Motorola lists all devices getting Android 9 Pie
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Motorola lists all devices getting Android 9 Pie
While Android Pie rolls out to phones from Google and Essential, most OEMs haven't announced which devices will receive the update. HTC revealed a few days... by Corbin Davenport in Device Updates, Moto G6, Moto G6 Play, Moto G6 Plus, Moto X4, Moto Z2 Force…
Android Pie Go Edition is coming this fall
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Android Pie Go Edition is coming this fall
The first release of Android Go Edition, based on 8.1 Oreo, was... not great. On the plus side, that means there's lots of room for improvement. Google... by Corbin Davenport in Android 9 Pie, Android Go
Google One is open to everybody starting today
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Google One is open to everybody starting today
Google One, Google's new cloud storage management and product support service, has had a strangely protracted rollout. It was announced all the way back in... by Taylor Kerns in Google, News
T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local 'Team of Experts'
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T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local 'Team of Experts'
T-Mobile is offering Pandora Plus -- usually $4.99 -- for free to customers as of August 28th.
Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory
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Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory
If you've been a Wear OS user for a while, odds are you've noticed that wearable apps in the Play Store are sometimes not very good. Google is looking to c... by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, Google, News, Smartwatches, Wear OS, Wearables
Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12
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Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12
A sad bit news hit Project Fi users' emails today. Google's MVNO service is shutting down text forwarding on September 12. While I'm sure not everyone on t... by Jordan Palmer in Google, News, Project Fi
The Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference
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The Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference
The Play Store has long warned about the dangers of downloading large apps and games over mobile data. Just one big download can wreck your capped data pla... by Ryan Whitwam in Google, News
'Lazy loading' feature to speed up browsing now available in Chrome Canary
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'Lazy loading' feature to speed up browsing now available in Chrome Canary
Web pages are becoming more and more complex, but browser vendors have been hard at work trying to offset that with performance and caching improvements. F... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Chrome, Google, News
TensorFlow 2.0 announced with a new focus on usability, preview coming later this year
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TensorFlow 2.0 announced with a new focus on usability, preview coming later this year
Most of our audience is at least familiar with seeing the name TensorFlow appear in our coverage. For the uninitiated, Tensor Flow is a machine learning
Google expands bug bounty program beyond security vulnerabilities to large-scale platform abuse methods
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Google expands bug bounty program beyond security vulnerabilities to large-scale platform abuse methods
Budding penetration testers are gaining new opportunity now that Google is opening expanding its bug bounty program to include platform abuse techniques.
Google Play Games v5.11 brings redesigned game icons and prepares a new hidden mini-game [APK Teardown]
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Google Play Games v5.11 brings redesigned game icons and prepares a new hidden mini-game [APK Teardown]
The Play Games app is riding high with a series of recent changes and still a few more things to come. The latest update doesn't bring any revolutionary ch... by Cody Toombs in APK Teardown, Applications, Downloads, News
Google app testing 'Top Apps' section resembling Google Go interface
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Google app testing 'Top Apps' section resembling Google Go interface
If you feel like you're pretty comfortable with the navigation in the Google app, you'll be sad to learn that a shake-up might be on its way. Google introd... by Scott Scrivens in Applications, Google, News
Galaxy Note9 review: It's $1000, and it's the one to get
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Galaxy Note9 review: It's $1000, and it's the one to get
Spending $1000 on a smartphone is something we'd all probably have balked at just five years ago. How times have changed. The Galaxy Note9 is Samsung's fir... by David Ruddock in Galaxy Note9, News, Phone Reviews
Bendy in Nightmare Run is a new endless runner with a slick '20s cartoon theme
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Bendy in Nightmare Run is a new endless runner with a slick '20s cartoon theme
Okay, I know endless runners are played out at this point as far as mobile games go, but every once in a while something lands on the Play Store that bucks... by Matthew Sholtz in Games, News, Videos
[Update: Winners] We're giving away 30 BESTEK 'Phone Holders with Car Suction Mounts,' plus 11% off coupons for everyone else [US]
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[Update: Winners] We're giving away 30 BESTEK 'Phone Holders with Car Suction Mounts,' plus 11% off coupons for everyone else [US]
The BESTEK Phone Holder with Car Suction Mount is a versatile 2-in-1 mount that makes an excellent choice for your phone mounting needs at home, the... by Contest Coordinator in Contests / Giveaways
Android Messages v3.5 adds new Material UI with dark mode [APK Download]
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Android Messages v3.5 adds new Material UI with dark mode [APK Download]
Both Google Phone and Google Contacts had Material redesigns earlier this month. As such, people began speculating that Android Messages would also soon be... by Richard Gao in Applications, Google, News
Sony confirms Pie update timeline for Xperia XZ1, XZ2, and XA2 devices
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Sony confirms Pie update timeline for Xperia XZ1, XZ2, and XA2 devices
Google has rolled out Android Pie to Pixel devices, and Essential managed to get an update out on the same day. A few OEMs like Moto and HTC have offered s... by Ryan Whitwam in Android 9 Pie, Device Updates, News, Sony, Xperia XA2, Xperia XA2 Plus, Xperia…
Google Pay adds 111 more US financial institutions
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Google Pay adds 111 more US financial institutions
How many First National Banks could there be? Turns out it's a lot. Google Pay has recently picked up five more First Nationals (and one 1st National), plu... by Taylor Kerns in Google, News
WhatsApp backups to stop counting against your Google Drive storage allowance
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WhatsApp backups to stop counting against your Google Drive storage allowance
If you're one of the 1.5 billion WhatsApp users of the world, you'll know how important it is to back up your messages. Google Drive backups are convenient... by Scott Scrivens in Applications, Google, News, WhatsApp
Third-party Twitter apps got a lot worse today, thanks to Twitter
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Third-party Twitter apps got a lot worse today, thanks to Twitter
Twitter has a long and complicated relationship with the app developers who connect to its platform. As far back as 2011, Twitter said devs should avoid
Google Duo turns two years old today
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Google Duo turns two years old today
Two years ago today, Google released its 'Duo' video chat app for iPhone and Android. It was designed to replace the video chat component of Hangouts, just... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Google, News