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Google starts letting apps create custom Wear OS Tiles ahead of upcoming ‘platform update’

March 13, 2021
Starting in 2019, swiping left on Wear OS clock faces would show you “Tiles” for weather, news headlines, and more. Only first-party Google apps have ever been able to offer these glanceable pieces of information. That’s finally changing with Google now letting third-party developers create custom Wear OS Tiles. Google today announced that the Jetpack Tiles library is in alpha. Developers…
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Google Discover gets auto-advancing slideshow ad format

March 13, 2021
Alongside web articles, YouTube videos, and Web Stories, advertising frequently appears in the Google feed available to the left of most Android homescreens. Google Discover is now getting a new ads slideshow format that automatically moves you to the next image. This Google app feed today is home to a number of Discovery ad formats, with the most basic being a landscape cover image followed by…
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YouTube begins rolling out redesigned app for Apple TV users

March 13, 2021
Google has started to roll out a major redesign to the YouTube application on Apple TV with tvOS. This update brings the latest YouTube interface that Google uses on other platforms to Apple’s streaming box, nearly a year after it first came to Google TV. Google first…
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Spectacular Tesla Gigafactory Texas drone footage shows great progress

March 13, 2021
A new drone flyover of the Tesla Gigafactory Texas construction site shows some great progress in completing the giant factory. It’s hard to overstate just how massive a project Tesla Gigafactory Texas is. In mid-2020, Tesla announced a deal to build a brand-new factory in Austin, where it bought a 2,000-acre piece of land. At first, Tesla referred to the factory as the Cybertruck Gigafactory…
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Microsoft Edge will adopt the same four-week update schedule as Google Chrome

March 13, 2021
Starting this September, updates to Microsoft Edge are set to speed up. Following in the footsteps of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge will adopt a new update schedule that drops updates every four weeks. In a brief article posted today, Microsoft confirmed that it would switch Edge over to the new update schedule that was announced for Chrome earlier this month. The new schedule, as Google…
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