After a recent update, Android Auto now displays a circle with Google Assistant’s trademark four-color bar along its edge when the voice assistant is waiting for a reply from users.
As 9to5Google notes, it bears at least a little resemblance to Siri’s glowing orb, which is set for a glow-up when Apple updates that UI for Apple Intelligence.
It’s been years since I felt the urge to play 2048, a game where you slide and match numbered tiles to reach the number 2,048.
I wonder if that would change if I had Tiny2048, a small 2048-playing gadget spotted by Hackaday that you tilt to slide and combine RGB LED “tiles.” The source code on GitHub reveals what number each color represents. (2,048 is white).
Apple is still planning to refresh the entry-level and mid-tier AirPods models this fall, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman wrote today in the subscriber-only version of Power On, reaffirming his earlier reporting.
What he didn’t mention is a 2024 AirPods Max refresh he’d also mentioned before. It’s been nearly four years since they were released — one hopes they’re still on Apple’s roadmap.
Sophia Tung, who runs a 24/7 livestream of a Waymo parking lot, says on Reddit she’ll interview the director, Vishay Nihalani on the stream on Monday at 2:30PM PT / 5:30PM ET.
Tung plans to discuss the robotaxis’ 4AM honking and Waymo’s subsequent fix. She’s taking suggestions, like asking about highway testing or odd parking lot behavior. (There’s a spreadsheet.)
Correction: Nihalani is Waymo’s director of product management and operations, not the operations boss.
The site accuses Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes of a “secret order” to arrest its legal representative if X doesn’t “comply with his censorship orders.” Despite the change, “X service remains available to the people of Brazil.”
Justice de Moraes opened an investigation of the platform in April over its reactivation of accounts it was ordered to block. (The site soon reversed course.)
In the latest public beta for Google Maps, the app will automatically download maps, apparently for your local area, and you’ll have the option to delete them, according to 9to5Google.
Without the update, you’d need an LTE version of wearables like the Pixel Watch 2 for turn-by-turn directions without a paired phone nearby. (The Pixel Watch 3 already supports offline maps.)
[9to5Google]
