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Bluetti’s Christmas sale has the perfect battery systems to keep your home and holiday lights on

December 26, 2021

As its Christmas gift to you, Bluetti is extending its Black Friday deals, its high-capacity home battery backup systems that will keep your home and holiday lights powered. Beyond just bringing back and expanding on their recent Black Friday deals, Bluetti is also running a festive “Christmas Luck Wheel” promotion. Any customer who completes a purchase of over $1,000 gets the chance to spin…

Be sure to try these Material You widgets on your new Android 12 phone

December 26, 2021

With the launch of Android 12, Google is massively improving widgets on phones after several years of many interactive homescreen objects remaining unchanged. Here are the best widgets worth trying on your new Android phone. These new and updated widgets are primarily…

These are the first things you should do on Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, and other new Android phones

December 26, 2021

Between getting a new phone, activating it, and making it yours, there are a few important steps. Follow along to get your Android phone’s email, messaging, and even homescreen set up. Table of contents Find and install your apps on your new Android phone Set up…

Android Basics: 10 settings to immediately disable on your smartphone [Video]

December 26, 2021

Your smartphone knows a lot about you, and in some cases, too much. Certain features and settings are enabled on Android by default that we think you might want to disable them right now. A word of warning, simply disabling a few settings on your Android smartphone will not instantly return it to where it was the day that you bought it. That said, it could improve your daily experience and give…

OxygenOS 11.0.5.1 for OnePlus 7/7T series brings December 2021 patch, fixes WhatsApp media bugs

December 26, 2021

OxygenOS 11.0.5.1 is now rolling out for the OnePlus 7 and 7T series with the December 2021 security patch and an important bug fix. Although this update is still based upon Android 11 and not the contentious Android 12 build, we’ve seen roll out for other devices, and…

Google made an elaborate Pixel 6-themed Tarot deck [Update: Physical cards]

December 26, 2021

Google’s latest social play to advertise the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro is quite elaborate and involves the creation of a themed Tarot card deck, as well as AR filters on Instagram. Update 12/24: Google indeed printed the Tarot cards out into a physical deck and sent them to…

Google Fi’s year-end gift for subscribers is a $10 Play Store credit [U: Steps for ‘Ineligible’]

December 26, 2021

Since its inception, Google has given Fi members a holiday gift. For 2021, the “year-end gift” is simply $10 in Google Play credit that can be redeemed from the Fi app. Update 12/24: If the Fi website says you are ineligible, Google says to make sure you’re redeeming with the right account, and offers the following steps: Open your Fi account (desktop or app) and click on “Claim your…

Nest Hub Max may soon run Fuchsia as Google ramps up internal testing

December 26, 2021

The Nest Hub Max may soon be switched to Fuchsia — Google’s homegrown operating system — as internal testing ramps up. Earlier this year, Google took the bold step of updating existing 1st-gen Nest Hub smart displays from their Linux-based Cast OS to the company’s…

Google Fit for iOS can measure heart & respiratory rates using just your iPhone’s cameras

December 26, 2021

At the start of this year, Google rolled out the ability to track key vitals directly on your Android device. Google Fit on iPhone has now quietly received the same ability to measure your heart and respiratory rate using just cameras. Heart rate measurements start by…

TikTok has been more popular than Google during the last few months of 2021

December 24, 2021

The viral hit TikTok has basically taken over the internet during the past two years, and now there are stats to back it up. According to a new report, TikTok was a more popular domain than Google over the course of 2021. CloudFlare this week went through some data on the most popular entities on the internet. As it turns out, the most popular domain on the internet during 2021, at least most of…