Google Drive’s integrated document scanner gets a fresh coat of paint

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Google Drive’s integrated document scanner gets a fresh coat of paint

Google Drive is a hotbed of changes lately, and the newest one revamps the document scanner UI

Google regularly updates the UI of its apps, so they align with the latest Material Design guidelines and look like a part of the family. Drive gets its fair share of updates, with recent improvements focused around making the web UI easier to navigate if you love organizing items in folders. On larger tablets, you may notice the Drive app for Android now shows saved files alongside their file size in a dense list view instead of the thumbnail view, which didn’t really help documents. Lest we forget, Material Design 3 principles are also implemented.

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Pixel Binary Transparency is Google’s new way to confirm the security of your phone

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Pixel Binary Transparency is Google’s new way to confirm the security of your phone

Google recently introduced a new security measure for Pixel phones called Binary Transparency to provide user-verifiable guarantees...

Google recently introduced a new security measure for Pixel phones called Binary Transparency to provide user-verifiable guarantees that their devices haven’t been compromised. Public cryptographic log lets Pixel owners “mathematically prove” that their devices — Pixel 6+, Tablet, and Fold — are running official factory images that haven’t been tampered with. Google provides full instructions on how to do so, which requires a handful of tools. At a high-level, it involves “extracting the metadata from your phone and then running the inclusion and consistency proofs to compare against the log.” Google’s blog post today details the Merkle tree responsible for the cryptographically guaranteed append-only log that can never be changed or deleted. Check out the article for more info 🤓