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android
[ an-droid ]
noun
- an automaton in the form of a human being.
Android
1/ ˈæԻɔɪ /
noun
- a software package for smartphones, including many application programs
- a smartphone that uses this software
android
2/ ˈæԻɔɪ /
noun
- (in science fiction) a robot resembling a human being
adjective
- resembling a human being
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of android1
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BBC West Investigations found the fake banking apps - which we are not naming so as not to promote them - are available to download onto an android phone directly from the internet.
"I don't see that we get to an android dog, not in the near future. I think guide dogs have still got good longevity," he said.
The filmmaker, whose film stars Will Smith as a detective sceptical of seemingly obedient androids, accused Musk of copying his work in a post on X.
This android — one of two nameless leads in the Oscar-nominated charmer “Robot Dreams” — envisions a small, lonely dog in his third-floor walk-up, microwaving a depressing dinner for one.
This Y2K vision of AI was built on decades’ worth of androids and cyborgs and Cylons, of course.
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