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Google TV is expanding its homescreen integration with another service this week. Rolling out starting today, the free live TV service Pluto TV is adding integration with the “Live” tab on Google TV. Pluto TV offers over 300 free live TV channels and has supported Google TV and Android TV as an app for some time now, even going as far as powering a live experience on Verizon’s Stream TV…

Android 12 offers wallpaper-based colors to apps and the system, and it really shines in Material You’s design on Pixel phones. With today’s latest update, Google Pixel devices can now extend those colors to the boot animation. Originally expected to arrive with Android 12L, Google’s work to match the color of the boot animation to the colors picked by Dynamic Color in Android 12 is live…

LG pulled the plug on its mobile phone business earlier this year, promising some level of support for its devices for a limited period of time. The Android developer community is well known for extending the lifespan of older phones well beyond what the manufacturer offered, but LG is closing a useful tool in that effort, its bootloader unlock tools. The bootloader on an Android smartphone is…

When I reviewed the 15-inch Galaxy Book Pro 360 earlier this year, I concluded that it was great — but that its somewhat unique combination of a 15-inch OLED screen, integrated graphics, and a stylus at a fairly premium price point made its audience fairly specific. The package it offers is somewhat unusual in the 15-inch space. The 13-inch Galaxy Book Pro is clearly the laptop I was looking…