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This, although it poses a difficult position for the company, opens the possibility for it to be bought. According to the information from GSMArena, the tech giant Google would be in talks with HTC to acquire its smartphone business. According to the media, August 2017 has been the worst financial month for the Taiwanese company. Its profits compared to last year decreased by 54%. Even the company had a 51% decrease in profits compared to the previous month....

As recalled by Ars Technica, Android Things is not exactly new, as it came from the Brillo, an operating system which is actually designed for the Internet of things which was announced in 2015 by the tech giant Google. The difference is that Android Things will use the same tools that Android developers are already accustomed, such as Android Studio and Google Play Services, which should facilitate the adoption of the new platform....

When Google announced the new Nexus 7 last week, they said the old model was the best selling tablet in Japan during the holiday season. That’s a pretty bold statement when you consider how massively successful the iPad is. So some people started digging around, and apparently Google lied. The study Google used to make their claim came from a Japanese research firm called BCN. Said firm, according to Apple Insider, only tracked 16% of all tablet sales in the country....

Google Paid Apple $1 Billion to Remain The Default iOS Search Engine According to the records of court proceedings from Oracle’s case against Google, Google paid Apple $1 Billion Dollars to remain its default search engine in iOS devices. It is probably high end deal between Apple and Google. Google has assured an agreement with apple that ensures iPhone makers will receive percentage of revenue generated from Google through iOS device, lawyer for Oracle said at January 14 hearing in Court....

Google is rolling out an important update to its first-party Podcasts app. Android Police is reporting that Google is currently beta testing version 8.91 of its official Podcasts app, and that the software now includes support for Google’s in-car system, Android Auto. The Podcasts app launched last year, so the wait for this has been a long one, especially considering this is a first-party app and Android Auto is another first-party option from Google....

Chrome for desktop has evolved into a potent and effective browser over the years, leading the way for rivals in terms of features. However, the same cannot be said about Chrome for Android. Chrome developers have been spotted testing a new feature to restore tabs quickly on Chrome for Android to bring parity between the two builds. Sometimes we close all the open tabs, either by accident or if a bug triggers it....

Google Play Games for PC is an upcoming service that will allow you to play Android games on your Windows computer. We first heard about it in late 2021, and now the first beta for the service has gone live in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. Google Play Games is now available in beta as a client for downloading games to a Windows PC. Importantly, these games will automatically sync your progress between your Android phone, tablet, PC, and any other device signed in with Play Games....

If you are a CM12 nightly user, you will be glad to know that the CyanogenMod team has refreshed their boot logo to keep it inline with the new design guidelines of Android. It was only earlier this month that the CyanogenMod team started rolling out the CM12 nightlies, based on Android 5.0 Lollipop, for a selected bunch of devices. The new boot animation starts with a blue dot in the center of the screen and then evolves into the company’s logo....

Small businesses are utilizing all that social media has to offer to grow their following and customer base. Brother-sister-duo Stephanie and Kevin Lin opened their brick-and-mortar shop, Kestan, in California in 2019 but were forced to turn to a fully online store when the pandemic hit. To promote their store and keep sales going despite not being physically open, they turned to social media (specifically, Facebook and Instagram) to grow brand awareness and get more online customers....

Linux is one of the best-operating systems if evaluated from a security point of view, and also, there is lots of stuff just made for the advanced user. As a Certified Ethical Hacker, I have been using this operating system for the previous three years and have tried many cool things that are not at all possible on other Operating systems. Today we are here for some basic things that most users don’t know about....

While social networking sites like Facebook do a great join of reminding us of our friend’s birthdays, we still forget to post birthday wishes on their Facebook wall. If you want to avoid forgetting your friend’s birthday on Facebook, you need to schedule birthday wishes to post automatically. Steps to Auto-Post Birthday Wishes on Your Friend’s Facebook Wall Hence, in this following article, we will share some easy steps to auto-post birthday wishes on your friend’s Facebook wall....

Opening up the fingerprint sensor to third-party apps could make the Galaxy S5 feature significantly different from Apple’s Touch ID on the ione 5S. en Apple introduced its fingerprint sensor in September, the company took great pains to explain how each fingerprint stored on an ione would be locked down. Touch ID’s fingerprint data is never sent to Apple the data is encased in a “secure enclave” within the A7 chip on the ione 5S....

We have seen quite a handful of smartwatches that are aiming to challenge Apple Watch. Some of them use wearOS while others like Fitbit run on a proprietary operating system. Garmin has announced its latest series of sports-centric watches. The Fenix 6 Series sports a larger display and can be had with an optional solar panel. The Garmin Fenix 6 lineup come equipped with displays that are 1.3-inch-1.4-inch in size....

In Summary aodNotify is an Android app that gives you the functionality of an LED notification light without the LED. For now, it works with Samsung, OnePlus, and Google smartphones. With aodNotify, you can have a notification light on your camera cutout, along its screen’s edges, or in the status bar. Well, it turns out you can get a notification LED on an Android in 2022, albeit a virtual one. It requires the aodNotify app and a compatible device—the newer ones from Samsung, OnePlus, and Google—to work....

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The general availability release includes a new TPU embedding API, which Google Cloud claims can accelerate large-scale, ML-based ranking and recommendation workloads Google Cloud said embedding acceleration with Cloud TPU can help businesses lower cost associated with ranking and recommendation use-cases which commonly rely on deeply neural network-based algorithms that can be costly to run. “They tend to use large amounts of data and can be difficult and expensive to train and deploy with traditional ML infrastructure,” Google Cloud said in a blog post....

Google will start rolling out these features by next week. While the company is bringing these features by keeping the users’ demands in mind, so let’s discuss all the detail about them below. Android & Wear OS Users Will Get New Features This Holiday Month According to Google’s report, Android phones and Wear OS smartwatches owners are going to get a bundle of new features in the celebration of this holiday season....

The introduction of the new products was made in India, which is the main target of the tech giant Google with these new products and a country where many millions of users are connecting to the Internet through cheap smartphones and limited data plans. The country has close to 1.4 billion inhabitants, and about 400 million, less than a third, are connected to the Internet. At the centre of the new releases is Android Oreo (Go Edition), a lighter and faster variant of the Android operating system....

Way back in 2013, Google purchased the mapping service known as Waze, and soon after some of the features therein were baked into Google Maps. It was expected that after the acquisition of the app, Google would simply fold Waze into Maps altogether, but that hasn’t happened yet, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen at all. Was has maintained its individuality, even as its features get tossed into Maps, and that trend will continue as the company has announced that the app can now be pre-installed on Android devices moving forward....

Google to Follow Apple in Introducing an Anti-Tracking Feature for Android This new feature for Android users will let users limit the collected data. There are reports that Google might not be hard as Apple with the Anti-tacking feature for Android. To develop the ideas for the new feature, the company asks for input from the stakeholders. If the reports are true, we can expect that the industry finally feels the need to check whether the user data is being collected....