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Bots are damaging businesses, both directly and indirectly. Bot traffic costs businesses millions each year, whether they are scraping content, buying up goods before anyone else or using stolen passwords to take over accounts. New research from Netacea shows that bots cost businesses an average of 3.6% of their online revenue, but…
Gaming phones have become more powerful and more affordable in recent years, and Asus offers some of the best. Now, the Asus ROG Phone 5 is getting its Android 12 update with a lengthy changelog.
Available now through Asus’ forums as well as an active OTA rollout…
Android TV 12 will start showing up on TVs ‘early’ this year, dev preview now available via OTA
March 18, 2022
Android TV 12 is one of the platform’s most meaningful updates in a while, but despite its early start, Google has yet to release the final version. In a new blog post published this week, Google has confirmed that Android TV 12 will be available on TVs soon, and has…
New Google Sunnyvale office has a real-life ‘Oculus’ and is world’s largest renovation project
March 18, 2022
Google offices worldwide can be quite unique and its latest building in Sunnyvale, California strived to be the “largest renovation project” in the world.
Joining Google’s Sunnyvale campus is 237 Moffett Park Drive; it was originally developed in the 1960s as an R&D facility for mainframes and supercomputers. At 250,000 square feet, it’s a Google Cloud office with a glass…
Android 13 is several months away from its formal debut, but Google has opened up the first previews for its latest mobile operating system today with new features and more. If you’re on a Google Pixel smartphone, you can install Android 13 now. Here’s how, and why you…
The next update to Android 13 is here with Developer Preview 2 (DP2) rolling out for Pixel phones today. This should be the last release before beta-quality builds commence next month.
Android 13 DP2 is officially an “incremental update with additional features, APIs…
Ahead of the first beta in April, Android 13 DP2 remains focussed on developers. With that in mind, we’re diving into today’s release of Developer Preview 2 to find what’s changed.
Over the coming hours, we’ll dive into all of Android 13 DP2’s new features and every single change. (The newest updates will be at the top of this list. Be sure to check back often and tell us what you…
Android 13 DP2: Google updates Quick Settings with settings and power buttons on the bottom
March 18, 2022
Google just released the second developer preview of Android 13, with a redesign to the Quick Settings panel that shifts other buttons to a new part of the display.
With this latest update to Android 13, Google is effectively turning the Quick Settings menu into a panel…
Android 13 DP2: Music notification panel gets new design w/ album art, revamped controls
March 18, 2022
After sitting just behind the curtain in the first Android 13 developer preview, Google has released the new music notification panel with an updated design including (wonderful) album art integration and more.
The new music panel in Android 13’s notification shade has…
Before Android 13’s debut, it was reported that the system would gain a native QR code reader. Now, in Android 13 Developer Preview 2, we’ve been able to try out the new QR code reader on our device. Here’s how it works.
Quick Settings tiles have been around for a long while now, and they’ve always had a lot of promise, but were underused because of the lack of native access. That’s…