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    Pixel Watches will be able to alert you of scam calls.

    Google’s Scam Detection feature, which works on Pixel Watch 2 and 3 devices connected to a Pixel 9 and newer phone, will notify you if it thinks you’re talking to a scammer on a call, according to a support post.

    Google Play services are also getting updates, including the ability to add a nickname to Wallet passes. And an Android security update addressed two issues that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation.”

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    Here’s how Trump’s tariffs will affect the music business.

    Good video from Billboard’s Kristin Robinson.

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    Jay Peters
    AI podcasts about ‘cultural artifacts.’

    Google Arts & Culture will be able to make “insightful audio episodes” about artifacts with help from Gemini as part of an experimental feature, Google says in a blog post.

    Here’s an image from Google about what the podcasts look like.
    Here’s an image from Google about what the podcasts look like.
    Image: Google
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    Jay Peters
    The New Yorker profiled Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

    It’s a pretty interesting article at about Graber and Bluesky as a whole.

    It also includes a nugget that Graber and Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko met about having the platforms interoperate, but “each told me that the other seemed more interested in having the rival platform migrate onto their own protocol,” author Kyle Chayka writes.

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    Don’t lick a Switch 2 cart.

    Like OG Switch carts, they taste bad, Nintendo’s Takuhiro Dohta told GameSpot. “We don’t want anybody to be at risk of any unwanted consumption,” Dohta says. “We have indeed made it so that if it enters your mouth, you’ll spit it out.”

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    Kamala Harris is now on Bluesky.

    She made her first post today. Hillary Clinton joined the platform last week.