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If you want access to the best models inside Gemini, you're going to have to start paying for them.
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The Pixel 10a was already a tough sell — Google's $100 price hike makes it worse.
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Now On Wrist puts recognized tracks on your watch face so you can catch artists and save discoveries without touching your phone
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A 2K display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and a compact form factor for under $160 sounds like the ultimate handheld dream. We tested the relatively compact Redmi Pad 2 9.7 with the latest Android games. Can this budget tablet handle gaming reasonably well? We’ll find out whether the Xiaomi tablet is also suitable for casual gamers.
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10 years ago today, Google launched the first Pixel smartphone and, at the time, teased it by saying we’d still be talking about it years later. And, yeah, we still are, and this is a Google project that shows no signs of slowing down. 9to5Google Weekender by Ben Schoon is a part of our free newsletter that also includes ‘Inbox,’ a twice-weekly roundup of key stories from around the web by Daniel Bader.
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1 reporting group · Read the storyTake your first peek at where Android's heading in 2027!
Following a QPR2 release earlier this week, Google today is rolling out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1. This should see a stable release in March 2027.
Chrome’s next password feature on Android could make stolen phones less dangerous.
Giving low-effort Shorts less room to breathe.
Android Auto's signal bars were missing for months, but a fix is finally here.
Google today rolled out Android 17 QPR3 Beta 1 in quick succession to start a new preview cycle ahead of an expected March 2027 stable launch.
Logitech has introduced the Zone Vibe Pro and Zone Vibe Pro for Business over-ear headphones, featuring active noise cancellation, AI-powered voice isolation during calls in a boom-less design, and compatibility with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom.
The first Android 17 QPR3 beta arrives with a mountain of stability fixes.
Deal | The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 has received its first discount. Now 20% off, the 13-inch Android tablet combines a 4K 144 Hz display with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite and comes with 12 GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage, and a bundled CalmShell keyboard and stylus.
Macworld TL;DR: The AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan puts more than 50 AI models into one workspace, including GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok, as a lifetime subscription for $39.99 (reg. $499). Paying separately for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini adds up quickly. You still end up pasting the same prompt into three tabs to see which one got it right. Get this AskAnyModel AI Pro Plan lifetime subscription for $39.99 (reg. $499) while this price is live.
Istio 1.31 adds agentgateway waypoints in ambient mode, with a canary configuration fix included in 1.31.1. It also ends the publication of images and Helm charts to Google Cloud, requiring repository migration ahead of the 13 October outage test and signing-key updates for teams verifying images. By Mark Silvester
It should be possible to do this natively.
The iPhone Duo could make Android foldables much better.
DroidDeck 0.3.0 expands its Steam-on-Android environment with Steam Deck controller emulation, gyro and Steam Input support, a Deck-style performance overlay, automatic Adreno driver management and Lossless Scaling frame generation. The developers also report cutting Steam startup time from roughly 31 seconds to six.
Battery summaries have a long way to go.
The underdog with cooler and better features
Why does the Wi-Fi version of the Redmi Pad 2 9.7 receive updates for a significantly longer period and get more Android upgrades than the 4G version? Anyone considering buying an affordable Android tablet with LTE should take this update paradox at Xiaomi into account before making a purchase.
Google suspends product vulnerability submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) over an influx of invalid AI-driven reports.
I compare Googlebooks vs Chromebooks to see the main differences, weigh up the use cases, the price-to-performance, and whether or not an upgrade to the new ecosystem is worthwhile or not.
In 2020, Google Pixel was in a remarkably tough spot. A flailing flagship with one of its central features effectively ruined by a global pandemic combined with massive supply shortages meant that grand plans for the future were on hold. It was always going to be a tough year to release a smartphone but, looking back, the Pixel 5 maybe doesn’t get enough credit for making the best of it.
The history of Google Wallet and Google Pay has led to a great deal of confusion.
Elon Musk says the main thing holding back Tesla Robotaxi’s night hours is that the cars have a hard time seeing pets in the dark. His example was “grey kittens on grey tarmac.” That’s a low-light, low-contrast detection problem, which is the textbook weakness of cameras and the exact thing lidar and radar handle. Musk has spent years calling those sensors a “crutch” and a “fool’s errand.”
Dark mode is available on the Google Docs mobile app, but not the web version. Luckily, there are some ways to achieve dark mode on the web anyway.
I tested Google Family Link, which enables parents to control their child's phone experience to keep them safe while online.
Gemini integrations that actually work well