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You know what would be a great planning tool for scavenger hunts, hiking trips, or touring plans? Custom mapping apps. It’s a shame Google My Maps isn’t a good one. It started life many years ago as an app to view the maps you’ve already made on a desktop. Then, in an update that landed […]

Earlier this year, we reviewed the C by GE Smart Bulb — the first light bulb that connects directly to your Google Home using a mesh Bluetooth network. It’s great to have a smart home device that doesn’t require yet another app or account, and not only did the bulb work flawlessly for its intended […]

Fitbit was huge in fitness trackers before the smartwatch fad, so it was a natural evolution for the company to add a few more features and launch a smartwatch. It started with the Ionic and then released the Versa, which was a better watch. Our friend Evan “evleaks” Blass has images of the upcoming Versa […]

Update 1: 2019/07/30 5:03pm PDT Not to be left out today, the OnePlus 5 and 5T are also getting a new update. OxygenOS 9.0.7 is starting to roll out for the company’s 2017-era flagships, bringing last month’s security patches, the company’s snazzy screen recorder, a landscape quick reply feature (which isn’t quite as simple as it […]

Today, Nvidia is releasing what it calls its “SHIELD Software Experience Upgrade 8.0,” for the Shield TV. That’s an overly complicated way of saying the Shield TV is getting upgraded to Android 9 Pie, and the update is rolling out as we speak. For the record, the Shield TV launched with Android 5.1 and has […]

The frantic pace of updates for OnePlus’ latest flagship continues. Following the previous hotfix which landed just a couple weeks back, the OnePlus 7 Pro is already getting another bump. OxygenOs 9.5.11 delivers a handful of tweaks to adaptive brightness and screen sensitivity/accidental touches, plus the latest security patches — and we mean the very […]

DISH subscribers using the company’s Hopper set-top boxes should be excited, as Google has just revealed that its Assistant has come to DISH’s voice remotes. This follows the ability to control your DISH Hopper remotely via the Assistant last year. Whether you have a Google Home or not, your remote is now an Assistant-powered smart device ready […]

Earlier this year, Apple announced Apple Arcade, a monthly subscription service that gives you access to a library of mobile games (including some exclusive titles) on iOS devices. Apple Arcade isn’t live yet, but Google is already testing its own competing service, named Play Pass. XDA Developers found evidence last year that Google was working […]

Among on-the-go professionals, there’s a sort of holy grail when it comes to power accessories: a single portable charger that can power everything. The transition to USB Type-C has helped approach that ideal, but there are still things it isn’t perfect for, and batteries like the 71Wh Omnicharge Omni 20+ will always have a special […]

Customizable watch faces are an integral part of the smartwatch experience. What good is a digital display if you’re not going to use it to make your watch look exactly like you want it to? That’s why there are hundreds of designers making faces for every wearable platform, and apps such as Pujie Black that […]

Over the past few years, LG has slipped to one of the worst phone manufacturers when it comes to software updates. It already took nearly a year for Android 9 Pie to arrive on the US variants of the LG G7, and the company’s older phones are waiting even longer. Android Pie is now rolling […]

It just so happens that we all tend to lose a wall charger every now and then, be it because of a power surge or because we’re in a rush trying to make it out of the hotel before checkout time. Fortunately, Anker runs sales on its chargers pretty often on Amazon and we think […]