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Going far beyond the announced improvements to message sharing, the new update allows a phone and Chromebook to be integrated. Namely, by not only sharing recent websites, messages, and unlocking — as pairing currently does. But also by allowing recent photos captured on a paired smartphone running Android 13 Beta 2 to show up on a Chromebook. Because the new feature is part of Phone Hub, the photos appear under the phone-shaped icon on a Chromebook’s shelf....

Before we go ahead, let us remind you that Google initially called screen savers “daydreams”. The company renamed the feature with the release of Android 7 Nougat in 2016 as it decided to give the “Daydream” brand its now-defunct VR platform. But despite this name change, screen savers in Android are still referred to as “dreams” internally. Now, coming to the point, Android 13 Developer Preview 2 has several codes related to “dreams”....

Affected Pixel users have taken to online forums like Reddit to report the issue. According to the Reddit posts (via 9to5Google), the devices don’t respond to a wireless charging pad. For some, the charging icon appears on the screen but the phone doesn’t draw any power. Some others, meanwhile, say that the phone reports a charging error or misalignment with the charging pad. A few users have found that wireless charging works for some time but stops abruptly showing a “not charging” message on the screen....

A Malware can be available on any mobile application regarding the operating system and category. But the banking apps are always a priority for malware spreaders. Users perform financial transactions through these apps, and stealing their information is equal to accessing a source of money. As per the reports, the banking apps have more than a billion downloads on the Android ecosystem. After analyzing 600 financial apps and 10 prolific banking trojan families, Zimperium concluded that the Spanish “BBVA Spain | Online Banking” app is the world’s most targeted mobile banking app....

Tipster Ishan Agarwal (via MySmartPrice) has uncovered benchmark information for the new flagship from sources like AnTuTu, Geekbench, and GFXBench. The Exynos 2200 variant of the Galaxy S22 Ultra has reportedly scored 1,108 and 3,516 points in the single and multi-core Geekbench tests, respectively. Furthermore, the flagship scored 965,874 on AnTuTu and 109 FPS on the GFXbench Aztec ruins test (normal). It’s not uncommon to come across detailed benchmark scores of a smartphone ahead of its release....