exciting – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:34:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.9 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 exciting – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Explore Android’s exciting September update: Music sharing and your own custom bot await https://earlybirdsinvest.com/explore-androids-exciting-september-update-music-sharing-and-your-own-custom-bot-await/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/explore-androids-exciting-september-update-music-sharing-and-your-own-custom-bot-await/#respond Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:34:01 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/explore-androids-exciting-september-update-music-sharing-and-your-own-custom-bot-await/

What you need to know

  • Google launches LE Audio Auracast for synchronized listening on multiple devices like the Pixel series 8 and Sony headphones.
  • Introducing Androidify: create your personalized Android bot with AI tools to reflect your unique style.
  • Revamped Gboard enhances texting with AI suggestions and a new Emoji Kitchen for expressive sticker creations.

New month, new drop! Google just announced a whole host of new Android features, AI-powered tools, and an exclusive Pixel feature drop today (Sept. 3). This update brings several fun tools for Android users, along with expanded support for LE Audio sharing and Auracast.

Users will finally be able to pair two LE Audio Bluetooth headphones to one phone, so two people can listen to the same track at the same time. No more trying to hit play at the exact same moment — you’ll both be in sync! This just makes it more intimate for two people to basically watch anything together, whether you’re at a cafe or on a plane; watching your favorite show becomes seamless.

Android Sept update brings Auracast and LE audio sharing

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And this feature isn’t limited to just two people; if you’re with a group and want to share a catchy soundtrack you’ve just been hooked onto, you can also share the audio with multiple people, thanks to Auracast.

All you have to do is connect their headphones to your phone by scanning a QR code or with a single tap using Google’s Fast Pair — without needing to hand over your earbud. It can pretty much transform your next hangout session with your friends into a private silent disco, without the hassle of looking for a speaker or having them open up the soundtrack on their devices. However, for this feature to work, both the phone and headphones must support LE Audio.


Android updates and feature drop this September

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Furthermore, LE Audio Auracast will now become available for Google Pixel 8 series and newer, Samsung flagship devices released since 2023, and some Xiaomi and POCO models.

Android bot that looks like you

Androidify yourself, with a selfie and Google’s AI – YouTube
Androidify yourself, with a selfie and Google's AI - YouTube


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Imagine yourself as an Android bot in a superhero costume, or you’d simply like to turn a fun picture of yourself into one that features an Android bot that looks just like you! Google is finally bringing a tool called “Androidify” that will let you build your own Android bot.

All you have to do is upload a selfie onto the web or the Google Play app, write a prompt, add some accessories, and see what AI builds. The tool will then use “Gemini 2.5 Flash to caption the photo, Imagen to generate your custom Android bot, and (in some cases) Veo 3, Google’s latest video generation model, to animate your bot with different vibes.

This is definitely a cool tool to bring tap into the creative side of you, or probably experiment with your style as an Android bot. You can check out some inspiration from Google’s own experiments with their mascot, like their garage band filming a music video or an Oreo superhero saving the world from an asteroid.

Additionally, Google notes that animating your Android bot into an 8-second video on Veo is a feature restricted to Fridays in September, with a limited number of creations available.


Android's Sept patch brings AI powered tools and more

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Along with these major drops, Google is also making it easier to text with AI-powered suggestions on Gboard. It will seamlessly provide prompts on the go so you can “review your tone to be more formal, expressive, or concise.” It will also help with spelling and grammar prompts to make sure your message is accurate and fully vetted, based on your personal needs.

Android Sept updates

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Additionally, the tech giant is bringing Emoji Kitchen updates to help you mash up two of your favorite expressions or emojis into one fun sticker. For example, if you love flying shoes, you can pick both stickers and let AI do its magic!

“Browse the library, save your favorite options, and explore unique emoji suggestions, created just for you.”

Finally, users will also be able to share their images and videos with just a tap. With the redesigned Quick Share, you can toggle between sending and receiving, preview the photos you’re sharing, and open received files right away.

It will also give you live updates, showing you how long it will take for your files to be transferred with a new progress indicator.

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America’s top health official has discovered a revolutionary diagnostic technique called “looking at kids in airports.”

As reported in The Independent, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whose medical credentials include having “about 70 of cousins” – announced he can spot “mitochondrial challenges” or “inflammation” in passing children.

“I’m looking at kids while I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation, you can tell it from their faces, from their body movement, and from their lack of social connection,” he told Texas Governor Greg Abbott yesterday.

During the Texas press conference, Kennedy demonstrated his supernatural ability to misread both medical statistics and basic reality. He claimed 38% of teenagers have diabetes or pre-diabetes, which is only off by 37.65%.

His qualifications for this medical clairvoyance? Growing up in a big family where apparently nobody had diabetes, food allergies, or autism. Of course, he was zonked on heroin for a decade-and-a-half, which may have dulled his powers of observation a bit.

The terrifying part isn’t that our nation’s top health official thinks he’s Doctor Strange minus the medical degree – it’s that he’s using this supernatural diagnostic method to shape actual public policy.

Watch out, med schools – your entire curriculum just got replaced by “staring intensely at children in airports.”

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A few weeks ago, Ripple CTO David Schwartz revealed plans to launch a hub that will be used to understand XRP network behavior and performance based on data gathered from it.

Now that the hub is in operation, Schwartz observed his first “bit of weird data” from the hub as reported yesterday by U.Today. The Ripple CTO revealed corrective measures for the anomaly, which have achieved results.

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According to the Ripple CTO, the past 24 hours of the hub’s performance looked solid, although a tiny glitch was recorded at 12:58 a.m., which might be due to the monitoring system.

At the time of Schwartz’s X post, the hub was handling 11,000 requests per second from 173 peers with a response time of about 0.006 seconds from the average request coming in to the reply going out.

Schwartz shared an image alongside his post that illustrated this. The X post caught the attention of the XRP community with XRP enthusiast WrathofKahneman inquiring about what the “abuse” category in the  “disconnections” side of the image meant.

Schwartz stated that this referred to servers that had been disconnected from the hub due to the belief that they were placing excessive load on it. He suspects that 100% of these are false positives due to some defects in the XRPL code, and that working on this is one of the reasons he chose to run the hub.

Exciting network possibility for XRPL

Schwartz revisited one of his concepts for XRP Ledger, which he designed eight years ago: the peer link policing system aimed to protect users against malicious peers. While the design, cryptography and rules of XRPL effectively safeguard against malicious peers misleading users, it could impose load on them.

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To handle this, a peer receives “charge” for messages it sends, and “credits” are also given over time. If a peer’s “charges” exceed their “credits,” they risk being disconnected.

Schwartz stated that the schedule of fees and credits he picked almost a decade ago worked, but because the network has grown much since then and the hardware has changed, he may need to revisit it.

Going forward, Schwartz noted he wants to further understand how well the charge/credit scheme is working on the live network and, if needed, make some adjustments to it. One possibility is to take latency into account, granting peers with low latency a higher credit limit, given that an attacker cannot forge low latency.

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Old vs new Pixel Launcher app drawer with blur in Android

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority

The lead-up to Android 16 has been … interesting. We’re four betas into the update’s rollout, and with each new beta version released, the public-facing changes are both minor and few and far between. However, more significant changes have been found under the hood, suggesting Android 16 will be a more substantial update than initially anticipated.

Now, that point has never been more true.

Android Authority recently uncovered a massive redesign hiding in Android 16 Beta 4. It’s part of Google’s new Material 3 Expressive design language — and one of the biggest UI redesigns for Android we’ve ever laid our eyes on. What we’re seeing now is an early version of it, but even so, I’m already completely sold on this new vision and future for Android as we know it.

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The Android redesign I’ve been waiting for

Old vs new Quick Settings panel in Android

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Old vs new Quick Settings panel design in Android

At its core, this new design for Android 16 is largely the same as what we have in Android 15. Fundamentals like the Quick Settings, lock screen, and Settings app work as expected, but how they’re all presented is where things differ.

What I particularly love about this redesign is Google’s new emphasis on blur. Almost everywhere you look, backgrounds that were previously solid colors now have a blurred effect — and it’s gorgeous.

Old vs new media output panel in Android

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Old vs new media output switcher UI in Android

Your Quick Settings page, for example, replaces the stark black background with a transparent one that blurs your home screen or whatever app you’re using, giving it a lovely frosted glass effect. The app drawer gets a similar treatment. Instead of a solid color for the background, it now features the same blurred design. It’s also seen on the recent apps page and the lock screen PIN interface.

What Google is working on here with Android 16 is a major leap forward.

To be clear, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this type of design language. Other Android skins (like OnePlus’s OxygenOS 15) already have blurred design elements like this, and they look phenomenal. Especially when paired with good system animations (something OxygenOS 15 excels at), the transition of going to and from that blurred UI adds a level of responsiveness that feels so damn good to interact with.

While I don’t think the current design language in Android 15 is bad, what Google is working on here with Android 16 is a major leap forward. It gives Android a futuristic and polished aesthetic that’s not currently present, and I cannot wait to get my hands on it.

Beyond the blur redesign, there are other, smaller UI changes that I’m also thrilled to see. The new colored icons in the Settings app add some much-needed visual flair and help organize related settings options at a glance. The slight change to date and weather placement on the lock screen makes it look much cleaner than before, and I even love the new volume and brightness sliders.

The more I look at Android 16’s redesign, the more I feel like a kid in a candy store. It’s so fun to see so much newness in Android for the first time in years, and it’s made me look forward to an Android update in a way I haven’t in a long time.

A big and important risk

Someone holding a Google Pixel 9 Pro with its screen on.

Joe Maring / Android Authority

As much as Google’s hardware has improved in recent years, its software has remained relatively static. The last time we got an Android UI redesign of this scale was in 2021 with Android 12. That was the same year Google launched the Pixel 6 series, and the difference between the Pixel 6 and Pixel 9 is unmistakable. However, comparing Android 12 to Android 15 is like playing a challenging game of spot the difference. It’s gotten new features, sure, but it looks largely the same.

While Android 16 should function just as Android 15 does today, Google giving everything a fresh coat of paint goes a long way in making it feel big and different. And it’s not just change for the sake of it. Even in this early version, it’s apparent that Google has carved out a clear, distinctive design language. Is it polarizing? Maybe. But it’s precisely what I wanted out of Android 16.

This is precisely what I wanted out of Android 16.

In a world where new smartphone releases are getting more and more iterative, seeing something fresh and exciting has become increasingly rare. I’m still a big smartphone guy, but when the new Motorola Razr Plus is nearly identical to last year’s model, it’s hard to care all that much. Playing it safe is the norm, and we see it not just from Motorola, but also Samsung, Apple, and even Google.

Google Pixel 9a app drawer

Ryan Haines / Android Authority

Google is making a fairly big bet with Android 16. It could have very easily kept the design exactly the same, but instead, we’re getting the most transformative Android UI update in four years. Change is risky, but it’s also how we push forward to bigger and better things.

There’s likely plenty more to unpack with this new design, and the good news is we should learn a lot more about it at The Android Show next month and then again at Google I/O. If Android 16’s new UI already looks this good in a hidden, unfinished state, I cannot wait to see what the final version looks like.

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