Following the iOS app in March, Google Translate for Android now has a homescreen widget that follows the latest Material You design language.
Update 5/1: In announcing on Thursday, Google only showed off one Translate widget when there are actually two. Translate Quick Actions is quite a versatile widget with the 3×1 configuration letting you open the app or immediately launch into voice…
As of late, the Google Store has undergone a few tweaks, but the latest change unfortunately results in people thinking they have $500 of store credit available to them.
This issue starts with the Google Store getting a redesigned account menu when you tap on your…
A few years ago, WhatsApp launched Status, an Instagram Stories-like feature, to its app. Now, it seems the company is really pushing hard for users to start taking advantage of this function more and more.
According to WABetaInfo, in a future update, when a contact…
India seizes $725 million from Xiaomi
May 1, 2022
India has seized assets worth approximately $725 million from Xiaomi India after the country’s anti-money laundering agency found the subsidiary had broken local foreign exchange laws. According to Reuters, India’s Enforcement Directorate announced Saturday it recently determined Xiaomi had made illegal remittances when it attempted to pass off some transfers as royalty payments.
That money…
Google has historically been very cautious about changing Chrome’s interface and layout given the extremely large user base. That said, one such change might be underway in Chrome for Android with the addition of a customizable toolbar shortcut.
On Android, the Chrome UI…
Epic Games may head to court again with Bandcamp over Android billing policy, Google responds [U]
April 30, 2022
Just last month, Epic Games announced that it would acquire the music platform Bandcamp. Now, Bandcamp is the latest reason Epic Games is taking legal action against Google, this time over the tech giant’s Android app billing crackdown.
Epic Games has filed a preliminary…
We’re finally coming up on the release of a Google-branded smartwatch, with the tsunami of leaks to prove it. It’s been years that we’ve been waiting for this, but 2022 isn’t the first time Google tried to release a smartwatch. Years ago, Google planned to release what we now know as the LG Watch Style and Watch Sport as its first Wear OS “flagships,” as the “Pixel Watch.”
Thank…
Google seems to have decided to fully drop the space and rebrand its desktop operating system to “ChromeOS.”
Update: Google has gone ahead with the rebrand, with the change appearing in pre-release builds of Chrome OS.
For over ten years now, Google and its partner…
Google has created a new emoji (variable) font with “Noto Emoji,” whose defining characteristic is a black-and-white design that tries to capture the “simplicity” of the format – and also happens to bring back the blobs.
Over time, emoji have become more…
Wireless Android Auto is incredibly convenient, but it’s still relatively rare to find this feature built into your vehicle. However, a simple wireless Android Auto adapter makes it incredibly easy to add the functionality — here are some of the biggest questions about the products.
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What is a wireless Android Auto adapter?
Motorola MA1, AAWireless, Carsifi — What’s…
