The Google Pixel 3a still remains one the best affordable Android phones you can buy, simply because it offers the best bits of the Pixel series with only a few compromises.
While the 3a is by no means the first affordable Android phone that gives you an experience that doesn’t appear to match the entry price, it’s one of the few smartphones in recent years that, in some ways, is easier to…
Google wants ‘A/B’ partitions mandatory w/ Android 11, pushing Seamless Updates on holdouts
April 8, 2020
Google has made a lot of quality-of-life changes to Android over the years, but not all of them have been mandatory. Now, though, Google is making Android’s useful “A/B partitions” mandatory for future smartphones, essentially making Seamless Updates a standard feature…
YouTube TV for Android adds long overdue dark mode
April 8, 2020
Last month, Google’s cord cutting television service was mired in contract disputes and lost Fox Region Sport Networks in some parts of the country. YouTube TV for Android is now rolling out a dark mode.
Compared to the primary app and Music — where it’s the default…
One persistent YouTube trend sees the apps and web client adopting larger video previews. The latest example of this is an A/B test that sees full-width YouTube thumbnails in search results.
Instead of thumbnails that take up half the screen’s width, YouTube search on Android is testing full-sized previews. This change matches how videos appear in the Home, new Explore, and Subscriptions…
Oppo Reno Ace 2 official renders surface online
April 8, 2020
The Oppo Reno Ace 2 is expected to arrive on April 13 and we already have a pretty solid idea of what to expect thanks to a TENAA listing. It will adopt the 65W Super VOOC 2.0 fast charging from the Reno Ace, but this time it will have mind-blowing 40W wireless fast-charging…
Facebook Gaming is launching tournaments for esports amateurs today in early access across the globe. In the era of social distancing, Facebook believes that games can bring us together.
While the tournament feature was in the works for a while, Facebook decided to release…
Steam is still one of the better ways for developers to make money from their games. But with thousands of new releases hitting Valve Software’s PC gaming store each year, it can seem like that opportunity is dwindling. But that’s not the case for most games, according to a report from Valve. The company has found that more games are succeeding than ever on Steam.
Since “success” is…
CyberMDX, a provider of cybersecurity solutions tailored to health care systems, today revealed that it raised $20 million in funding. CEO Amir Magner said it’ll enable the company to bolster its platform and R&D to assist hospital IT, information security, and…
Tenstorrent, an AI and machine learning hardware startup based in Toronto, Canada, today emerged from stealth with over $34 million in funding and an all-in-one computer system dubbed Grayskull. Cofounder and CEO Ljubisa Bajic, a former Nvidia senior architect who previously…
MixMode has closed a $4 million round of venture capital as it continues work on artificial intelligence to help companies combat cyberattacks, many of which are increasingly automated.
Entrada Ventures led the round of funding, which included participation from Keshif Ventures and Blu Venture Investors. After spending the past two years fine-tuning the system, MixMode will use the money for…
