Twitter. The app isn’t a total overhaul, but some of the features have been redesigned or reshuffled. New… Source link