In the first developer previews for Android 12, we enabled and gave you a preview for a new native feature called “Game Mode.” It’s a feature that Google has yet to officially announce, but it’s live and accessible in the first Android 12 beta, though it’s nowhere close to release.
Game Mode in Android 12 is designed to give players useful tools while they’re playing games as well as…
We haven’t heard much about Tesla Cyberquad, an electric ATV that Tesla is supposed to release with the Cybertruck, since its unveiling, but now Mattel’s Hot Wheels is releasing its own.
Last year, we reported on Tesla partnering with Hot Wheels on two Cybertruck…
In this video, we’re heading to Washington’s Discovery Coast with photographer Corey Arnold and the Fujifilm GFX 100S to visit the Shelburne Hotel, the oldest continuously operating hotel in the state.
The Fujifilm GFX 100S is a high-resolution medium-format…
Google has announced updates to its suite of AI-powered features in an effort to make it easier to look back and find meaningful moments and memories while giving better control over what is relived.
The most important takeaway from Google’s updates to Memories today is centered around granting users more and better control over images.
“AI-powered features help you look back and enjoy your…
As part of a customization project he undertook, self-described media creator David Knop disassembled a Polaroid Go, the company’s latest instant camera. Impressed with the engineering and design, Knop decided to share what it looks like under the hood.
Polaroid…
Landscape photographers dread the feeling of standing in front of an incredible scene only to look up to find blue skies filled with harsh sunlight and no clouds. On a recent photography trip to Death Valley National Park, Michael Shainblum decided to use the harsh…
When iOS 14.5 was introduced, Apple also made the new App Tracking Transparency feature available to the public, so that users can opt out of being tracked by third-party apps. However, several users had been complaining that the Tracking toggle was grayed out for unknown reasons, but it seems that Apple is finally fixing this.
According to multiple reports from 9to5Mac readers and people on…
Android 12 Beta 1: Google’s design overhaul is here, but most of the features are missing
May 19, 2021
Years in the making, Android 12 is bringing a huge visual overhaul to the platform with the biggest impact since Material Design first debuted in Lollipop. “Material You” has some major potential and we’re seeing the first effects from it in the first Android 12 Beta…
The Android 12 Beta launched today for Pixel phones, and in it, we’ve found model numbers for all of the Made by Google phones to release in 2021 including the Pixel 6 family and the reported foldable ‘Passport.’
This year’s lineup of Made by Google phones has been…
Android 12 Beta 1: Power menu is blocked by Assistant, but an upcoming button will fix that
May 19, 2021
In Android 12, the power button now acts a shortcut to Google Assistant. Google may have pitched this as a handy shortcut but, let’s be honest, this is just copying a trend Apple started. Regardless of how you feel about that, there’s a very unfortunate side effect. At the moment, this change cuts off access to the traditional power menu.
Within the Gestures menu of Android 12, at least on…
