News and notes on the latest from Google.
A few months ago, I wrote about my new favorite laptop: the Google Pixelbook. Well, after I ordered mine, I needed a laptop sleeve to go along with it for traveling. I took an uncanny move in choosing mine, though.
Continue reading “My favorite laptop sleeve for the Pixelbook is actually one made for the iPad Pro”
In a new report published by Computerworld, Google is officially done making first-party tablets. The company reportedly had two more tablets in the works—both smaller than the current Pixel Slate; however, development on them have since been suspended and employees working on them have been reassigned to various other areas, with most being moved to the laptops division. Google still has plans for more laptops it seems.
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Amid the U.S. trade restrictions placed on Huawei, the Chinese tech giant must find an alternative to the Google Play Store. Huawei’s Android skin, EMUI, does come with their pre-installed AppGallery app store. However, if they really do plan on going for that alleged Android replacement, they’re going to need developers to port their apps to AppGallery.
Continue reading “Huawei is requesting developers to publish their apps on its AppGallery app store”
Back in March of this year, Google unveiled Stadia, a new cloud gaming service. While a lot about how the service would function (on a backend) was revealed, pricing, games, and other launch info were still unknown, until today at Stadia Connect.
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Digital Wellbeing, first introduced with Android 9 Pie last fall, is part of Google’s push towards balancing your technology usage with a healthy life. With the beta v.1.0.2483 (and a server-side switch), you can finally pick which days you want Wind Down to enable.
Google wrapped up its annual I/O keynote today led by CEO Sundar Pichai. Pichai talked about the new developments at Google and gave us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s a quick recap of what was announced.
Continue reading “Recap: Here’s what was announced at Google I/O 2019”
It’s that time of the year again, and Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, is here.
Continue reading “Google I/O 2019: Live Stream, start time, and how to watch”
The first Monday of May has arrived, and in an orderly fashion, Google’s monthly security updates are here. As always, just head to Settings > System > Advanced > System update to get the OTA.
Update 5/26: Congrats to Dane Shuler on winning the giveaway, and a big thanks to all for participating.
Continue reading “[Update: Winner] Giveaway: Win a Google Home Mini”
Way back in December of 2017, Google pulled YouTube off of the Fire TV citing a “lack of reciprocity” by Amazon. Amazon would not carry Chromecast and Google Home products on their store, Prime Video did not support Chromecast, and new Nest devices were being pulled. Consumers were the ones to suffer the most because of these companies’ disagreements. However, Amazon essentially announced yesterday that they and Google are officially friends now. Hooray!
