Back in December, Waze announced an Android Automotive app, and it’s now seeing wider availability on the Polestar 2 and other Volvo cars.

As the Google Home Public Preview continues, the company is rolling out a trio of features with a particular focus today on improving the camera experience.

In addition to Play Credits and application-specific in-app purchases (IAPs), you’ll soon be able to redeem Play Points for Google T-shirts.

Google is in the process of updating the account switcher on Android with Material You, and it’s now widely rolling out to the Google app and Play Store.

Alongside the Pixel Watch, it looked like Fitbit was going to update its Android and iOS apps last fall. Instead, Fitbit removed screenshots of the revamp, but an image of the “new app design” has now emerged. 

Last month, Google made the new Messages read receipt icons official, and the company is now testing putting that status directly in your conversation list.

Following Gmail, Drive, and Docs/Sheets/Slides, Google Chat is now the latest Workspace web app to get a Material You redesign.

Over the years, Google has been working to make Chrome faster, and the latest set of speed improvements are focused on Android and Mac.

You’ve long been able to ask Google Assistant to play radio stations on all devices, but this integration is currently down amidst an outage. The company has not removed this capability.

The latest Google Drive web update lets you “quickly and efficiently select a location to organize files and folders” with a redesigned “Move to” picker.

After previously being just a feed, Google has updated Personal Safety with a bottom bar redesign to make the experience less sprawling and more like an app.

Google has been optimizing its first-party apps with large-screen optimizations since I/O 2022, and that’s expected to culminate with the Pixel Tablet. The latest update is a three-column UI for Google Discover on tablets.

As we previously spotted, Fitbit shared today that its transition to using Google Accounts for logging in and new device registration will start this summer.

One smart thing that OpenAI did with GPT was give its (large language) model a user-facing versioning system that people are very aware of. Google Bard is starting to do something similar with an “Experiment updates” changelog for Bard.

With RCS, pictures that you send and receive are much higher resolution than they would be via MMS, but Google Messages is now testing a “Send photos faster” setting.

For years, YouTube Premium has centered around removing ads, background playback (Picture-in-Picture), and offline downloads. YouTube is now expanding what perks are offered with a Premium subscription.

After hinting at and beginning testing late last year on TVs, YouTube Music is starting to roll out real-time lyrics on Android and iOS.

After years of development, a new web graphics API called WebGPU is soon coming to Chrome and other browsers on both desktop and mobile platforms. 

Faster Night Sight for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro is rolling out with version 8.8 of Google Camera.