Category: google
Future Snapdragon phones can get up to four years of security updates
Back in 2017, Google announced Project Treble, a modular redesign of Android’s low-level system architecture that was supposed to reduce the time it took for phone manufacturers to update their devices with the latest version of its mobile operating… Source
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Tech’s biggest losers in 2020
It’d be easy to just say all of 2020 was terrible and call it a day. But while most of the year was awful for everyone, some things in tech suffered more than others. TikTok, for example, got jerked around by the Trump administration for months, only… Source
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Google is officially retiring the Home Max
Say goodbye to the Home Max, Google’s original large smart speaker meant to provide HiFi audio. The company has shared with Engadget that it is no longer manufacturing the device and that it’s sold out of the last few units on the Google Store. Exist… Source
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Google’s Nest Hub Max smart screen can now make Zoom calls
The Nest Hub Max is getting Zoom . Google outlined the arrival of the popular teleconferencing platform in a blog post today, noting that it has started to roll out for users in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. The much-requested feature is arriving as an “early preview,” essentially meaning…
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Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and other services go down simultaneously in multiple countries
Not much more to update yet but we’re seeing and getting word from others that multiple Google services have gone down. Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs are all experiencing outages, with dozens, even hundreds, of reports we’ve seen so far coming in from across Europe, the US, India, South Africa…
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Google makes it easier to try Chrome’s experimental features
Test versions of Chrome sometimes pack experimental features, but you almost wouldn’t know it when you frequently have to enable obscure settings flags to use them. It might soon be much easier, however. Ghacks and Android Police have learned that Ch… Source
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