One of the best features of the new Assistant is Continued Conversation, where your Pixel’s microphone briefly stays open after a response has been given to allow follow-ups. For the past week or so, Continued Conversation on all Google phones, including the Pixel 6, has been broken.
After issuing a command and getting back a response, the Assistant light bar immediately disappears. You have…
Jackbox Party Pack 8 is now available for Google Stadia
November 17, 2021
Jackbox has just expanded onto its first cloud platform, Google Stadia, starting with its newest addition, Jackbox Party Pack 8.
If you’ve not played a Jackbox Party Pack before, it traditionally involves getting together with friends, sitting around a TV, and playing…
US carriers start rolling out Android 12 to Samsung Galaxy S21 series, Verizon first in line w/ eSIM
November 17, 2021
Samsung just announced that it would roll out Android 12 widely to the Galaxy S21 series starting yesterday, and US carriers are already getting on board. Not long after Samsung’s announcement, Verizon opened the floodgates for Android 12 on the Galaxy S21 series, the…
Announced at the start of 2021, Google Classroom now supports offline assignment editing and an improved camera scanning tool for students using the Android app.
These three new Android features are meant to “improve access to Classroom in mobile-first and limited internet conditions.” This includes students in rural areas and those in Next Billion Users (NBU) countries.
It starts with the…
A Google Cloud outage this morning is responsible for taking down parts of Snapchat, Discord, Spotify, and a host of other services that rely on GCP for hosting.
The outages are more partial in nature with most of the nytimes.com and the Spotify player still working. In…
Google TV has been expanding its list of services since its launch over a year ago, and this week another option has been added. BET+ now features integration with Google TV.
Available now, BET+ is fully integrated with Google TV. This includes both support for content…
Google Meet calls hosted by premium Workspace tiers now support up to 500 participants
November 17, 2021
Remote work is here to stay, and Google Meet is accommodating that by adding support for video meetings with up to 500 participants on select Workspace tiers.
Google Workspace Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, and Education Plus customers can soon host calls with up to 500 participants. This differs from live streaming, which supports up to 100,000 viewers.
We hope that by…
As Twitter rolls out new features to its once-neglected API, the popular third-party app Tweetbot continues to become more powerful. This week, Tapbots has rolled out its latest update to Tweetbot 6 with support for limiting who can reply to tweets as well as support for…
While Android 12 for Samsung devices look more likely with each passing week, the Korean firm is rolling on with its consistent monthly security patches. For November 2021, a select few Samsung Galaxy smartphones are already seeing the latest updates. Here’s the full…
OnePlus Nord N20 5G renders hint at iPhone-like boxy design
November 16, 2021
Another day, another set of high-quality 3D renders, this time giving us a glimpse at the proposed OnePlus Nord N20 5G – and the design treads a very familiar path.
For better or worse over the past few years, we’ve seen a multitude of design traits hop the fence from the iPhone over to Android. It seems as though OnePlus liked the boxy design of the iPhone 12 and 13 series and has decided…
