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Reports of Google planning to “un-spam” campaign emails from registered political parties in the US first emerged in June this year. The company wanted to distance itself from alleged partisanship. Political organizations complained that it was filtering emails from one party as spam more than the other. Of course, no one believed its claimed innocence on the matter. To prove that its spam filter algorithm is unbiased, it now wants to exempt all such emails from spam filter by default and leave it to users to decide....

Google is looking for “camera ISP” experts to boost camera performance on Pixel smartphones Google is looking for “camera ISP” experts to boost camera performance on Pixel smartphones Google’s Senior Director, Mike Coulter, shared a job listing via LinkedIn. He clarified that he’s looking to fill full-time roles in “Camera ISP design and verification at all levels”. He also clarified that he’s looking to add to a “new San Diego team”....

What issues is the Google Pixel 6a already having with its fingerprint sensor? What issues is the Google Pixel 6a already having with its fingerprint sensor? Now, reports of the problems stem primarily from Reddit and YouTube. So they should be taken with a grain of salt, for now. But the problem itself doesn’t appear to be a small one. In fact, it represents a potentially monumental problem for end users of the new Pixel handsets....

First and foremost, it’s worth saying that these real-life images do look like the renders that surfaced a couple of times. So we’ll be getting exactly what you think, at this point. It is mentioned that this could be a “testing model for the internal Pixel team”. That’s, at least, what the person who found it said. It’s easily possible, of course. The source also asked Android Central to protect its identity....

Now yes, Google does this already to an extent. Providing the same cameras on a cheaper model, and the same design. But Google should go a step further, now that they have Tensor. You see, Apple basically uses an older design, one that has been around since roughly 2016, puts its newest processor in there, upgrades the storage (faster storage, not necessarily more storage), and prices it around $400. Google could do that pretty easily now with the Pixel 6a....