The latest Google Doodle is dedicated to Émilie du Châtelet, the French mathematician and philosopher best known for translating and expanding on Isaac Newton’s laws of physics.
Life of Émilie du Châtelet
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet — or more simply Émilie du Châtelet — was born on December 17, 1706 in Paris, France into a family of lesser…
Chrome now tracks and shows product price drops in the tab grid, starting on Android
December 17, 2021
In time for last-minute holiday shopping, Chrome for Android is getting a particularly useful price drop tracker right in the tab grid.
If you leave a shopping listing open in Chrome, Google will overlay price drops on the miniaturized page preview in the tab grid. The…
The new Google Pay app brought with it a lot of annoying design changes and UI quirks, and slowly they’ve been quietly fixed. Now, Google Pay has finally added a sorely needed search bar for sifting through rewards and offers.
Google Pay’s rewards and offers tab is…
Google’s Nest cameras get sorely-needed event timeline navigation controls in the Home app
December 17, 2021
The latest batch of Google Nest cameras bring a lot to the table when it comes to new features, but as we’ve said in our reviews so far, they’re held back by the Google Home app. Luckily, Google is working on it. Today, Google is rolling out an update that brings navigation controls to the event timeline in the Home app for Nest cameras.
Since the launch of the latest Nest cameras, one of…
Scoop: Google Duo development & planned consumer-focused merger with Meet fizzles out
December 17, 2021
We broke the news last year that Google was eventually going to replace Duo by making Meet its only video calling service. That remains the case, but the resulting product will be primarily focused on enterprise and is no longer internally pitched to be a merger of the two…
Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs rejoining Google as part of urban sustainability product efforts
December 17, 2021
In 2017, Alphabet announced plans to create a futuristic city in Toronto, Canada, via Sidewalk Labs. The company, after abandoning those plans last year, will soon be folded back into Google.
Sidewalk Labs was the Alphabet company focused on building smarter cities and…
T-Mobile has been offering better support for more and more Google services as of late, including the recent arrival of a special Google One tier just for T-Mobile customers. Now, T-Mobile is handing out free Google Play credits as a gift to its subscribers.
The offer, spotted by the folks over at The T-Mo Report, is heading to T-Mobile subscribers right now via email and gives users a $10…
OnePlus has just opened the Red Cable Club, a loyalty program previously only available in India, to members in North America. What is OnePlus’s Red Cable Club, and how can you sign up? Follow along to find out.
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What is the Red Cable Club from…
The OnePlus 10 series will be the first big launch since the Oppo merger, and there are a lot of questions surrounding the release. Thanks to a new leak, we’ve got a good idea of what to expect from the specs, charging speed, and launch software of the OnePlus 10…
NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro: An essential for your home entertainment system in 2021 and beyond [Video]
December 17, 2021
With shortages affecting all areas of consumer technology, over the holiday period there is an easier way to get the very best home entertainment setup today — the — which is now available with until December 19.
Why choose the NVIDIA SHIELD TV?
There are tons of Android TV options littering the market, but none quite like NVIDIA’S black box. Getting what equates to an all-in-one…
