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If you’ve just picked up a Google TV Streamer and found that the remote is not pairing correctly, it’s because the set-top box might have instead taken over another random remote in your house. Here’s how to fix it.

As announced on Friday, Google Calendar for Android and iOS now have “refreshed illustrations.”

Google’s Pixel 9a is changing things up in the design department, as new renders have just leaked with a flat camera module that ditches a now-iconic part of Google’s smartphone designs.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Epic Games has opened a lawsuit over the difficulty of sideloading apps on Android, this time against both Samsung and Google over a new feature in One UI that adds another layer to blocking sideloading.

The Google Phone app doesn’t often receive huge updates, but a new change to the incoming call UI appears to be in the works.

Following the launch of Pixel Buds Pro 2 earlier this week, Google is rolling out Noise Control to the Android 15 Volume menu.

There are a lot of Android features that go unused because they’re difficult to access, but there are often handy shortcuts that you simply don’t know about. One of those on Google Pixel devices is a shortcut for notification history that’s quickly become my favorite trick.

The Google Home Panel coming to Google TV devices is an excited and overdue addition to the platform, but we’ve noticed that it’s rather limited in functionality.

Introduced last year for Chromebooks, the Pixel Buds web app now supports Mac and Windows. 

Due to a licensing dispute with SESAC, a ton of songs have been removed from YouTube and YouTube Music in the US. YouTube remains in “active conversations with SESAC and are hoping to reach a new deal as soon as possible.”

After years of us calling for the feature to be added and over two months after it was announced, Google Maps is finally rolling out support for incident reporting on Android Auto.

For the past 4.5 years, I’ve reached for the same case everyday to use my Pixel Buds. Handling the same shape so frequently means I rarely have to think about how to use it, especially one-handed. Figuring out which side is the front without looking to lift the lid is second nature as is moving to a bud as I put down the case on a surface and extract.  

Smart TVs can often be a mixed bag, with “cheap” options suffering in performance while the pricey options are great across the board, but also expensive. Hisense, with its lineup of Google TV options, has found a pretty excellent middle-ground with its ongoing U7 series, and this year’s model is no exception.

In 2021, the Google Shopping app on Android and iOS was deprecated for the web version. Google Shopping is now getting a rather notable redesign.

Welcome to episode 26 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, we talk all about our Google TV Streamer and Pixel Buds Pro 2 reviews.

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Samsung has been putting out pretty solid earbuds for years now, but took a new approach with the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro – shamelessly copying the competition. And, you know what? It totally works.

Google recognizes, as much as anyone, that remotes go missing all the time. In the Google Home app, you can ping your Google TV remote to make a sound so you can find it when you look under all the wrong couch cushions; here’s how.