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…

Last year Google debuted a machine learning with its unique “Blob Opera” and, thanks to some incredible remakes posted to YouTube, they ended up going somewhat viral. Now, Google is sending the Blob Opera on “world tour” and it kicked off with a fun opening performance at I/O 2021. The Blob Opera is a machine learning experiment, but one that can product some fun sounds too. Google Arts…

Android 12 has an increased focus on privacy, and, in a move that follows something iOS recently did, the platform will now show notifications when your clipboard is accessed as well as improving toast messages. Starting with Android 12, Google will show a toast message at the bottom of the screen to alert users when an app pulls data from the clipboard. For example, copying text from an app…