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Samsung’s latest foldables prove that the technology is ready for mainstream users, but Samsung is the only major player at the moment. TCL has long been teasing foldable devices, and while it’s not coming to market, the company is today showing off “Chicago,” which would have been the most affordable foldable ever. “Chicago” is the…

Android 12 brings a renewed focus on widgets with Google Photos and Clock — just this week — serving as key examples. YouTube Music is working on a Material You widget, and we’ve enabled a preview of it. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that…

Ahead of Android 12’s launch later this year, our team has discovered that Google Translate has a Material You revamp in the works, it’s first major redesign in over five years — here’s an early look. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded…

Robot vacuums are still very much a luxury, but they’ve come down in price considerably over the past several years to the point where, now, you can get something halfway decent for around $150. What’s more interesting to me, however, are the vacuums that are still a bit more expensive but are also much better…

Another week, another round of Stadia news. This week, Google’s platform saw the release of Life is Strange: True Colors as Stadia also saw a surprise new Pro game, several free-to-play weekends, and more. Stadia Changelog is a weekly series on 9to5Google where we round up some of the Stadia news that we wouldn’t otherwise be able…

Xbox Game Pass continues to be a force for good in cloud gaming as, this week, it’s been confirmed that Football Manager 2022 will continue to be available in the cloud with Xbox Game Pass upon its next release. Bandwidth is 9to5Google’s weekly look at the cloud gaming market beyond Google’s own Stadia platform. Every…

It’s Friday afternoon, just hours away from the start of another weekend, and all of today’s best Android game and app deals are now up for the taking. Our Android and Chromebook hubs have now been graced with deep price drops on OnePlus 9 Pro and HP’s latest Chromebook x360, among much more, but for…

This week 9to5Google’s Abner Li, Ben Schoon, and Kyle Bradshaw discuss updates on Android 12, a new Pixel 6 ad, and thoughts after living with the new Nest Cam and Doorbell. Subscribe New episodes of Alphabet Scoop are published every Thursday/Friday. Subscribe to our podcast in Google Play or your favorite podcast player to guarantee…

After being hinted at and after testing in previous beta builds, WhatsApp has confirmed that end-to-end encryption for cloud backups is set to roll out soon. Announced in a Facebook Engineering blog post, end-to-end encryption has been missing from cloud backups despite the fact that the messages in chat gained the added security layer way…