The new update to Pixel Thermometer makes it easier to measure the temperature of objects.

Now when you tap on the “Object Temperature” section, you will be presented with a menu 'Routine measurements' (food, liquid, cooking surfaces), for quick access to the most frequently measured objects. To measure an object without a category, simply press '+'. At the same time, the menu with the selection of other materials has not gone anywhere and is accessible via the button at the bottom when measuring temperature.

The temperature measurement UI has also changed. Changes include the use of a camera viewfinder with a camera unit overlay. The center of the screen displays real-time temperature and a circular indicator of the distance to the object. To record a measurement, you sill need to tap the screen.

The update is available with the new version 1.0.654975759.

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Pixel 9's “Add me” feature can technically work on the Pixel 8 Pro.

Along with the Pixel 9 series, Google introduced a new 'Add me' feature exclusive to this series. It allows you to take a multi-person company photo if you don't have a tripod with you or don't have anyone to ask to take the shot. To do this, Add Me combines 2 photos so that everyone is in the frame.

However, I was able to run Add Me on my Pixel 8 Pro. To do this, I installed the Pixel Camera APK version 9.5.118 and used root to activate the Cottage__cottage_enabled flag. And as it turns out, this feature works on the Pixel 8 Pro without any problems. It also uses Google AR Core Services for its functionality.

We did the same on the Pixel 6, but the 'Add me' libraries from the Pixel 9 turned out to be incompatible with this device.

Who knows, maybe in the future Google will roll out 'Add me' to some older Pixel models with one of the next Pixel Feature Drops ?

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Here's what the Pixel Studio app looks like.

Specially for the Pixel 9 series, Google has made a new Pixel Studio app. which is an image generator based on the diffusion model running on the device and Google's cloud-based text-to-image model Imagen 3.

When first launched, the app requires a ~1.2GB download of the Pixel AI model. The home page presents a series of pre-prepared queries divided by subject ( Posters, Magic Castles, etc.) each of which can be opened and rewritten to your liking.

At the very bottom of the page there is a create button which will open a page with an empty field for entering a query. Once you have a generated image, you can optionally overlay text and stickers (only one set for now). At the end, you can save the image to your clipboard or device, or share it directly in another app

Our follower @ralph950412 was able to upload the APK from Google Play, thanks to which, it can be installed by anyone with Android 13+, but it looks like Google is server-side restricting it, so the app won't work for everyone.

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The “At a glance” and “Weather” widgets will be directing to the new Pixel Weather app.

Earlier, an APK of the new Pixel Weather app appeared online, but many were left wondering if it would open from the At a glance widget and Weather widget on Pixel devices. The answer is that it will.

For those who have installed the new app, Google is server-side rolling out a new change that, when tapped on one of these widgets, redirects users to the Pixel Weather app instead of the weather page (with the frog) built into the Google Search app.

And for fans of the frog, Google has prepared separate weather widgets (part of the Google Search app) that are not available to users yet.

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Android 16 may get a revamped quick settings and notifications panel.

The current design of the panel, which combines notifications and quick settings, hasn't changed much since it was introduced in Android 12. However, Mishaal Rahman (via Android Authority) revealed that Google is working on a redesign of the panel that will separate notifications from quick settings.

The notifications panel will still be accessible with a normal swipe from the statusbar, but now it will no longer take up the entire screen and you will be able to see the app you were in as it was before Android 12. A repeated swipe no longer opens quick settings.

And to open the quick settings panel, you have to swipe with two fingers, which most users probably won't like.

The design is still raw, to say the least, and may undergo significant changes in the final version, but it's clear that Google is considering a major overhaul of the notification panel and quick settings, which will likely be added in Android 16.

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