Android
What’s new in Android 12 Beta
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Today at Google I/O we unveiled the first Beta of Android 12, one of our most ambitious releases ever. We focused on a new UI that adapts to Read more…
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Google announces health tool to identify skin conditions
Google developed a tool to help people identify skin conditions. | Image: Google Google’s latest foray into health care is a web tool that uses artificial intelligence to help people identify skin, hair, or nail Read more…
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Google Photos will soon make animated photos from your still shots
Google Photos will soon have a cool new trick: if you take two similar images with your phone’s camera, the app will be able to create an animated, moving shot that combines them. It does Read more…
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Google Maps’ Live View feature now offers more useful information about restaurants and businesses
Image: Google Google announced a bunch of new features for Google Maps at its 2021 I/O developer conference today, including upgrades to its handy Live View tool, which helps you navigate the world through augmented Read more…
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Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen
In yet another sign of the growing alliance between Google and Samsung, today both companies announced that they are essentially combining Wear OS — Google’s operating system — and the Tizen-based software platform that has Read more…
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Android 12 will turn your Pixel phone into a car key — assuming automakers bother
The BMW iX, which will support seamless unlocks with UWB tech. | Image: BMW Nearly a year after Apple announced the iPhone would become your digital car key, Google is doing the same. Android 12 Read more…
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Android 12 preview: first look at Google’s radical new design
Photo composite by Amelia Holowaty Krales and Vjeran Pavic / The Verge There are new features, but it’s the biggest design update in years Continue reading…
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There are over 3 billion active Android devices
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge There are over 3 billion active Android devices in the wild now. Sameer Samat, VP of product management at Google, announced the news at Google I/O 2021, which Read more…
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Google Photos is adding a locked folder for your private images
Image: Google Google is introducing a new feature to Google Photos that lets you hide specific pictures so they won’t show up in your photo feed or in other apps. The feature, called Locked Folder, Read more…
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Android introduces new privacy-friendly sandbox for machine learning data
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At the I/O developer conference on Tuesday, Google announced a range of new privacy measures, including a new partition within Android to manage machine learning data more securely. Read more…