After limited testing in selected regions earlier in the year, Netflix has now rolled out the “Play Something” shuffle mode to all Android users globally. Designed to help take the stress out of finding something to watch — which is half the battle with most streaming services — “Play Something” simply opens and plays a…
While the YouTube Music web app is undoubtedly more feature-complete than the Android TV experience housed in the main app, it still lacks native Cast integration. That fortunately appears to be changing. Users that want to stream songs from music.youtube.com to Smart Displays, speakers, and Chromecast setups today have to use Chrome’s built-in Cast menu….
Google Photos has now added the ability to edit the time and date of when an image or video in your library was taken directly from your Android phone. For a long time, you needed to use a third-party application when trying to adjust this pertinent metadata attached to content within your cloud image and…
In recent years, the Android team has released partner videos with Samsung highlighting how the OS takes advantage of new hardware, like foldables. Google today released a curious trio of ads about its apps running on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3. The most recent conversation-style video was published on August 30 and…
Shut down in 2019, Google+ was never really a favorite for most in the social media landscape. However, during today’s massive and extended Facebook outage, Google+ came to mind for quite a few people. On Twitter this afternoon, Google+ picked up some steam with thousands of tweets referencing the now-defunct social network in the aftermath…
Ubisoft has been one of the biggest supporters of Google Stadia to date, and also the source of some of the best quality ports on the platform too. However, for its upcoming release of Far Cry 6, it seems Stadia will fall behind a bit, locking to a lower frame rate. Speaking to GfinityESports, Ubisoft…
YouTube Music has announced that all users in Canada will be able to access background listening with the mobile apps on Android and iOS for free from November 3. The feature is still limited to YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers in other regions, but those in Canada are being chosen as the first region…
The Gmail side panel today provides quick access to Calendar, Keep, and Tasks. Google is now bringing Contacts to the sidebar for Workspace and personal customers using Gmail. Update 10/4/21: The Google Contacts shortcut/tool is now coming to the Chat, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides sidebar. To launch, either tap the blue icon in the…
As Facebook scrambles to get Instagram and WhatsApp back up online after an extended period where the services are down, Google Messages might provide the perfect alternative. For those that were unaware, here’s a quick refresher of RCS messaging in Google Messages. Think of this as SMS with a few power-ups and no technical cost…