Last month we reported on the rampant abuse of RCS in Google Messages that was flooding users in India with ads, and now, Google is stopping that abuse to address the problem.
Google Messages RCS ads are paused, for now
For over a year now, ads have been hitting Google Messages users with RCS enabled in India. While the problem is common across both RCS and traditional SMS, the problem was…
Yesterday Google officially announced that its Chromecast with Google TV would be expanding to eight new countries in Europe. Now, the Chromecast with Google TV is finally coming, officially, to India, and three other new countries.
Chromecast with Google TV is finally…
Following Lens last week, Google Calculator is the next first-party application to be updated for tablets and other large screen Android devices.
Update 6/1: As of yesterday, Google has widely rolled out version 8.2 of Calculator via the Play Store.
Update 5/26: Google…
In August of 2020, 9to5Google reported that Google was planning to replace Duo with Meet. This development was finally made official today – and will see the app that the vast majority of Android users have installed on their devices get renamed to Google Meet later this year.
Tower of (video) Babel
If you asked a user of free Google services in the early to mid-2010s how to call somebody over…
Five years ago, WhatsApp released the ability to delete sent messages. While this feature is still pretty handy, it’s kind of weird when you incorrectly send a sticker or misspell a word and need to delete the message, correct it, and then send it again.
The problem here…
iPhone spyware maker NSO struggled to make payroll; wants to sell to red-flagged countries
June 1, 2022
The financial problems of iPhone spyware maker NSO were so bad by the end of last year that it struggled to make payroll – after the company failed to make a single sale over a period of several months.
The company, which sells software to remotely carry out zero-click…
As always, Apple users have high expectations of iOS 16. In a few days from now, the company will preview during the WWDC 2022 keynote the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and other operating systems.
Personally, if the company finally revamps the Low Power Battery pop-up on iOS 16, I’d already be satisfied. Here’s how Apple could do it.
Concept designer and Twitter user Konovalov…
BloombergNEF today released its seventh annual Electric Vehicle Outlook. While the study also makes longer-term predictions, here’s where its researchers think electric vehicle adoption is going between now and 2025.
Electric vehicle adoption to 2025
As Electrek reported…
Premium electric bike maker Gocycle shakes up business model, drops prices on high-tech new e-bikes
June 1, 2022
UK-based premium electric bicycle maker Gocycle is redesigning the company’s retail model in a move to bring more value to both its retailers and its customers. The good news for the latter group is that the new model means much lower pricing on Gocycle’s most premium…
Elon Musk has requested that all Tesla employees stop remote work and come back to the office 40+ hours/week or they will be let go.
Like every other company, Tesla has allowed remote work for every role where it is possible since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.
As the pandemic subsides, those companies have been reevaluating their remote working policies. Many of them have come to the…
