Google Fi, the company’s competitor to Mint and Visible, is preparing for the upcoming launch of the Pixel Watch, making it the first smartwatch supported by the carrier.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps)…
Three Google apps already support Android 13’s redesigned media player, and the fourth is now the main YouTube client.
Update 8/18: Version 17.32.38 of YouTube is rolling out (via Google Play) to the stable channel with support for the new Android 13 media player. It…
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One of the biggest setup challenges artificial intelligence (AI) teams face is training agents manually. Current supervised methods are time-consuming…
Apple has released a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that bad actors could exploit to take full control of an iPhone, an iPad or a computer running macOS Monterey. The tech giant’s security advisory is pretty light on details, but it has identified CVE-2022-3289 as a vulnerability discovered by an anonymous researcher. It says the flaw could be exploited “to execute arbitrary code…
Rivian announces it will soon be delivering its Ocean Coast interiors, but there is a caveat
August 19, 2022
We were lucky to receive an update from Rivian today on the new R1 series Ocean Coast interiors. The EV startup is excited to announce a few critical design updates, but there’s a catch.
Rivian is giving us a sneak peek at the automaker’s new Ocean Coast interior. The…
Quick Charge Podcast: August 18, 2022
August 19, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Google Camera 8.6: Android 13, Speech enhancement on rear Pixel 6 lens [U: New update]
August 19, 2022
Google is rolling out an update to the Pixel Camera app a month after the last release, with version 8.6 introducing a handful of Material You tweaks and Speech enhancement for the rear Pixel 6 lens.
Update 8/18: A new version of Google Camera 8.6 is widely rolling out today: 8.6.263.461063035.12 to 8.6.263.463689965.13.
This is most likely a minor update, but should be seeing wider availability…
Google Camera for Wear OS gets Material You redesign
August 19, 2022
Google lets Pixel owners remote control their camera from a watch. Google Camera 8.6 is now rolling out to Wear OS with a Material You redesign.
Before today’s update (on version 8.1), Google Camera’s design dated back to the era of original Wear OS — if not Android…
Foldable smartphones still feel like a brand new idea, but in reality, Samsung is now on its fourth generation of the form factor. Foldables are still far from perfect, yet each new release inches closer to solving the biggest issues. With the Galaxy Z Flip 4, Samsung has…
What apps support the new Android 13 media player
August 19, 2022
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized.
The Android 13 media controls start with a new size that’s taller than what was on Android 12. (There’s a compact version, but only…
