The impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak hasn’t just affected hardware, but also software efforts in the tech industry. Today, Nokia is revising its Android 10 update schedule to reflect the virus.
Back in August, shortly after the Android 10 update hit Pixels, Nokia shared a timeline of when to expect Android 10 on its various devices. Some devices have been updated including the Nokia…
For a long, long time Google has had a restriction in place for Android manufacturers that they can’t fork the Android platform for risking support for the Play Store and other Google Services. What you might not have known, though, is that Google also places that…
Android Auto has become an important feature of millions of vehicles and, for many, is a feature that can make or break a purchase. Now, Android Auto is going to be a standard feature on all new vehicles from… Harley-Davidson.
Harley-Davidson recently announced (via )…
Due to the open nature of Android, updates are generally a fairly big issue when looking at the ecosystem as a whole. As Android 11 starts preparations for release later this year, a report card for Android 10 shows how companies like OnePlus and Samsung are leaving the competition behind.
In its yearly analysis of Android updates, usually finds only bad news. Despite Google’s efforts to…
Google launches Cloud AI Platform Pipelines in beta to simplify machine learning development
March 11, 2020
Google today announced the beta launch of Cloud AI Platform Pipelines, a service designed to deploy robust, repeatable AI pipelines along with monitoring, auditing, version tracking, and reproducibility in the cloud. Google’s pitching it as a way to deliver an “easy to…
Google brings Play Store dark theme all the way back to Android 5.0 with manual setting
March 11, 2020
After rolling out to Android 10 devices last October, the Google Play Store’s dark theme is now available for “any” phone and tablet going back to 2014. This wider launch also comes with a preferences menu to manually set the look.
The darker look for Android’s app…
Samsung’s Galaxy Buds+ are pretty good wireless headphones, something that’s important as the company also ditches the headphone jack on its flagship smartphones. Now, the Galaxy Buds+ are getting a red color variant in the US.
While they’re not shipping just yet, Samsung has quietly launched a red variant of the Galaxy Buds+ on its , Amazon, , and some other major retailers as well. These…
Not even Doom Eternal will run at 4K on Google Stadia
March 11, 2020
Ultra HD 4K was one of the major promises that Google laid out for its Stadia cloud-gaming service at last year’s Game Developers Conference. Now, developer id Software is backpedaling on its claims of supporting that resolution on the platform.
While Doom is going to hit…
The OnePlus 5 and 5T don’t get updates as often as they once did, but the duo of 2017 handsets are now receiving the OxygenOS 9.0.11 OTA update.
Owners over on the /r/OnePlus subreddit have spotted the OTA file on their devices, with the headline addition being that of…
GamesBeat Decides 141: A Nintendo Direct approaches
March 11, 2020
We gotta go fast on this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Reviews editor Mike Minotti has to run to get to his World of Warcraft raid because he is very cool, so that leaves PC gaming editor Jeff Grubb with a tight timeline to fit in all the news. And this week that includes our story about the upcoming Nintendo Direct. The publisher’s semi-regular video event is coming before…
