YouTube for Android and iOS is now testing instant comment translations for comments, provided you have a Premium subscription plan.
The option is part of the regular YouTube Experiments that offers Premium subscribers the opportunity to try out features likely ahead of a wider rollout on the platform. You do need to opt in to actually access YouTube comment translation or the “Translate”…
Google Stadia adds new games today w/ Madden NFL 22, Humankind, and Young Souls exclusive
August 17, 2021
August 17 has turned out to be a pretty big day for Google Stadia, with two big new games making their debut, and a third anticipated release also quietly arriving. Madden NFL 22, Humankind, and Young Souls are all now available on Stadia.
Madden NFL 22 on Stadia
Following…
After launching in the US and Canada this June, Pixel Buds A-Series is getting an international launch in the coming weeks.
Compared to the 2nd-generation Pixel Buds released last year, A-Series is visually identical save for the color choices. The part that rests in…
Gigabyte is offering a return and exchange service for two of its power supply units (PSUs), following complaints that the products were “exploding” or failing. PSU reviewer Aristeidis Bitziopoulos and Gamers Nexus both found that Gigabyte’s GP-P850GM and GP-P750GM models could fail catastrophically, with some sparking and others arriving dead out of the box. These models had been the…
Keeping in touch with your friends and family is much easier if you have their numbers saved and if you use Android then it’s almost certain that you’ll use Google Contacts — which has now joined the 1 billion download club on the Play Store.
There has clearly been a…
WhatsApp will soon be able to transfer messages between iPhone and Android [Update: rolling out]
August 17, 2021
WhatsApp made an appearance during Samsung’s Unpacked event, revealing that it would soon be possible to transfer messages between iOS and Android devices, starting with Samsung Galaxy phones.
Update: The ability to transfer messages has begun to roll out with the latest…
Apple introduced a major photography upgrade to iOS in 2019 with Night Mode on the iPhone 11. Extremely low light shots that would otherwise be lost to the limits of small camera sensors instantly became shareable. Except, some shots aren’t so post-worthy with Night Mode applied to the camera…
I mentioned this challenge in my initial review of the iPhone 11 camera:
Night Mode isn’t magic.
FlickType announced today it’s discontinuing its iPhone keyboard app for blind users after Apple didn’t approve its latest update and failed to reply back to the developer.
Even without new features or changes to the App Store page either, Apple rejected the app.
Yik Yak for iOS is back after a four-year hiatus
August 17, 2021
Do you remember the summer of 2016 when Pokémon GO was a fever, and everyone was outside without thinking about masks? Well, this was also when the Yik Yak app was available, and after four years gone, it’s now back on the App Store iPhone users in the US.
YIK YAK IS…
It’s hard to do justice to each incremental Android 12 Beta update, but Beta 4 added some notable features that we missed in our initial hands-on sweep.
Without getting bogged down in the details, Android 12 Beta 4 will likely be among the last before we see the full release, which will probably be within the next six weeks. Tons of bugs and problems have been ironed out since we first…
