Pebble is back - meet Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2.
These watches are made by Core Devices, a company founded by Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble. If you're unaware, Pebble was one of the first companies to release a smart watch, raising lots of funding on Kickstarter. Pebble was eventually sold to Google, who released the source code of PebbleOS earlier this year.
Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the Intel processor of the same name) is a spiritual successor to Pebble 2, with a 1.2-inch black and white e-paper display. Core Time 2 is a more premium model meant to be a successor to Pebble Time 2, featuring a color touch screen and heart rate tracking. But what the watches lack in features, they make up for in battery life, with the company promising 30 days on a single charge. Both models also feature IPX8 water resistance, as well as step and sleep tracking.
Core 2 Duo is available now for pre-order for $149, with orders shipping July 2025. Core Time 2 can be pre-ordered now for $225, with orders shipping in December.
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These watches are made by Core Devices, a company founded by Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble. If you're unaware, Pebble was one of the first companies to release a smart watch, raising lots of funding on Kickstarter. Pebble was eventually sold to Google, who released the source code of PebbleOS earlier this year.
Core 2 Duo (not to be confused with the Intel processor of the same name) is a spiritual successor to Pebble 2, with a 1.2-inch black and white e-paper display. Core Time 2 is a more premium model meant to be a successor to Pebble Time 2, featuring a color touch screen and heart rate tracking. But what the watches lack in features, they make up for in battery life, with the company promising 30 days on a single charge. Both models also feature IPX8 water resistance, as well as step and sleep tracking.
Core 2 Duo is available now for pre-order for $149, with orders shipping July 2025. Core Time 2 can be pre-ordered now for $225, with orders shipping in December.
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#Google is developing new lock screen customization options.
As revealed by Telegram channel Mystic Leaks, Google is planning to overhaul lock screen clock settings. This includes a clock with a customizable font, as well as a minor redesign of the settings page and a small animation that plays when the clock is pressed on the lock screen.
Mishaal Rahman (via Android Authority) also shared screenshots where the new clock is visible in a redesigned Quick Settings panel that the company is also developing.
It's likely that these changes won't appear in Android 16, instead being reserved for future updates.
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As revealed by Telegram channel Mystic Leaks, Google is planning to overhaul lock screen clock settings. This includes a clock with a customizable font, as well as a minor redesign of the settings page and a small animation that plays when the clock is pressed on the lock screen.
Mishaal Rahman (via Android Authority) also shared screenshots where the new clock is visible in a redesigned Quick Settings panel that the company is also developing.
It's likely that these changes won't appear in Android 16, instead being reserved for future updates.
@thetechdroid
NVIDIA also announced Halos, a self-driving vehicle safety system. Halos is a complete solution - from the silicon in the car to the code - that has been safety-assessed by 3rd parties to ensure diversity, monitoring, transparency and explainability.
NVIDIA also demonstrated its Grace Blackwell line of datacenter computers, which are already used by major companies like Microsoft, Google and Meta.
NVIDIA showed a problem many AI app developers might face: balancing throughput with quality. More detailed responses and more advanced AI models require more tokens, but those tokens also have to be generated quickly, because otherwise users might switch to another app.