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Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google plans to roll out a redesigned Home app on May 11, with a Favorites tab, new device type support, and an eventual iOS update to support Matter devices  —  A much-needed update brings greater control and customizability.  Plus, Google updates its iOS app to support Matter devices.

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Exploring the Early Days of QRP Radio

Morse code might seem obsolete but for situations with extremely limited bandwidth it’s often still the best communications option available. The code requires a fair amount of training to use effectively, though, and even proficient radio operators tend to send only around 20 words per minute. As a result of the reduced throughput, a type

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Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools (Steve Dent/Engadget)

Steve Dent / Engadget: Google launches a dedicated Labs page, where users can sign up to test Google’s early ideas for features and products, including Search and Workspace AI tools  —  It has AI powered search, code tips and more.  —  It’s fair to say that Google was caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s launch …

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Google Pixel 7a review: the best midrange Android phone, with wireless charging and good performance, camera, and screen, but a slow fingerprint scanner (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Google Pixel 7a review: the best midrange Android phone, with wireless charging and good performance, camera, and screen, but a slow fingerprint scanner  —  It’s $50 more than the Pixel 6A, but some key upgrades keep Google’s A-series at the top of the midrange class.

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Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda in partnership taxes (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk)

Tracy Wang / CoinDesk: Filings: the US Internal Revenue Service filed claims worth nearly $44B against FTX companies, including a $20.4B claim against Alameda in partnership taxes  —  The largest of the claims includes a $20.4 billion claim against Alameda Research LLC, which details nearly $20 billion in unpaid partnership taxes.

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Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022 (Bill Peters/MarketWatch)

Bill Peters / MarketWatch: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022  —  Analysts expected weaker volume heading into the results  —  Shares of Robinhood Markets Inc. moved higher on Wednesday

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Google launches MusicLM, an experimental AI tool that can turn text prompts into several song versions, in its AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google launches MusicLM, an experimental AI tool that can turn text prompts into several song versions, in its AI Test Kitchen app on the web, Android, and iOS  —  Google today released MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn text descriptions into music.

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Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today’s ML workloads” (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Google Cloud announces a new A3 GPU supercomputer VM powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs, built to deliver “the highest-performance training for today’s ML workloads”  —  As we’ve seen LLMs and generative AI come screaming into our consciousness in recent months, it’s clear that these models …

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Robinhood announces 24-hour trading of select stocks and ETFs, five days per week, starting with 43 securities next week and available to all users by June 2023 (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Robinhood announces 24-hour trading of select stocks and ETFs, five days per week, starting with 43 securities next week and available to all users by June 2023  —  The online brokerage says all customers will have access by next month  —  Users of Robinhood Markets’ popular app will soon …

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Unity reports Q1 revenue up 56% YoY to $500M, vs. $480M est., net loss up 43% YoY to $254M, and Q2 revenue guidance above analyst estimates; U jumps 10%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Unity reports Q1 revenue up 56% YoY to $500M, vs. $480M est., net loss up 43% YoY to $254M, and Q2 revenue guidance above analyst estimates; U jumps 10%+  —  – Shares of Unity Software popped in extended trading Wednesday after the company released first-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations …

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The Oura Ring is getting even smarter with Lifesum sleep and nutrition tracking

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Oura is now partnering with Lifesum, a healthy eating platform offering personalized meal planning and food tracking. The companies aim to help users understand the critical relationship between nutrition and sleep. The Oura and Lifesum platforms integrate on Google’s Health Connect for Android platform. Announced today at Google I/O,

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Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company plans to add Hulu content to Disney+ by the end of 2023; standalone options for its platforms, including ESPN+, will remain (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company plans to add Hulu content to Disney+ by the end of 2023; standalone options for its platforms, including ESPN+, will remain  —  – Disney+ will add content from Hulu to create a “one-app experience,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said.

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Google unveils generative AI wallpapers, exclusive for Pixel phones, and Magic Compose, which offers auto-suggested responses in Android’s default Messages app (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google unveils generative AI wallpapers, exclusive for Pixel phones, and Magic Compose, which offers auto-suggested responses in Android’s default Messages app  —  Generative AI is all the rage — and Google has found two new ways to put the tech in the palm of your hand.

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How to preorder the Google Pixel Fold and Pixel 7A

Suddenly, June can’t come soon enough. | Image: Google After the rumors, leaks, and an early tease, Google has now properly introduced both its new flagship foldable and midrange slab phone offerings: the Pixel Fold and the Pixel 7A. These were some of the showcase device announcements at the tech giant’s Google I/O 2023 keynote,

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Google announces Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from the documents that users upload or have in Google Drive (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google announces Project Tailwind, an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from the documents that users upload or have in Google Drive  —  Google has launched “Project Tailwind,” a new AI-first tool that is effectively a notebook of the future to help you research information as you write about it.

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Google Pixel Fold poll: Hot or not?

Credit: Google The Pixel Fold is here, and with it, Google has made its intentions known for the foldable space. The company isn’t shying away from an ultra-premium $1,799 price that immediately pushes the phone up there with the likes of the Galaxy Z Fold 4. Google is also leaving no stone unturned when it

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