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Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, adding group chat to RCS, AI-powered edit suggestions to Google Photos, live notifications on lock screen, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/goo…

Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, unveils AI-powered edit suggestion for Google Photos | TechCrunch
Google is releasing Android 16 to Pixel phones and rolling out additional updates to other Pixel devices.

Wow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn was already vanishingly low (one way to ensure I won't read something is to po…

Android 16 ist fertig: Mit Live-Updates, aber ohne Material 3 Expressive
Android 16 ist fertig. Das große Update des mobilen Betriebssystems wird zunächst für Googles Pixel-Geräte verteilt. Material 3 Expressive fehlt jedoch noch.

AirPods: Diese neuen Features kommen mit iOS 26
Apple ergänzt den Funktionsumfang seiner Ohrstöpsel einmal mehr: Verbesserte Audioqualität für Anrufe, "Studio-Mikrofon" und Kamerafernsteuerung kommen bald.

#Google #PixelBuds 2
Für den stark rabattierten Kauf eine gute Gelegenheit. Klingen voll und satt und sitzen - obwohl ich kein InEar-Fan bin - gut und angenehm.

Google Pixel Buds 2
Die Frau hat neulich ein Google Pixel 9a bekommen, weil wir einen Gutscheincode von Google hatten und inkl. dem Trade-In vom alten Google Pixel 4a 5G war es ein wohlfeiler Preis. Zudem gab es obendrauf noch die Google Pixel Buds …

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Android 16: Google bohrt den Desktopmodus auf
Google hat den Desktopmodus für Android für Entwickler zum Testen mit dem Update von Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 freigegeben – Pixel 8 oder 9 vorausgesetzt. 
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12857 has been replaced.
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The influence of pixel cell layout on the timing performance of 3D sensors
Three-dimensional (3D) pixel sensors are a promising technology for implementing the 4D-tracking paradigm in high-radiation environments. Despite their advantages in radiation tolerance, 3D pixel sensors exhibit non-uniform electric and weighting fields that can degrade timing performance. This study explores the impact of pixel cell geometry on the timing characteristics of 3D columnar-electrode sensors fabricated by IMB-CNM, comparing square and hexagonal layouts. The sensors were characteriz…

Android 16 review: live updates and Advanced Protection are nice, but features like desktop mode and Material 3 Expressive design won't come until later in 2025 (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/an…

Android 16 is here, but the cool stuff is coming later
Android 16 arrives with a few new goodies, but the big changes are still cooking.

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CAST: Contrastive Adaptation and Distillation for Semi-Supervised Instance Segmentation
Instance segmentation demands costly per-pixel annotations and large models. We introduce CAST, a semi-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) framework that compresses pretrained vision foundation models (VFM) into compact experts using limited labeled and abundant unlabeled data. CAST unfolds in three stages: (1) domain adaptation of the VFM teacher(s) via self-training with contrastive pixel calibration, (2) distillation into a compact student via a unified multi-objective loss that couples…

Algebraic Geometry of Cactus, Pascal, and Pappus Matroids
Emiliano Liwski, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Lisa Vandebrouck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07757 https://

Algebraic Geometry of Cactus, Pascal, and Pappus Matroids
We study rank-three matroids, known as point-line configurations, and their associated matroid varieties, defined as the Zariski closures of their realization spaces. Our focus is on determining finite generating sets of defining equations for these varieties, up to radical, and describing the irreducible components of the corresponding circuit varieties. We generalize the notion of cactus graphs to matroids, introducing a family of point-line configurations whose underlying graphs are cacti. O…