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Bard is Now Gemini, Available on Android Via New App

Tim February 8, 2024 23

It's official, Bard is now Gemini and Google is releasing a new app experience that will bring its AI to your Android phone. News of this change hit the web earlier this week thanks to a leaked changelog, but now we have all of the details straight from Google...

Google Reported to Rebrand Bard as Gemini This Week

Tim February 5, 2024 15

An upcoming changelog for Bard was leaked over the weekend, and inside, it appears that Bard won't be known as Bard for much longer. The changelog's first entry details that "Bard to now Gemini," which means we have a rebranding on the horizon. The switch...

Lol, Remember Pop-Up Selfie Cameras?

Tim February 2, 2024 35

In a race to increase display sizes and reduce bezel, Android manufacturers were trying all sorts of whacky things back in the day. Possibly the whackiest and unnecessarily complex engineering solution to be introduced was the pop-up selfie camera. Remember...

Telegram Added a Lot of Features in January

Tim February 1, 2024 1

Telegram, our current favorite messaging app, posted up an overview of the new features it added over the course of January. Since we here did not write up any of those things, now seems like a good time to recap you on what you might've missed. The biggest...

This Week 6 Years Ago, Google Paid $1B for HTC’s Pixel Team

Tim January 31, 2024 17

In late 2017, Google announced that it had entered a cooperation agreement with HTC to acquire the talent who worked on the early HTC-made Pixel devices. At the time, HTC was struggling financially, so many on the outside saw it as more of a helpful gesture...

That Wear OS Material You Upgrade is Very Close

Tim January 30, 2024 7

Early last year, it was first reported that Google would bring Material You's dynamic colors to Wear OS. Google's own code pointed to this happening, but the code obviously didn't tell us when it would get implemented. This week, it's more of the same, with...

DEAL: Brand New Unlocked Pixel 8 for Only $539 ($160 Off!)

Tim January 30, 2024 1

For what will be a limited time, the good people over at Woot! are selling a new, unlocked Pixel 8 for only $539. That's a discount of $160. That's below Black Friday pricing, just to be clear. You could sometimes see that there'd be a drawback with those high...

Android 14 QPR2 Beta 3.1 Released for Pixel Phones!

Tim January 24, 2024 4

It's apparently Pixel week, folks. Google is now pushing out Android 14 QPR2 Beta 3.1 to supported Pixel devices. This is a bug squasher update, but after looking at the changelog, there was apparently a lot of bugs that needed fixing. Google specifically...