Twitch is the go-to place for streamers, but YouTube isn’t taking its hat out of the ring. Just this week, YouTube Gaming has poached TimTheTatMan and DrLupo, two huge Twitch stars, in exclusive deals. The game streaming space has exploded in recent years, and the Amazon-owned Twitch takes the majority stake. The platform is estimated…
The new Wear OS revamp is coming with a lot of new and improved Google apps. Next on the list? Google Messages, which is now rolling out its revamped Wear OS app to users on hardware both new and old. The new Google Messages app for Wear OS appears to be rolling out fairly widely…
Gmail on the web is set to get a navigation revamp this summer, while the Android app is now beginning to roll out a Material You redesign. It starts on the homescreen, with the top of the page seeing a pill-shaped search field that features a hamburger icon on the left and profile avatar/account switcher…
Back in the third quarter of 2020, Google said it had 30 million YouTube Premium and Music Premium subscribers. YouTube Music now has over 50 million paid customers. According to Bloomberg, this figure includes YouTube Music Premium and the broader YouTube Premium service that provides an ad-free watching experience for all videos. It also counts…
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 138th birthday of Polish biologist and inventor of the epidemic typhus vaccine, Rudolf Weigl. Life of Rudolf Weigl Rudolf Weigl was born in Austria-Hungary on September 2, 1883 — making today his 138th birthday. Early on in life, Weigl lost his father to a bicycle accident, while his mother remarried…
Google recently redesigned Lens to prioritize screenshot analysis over live capture. Google Lens is now seeing a Material You flourish and even more prominent placement on Android. Opening Google Lens and navigating to the “Translate” filter at the very left reveals a new pill for switching languages. The bubbly nature is very much in line…
Today’s best deals are now headlined by Sony’s Xperia 5 II Android Smartphone at $100 off alongside the TiVo Stream 4K with Android TV at $30. That’s alongside an all-time low on Anker’s Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pro earbuds for $80. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break….
Android updates are still not perfect, but we’re seeing things improve year over year. Samsung has accumulated a stellar update track record as of late and is now among the best in the business when it comes to rolling out prompt Android updates. Now, the company is rolling out the August 2021 security update to…
Listen to a short-form recap or roundup of all the top 9to5Google stories of the previous 24 hours. 9to5Google Daily is available on Spotify,Google Podcasts, Amazon, iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Pocket Casts and other podcast players. https://9to5google.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/09/9to5Google-Daily-707.mp3 New episodes of 9to5Google Daily are recorded every weekday. Subscribe to our podcast in…