Pixel 9 owners with the latest beta have enabled a technology that will allow compatible hearing aids "to receive direct audio streams from public venues

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Android 16 is on a fast track, with Google releasing the third beta for developers and hitting the Platform Stability milestone.

Gemini, Google ’s generative AI assistant and rival to ChatGPT, has become integral to high-end Android phones over the past year, gradually superseding the more basic Google Assistant. Now Google has outlined plans to sunset its original smart assistant entirely, starting with Android phones.

Gemini not doing it for you? If you're looking for a better AI-powered Android assistant, you can now switch it to ChatGPT.

OpenAI's ChatGPT can now replace Google's Gemini as the default Android voice assistant with a recent update. While users can access ChatGPT easily, it lacks some features and intuitiveness found in Gemini,

With the GSMA releasing new RCS specs, Apple pledges to 'add support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in future software updates.'

Apple will, at long last, enabling end-to-end encryption for RCS messages, allowing iPhones and Android phones to text each other with the security encryption provides for the first time.