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Google Search just saw its highest traffic ever, new Easter egg celebrates Argentina’s World Cup win

December 19, 2022
Yesterday’s World Cup final turned out to have a crazy ending, and courtesy of that roller coaster, Google Search saw its highest traffic ever. Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed on Twitter last night that December 18, 2022 saw the highest search traffic in the company’s 25-year history during the World Cup final. Pichai didn’t provide any direct figures on the record, but it’s easy to…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

December 18, 2022
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized. Original…
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Google giving Wear OS ‘low-power user interface expertise’ with KoruLab acquisition

December 18, 2022
With battery capacity inherently constrained by the size of wearables, optimizing the OS that runs on miniature devices is the approach to take. Google has acquired KoruLab to boost Wear OS on this front. When Wear OS 3 was announced in May of 2021, Google said it worked with Samsung “to optimize the lower layers of the operating system – taking advantage of low-power hardware cores to enable…
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OnePlus 11 appears in official teaser

December 17, 2022
OnePlus hosted an event today in China to celebrate its ninth anniversary, and as expected, it teased the OnePlus 11 that we’ve been hearing about for some time now. The video shared by OnePlus doesn’t entirely reveal the OnePlus 11, but you can see the circular…
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Google Wallet adds whimsical Pay animations for the holidays

December 17, 2022
If you recently used Google Wallet on Android, you might have noticed a touch of holiday whimsy on the Pay screen. Normally, tapping your Android phone to an NFC reader shows the card used and a loading animation just above it. The blue circular progress indicator morphs…
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Samsung's new ad tells iPhone users that "the Galaxy awaits you"

December 17, 2022
Samsung thinks there are a lot of people out there who are “sitting on the fence between Apple and Samsung”. So it made a new ad trying to entice them to come over to its side. An ad that features a literal guy sitting on a literal fence, because that’s literally the most literal joke that anyone could ever come up with. So, to the people on the fence, be it literal or not…
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Google enables Matter across Nest Home and Android devices

December 17, 2022
This Thursday, Google officially launches support for Matter on Google Nest and Android devices. Matter is a new unified smart home platform that aids the interoperability between ecosystems and lets one platform borrow an incompatible device’s support. Google has…
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Google spotted beta testing state ID cards in Android Wallet in Maryland

December 17, 2022
A report from confirms that Google is beta testing support for digital identification cards in the Google Wallet app. Apple Wallet currently supports adding ID cards from three states including Maryland, Colorado, and Arizona. A tipster sent in screen shots to and shared the process required to add a new ID card to the Wallet. First scan the front of the ID > scan the back > take a short…
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