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YouTube Music casting is currently broken on Chromecast, Google TV, Android TV devices

It seems that Google’s music service, YouTube Music, is currently experiencing issues with casting music to Chromecast, Google TV, and Android TV devices. YouTube Music casting appears to be completely broken currently when casting to video devices, according to our own testing as well as over a dozen reports across Google’s forums and Reddit. The outage does not affect Nest Hub or Google…
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Google says Android TV 12 will start showing up on TVs ‘later’ this year, instead of ‘early’ 2022 [U]

Android 12 is one of the platform’s most meaningful updates for the big screen in a while, but despite its early start, it hasn’t shown up on any devices. In a new blog post published this week, Google has confirmed that Android TV 12 will be available on devices this year. Update: Google has updated the blog post to say that Android TV 12 won’t debut until “later” this year, retracting…
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Android 12 QPR3 Beta 1.1 rolling out to Pixel 6 and 6 Pro with bug fixes

Following the launch two weeks ago, Google is now rolling out Android 12 QPR3 Beta 1.1 for the Pixel 6 series. This is a preview for the upcoming June Feature Drop. Google “identified some bugs in Beta 1 affecting a subset of devices that [it’s] addressing with a patch.” As such, Beta 1.1 is only available for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro and is officially a “minor update” (S3B1.220218.006…
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Bloomberg: Apple planning new hardware subscription service for iPhone and iPad

Apple is planning a major change for how customers buy hardware products, starting as soon as later this year with the iPhone. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is planning to let users buy iPhone and iPad hardware “similar to paying a monthly app fee.” The new program is described as Apple’s “biggest push yet into automatically recurring sales.” Apple currently allows…
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