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Google has been on an all out quest to make being online safer and today they have unveiled enhancements to the Chrome browser that just might achieve that goal. Now, it’s your responsibility to keep safe online, you need to be in control, you need to be aware, and you …

The Android TV update to Android 10 has today been announced by Google via their developers blog. While it has been announced do not expect to see it before the end of the year. The new API Level 29 along with the performance and security updates made with Android 10 …

Google have been adding tweaks to a lot of their apps lately and it is continuing with Google Photos starting to receive the new account picker that was announced at Google I/O this year. The new update, rolling out via a server side switch at the moment, brings the new …

To say the 5G rollout in Australia has been slow is an understatement. Carriers though continue to develop various 5G features in a bid to roll them out to make their 5G networks useful. Optus have today announced that they have performed an end-to-end 5G data call over its 2300MHz …

Some alleged photos of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S11 have appeared online, but the quality is so questionable that really, this could be any phone you want it to be. Given the source of these images – Twitter leaker @IceUniverse – 9to5Google believes it’s at least plausible that these photos are …

As the entertainment world marches steady forward towards move 4K HDR content on line delivery platforms like Google Play Movies need to keep up with all of the formats and codecs that make the system work. Within the 4K HDR world, Dolby Vision is widely regarded as one of the …

Sometimes a feature has been missing for so long you just get used to not having it, That’s how we have felt about not being able to send multiple email attachments via Gmail in one go. That all changes, today. Google has announced that they are rolling out an update …

Last week Qualcomm outlined their early 2020 mobile SOC strategy, at least for the Flagship and upper-tier devices. What’s the message? 5G is king. Qualcomm announced their Snapdragon 865, 765 and 765G chips to much fanfare. Just like this years range, the 8xx series processor is the top dog including …

The Pixel 4 and Android 10 have been out for quite a while now and after several bug-fixing releases Google have announced today that it is time for a feature drop. New features will be arriving “this month” to Pixel phones in Google’s first feature drop for the Android 10 …

When Google released the Pixel 4 they included with it a new Google Assistant but unfortunately that Assistant was not included in all regions, including ours. At the time Google told Ausdroid that it would be arrive towards the end of the year. In today’s blogpost Google has announced that …

News stories about bad air quality, Air Quality Index (AQI) stats and images of people wearing breathing masks used to be a thing you’d see overseas in places like SBS World News. Sadly, now, these stories are usually about what’s happening in Australia and in particular up and down the …

If you’re in the mood for a new Samsung Galaxy S10 handset this Christmas, now’s the time to buy with Woolworths Mobile, as you can score (effectively) $300 off the cost over the life of your plan term. Woolworths Mobile is giving you a $300 Wish eGift card with every …

While most consumers are content with keeping their data strewn across a few hard drives, thumb drives and various cloud services some of us prefer something a little more robust and more importantly, redundant. That’s where a RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or Redundant Array of Independent Disks) set …