MobileNews

Google Messages comes as default messaging app on Samsung’s Galaxy S22 series in the US

February 16, 2022
Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S22 series, Samsung ships its smartphones with the Google Messages app as the default messaging app. Before this, Samsung had its own stock messaging app that was compatible with RCS as the default app in the US. Meanwhile, the S21 series launched in Europe with Google Messages as the default messaging app. The change was noted during a segment of MKBHD’s…
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GamingNews

Roblox bookings grow 20% to $770.1M in Q4

February 16, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the fourth quarter ended December 31 were $770.1 million, up 20% from…
GamingNews

Total War and Madden join Xbox Game Pass in late February

February 16, 2022
GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Microsoft today announced the next batch of games that will be added to Xbox Game Pass for the second half of February. The headliners are Total War: Warhammer III and Madden NFL 22, but several other games are coming to new devices in the next two weeks. The first game available…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How a semantic layer bridges BI and AI

February 16, 2022
Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This article was contributed by David Mariani, chief technology officer for AtScale. An important step in the data maturity of an organization is moving beyond simple historical…
ComputersNews

CloudReady is now ‘Chrome OS Flex,’ Google’s free way to turn old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks

February 16, 2022
In December of 2020, Google acquired a Chromium-based operating system that turns old PCs into Chromebook-like devices. CloudReady is now becoming “Chrome OS Flex” and is launching in early access today. CloudReady’s big pitch was how it extended the life of old PCs that were no longer getting official updates. That software is now becoming an official Google offering with Chrome OS…
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MobileNews

Android 13 Developer Preview 1: Hands-on with big features yet to arrive [Video]

February 16, 2022
After the whirlwind launch of Android 13 Developer Preview 1, we have been diving even further into the first build of the upcoming OS to find some hidden gems and brand new features you might have missed. While we have already done a deep dive into what we’d formally consider the top user-facing features, the Android 13 Developer Preview 1 also includes a ton of other additions that we…
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