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 of software support to determine the best options. This list covers devices costing over $500 primarily in the United…
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…
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 on the iPhone:
Lens: Translate with your camera or any image
Translate Text Translate between languages by typing
Dictation…
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…
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 setup is powered by Microsoft’s “next-generation OpenAI language model.” According to the company, this new model is…
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…
Apple TV users have had it a bit rough with YouTube TV as of late, but a new update is on its way that fixes a couple of long-standing issues, including HDR handling.
A YouTube TV engineer confirmed on Reddit this week that a new update has “just started” rolling out to…
Google has tasked the Assistant team to work on Bard
March 22, 2023
The conversational aspects of generative AI and large language models (LLMs), like LaMDA, make it ripe for smart assistants. Google specifically mentioned Assistant two years ago as a product where it hopes to incorporate “better conversational features.” That has yet to happen, but the Google Assistant team is helping lead Bard development.
Sissie Hsiao was appointed as vice president and…
