It feels weird to say that Walmart has the best Google TV streaming box but here we are. While that’s great, for those of us in the rest of the world, the new Thomson Streaming Box Plus 270 looks like the rebranded Onn Pro we’ve been hoping for.

Android Automotive is getting feature parity with Auto as live incident reporting in Google Maps is rolling out right now for the in-car OS.

The first big update to Pixel Studio is supposed to make it easier to bring a photo into the app for editing, but the share target is currently broken.

Following the Pixel Buds Pro 2, Find My Device network support is now rolling out to Sony headphones and earbuds.

As pre-orders have come to an end, Samsung’s Galaxy S24 FE is now available with a minimum $200 trade-in credit for any other Samsung smartphone, making for a pretty enticing upgrade if you’re on an older device.

Google is working to upgrade the personal Meet calling experience to be more inline with the feature-rich enterprise version. As part of that, Google Meet has a new “Start a call” page. 

Samsung has gotten a lot better about quickly releasing new Android updates, but it sounds like Android 15 will break that streak as the company has confirmed that the update won’t arrive until 2025.

At its annual Samsung Developer Conference, it’s been confirmed that the long-awaited One UI 7 beta update, based on Android 15, is coming “before the end of this year” with no firm release date yet available.

Google today detailed how it has “significantly increase[d] Pixel 9’s resilience to baseband attacks” and cellular modem vulnerabilities.

To date, Shorts have been 60 seconds or shorter, but YouTube is extending the max duration to 3 minutes starting October 15.

According to Google, “Lens queries are now one of the fastest growing query types on Search” with 20 billion visual searches every month. Google Lens is now rolling out the voice and video search capabilities announced at I/O 2024.

In addition to the latest Lens feature today, Google Search is rolling out “Organized with AI” and ads in AI Overviews.

Following an early Pixel 9 series launch in August, it’s now being reported that the mid-range Pixel 9a could launch as soon as March 2025, the earliest release date in the lineup’s history.

Over the past few hours, some Google Pay/Wallet users have received an erroneous “You added a new card to your Google Account” email.

An update rolling out from Samsung to older Galaxy devices including Galaxy S10 and Note 10 is reportedly bricking devices, requiring a factory reset to fix the problem.

Google is rolling out an update to Quick Share for Windows which fixes a handful of issues, improves performance, and strangely removes the desktop shortcut.

Oura has officially announced Oura Ring 4 in a market that has become slightly more saturated than when the Gen 3 was released. Oura Ring Gen 4 improves accuracy with Smart Sensing, adapting to the users’ fingers to find the best and most reliable signal for more tracking accuracy.

After completing the English rollout to free users on Android at the start of this week, Gemini Live is adding support for new languages.

In a rather unsurprising move, Verizon Messages (Message+) is shutting down in November and Android users are encouraged to use Google Messages instead.

After coming to Android earlier this year, Google Home now offers widgets that let you quickly control smart devices from your homescreen on iPhone and iPad.