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Getting iPhone owners to switch to Android is Google’s perennial aim, and its latest advertising campaign is trying an “It’s all good” approach/tagline.
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Google recently introduced a new security measure for Pixel phones called Binary Transparency to provide user-verifiable guarantees that their devices haven’t been compromised.
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It’s been well over a year since Google gave Quick Settings a big Material You overhaul with Android 12. Initial impressions were centered around the sparseness of the new UI, but now that more time has passed, what do you think of Quick Settings?
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Google announced the App Defense Alliance (ADA) three years ago to “stop bad apps before they reach users’ devices,” and today recapped its work in 2022.
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As expected, Google has started beta testing digital driver’s license and state ID card support on Android through Wallet, starting with the state of Maryland. 
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Yesterday, the Google Wallet Quick Settings tile started showing the full name of a card instead of just the last four digits. This was rather annoying, and Google looks to have reverted this change.
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Given the large user base, Google rarely makes major changes to the interface of its browser. However, one in-development redesign plans to “modernize” the Chrome Omnibox on Android, and the end result looks a lot like the Pixel Launcher.
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The Private Compute Core (PCC) was announced with Android 12 to let ML-backed features operate in a privacy-conscious manner independent of other parts of the OS, including third-party apps. Google recently published a technical whitepaper detailing t…

The Material Design team has an interesting blog post into what it calls the “24-hour Clock Design Challenge” that chronicles Google’s work creating a time picker for those that use a 24-hour format clock on their Android devices.
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Last year, Google announced Android Open Source Project (AOSP) support for Rust, and today the company provided an update, while highlighting the decline in memory safety vulnerabilities.
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