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No Chicken Little, YouTube will not suspend your YouTube channel if it doesn’t make...
The Internet has been outraged the last few days over the changes YouTube made to their terms and conditions. The wording of the new document has had people believing that YouTube could and...
Google opens voting for the 2019 Play Users’ Choice Awards
Google's annual Google Play Users' Choice Awards has officially opened for voting and if you're a Google Play user you can head on over to the voting page and vote for your favourite App,...
[Update: accidental listing, now deleted] Officeworks have Google Home Mini twin pack for $58.00
No that's not a typo, but it also shouldn't be a surprise. The Nest Mini is starting to infiltrate the market and thus the Google Home branded speakers are being cleared. The...
Google Stadia’s launch lineup announced — still not coming here yet
Google's streaming game platform, Stadia, is launching next week and until now it was mostly speculation with a few confirmations as to which games would be available upon first release. Today Google have...
November security update with bug fixes still hasn’t rolled out to many Google Pixel...
One of the best things about the Google Pixel phones is the fast updates and bug fixes that you get. Usually you can hit the check for update button at the start of...
The Google Pixel 4 is capable of 4K 60FPS video but not with Google’s...
One of the things that is missing on the Google Pixel 4 is 4K video recorded at 60 frames per second and while very few people actually 'need' it it would be a nice...
Remap your Google Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures — no root access required nor...
The other day we reported on a way to remap your Pixel 4 Motion Sense gestures using a Magisk module, root access and Tasker. Now the developer of Button Mapper: Remap your keys...
Lexus will now update select older models to Google’s Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay
Earlier this week we reported that Lexus' sister-company Toyota had announced that upgrades to their infotainment systems to include Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility were available for select cars. Now Lexus have joined...
When will Google allow Google Assistant control and playback of 3rd party Podcast services?
Be together not the same. Remember that Google? Because we sure do, in fact it was the embodiment of that sentiment that arguably made Android the dominant mobile operating system on planet Earth.
That philosophy...
Google scales up Google Play Protect with the App Defense Alliance
With mobile devices becoming increasingly more dominant and more of the daily online interactions taking place on portable devices, it's no wonder that they are becoming a larger and larger vector for attack by...
Photos are starting to show dates on Google Nest displays
Google’s smart displays are continuing to grow in popularity, with new features and new models offered over the last year or two. Smart displays offer a lot of functions that can be accessed with...
Hey Google, make it rain! Google Assistant can now control more water appliances
Google's been slowly but surely adding more and more device types to its list of supported Actions for Google Assistant, and today they've opened the flood gates, well the plumbing type anyway. The latest...
Google’s Android Auto is set to undergo some more changes according to an APK...
Android Auto has already had some pretty major changes to its UI this year but it seems that Google are not stopping there with some tweaking of the UI set to arrive very soon....
You can make the Google Pixel 4’s display brighter and drain its battery even...
The maximum brightness on this year's Google Pixel 4 is less than what you would expect from a flagship smartphone in late 2019. We have seen many complaints of the display, even at...
Google Stadia app arrives in the Play Store but still not Australia
Google's Stadia is their new online gaming platform and although it was announced a while back is still not live. On November 19 though it will become active for those who purchased the...