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For decades (yes, Google is coming up on two decades), Google’s trademark minimalist, all-white homepage has been the most successful effort to “branding” its ubiquitous search product. The Google search homepage appears on TV shows, in movies, video games, books, magazines, and news articles all over the world. Google’s web search is so well-known and […]

Shazam pre-dates the smartphone as we know it today, but it didn’t become popular until everyone was carrying internet-connected devices that could play music. Then, everyone wanted to know what song was playing in the background. Shazam is no longer the only way to ID songs, but it’s the only one now wholly owned by […]

It almost goes without saying that Google’s operational security is not so good lately. The Pixel 3 (and especially) 3 XL have leaked repeatedly and in great detail over the last few weeks. There are basically no surprises left for the Google event on October 9th, but now there’s a new cache of images just […]

The Snapchat app is still a dumpster fire, but now it’s a dumpster fire that can look up products on Amazon. While work continues on the revamped Android application, Snapchat has decided to add Amazon searching to the camera screen. Because that’s totally what users want, right? The new feature is slowly rolling out to […]

Update 1: 2018/09/24 6:37pm PDT Android Studio is Google’s recommended environment for developing Android applications, and plenty of new features were announced at Google I/O. Some of those improvements have now landed in the beta branch, with the release of Android Studio 3.2 Beta. The main new feature in Android Studio 3.2 is the ability to […]

A teaser for the Ticwatch E2 is now live on Mobvoi’s website. The company’s Ticwatch line has proven popular in the wearable marketplace and it just recently launched the Ticwatch Pro, which we reviewed. The E and S models were first released in July 2017 after a successful Kickstarter campaign.  While details are scarce, or […]