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New Google Chat Features Includes Shortcuts, Mentions, and New Icon

Tim November 9, 2023 10

Google is shipping out a Chat update, one that changes up a few things, intros a new feature, and also includes a new icon that puts it more in line with Google's suite of other applications. When using Chat, users can now take advantage of a Shortcuts panel,...

Spotify for TV Gets Big Redesign and Dark Mode

Tim November 9, 2023 3

If you use Spotify on your supported smart TV or Android-powered media box, be on the lookout for a big update now rolling out. Inside, you'll find a redesigned Home page, Dark mode, and plenty else. For the newly designed Home page, the TV experience is more...

Here’s What Magic Editor Won’t Do

Tim November 8, 2023 1

In my recent post of 30 Days With Pixel 8 Pro, I mentioned the AI-powered Magic Editor feature, found inside Google Photos. It's a really fun feature that allows you to edit your images based on suggestions from Google's AI. It can tweak sky colors, generate...

4K Streaming Removed From Ad-Free Max Legacy Plan

Tim November 2, 2023 17

Heads up, select Max subscribers. Starting next month (December 5), Max is changing up the ad-free plan for legacy users, removing the ability to stream 4K titles with Dolby Atmos. In addition to limiting all streams to Full HD, Max is now also limiting the...

What are the Best Android Apps and Games? Time to Vote for Them

Kellen November 1, 2023 5

Google opened up voting this week for the best apps, games, and books on Google Play. The idea is to let users choose from a small list of the top of each category to then share the final results later this year. You have two weeks to vote, so make sure you...

The Apple Watch Almost Came to Android, But You Know Why It Didn’t

Kellen November 1, 2023 27

This seems like a pattern emerging for reasons I'm not quite sure of, but in recent years, we learn regularly of Apple projects that might have roped in the billions of Android users across the globe, only to find out that Apple nixed the idea at the last...

Chrome on iOS Lets You Choose Top or Bottom Address Bar

Kellen October 31, 2023 12

There was a brief moment in 2017 when we thought Google had decided to move the address bar in Chrome on Android to the bottom of the app, making it easier to reach on all of the massive phones we had adopted into our lives. The change was referred to as "...

Android 13 Takes Over Just as Android 14 Releases

Kellen October 31, 2023 14

We used to regularly keep tabs on Android version distribution numbers as a way to see how quickly (or slowly) phone makers were adopting the latest version of Google's mobile OS. But then from the end of 2018 into 2019, Google mostly cut off public access to...