Facebook Live Audio Rooms are beginning their rollout today. The ability to create and host rooms is currently limited to public figures, and a handful of high-profile Facebook groups.
You can join in with chats using either iOS or Android apps, but you’ll need to be an iPhone user to host rooms, as this requires the main Facebook iOS app …
Background
Audio chat platform Clubhouse created a…
WhatsApp is releasing a new feature exclusively for iOS users. Starting today, beta users of the app will be able to forward official sticker packs to chats.
As first discovered by WABetaInfo, this feature allows users to quickly forward official WhatsApp sticker packs to…
Apple is expected to announce new iPhones less than three months from now. The iPhone 13 or iPhone 12s has yet to be unveiled, but a new report from TrendForce today sheds more light on what to expect this fall.
Starting with the production of the iPhone 13, TrendForce…
Google marks Small Business Week w/ more tools, Pointy trial, Pixel-only Google Pay cash back
June 21, 2021
The Google-created International Small Business Week is now in its second year, and various teams from across the company are launching new features to celebrate. This includes a Pixel-specific Google Pay promo when shopping at small businesses, faster YouTube ad campaign creation, and three free months of Pointy from Google.
If you own a Pixel phone, using Google Pay at a small business will…
OnePlus Nord N200 5G will get one major Android update and three years of security patches
June 21, 2021
Updates have become a serious point of concern for OnePlus devices, so much so that it’s actually a little exciting to see the company officially merge its teams with Oppo to speed up and improve the quality of updates. On that note, though, it’s both good and bad to see…
Google’s new ‘Ads Creative Studio’ combines tools from YouTube, Display & Video 360, more
June 21, 2021
Google today announced “Ads Creative Studio” as a “unified home for creative tools” that span across video, display, and audio advertising. The goal is to simplify the ad creation process with more collaboration features.
In the past, you may have had to work with…
Announced at the start of this month, Made by Google’s latest earbuds went on sale last week. Some of those Pixel Buds A-Series buyers are now getting a $10 credit for the Google Store.
The “Here’s a $10 Google Store offer, just for you” email features Pixel Buds branding and directly references the A-Series.
Just like your Pixel Buds A-Series, these devices take streaming to a whole…
In this week’s top stories: Apple officially unveils the new Beats Studio Buds, more iOS 15 tidbits emerge, Apple Watch Series 7 rumors, and more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories and more.
Beats Studio Buds
After several weeks of rumors, the Beats Studio…
Google’s staple advertising format is having people enter queries into the iconic Search homepage. The latest Google Search ad is timed for Father’s Day and tells the story of communication.
The opening search is “Why won’t my teenager talk to me” with a dad…
Here’s a funny bug: a security researcher has found that a carefully crafted network name causes a bug in the networking stack of iOS and can completely disable your iPhone’s ability to connect to Wi-Fi.
On Twitter, Carl Schou showed that after joining a Wi-Fi network with a specific name (“%p%s%s%s%s%n”), all Wi-Fi functionality on the iPhone was disabled from that point on.
Once an…
