Following last week’s initial tweet parade during the Pixel 6 launch event, Google today gave another look at new Material You widgets for Android 12.
This blog post starts by re-highlighting widgets that have already rolled out: Maps (more recent), Keep, and Clock. The “Google Photos Memories widget will be the first to use the new freeform widget frames in Material You,” while there’s…
Here’s what’s new in iOS 15.2 beta 1 [Update: Public beta]
October 29, 2021
Update October 28, 2021: Apple is now rolling out iOS 15.2, watchOS 8.3, and tvOS 15.2 to public beta testers.
Apple today released iOS 15.2 beta 1 to developers. Coming just two days after the public release of iOS 15.1, today’s beta of iOS 15.2 continues to add new…
iPhone loyalty rate continues to exceed 90%, new CIRP data shows
October 29, 2021
Apple has long been one of the most dominant smartphone brands in terms of brand loyalty. New data today from analysts at Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that Apple fans continue to remain loyal to Apple, with 90% of iPhone buyers remaining with Apple.
Twitter for iOS adds support for recording and sharing Spaces
October 29, 2021
Twitter has today announced one of the features users have been asking for for quite some time: the ability to record Spaces sessions and then share with others.
As posted by the Twitter Spaces account, starting today, some hosts on iOS will be able to start using the Spaces Recording feature. The app says that in a few weeks, it will expand to everyone else.
As of now, if you don’t have this…
After Microsoft announced that Android apps would be natively supported in Windows 11, it was only a matter of time before the Google Play Store was enabled on the OS. As it turns out, that time was just a couple of weeks, as a clever workaround has already enabled the…
Google’s Pixel lineup made its first major movie cameo in Avengers: Endgame, when Clint Barton picked up a Pixel 3 to answer a call from his snapped-back-to-life wife. As it turns out, Hawkeye seems to like the Pixel 3 quite a lot, as he’s still using it years later in…
In addition to blocking spam and offering a built-in VPN, Google Fi will soon gain end-to-end encrypted voice calls. There are, however, some notable requirements to use this capability.
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Google Fi means that “no one besides you and the person you’re talking to should be able to hear what you’re saying over the phone.”
Encoded audio can only be decoded with…
With the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro now officially available, Google today released Android 12 factory images for both phones.
Each device sees four builds. The first 015.A4 release is for everyone that’s not on a US, Canadian, or Taiwanese carrier. Meanwhile, the big three in…
Google details all the new Material Design 3 UI components, including updated ‘navigation rail’
October 29, 2021
In time for Android 12 and the Pixel 6’s launch, many of Google’s biggest apps have already been updated to Material You. At the 2021 Android Dev Summit, Google fully detailed Material Design 3 and showed off the updated UI components that developers can use to build…
Google announces next-gen ‘Pathways’ AI architecture to allow for more general, multimodal, & efficient models
October 29, 2021
Google Research today announced a next-generation AI architecture called “Pathways.” This “new way of thinking about AI” is meant to address current “weaknesses of existing systems.”
Google says Pathways can “train a single model to do thousands or millions of things” compared to the current, highly individualized approach. The old method takes a long time and “much more…
