⚡ Welcome back to The weekly authority, the Android authority Newsletter with the most important Android and tech news of the week. The 161st edition is here, with Tristan Rayner back on deck for Paula Beaton, who is enjoying a break. 🏎 This weekend everything for me revolves around Formula 1 in the rain and…
Google is celebrating its 23rd birthday with an animated homepage Doodle that features a chocolate frosted cake. While Google, as a company, was technically founded on September 4, 1998 — with the search engine’s history actually dating back into 1996 — the company has, perhaps arbitrarily, chosen September 27 as the day to traditionally celebrate…
Google’s marketing campaign for its upcoming flagship started online, but has since expanded to TV and billboards. A new Pixel 6 magazine ad features much of the same copy, but does tease some upcoming capabilities. This ad appears in the latest issue (September 27) of The New Yorker, as spotted by Rich Brome on Twitter,…
In October of 2019, Google Assistant introduced an Issa Rae voice that responds to a subset of common queries, like the weather. Just shy of two years later, the cameo will stop working at the end of this month. Google said Assistant was gaining “cameo voices” at I/O 2018. The ability for a celebrity to…
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Earlier this year, UFC President Dana White warned that anyone even thinking about broadcasting UFC fights illegally would get into a lot of trouble for doing so. Because of that, don’t count on there being a free UFC 266 live stream…
Gravity warps space in strange and counter-intuitive ways, and the bigger the source of gravity, the bigger the warping. One example of gravity’s optical illusions is beautiful rings in space named Einstein rings, one of which was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Named for the physicist who predicted gravity’s strange stretching influence on…
The Walt Disney Company is celebrating two years of streaming on its special subscription streaming service Disney Plus with its first Disney Plus Day. The fan-centric celebration features in-person events and brand new programs from a number of Disney-owned brands. These include Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, National Geographic, and the Simpsons. If you don’t…
UFC 266 is here, and if you want to watch the event, you can take advantage of this offer from ESPN+ that reduces the cost of accessing the live stream by $50.
Welcome back to The ProWellTech Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Hello everyone! Disrupt was this week, which meant that I spent more time than usual with my…
