Since last year, Google has been continually updating its iPhone and iPad apps with homescreen widgets. Google Maps is now the latest with version 5.74 seeing a pair of useful iOS widgets.
The first is a standard search widget called “Find places nearby.” Google has used the same layout for the Search app and Chrome. It starts with a pill-shaped search field that directly opens the app and…
MELBOURNE, Australia — The U.S. Navy no longer has concrete plans to increase the number of littoral combat ships deploying to the Indo-Pacific region on a rotational basis, the chief of naval operations has confirmed.
Speaking to reporters at a virtual media…
Google is sending out a promo email to select users of older Google Home and Nest speakers to offer a discount of $25 USD on Nest Audio. The email, which went out this morning, encourages an “upgrade to Nest Audio” for better sound quality and marks down the original…
Google Keep has not seen a major update in quite some time — outside of a new icon, though it is already a mature Workspace application. Google is working on a small feature that will let you customize the background of Keep notes.
Update 7/28: The ability to set background images in Google Keep is now widely rolled out after appearing for some users at the start of this week. Opening a note…
Sigma to release new products on August 4
July 29, 2021
Mark your calendars, people. Sigma has published a YouTube Premiere placeholder video teasing the launch of new products on August 4, 2021.
No additional information is shared in the placeholder image, nor in the video’s description, but the plural ‘products’ suggests…
In addition to previewing the “Safety Section,” Google today issued the latest set of Play Policies. One upcoming change will see Google close inactive Play Store developer accounts “after 1 year of dormancy and additional factors.”
“Dormancy” includes…
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers want answers from the Army on its plan to outfit combat vehicles with protection systems capable of countering unmanned aircraft systems, according to the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee’s markup of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill, released July 28.
The Army has been struggling for years to install active protection systems onto its Abrams…
Nikon preparing to launch the first camera with GNSS instead of GPS, according to government filing
July 29, 2021
Reports out of Japan are suggesting future Nikon digital cameras may include GNSS instead of GPS. Nokishita tweeted an unreleased Nikon camera, registered as N2014, is poised to include GNSS in addition to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. If the reports come true, it’d be the…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
In a nice boost for local esports, HP‘s HyperX division said it will team up to provide Vindex’s Beyond Gaming Arenas with gaming peripherals.
Vindex has ambitious plans to roll out more than…
Smilegate invests $100M in That’s No Moon Entertainment with ex-Sony, Naughty Dog, and Activision devs
July 28, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
That’s No Moon Entertainment is a new triple-A game development studio with veterans who have attracted more than $100 million in investment from CrossFire creator Smilegate.
The team includes star developers such as Taylor Kurosaki, former studio narrative director at Infinity World and former narrative design lead…
