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Starting in January, Google disabled the ability for third-party Smart Displays from Lenovo and JBL to browse the web. The company has now revealed that this is due to those devices not featuring hardware support for SafeSearch. This removal first emerged at the start of the year with users of non-Nest Hub Smart Displays getting a “Can’t be shown” error page that notes how “Websites are…

Android 13 is several months away from its formal debut, but Google has opened up the first previews for its latest mobile operating system today with new features and more. If you’re on a Google Pixel smartphone, you can install Android 13 now. Here’s how, and why you should probably wait. Is your Pixel compatible with Android 13? Google supports Pixel smartphones for three major Android…

The first preview of Android 13 has arrived, and with it some new tweaks to how the OS we’ve come to know and love. Included in the first developer preview of Android 13 is Google’s new system-wide photo picker, which is meant to streamline the experience. Android has always had a system-wide interface for picking out pictures, videos, and other files when apps need access to more than just…

Google did away with public-facing desert names with the release of Android 10, but they’re still used internally. It’s been known for some time that Android 13 is called “Tiramisu,” and now Google is explicitly using that name in the first developer preview. If you dive into the settings of Android 13’s first preview, you’ll see “Tiramisu” under the “Android version.”…