Following last month’s announcement, Google Translate for iPhone has received a Material You redesign.
Update 3/22: Google made the redesign official with version 7.1 of Translate today. This update brings Material You to the iPad, and introduces five lockscreen widgets on the iPhone:
Lens: Translate with your camera or any image
Translate Text Translate between languages by typing
Dictation…
Pixel Watch bands: How they’ve held up, third-party options, and where Google needs to expand
March 23, 2023
The Pixel Watch finally arrived last year with mixed opinions, but overall it’s been a success. However, the band situation on the Pixel Watch hasn’t really changed a whole lot since launch, at least when it comes to official options, but we have had plenty of time to…
If you’re in the market for a new Android phone, these are the best options available as of March 2023.
Best Android Phones – March 2023
9to5Google’s picks for the best Android smartphones look at the overall experience, pricing, reliability, camera quality, and length…
In recent days, Google TV has been showing a “Personalized ads update” on televisions and streaming devices.
First off, this is a disclosure and not a software update. This notification appears in Quick Settings and opens a dialog box when clicked:
When personalized ads are on, they may be based on your Google Account info and activity on Google TV and other Google products and services…
Google Camera 8.8 tweaks the zoom bar on Pixel 7/Pro
March 23, 2023
The latest version of Google Camera brings faster Night Sight to the Pixel 6/Pro and reveals work on the Pixel 8 Pro. Google Camera 8.8 also tweaks the zoom UI on the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro.
The Pixel 7 series has a different zoom bar than other Google phones. In the comparison…
Following last month’s announcement, Google Translate for iPhone has received a Material You redesign.
Update 3/22: Google made the redesign official with version 7.1 of Translate today. This update brings Material You to the iPad, and introduces five lockscreen widgets…
Switching smartphones can be a hassle for a lot of reasons, but it’s even worse when you’re switching between brands. In China, some of the biggest smartphone brands in Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo are teaming up to make this process easier.
Announced on Weibo, these three brands are building support for migrating data between devices even if moving from another brand’s device. Xiaomi’s MIUI…
Almost 18 months after the introduction of the first-generation wireless Bluetooth earbuds, the second-generation Nothing Ear (2) have been officially unveiled.
Details were shared on the earbuds during an official live-streamed announcement hosted by company founder Carl…
Microsoft is bringing Image Creator to the new Bing to generate images from text prompts
March 22, 2023
With the success of Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing, the company is integrating a secondary tool called the Bing Image Creator powered by the DALL-E model.
Bing’s new setup is simultaneously scary and impressive, as the service is purely AI-based. The new search engine…
Google today opened up early access to Bard, its generative AI chatbot, and we’ve had a bit of time to play around with it. The takeaway so far? Google isn’t exactly treading new ground here, but Bard is at least much more clear on what it can do, can’t do, and where it falls short.
What can you do with Bard?
Google Bard is a generative AI product built on the LaMDA model introduced in 2021.
