🚀 Android 17 Beta 3 = Platform Stability

Highlights:
📸 RAW14 + camera extensions
🎨 Photo Picker customization
🔐 Stronger security (DCL + PQC)
🔋 Better battery & performance
🖥️ Desktop-style PiP

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https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/the-third-beta-of-android-17.html?m=1

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The Third Beta of Android 17

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies, Serve Robotics, Android 17, United Airlines’ ambitions, Polymarket’s pop-up bar

CHICAGO–This is one of my favorite cities in the U.S., but it doesn’t show up in my work travel as often as I’d like. So I’m delighted that the Online News Association decided to move its annual conference from late summer to early spring and then stage this year’s event here–in a hotel that should be familiar to everybody who’s seen The Fugitive.

Patreon readers got a bonus post that I’d meant to have written weeks earlier: a recap of MWC Barcelona in which I also gave away a global eSIM to the first reader to ask for it.

3/24/2026: The most innovative robotics and engineering companies of 2026, Fast Company

This list, the product of months of research and editorial back-and-forth, finally emerged online this week. And then we had to run a quick correction after one of the companies honored said that we’d mentioned an achievement that they did not want disclosed.

3/25/2026: Delivery Robots Have a Mapping Problem, PCMag

I sat down in a hotel lobby in Austin during SXSW with MJ Burk Chun, co-founder and vice president of product and design at Serve Robotics, to talk about the issues that company is working to address as it tries to scale up having four-wheeled robots cart food deliveries to customers.

3/27/2026: Google Ships Latest Android 17 Beta. Here’s What’s New, PCMag

In between having so many longer stories to write, I was happy to get one that I could bang out in an hour or so.

3/28/2026: United’s New Upgrades Aim to Keep You Online and Fully Charged at 35,000 Feet, PCMag

My week started with me flying to another one of United’s hubs–with the airline covering my airfare and lodging–for its United Elevated event at LAX. In addition to looping me into UA’s ambitions for its onboard product, this event doubled as a reunion with some of the avgeek journalists I met at Cranky Dorkfest in September and with my former Washington Post colleague Lori Aratani, who interviewed United CEO Scott Kirby onstage Tuesday morning.

3/29/2026: Pints meet prop bets: Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar in DC, Ars Technica

I thought I saw an opportunity to write for this occasional client for the first time since the summer of 2023; fortunately, my editor then and now agreed.

#AIMIntelligentMachines #Android17 #Austin #BostonDynamics #Chicago #deliveryRobots #Dexterity #ForwardXRobotics #GlacierRobotics #Infravision #LAX #LosAngeles #LucidBots #ONA #OnlineNewsAssociation #ORD #Polymarket #predictionMarkets #RobustAi #ServeRobotics #sxsw #Symbotic #TerabaseEnergy #UA #United #UnitedAirlines
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Android 17 is Getting a Post Quantum Cryptography Upgrade

Following their shortening of the deadline to implement post-quantum encryption to 2029, Google today announced the “first phase” of its post-quantum transition.

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#GWB - Android 17: Das sind die wichtigsten Neuerungen in der dritten Beta des neuen Betriebssystems (Galerie) - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2026/03/android-17-das-sind-die-wichtigsten-neuerungen-in-der-dritten-beta-des-neuen-betriebssystems-galerie/ #android17 #Google
Android 17: Das sind die wichtigsten Neuerungen in der dritten Beta des neuen Betriebssystems (Galerie)

Google hat die Android 17 Beta 3 für die Pixel-Smartphones veröffentlicht, die einen ganzen Schwung an Neuerungen im Gepäck hat.

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Android 17 Beta 3: App-Bubbles, getrennte WLAN-Kacheln und mehr

Google hat die dritte Beta von Android 17 veröffentlicht. Sie bringt Plattformstabilität, App-Bubbles für alle Anwendungen und allerhand mehr.

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Lilbits: The Mac Pro reaches the end of the line

Apple is pulling the plug on the Mac Pro, more than 20 years after launching its first high-performance desktop computer with an iconic “cheese grater” design. The company has released several major updates over the years, but the last big change to the design came in 2019, and the last processor update came in 2023 when the company made the move from Intel to Apple Silicon.

But the newer Mac […]

#alibaba #android17 #apple #esp32 #esp32P4PiViewe #fanless #kubb #lilbits #macPro #macStudio #miniPc #riscV #xuantieC950 Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-the-mac-pro-reaches-the-end-of-the-line/

First look: Google's working to make managing Pixel home screens easier

The feature would let users create home screens that automatically populate with apps of a specified type, as well as rearrange and delete individual home screens

✅ Details and more screenshots - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-home-screen-organizer-3652686/

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