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AAA 629: The Password Paradigm - Google IO preview, Passkeys launch, Finder Network, Magic Compose, Google TV
1 hour 39 minutes Posted May 9, 2023 at 9:51 pm.
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  • Google IO preview!
  • Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You've turned them on, right?
  • The beginning of the end of the password.
  • Apple and Google team up to bring AirTag-like unwanted tracking alerts to all item trackers on iPhone and Android.
  • Android's 'Finder Network' should support some existing Bluetooth trackers.
  • Google TV update rolling out with performance boost, frees up storage with app hibernation.
  • Improvements to your Google TV Experience.
  • Android update fixes a vulnerability that lets system apps be downgraded beyond the factory version.
  • Improving Consistency of Background Work on Android.
  • @MishaalRahman: Google's working to bring Material Design to Android Automotive OS, but unlike on phones, colors will be chosen by the OEM instead of derived by an algorithm.
  • @MishaalRahman: Following the Bluetooth, WiFi, and UWB stacks, Google will next turn Android's NFC stack into a modular system component, i.e. a Project Mainline module!
  • Tutorial: How to stop apps like Authy, Venmo, etc., from being locked to portrait mode on Android tablets/foldables.
  • Gmail is adding a blue checkmark to better verify senders.
  • Google Messages 'Magic Compose' AI can reply to friends – or write them a song.
  • @MishaalRahman: According to a few users on Telegram, the Google Play Store is starting to show ads for apps in the search screen. Is anyone else seeing this?
  • JR's tip of the week: Notification alerts!
  • Notification Light - aodNotify.
  • Missed call reminder, Flash on.
  • Another viewer's tablet journey.
  • Why not use a phone as a hotspot to drive the tablet in the car?

Read our show notes here: https://bit.ly/42JjzjM

Hosts: Jason Howell, Ron Richards, and Huyen Tue Dao

Co-Hosts: Mishaal Rahman and JR Raphael

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