After widget tweaks last year, Google Fi has now redesigned its Android app with Material You. It’s a straightforward modernization as the company is nearly finished visually revamping its biggest apps.
The most prominent change is to Google Fi’s bottom bar with Material You’s tall design and pill-shaped indicators leveraged. Various buttons are now pills instead of rounded rectangles…
In addition to offering user-facing apps, Google Workspace gives companies the ability to manage their employees’ devices. Google Workspace admins now have more control over Android app updates on work devices that use managed Google Play.
Previously, the default behavior…
“Are you breaking stuff over there?” my wife said, seconds after my phone hit the ground. Sadly, though, I was. My Pixel 6 Pro’s display was dead and, for the first time in years, it was time to figure out the cost and time it would take to repair my daily driver.
Google’s long-term goal for its hardware is having technology that’s always available in the background to help. The latest work towards Ambient Computing from Google is about “hidden interfaces” where the display is invisible unless being used. This is similar to the 2020 Nest Thermostat with its mirror-finish screen.
Google Research today detailed its work on these “Hidden Interfaces…
While straightforward SMS texting isn’t perfect by any means, the adoption of the RCS standard means you can do pretty neat things in Google Messages that you couldn’t for a very long time. Follow along to learn a few tips and tricks for using RCS messaging and Google…
Safari got an overhaul with iOS 15, and while there are a number of improvements and changes, some features aren’t found where they used to be. Read along for a look at how to switch to iPhone Private Browsing in Safari with iOS 15.
As a refresher, here’s how Apple…
CIRP: iPhone 13 best-selling lineup in recent years (despite tiny interest in iPhone mini)
April 22, 2022
A new report by the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners shows that the iPhone 13 lineup is delivering ”some of the best results in many quarters,” although the two mini version launched so far still account for as little as 3% of all sales on the second quarter of 2022.
The new iPhone 13 models enjoyed some of the largest share we’ve seen in many quarters,” said Josh Lowitz, CIRP…
Europeans already love electric cargo bikes, and now Americans are embracing these low-cost car alternatives
April 21, 2022
Electric cargo bikes, which are essentially normal electric bicycles with stretched frames for carrying more gear or passengers, are becoming increasingly popular as car alternatives in the US.
The move follows a common trend in the electric bike industry that sees…
Elon Musk’s Boring Company raises $675 million to accelerate its tunnel-digging under cities
April 21, 2022
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it has raised $675 million in a new funding round valuing the company at $5.675 billion. It plans to use the funds to build many new boring machines and dig tunnels under more cities.
The Boring Company (TBC) wrote in a press…
The world’s longest subsea cable will send clean energy from Morocco to the UK [update]
April 21, 2022
A 10.5 gigawatt (GW) solar and wind farm will be built in Morocco’s Guelmim-Oued Noun region, and it will supply the UK with clean energy via subsea cables. The twin 1.8 GW high voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables will be the world’s longest.
April 21, 2022, update: Subsea cable manufacturer XLCC is going to build a factory in Hunterston, Scotland, and its first output will be for…
