Google‘s YouTube ratcheted up its dispute with Roku Thursday soon after Roku posted an update for its customers on the state of their talks, which have been dragging on since late April. If the two sides fail to reach a deal by Dec. 9, both the main YouTube app and the smaller service YouTube TV will be blocked from any new Roku devices, Google said. (Existing …
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Effective Jan. 1, Google is decreasing the service fee it collects from subscription-based apps in the Play Store from 30% to 15%, the company announced Thursday via its blog for Android developers. The new rate will be effective for all apps on day one, the announcement reads — that’s a change from the current structure, which requires subscription-based apps to …
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Google’s new phones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, made their debut on Tuesday at the company’s recent launch event. (Here’s everything Google announced including Pixel Pass, Android 12 and its in-house Tensor chip.) Google’s first Pixel phone made a splash when it was unveiled almost five years ago, but since then, the search giant’s foray into mobile devices has been …
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Thematically, Google wanted the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro to work well for a variety of people in a number of different ways. The opening of Google’s fall event Tuesday featured a video of a woman running to catch a train to work. It showed her using her phone to access a transit pass, eating a hard boiled egg …
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Google released Android 12 Tuesday during its Pixel launch event. The new operating system includes several new features and changes, as well as new privacy tools. The most notable update is a new design that changes the entire look of Android, called Material You. Below I’ll walk you through the process of signing up Android 12 on your compatible device. Can …
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Google‘s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro made their debut Tuesday during Google’s fall Pixel event, showcasing the new Android 12 phones’ cameras, their Google-built Tensor chip and a Pixel Pass subscription bundle, among other reveals. The company was able to further boast the phone’s photography and live translation enhancements, while also releasing Android 12 publicly to anyone owning the Pixel 3 and later models. …
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Android users can now download Android 12 on Pixel 3 and up. The new OS arrived after Google’s Pixel event on Tuesday. Android 12 is the OS’s biggest design change in years. With Android 12, you can expect to see customizable color palettes, updated notifications and faster, battery-saving performance. The new OS was released alongside Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro …
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Wing, the drone delivery division of Google parent company Alphabet, said Wednesday that it’s expanded operations to parts of the Dallas-Forth Worth area. This is a significant expansion into a more complex urban area, though operations so far are limited to carrying packages from a Walgreens parking lot to residents of Frisco and Little Elm on the northern edge of …
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After a long wait, I’ve got my hands on Google’s new premium flagship phone, the Pixel 6 Pro, which Google revealed at its Pixel 6 event alongside the Pixel 6. And so far, I’m impressed. Google teased the phone back in August and I explained at the time why I was excited to try its new camera setup, its Android 12 …
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Google is set to raise the curtain on its latest phones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, at a launch event at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. UK) today. We previously got a peek at the new smartphones a few weeks before the tech giant unveiled the Pixel 5A. It wasn’t a detailed launch, and we still …
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