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Google and Lenovo team up to announce first ‘Project Tango’-enabled smartphone Tonight, Google and Lenovo teamed up to announce the first consumerProject Tango device, a smartphone. GPS is remarkably well adept at helping us travel across town or across the country, but what it’s truly lacking is any sense of scale in the way it
Google will route users to Accelerated Mobile Pages starting February 2016 Google announced today that it will begin routing traffic to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) by late February 2016. The company previously revealed plans to do so at some point next year, but hadn’t specified when that might be. The AMP project aims to deliver
Google launches new Christmas games and lets you build your own Developers from Google’s Fun Propulsion Labs (yes, that’s what it’s called), have unveiled open-source Christmas versions of the Android games Pie Noon and Zooshi. Both are simple games that appeal to all ages, letting you pelt friends with pies or feed well-dressed animals. The
Instagram is testing support for multiple accounts on Android devices Instagram has added support to manage multiple accounts through its Android app, according to Android Police. It appears the feature is only being tested with a select few at the moment, however. For the everyday user this might not be big news, but for social
Google Maps finally gets offline navigation, but only on Android for now Google has confirmed that the offline navigation features it showed off atGoogle IO earlier this year are now available for Android devices, though they’re not yet ready for prime time on iOS. To use offline navigation, you’ll first have to download the part
YouTube launches much-hyped Music app Finally, YouTube Music is coming out to play. After launching ad-free subscription service YouTube Red last month, users will now get a chance to download and stream music via iOS and Android. Simply called YouTube Music, the app allows users to scan the platform’s deep catalogue of music videos and
A single malicious Chrome link is enough to give attackers control of your Android phone It’s by no means the first time, but security researchers have demonstrated a weakness present in pretty much all versions of Google’s Android OS. The bad news? All it takes is opening a website containing the malicious code and an
Google’s new ‘About me’ tool quickly shows what personal data you’re sharing Google gets a lot of stick for its data collection practices, and that’s little surprise really. I love many of Google’s products, but that doesn’t stop me being concerned about just how precise a picture the company holds on me from all the
Google’s new ‘Who’s Down’ app lets you know if friends want to… you know Pinching a bit of Swarm’s cool, Google has quietly launched Who’s Down for iOS and Android. The app lets you know which of your pals is available to hang out or… you know. A simple slider lets you set your availability,
Google Keep for Android now lets you draw notes and view them on your home screen I’d been a die-hard Evernote user since 2009, but over the past few months I’ve taken a liking to Google Keep. It’s not nearly as powerful and can’t do cool stuff like store attachments and search text within PDFs,