Google is preparing to launch a new cloud engineering hub in the United States, and when it opens, this hub will bring up to 1,000 new jobs to the city of Durham, North Carolina.
These new jobs will be added to Google in “the coming years” and will be in offices at 200 Morris Street in Downtown Durham. The offices will be leased from Duke University at the start, but Google is “evaluating…
Like the original Chromecasts that came before it, the latest model with its Google TV operating system has the ability to display your pictures from Google Photos. However, the Google Photos ambient screensaver on Chromecast has oddly just lost the dates and locations that…
Besides music and relaxing sounds, Google’s Assistant devices are frequently used for podcasts. However, a bug has emerged in the past few days that sees Google Home and Nest speakers play the wrong podcast.
Users are phrasing their commands like before, but Google…
Life Is Strange: True Colors and Life Is Strange Remastered Collection coming soon to Google Stadia
March 19, 2021
During Square Enix Presents, the company announced that the latest title in the ever-popular Life Is Strange series, True Colors, will be arriving on Google Stadia this year, along with remastered versions of the original games.
Life Is Strange: True Colors puts you in the role of a new protagonist, Alex Chen, who discovers she has a psychic power called “Empathy” that allows her to visually…
After the first Android 12 developer preview was fairly stable, the second seems to be right along the same line. It’s an exciting time to see what Google has in store for this year’s big launch. Take this as your annual warning, though, that developer previews are not…
Since the start of this year, Google’s streaming service has yet to receive a major feature update. That continues today with search in YouTube Music for Android and iOS now directly displaying songs.
As you search, YouTube Music will now display songs underneath the…
Since it was announced in 2017, Google’s visual search tool has seen two (live) logos. Google Lens is now getting a third logo that better reflects how it’s a camera for looking up things in the real world.
The new Google Lens logo is rectangular and shaped like a dedicated, single-purpose camera. Blue, which encompasses the center lens, top-left corner, and viewfinder/flash, is the most…
It was reported yesterday that the global chip shortage was “affecting everyone except Apple,” with two factors insulating the iPhone maker. That isn’t quite accurate, as iPhone 12 production has been constrained by shortages of both power management chips and LiDAR…
Security key now supported on Facebook’s iPhone app
March 18, 2021
Facebook announced today that the social network is now supporting two-factor authentication on the iPhone using a security key. This gives users an additional way to protect their Facebook account.
Physical security keys — which can be small enough to fit on your…
The OnePlus Store app has now arrived in the US and Canada right in time for the OnePlus 9 series launch coming March 23.
So until this point, the only way for North Americans to access the OnePlus Store was to visit the dedicated website from within Chrome or any other mobile web browser. A dedicated Store app isn’t something that we thought we needed, and after launching it’s clear that we…
