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How to find songs that played near you with your Google Pixel

One of the worst things to happen is hearing a song play, thinking you’ll remember it to find later, only to completely forget. Fortunately, your Pixel has a feature called Now Playing. It lets you identify playing songs in the background so you can easily add any song you hear to your library. On top of that, you can find songs that played near your Pixel over a week ago in your Now Playing…
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YouTube Music and TV now offer Google Play Store betas

Like the main Android client, Google is now offering Play Store betas for YouTube Music and TV to presumably test new features ahead of time. You can sign-up via the Play Store listings on mobile or directly on the web: YouTube Music YouTube TV At the moment, there are no beta releases available for either application, but it’s taking an awfully long time for the Play Store to acknowledge…
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Ahead of I/O 2022, many big Google products have already been updated this year – what’s next

With I/O 2022 kicking off tomorrow, we’re taking a look at the state of Google products before the big event. The surprising takeaway is that many of Google’s consumer-facing apps and services have already seen major updates in recent months.  Big product updates in 2022 Google Photos is the canonical I/O announcement for using the company’s machine learning prowess to create features…
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Android 12 QPR3 Beta restores vibrate mode status bar icon w/ new settings toggle

Google has restored the status bar vibrate mode icon to Android 12 QPR3 Beta with a new settings menu toggle. In all previous versions of Android, you’ll get status bar icons when in vibrate or silent mode to help make it easier to quickly decipher whether your phone will bleep, vibrate, or make no noise whatsoever. Although this side beta offers very little in terms of functionality, it adds…
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