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One UI 9.0 traz bloqueios graduais e bloqueio permanente após 13 erros, reforçando a segurança do dispositivo Samsung.
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As ferramentas de inteligência artificial estão mudando a forma como criamos e compartilhamos conteúdos de viagem. Hoje, uma simples fotografia pode se transformar num vídeo dinâmico, com movimentos, efeitos e uma narrativa mais envolvente.
Com plataformas como o AIReel, é possível converter fotos de viagem em vídeo de forma rápida, criando memórias digitais mais vivas sem precisar de experiência em edição profissional.
Durante anos, as fotografias foram a principal forma de guardar momentos de viagem. No entanto, à medida que o consumo de vídeo continua a crescer, muitas pessoas começaram a procurar formas mais dinâmicas de reviver e compartilhar essas experiências.
A inteligência artificial está tornando este processo mais simples. Em vez de depender de programas complexos de edição, usuários podem transformar fotografias estáticas em pequenos vídeos com movimento, transições e efeitos visuais em poucos minutos.
Ferramentas como o AIReel permitem fazer esta transformação de forma acessível, ajudando qualquer pessoa a converter imagens de viagem em vídeos mais envolventes sem precisar de conhecimentos avançados de edição.
Uma fotografia consegue guardar um momento, mas um vídeo consegue transmitir melhor a sensação desse momento. É aqui que a inteligência artificial começa a mudar a forma como as pessoas preservam as suas memórias de viagem.
Com a tecnologia atual, uma fotografia de uma paisagem, cidade ou momento especial pode ganhar movimento natural. A IA consegue criar transições, pequenos movimentos de câmera e efeitos que tornam a experiência mais próxima de um vídeo real.
Cada viagem tem uma história diferente, e as ferramentas de IA permitem transformar várias fotografias numa sequência com ritmo e estilo próprios. Recursos de conversão de imagem em vídeo com IA ajudam usuários a criar vídeos únicos, combinando fotografias, animações e estilos visuais sem processos complicados.
Muitas pessoas têm centenas ou até milhares de fotografias guardadas no telefone ou no computador que raramente voltam a ver. Transformar algumas dessas imagens em vídeos pode ser uma forma simples de recuperar memórias esquecidas e dar-lhes um novo significado.
Em vez de publicar apenas uma fotografia, os viajantes podem criar pequenas histórias em vídeo. Ferramentas como o AIReel, uma solução de imagem para vídeo IA, permitem converter imagens estáticas em vídeos com movimento, ajudando criadores a produzir conteúdos mais atrativos e dinâmicos.
Muitas pessoas gostam de fotografar durante as viagens para guardar os melhores momentos, mas transformar essas imagens em vídeos interessantes pode ser um processo demorado e complicado. Com as ferramentas de IA, criar vídeos de viagem personalizados a partir de fotografias tornou-se uma tarefa muito mais simples e acessível.
Antes de criar um vídeo, selecione imagens que contem uma história. Uma boa combinação de paisagens, pessoas e pequenos detalhes da viagem ajuda a criar um resultado mais emocional e envolvente.
Pense no tipo de experiência que pretende transmitir. Pode optar por um estilo mais cinematográfico, descontraído ou focado nas redes sociais, dependendo do objetivo final do vídeo.
Com ferramentas como o AIReel, o processo de criação torna-se mais rápido. Basta carregar as fotografias, adicionar um prompt com a descrição do movimento ou estilo pretendido, e a plataforma gera rapidamente um vídeo de viagem mais dinâmico e atrativo a partir das imagens.
Depois de gerar o vídeo, pequenos ajustes podem melhorar a experiência final. Escolher a duração adequada, adicionar música ou adaptar o formato para plataformas como Instagram, TikTok ou YouTube Shorts pode tornar o conteúdo mais apelativo.
A forma como guardamos as nossas viagens está mudando. As fotografias continuam sendo importantes, mas os vídeos oferecem uma maneira mais próxima de reviver sons, movimentos e emoções associadas a cada momento.
Com ferramentas de inteligência artificial cada vez mais acessíveis, transformar uma coleção de fotografias numa história visual deixará de ser algo reservado a profissionais de edição. Para muitos viajantes, será simplesmente uma nova forma de contar as suas próprias experiências.
Al lancio della serie Galaxy S27, previsto per l'inizio del 2027, manca ancora un po'. Ma ora che Samsung ha lanciato i suoi nuovi pieghevoli, dobbiamo aspettarci come da tradizione che rumor e leak sui prossimi flagship tradizionali si facciano più frequenti.
L'ultimo leak arriva dal portale WinFuture, e svela i nomi codice dei dispositivi oltre ad anticipare alcuni dettagli relativi ad uno degli aspetti più importanti degli smartphone moderni, specie di quelli destinati alla fascia alta del mercato: ovvero il comparto fotografico.
Stando a quanto emerso Samsung starebbe lavorando alla gamma Galaxy S27 sotto il nome in codice "NM", sigla che potrebbe indicare "New Miracle" o "Next Miracle", dato che la sere Galaxy S26 era invece identificata internamente come "Miracle". E qui troviamo la prima conferma importante, perché i dispositivi sono quattro: NM1, NM2, NM3 e NM4, ciascuno associato a un modello della futura famiglia. E quindi oltre ai "soliti" Galaxy S27 base, Galaxy S27+ e Galaxy S27 Ultra, come anticipato dai rumor dovrebbe esserci una variante inedita: Galaxy S27 Pro.
Isn’t it funny that we take the flexible screen so for granted that we complain over a crease and lack of flatness? The screen folds to become half its size and unfolds to about the size of a mini-tablet, and we’re still not satisfied. I guess that’s what makes us — or maybe Samsung — human. You see, it wasn’t satisfied, either, at least with the already quite thin and pretty remarkable Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7.
That 4.2mm thick device that features two displays and yet is somehow lighter than the Galaxy S26 Ultra was close to flat and did have a less noticeable crease at the bend, but apparently Samsung thought it could do better, which is how we got the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22.
That’s right, it’s now an Ultra device, though that has more to do with the other new entry in the folding lineup: the 4:3 ratio Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8. This new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is not, after all, a full-scale redesign and is, instead, a refinement that brings better cameras (an upgraded 200MP camera with an f-stop adjustment, a new 50MP ultra-wide that matches the Galaxy S26 Ultra), a new 5,000mAh silicon-carbon battery, an anti-reflective coating on the display, and, somehow, a thinner body.
At 4.1mm, you might be hard-pressed to notice the difference between Samsung's two most recent foldable flagships, though I can tell you that the chassis is now so thin, it barely squeezes in a USB-C port.
What is noticeable, though, is that the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra unfolds its 8.1-inch OLED display effectively flat, and the crease is all but gone. (The phone actually almost snaps to flat and is somewhat less adjustable between flat and folded modes.)
That’s due to the lightweight but also very strong titanium architecture behind that OLED panel. There has been a rigid titanium backplate behind the OLED panel since the Galaxy Z Fold 7, but the lattice work along the crease — in the center of the panel — has been totally redesigned from a seemingly infinite series of parallel holes to holes that start narrow on top but open up on the opposite side (it’s sort of an “A” shape). Stacked on top of that panel now is another far more flexible titanium alloy sheet (a mix of titanium and other metals like aluminum and chrome). It’s about as flexible as a sheet of paper (I touched it, I know) but with infinitely more strength.
The combination of these two panels, which are sandwiched and glued together along with the OLED panel, an ultra-thin glass pane, and a plastic screen protector, all work in concert to allow the panel to be both 30% easier to open (a new chamfered display frame edge also assists here) and more inclined to pop out flat. And that makes the crease almost invisible.
I know all this because I met with Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display engineers in South Korea who worked together to bring the Z Fold 8 Ultra to life.
Even though I sort of understood how these elements worked together to make a flatter whole, I couldn’t entirely figure out how the rigid back plane was flexible enough to make the folding and unfolding possible, but Byung Duk Yang, EVP at Core Component Technology Team, Samsung Electronics, put a finer point on it for me.
Sitting next to a specially designed flexible display blow-out diorama featuring all those aforementioned panels hanging inside like so many curtains, Yang explained, “You’re right. Titanium is basically not flexible. We use a titanium plate already, but there are micro-holes to get the stretchability — so that is basic titanium. But this time we used the new titanium alloy — we needed some stretchability. That’s why it is not 100% titanium; it’s titanium alloy.”
The switch to the titanium alloy, which replaced a thicker polymer layer, is key because, with titanium’s ability to better withstand long-term deformation, it’s less likely that the now mostly hidden crease will grow more prominent over time.
As I noted, people tend to, with these foldables, fixate on the crease, but Yang explained that in designing these panels, Samsung Display has many considerations. “The crease itself is not our only top priority. We have to consider durability and surface quality.”
I also traveled to Samsung’s Gumi Factory City in South Korea, where I witnessed the new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and its new sibling, the Galaxy Z Fold 8, undergo rigorous stress tests that included extreme heating and cooling, folding and unfolding tens of thousands of times, and ball-drop tests in which metal balls are repeatedly dropped on the screens from various heights.
From what I could tell, the Z Fold 8 and Z Fold 8 Ultra are quite resilient and, in the Z Fold 8 Ultras I saw, less reflective.
The new antireflective coating appears to do its part in helping the flexible display hide the crease. After all, less light is bouncing back to your eyes. And when I visited the Gumi testing lab, I saw how they used a special box with a dome of brilliant white light and a spectrometer to test display reflectivity. The light robotically moved around the Z Fold 8 Ultra panel to assess general reflectivity but also how the light might bounce off the crease. Results are gathered by a computer in a lab that runs 24 hours a day. We were, by the way, the first reporters ever to see it in person.
I’ve been pondering, though, what comes next for the Galaxy Z Fold lineup. Unless Samsung removes the USB-C port, it really can’t get any thinner. But the display could get at least one cool improvement; Samsung confirmed to me that they are thinking about how the Privacy Display on the Galaxy S26 Ultra might come to a future folding device. As you may recall, that privacy technology works at a pixel level to hide your screen from prying eyes, so it would require a very specific update to the flexible OLED panel.
In the meantime, though, consumers will have to consider this new Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, perhaps the thinnest, flattest, and fullest expression of Samsung’s foldable ambitions.
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Com uma abordagem mais focada na pricavidade, o FUTO Keyboard está disponível para smartphones Android e inclui várias das funcionalidades que é possível encontrar nos teclados mais populares, como o Gboard ou o SwiftKey.
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Ryan Whitwam (PDF, Reddit):
Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent the intervening years challenging that decision, but the continent’s highest court has put a stop to that. The Court of Justice of the European Union has affirmed the penalty, meaning Google is out of options.
[…]
The EU took issue with Google search and Chrome being the default options on Android. Even devices made by other companies, such as Samsung and Xiaomi, include Google apps as the default per the Android licensing agreement, giving Google an unfair advantage, according to European antitrust regulators. This is not to be confused with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine against Google’s advertising monopoly issued by the European Union last year.
In 2022, a lower EU court reduced the fine to the current 4.1 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros previously.
Google has argued that the Android operating system provides choice for users and supports developers and businesses across Europe.
Via John Gruber:
Google last year booked $132 billion in profit; this fine is about 3 percent of that..
[…]
There’s never a reason not to string the appeal process out, but it’s especially true when your profits are growing at an exceptional rate. By growing their profits around 5×, they’ve reduced the relative sting of this fine by 5×
Previously:
Para quem deseja mudar do ecossistema iPhone para Android, a Google facilita o processo com uma nova ferramenta nativa disponível na mais recente versão do sistema operativo.
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The rumors haven't left much to the imagination, but Samsung has unfurled its 2026 foldable lineup today. There are three models for the first time in Samsung's eight-gen foldable family, including the top-of-the-line Z Fold 8 Ultra. That phone is the successor to last year's Galaxy Z Fold 7, but the Z Fold 8 is new—the company's first wide-body foldable designed for media over multitasking. And then there's a new, thinner flip phone, plus a pair of smartwatches.
You can preorder Samsung's new hardware today, but the component shortage has made these already spendy product lines more expensive this year. Even the Z Flip 8 is now well over a grand, and the Ultra costs almost twice as much.
| Specs at a glance: Galaxy Z8 series | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Galaxy Z Flip 8 ($1,200) | Galaxy Z Fold 8 ($1,900) | Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra ($2,100) | |
| SoC | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy | Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy |
| Memory | 12GB | 12GB, 16GB | 12GB, 16GB |
| Storage | 256GB, 512GB | 256GB, 512GB, 1TB | 256GB, 512GB, 1TB |
| Display | Main: 6.9" Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1080 x 2520) 400ppi, 120Hz; Cover: 4.1" AMOLED (948 x 1048) 342 ppi, 60/120Hz | Main: 7.6" Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1848 x 2448) 403ppi, 120Hz; Cover: 5.5" Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1248 x 1972) 428ppi, 120Hz | Main: 8.0" QXGA+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X (2504 x 2256) 422ppi, 120Hz; Cover: 6.5" FHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X (1080 x 2520) 422ppi, 120Hz |
| Cameras | Rear: 50MP Wide (F1.8, OIS), 12MP Ultra Wide (F2.2); Selfie: 10MP (F2.2) | Rear: 50MP Wide (F1.8, OIS), 50MP Ultra Wide (F1.9); Main/Cover Selfie: 10MP (F2.2) | Rear: 200MP Wide (F1.7, OIS), 50MP Ultra Wide (F1.9), 10MP Tele (3x Optical, F2.4, OIS); Main/Cover Selfie: 10MP (F2.2) |
| Software | Android 17 / One UI 9 | Android 17 / One UI 9 | Android 17 / One UI 9 |
| Battery | 4,300 mAh, up to 55% charge in ~30 min with 25W Adapter, 15W Wireless Charging | 4,800 mAh, up to 67% charge in ~30 min with 45W Adapter, 20W Wireless Charging | 5,000 mAh, up to 63% charge in ~30 min with 45W Adapter, 20W Wireless Charging |
| Connectivity | 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth v5.4, SIM+eSIM | 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth v6.0, SIM+eSIM | 5G, LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth v6.0, SIM+eSIM |
| Measurements | Unfolded: 166.9 × 75.4 × 6.1 mm Folded: 85.7 × 75.4 × 13.1 mm, 180g |
Unfolded: 123.9 × 161.4 × 4.5 mm Folded: 123.9 × 81.9 × 9.7 mm, 201g |
Unfolded: 158.4 × 143.2 × 4.1 mm Folded: 158.4 × 72.8 × 8.9 mm, 215g |
| Colors | Pink, Graphite, Cream, Mint (online) | Lavender, Graphite, Cream, Pistachio (online) | Violet Shadow, Graphite, Cream, Green Shadow (online) |
The Z Fold 8 Ultra has the same basic form factor as the last few Samsung tablet-style foldables. A 6.5-inch OLED on the outside is about the same ratio as a standard smartphone screen. Open it up, and you get an 8-inch display that's roughly twice as wide. That makes the main display close to square.
© Samsung
Here in this high-tech era of 2026, keeping important info backed up and synced should be effortless and something that just happens on its own, automatically, without any actual thought or ongoing human effort.
In many areas of our digital life, that mercifully does Just Work™ in exactly that way. Fire up an email in most modern mail services, and you can stop at any point and find your in-progress draft in that same app on any other device. The same applies to any file you’re finessing within Google Drive or other cloud storage services or document you’re dawdling over in Docs.
One area where seamless syncing somehow still doesn’t occur, though, is in the domain of downloaded documents on Android. If someone sends you a PDF or a Word file and you save it to your phone, that file exists in an archaic-seeming silo — only locally, on that one gadget. And that, of course, means (a) you can’t access it from any other device, and (b) if you misplace your phone or move into a new one at some point along the way, the file will be left behind in time and entirely unavailable.
Well, take a moment to join me in celebration: Amidst all the Gemini gobbledegook that no one asked for (and that often falls somewhere between “pointless” and “actively counterproductive”), Google’s giving us a major upgrade to Android’s backup capabilities right now. It’s a simple-seeming switch buried in your system settings, and it’s up to you to find and activate it.
Once you do, though, those once-orphaned documents on your Android device’s local storage will be perpetually synced and protected, automatically, without any ongoing thought or effort.
All you’ve gotta do is find and flip that one new switch.
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So, for a quick bit of pertinent context on this: Android’s backup systems have actually come a really long way over the years.
‘Twas a time, y’see, when little to nothing about you would sync and carry over automatically from one Android device to another. Years ago — back in the ancient-seeming prehistoric era of the early 2010s — Android enthusiasts in the know would rely on community-created third-party apps for everything from remembering and resyncing downloaded apps to restoring data from within those apps and onward. And reconfiguring your system preferences would be a whole time-consuming song and dance every single time you reset a device or moved into a new one, as little to nothing would automatically carry over.
Most of that stuff is now effortless and automatic. And, thanks to apps like Google Messages, Calendar, Drive, and Docs, many other areas of important data are also synced on their own at the app level — outside of any system mechanisms.
Locally stored files, however, have remained an awkward omission. To this day, anything you download on any Android device exists only on that one device and isn’t synced or backed up anywhere. The only way that happens is — in a blast-from-the-past twist — if you go out of your way to find and set up a third-party app to handle the heavy lifting.
That brings us to today. Right now, as we speak, Google’s in the midst of sending out a quiet under-the-hood update that (brace yourself…) adds in the option to automatically sync and back up any documents on your device as a native part of Android’s backup setup.
See?
JR Raphael, Foundry
The option is on its way to all devices running 2018’s Android 9 release and higher. (If you’re still using a phone with an Android version older than that, you’re now a whopping eight years out of date, and you have much bigger problems.)
Once the added option is present and available for you, you’re literally lookin’ at 10 seconds to find and activate it.
Lemme show ya how.
I promise: This couldn’t be much simpler.
No matter what kind of Android device is in front of you, just head into your system settings and open the section called “Accounts and backup,” “Back up or copy data,” or something along those same lines. (The exact wording can vary based on who made your device and when it was released or last updated.)
Either tap the line labeled “Google Backup” or look for an option to “Back up data” via Google Drive. You should then either see a series of options for different areas of available backup right then and there — or, depending on your device, you might have to tap a line labeled “Other device data” (or something similar) to find the full list of possibilities.
However you get there, once you’re lookin’ at that list, you’ll see a newly added line for “Documents” if this latest under-the-hood update has reached you.
JR Raphael, Foundry
And from there, all that’s left is to tap it and enable the switch to include that in your automated backups from that moment forward.
If you aren’t seeing the option yet, don’t panic. Google always sends these under-the-hood updates out bit by bit over time, so the change probably just hasn’t reached your device quite yet. As long as you’re running Android 9 or higher, it’ll get there. Set yourself a reminder to check back once a week or so. Odds are, you’ll see it pretty soon.
Notably, all documents synced in this way are always encrypted for security, and they’re kept in your personal (or, depending on the nature of your account, perhaps company-connected) Google Drive storage. That does mean they’ll count against your overall Google storage total, so keep an eye on your Drive storage total to make sure you’re in solid shape and look to the Google One storage hub if you ever want some simple suggestions for freeing up space.
Speaking of other Google services: If you ever want to keep other types of locally stored non-document files from an Android device synced and available elsewhere, you can easily rely on Google Photos for syncing screenshots and other images — after enabling sync in general, be sure to look in the app’s “Collections” areas to find the “On this device” folder and then flip the toggle to “Backup all device folders” (or get more nuanced and open specific individual on-device folders if you want to sync some but not all of those areas) — and you can still turn to those aforementioned third-party apps for broader syncing of anything else imaginable.
But with documents now being handled automatically and natively, that’s one big worry now out of your hair. Just note that the onus will fall on you to find and flip the switch and actively opt in to the feature on each and every Android device you’re using.
Take 10 seconds to do that, though, and you’ll have one less void in your Android data arena. And you don’t need Gemini to tell you that that can only be a good thing.
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OnePlus arrived on the scene in 2014 with brash marketing and a compelling pitch: What if your phone was cheaper and faster? More than a decade later, the market is much different, and so is OnePlus. Confirming months of rumors and speculation, OnePlus has confirmed it's ending phone releases in North America and Europe.
This development has been expected for a while. After a brief period of expansion in the US through deals with T-Mobile and Verizon, OnePlus began visibly shifting its focus to India after the pandemic. OnePlus has also increasingly come under the control of its parent company, Oppo, aligning its device releases and software experience with the larger brand. Still, OnePlus has continued to launch flagship devices in the US and Europe, with the OnePlus 15 going on sale in late 2025. That will be the last OnePlus phone many people see, though.
OnePlus denied rumors of a shutdown earlier this year, but its language was vague and never promised future phone releases. The new statement is also worded gingerly, but the outcome is clear. "As part of the proactive global strategy adjustment, OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America," the official post reads.
© Ryan Whitwam
A Primate Labs anunciou hoje o Geekbench 7, a geração mais recente de sua popular ferramenta de benchmark, que traz conjuntos de dados maiores e mais exigentes para o processamento de GPUs 1Graphics processing units, ou unidade de processamento gráfico., testes multi-core reformulados, entre outras novidades.
A Primate Labs afirma que o benchmark de GPU reformulado concentra-se em aprendizado de máquina e criação de conteúdo para refletir a forma como as GPUs são utilizadas atualmente. Ele inclui agora testes que rastreiam rostos e aplicam efeitos de filtro em tempo real a vídeos, realizam upscaling de imagens com aprendizado de máquina e desfocam fundos em transmissões de videoconferência.
Já os benchmarks multi-core foram projetados para refletir melhor o comportamento real dos softwares, visto que as novas cargas de trabalho só utilizam múltiplas threads quando as tarefas simuladas exigem.
A Primate Labs adicionou ainda um teste expandido de edição de fotos, com um conjunto mais abrangente de edições. Ademais, a carga de trabalho de biblioteca de fotos oferece suporte à importação e ao processamento de formatos de imagem como JPEG XL e DNG. Além disso, os novos testes de áudio e vídeo agora incluem suporte a AV1 e Opus, além de simular cargas de trabalho de streaming e consumo de conteúdo.
No mais, ele tem a mesma aparência do Geekbench 6 — e a licença Pro continua custando US$100 (com desconto para US$80 até 6 de agosto). A versão Pro permite realizar benchmarks offline — sem envio de dados para o Geekbench Browser — e abrange todas as plataformas desktop compatíveis (macOS, Windows e Linux).
É possível baixar gratuitamente o Geekbench 7 para macOS e outros sistemas operacionais nessa página. A versão para iOS/iPadOS ainda não foi atualizada na App Store.
The issue before the commission currently is the built-in advantage for Gemini on Android. When you turn on any Google-powered Android phone, Gemini is already there and gets special treatment at the system level. The European Commission is taking aim at the lack of features available to third-party AI services. The commission believes that there are too many experiences on Android that only work with Google’s Gemini AI, and as a gatekeeper, Google must change that.
[…]
European regulators are proposing several broad changes to the way AI tools operate on Android phones. Some of this is straightforward, like allowing third-party AI tools to be invoked system-wide via hot words or button presses. This might also include allowing AI tools to view screen context when the user opens them.
[…]
Many of the Gemini AI features in Android, including Magic Cue, rely on running local models, and Google has been slow to allow third parties the system access to make that work effectively. So the EU is also suggesting a mandate that would ensure developers have the necessary hardware access to run local models “with high levels of performance, availability and responsiveness.”
Via John Gruber:
The difference between Google and Apple on this front is that Google just blazed ahead and shipped Gemini integrated into Android in the EU, and is now facing compliance problems after shipping. (Ask forgiveness.) Apple isn’t shipping Siri AI in the EU in iOS 27, knowing that it’s going to be deemed non-compliant. (Ask permission.)
Previously:
Update (2026-07-17): Juli Clover:
The European Commission today formally ordered Google to give third-party AI services the same access to Android device features that Gemini has.
[…]
The European Commission is giving Google a full year to implement changes that will meet the Digital Markets Act requirements, and that's before any legal appeals Google might make.
Google (via Ben Schoon):
This Android ruling threatens device security by granting external apps sensitive and powerful device permissions without these safeguards.
Update (2026-07-23): John Gruber (Mastodon):
They provide separate “Q&A” overviews of the guidance for Android AI interoperability and web search sharing, and the full guidance documents are PDFs (Case DMA.100220 for Android AI, Case DMA.100209 for web search).
[…]
The EC is demanding that Google create APIs that allow third-party AI assistants to do everything Google Gemini does now[…]
[…]
Also, in my reading, the EC is demanding that Google make available to third-party AI assistants all information in Google’s own apps (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps, etc.) that Gemini has access to.
[…]
Apple unfortunately hasn’t shared any technical details describing its proposal for a “Trusted System Agent” that it shared with the EC last year. But whatever Apple’s vision for the Trusted System Agent is, I don’t see how the EC would deem it compliant with the DMA if they want from Apple anything close to what they are now demanding from Google.
I don’t know what will come of this, but I’m pleased to see it in the sense that it is logically coherent. The TSA seems like a way to give the appearance of doing something without actually solving the problem. Like Gruber, I don’t really see why Google would want to comply with this rather than taking their Gemini ball and going home. Unlike Gruber, I don’t find it scary to let users opt into sharing their data and background time with apps of their choosing. I don’t like software design by government committee, but it seems less bad than further entrenching an unfettered monopoly. Maybe this could have been avoided if Google had developed its own reasonable solution instead of shipping something that was obviously not compliant.
O Google aproveitou o evento Galaxy Unpacked de hoje para anunciar novos recursos que chegarão ao Switch to Android, sua ferramenta que ajuda usuários a migrar do iOS para o sistema operacional do robozinho verde.
De acordo com a gigante de Mountain View, a solução agora também permite transferir contas do Google, senhas, credenciais de redes Wi-Fi e até mesmo eSIMs salvos em iPhones para dispositivos Android.
Antes disso, o Switch to Android já suportava a transferência de fotos, vídeos, contatos, mensagens e dados de calendário. Em qualquer caso, vale notar, é necessário que o iPhone envolvido na transferência esteja rodando pelo menos o iOS 26.3.
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Essas melhorias serão integradas ao Android 17 e já começaram a ser liberadas para dispositivos Pixel. Os smartphones das linhas Galaxy Z Flip8 e Z Fold8, anunciados pela Samsung no evento supracitado, também serão contemplados por essa nova versão da ferramenta em breve, o que também vale para aparelhos de outras marcas.
Com o Switch to Android, pessoas que estão migrando do iOS para o Android podem transferir seus dados sem fio e sem baixar nenhum aplicativo separado — solução que surgiu após pressão regulatória, principalmente por parte da União Europeia e sua Lei dos Mercados Digitais (Digital Markets Act, ou DMA).
A Apple e o Google foram intimados por um procurador de San Francisco a remover aplicativos que gerem imagens de nudez não consensuais.
As notificações extrajudiciais foram enviadas pelo procurador David Chiu, que exigiu a remoção de 13 aplicativos de troca de rostos (face swap) os quais permitem que usuários criem imagens de nudez sem o consentimento das pessoas envolvidas, com o auxílio da inteligência artificial (IA). Ele solicitou ainda o rompimento das relações comerciais com os desenvolvedores desses apps.
Chiu comentou o conflito com esse segmento de apps e a problemática da relação desses aplicativos com grandes empresas de tecnologia:
Gerar imagens íntimas não consensuais é ilegal, prejudicial e completamente inaceitável. […] Essas empresas têm a responsabilidade de garantir que os aplicativos em suas plataformas não facilitem abuso sexual. […] O fato de algumas das maiores e mais consolidadas empresas de tecnologia do mundo estarem facilitando isso precisa acabar.
Pesquisadores das universidades de Cornell e Georgetown descobriram que, de 155 apps de criação de deepfakes, 70% deles permitiam gerar conteúdos com nudez sem quaisquer restrições — demonstrando que mesmo os apps que não são promovidos como tal não impedem práticas criminosas. Uma investigação da Tech Transparency Project (TTP) revelou números parecidos.
A Apple possui um histórico delicado com o tema: embora esses estudos apontem leniência com a existência desse tipo de ferramenta na App Store, a Maçã possui um rastro de combate a esse tipo de prática — ainda que sob pressão governamental —, a exemplo da ameaça de remoção do X em meio à polêmica com a geração de imagens de nudez com o auxílio do Grok.
Ao longo dos últimos meses, a empresa foi criticada por autoridades como o governo do Reino Unido e o estado americano da Virgínia Ocidental para combater a proliferação de apps com conteúdo adulto em meio a crianças e adolescentes.
Representando o Google, Dan Jackson afirmou que centenas desses aplicativos foram excluídos da loja do Android:
O Google Play não permite aplicativos que contenham conteúdo sexual, e tomamos continuamente medidas proativas para detectar e remover apps com conteúdo prejudicial. […] Quando recebemos denúncias, investigamos e agimos rapidamente, o que, nesses casos, incluiu suspender centenas de aplicativos que violavam nossas políticas e restringir termos de busca relacionados, como “nudify”, em nossa loja.
A Apple, por sua vez, optou por não comentar o caso.
via WIRED
Após três meses em fase de testes, o recurso de nome de usuário do WhatsApp finalmente parece estar funcionando entre os usuários que já haviam reservado seu username, ampliando a disponibilidade da funcionalidade.
Aos que efetuaram a reserva, o WhatsApp começou a exibir um banner no topo da lista de conversas, informando que ele já está ativo e explicando que agora ele pode ser compartilhado com outras pessoas. Caso você queira verificar o nome de usuário de algum dos seus contatos, basta abrir a conversa com ele para conferi-lo.
De acordo com o WABetaInfo, o recurso está sendo liberado de forma gradual para quem já reservou um nome de usuário. Se esse for o seu caso, basta tocar no botão de adicionar (na aba Conversas) para abrir a lista de contatos, e em seguida, digitar o nome de usuário na barra de pesquisa.
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Vale lembrar que isso não afetará a visualização dos números de telefone nos contatos com os quais você já iniciou uma conversa anteriormente. Nos moldes de rivais como o Telegram, os nomes de usuário apenas introduzem uma nova opção de acionar um determinado contato, alterando a primeira interação dos usuários, já que o número de telefone deixa de ser a única forma de iniciar uma conversa.
O WhatsApp está liberando o recurso completo de nomes de usuário para “uma fração muito limitada da sua base instalada no iOS e Android”, incluindo tanto versões betas quanto estáveis do aplicativo.
Getting people to switch their phone setup remains a top goal for Apple. According to new research from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, a solid chunk of buyers are still making the leap from rival devices. The firm looked closely at people who bought a new iPhone in the US during the first few months of […]
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