Tag: Google
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The Google Play Movies & TV App Will Be Gone in January. Here’s Where To Find the Content You Purchased
Google will retire the remaining parts of its Google Play Movies & TV app for Android TV, select cable boxes, and the Google Play website on January 17, 2024. As part of its plan to create a more integrated user experience, the tech giant shut down the Google Play Movies & TV app on October…
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YouTube Will Start Showing Fewer Ads, but There’s a Catch
YouTube is changing up how it shows ads in videos. The video-sharing app will now group ads together for longer ad breaks, instead of multiple short ad breaks during your video. In addition, viewers will see a countdown of how much time is left in the ad break instead of the number of ads they’ll…
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What Epic’s Win Over Google Could Mean For Cord Cutting
Epic scored an historic win over Google when a jury ruled that the search giant’s Google Play Store was an illegal monopoly that dampened competition. The decision could also have potentially huge ramifications on the world of cord cutting, opening up everything from subscriptions to in-app film or TV show purchases. The jury found that…
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You Could Be One of the First People To Try Google’s 20 Gig Internet But It Will Cost You $250 a Month
Google is looking for people to try out its speedy new internet plan. The new residential 20 Gig internet with Wi-Fi 7 for $250 per month. Installations will start early next year. “At $250, it’s a lot of speed for that price, and we know that it will enable innovators who want to be able to…
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Epic Wins Antitrust Case Against Google As the Play Store is Ruled a Monopoly
Fortnite-maker Epic Games scored a decisive win against Google in its antitrust lawsuit on Monday after a jury ruled that the search giant’s Google Play app store and its cozy relationship with different partners constituted a monopoly, according to The Verge. The jury ruled that Google’s Play Store represented a monopoly in its distribution power…
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Chromecast With Google TV 4K Receives Long-Overdue Update
Chromecast with Google TV 4K is finally getting an update that includes an updated security patch from October. The STTE.230915.005.S1 update mainly delivers the security patch, some bug fixes and performance improvements, and minor changes to the boot animation, according to 9to5Google. The update is 104MB and based in Android TV 12, which means users…
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Gmail is Getting Smarter About Identifying Scam Emails
Google has developed a new “battle-tested” tool to help protect your inbox from scammers. This comes as scam emails have increasingly been targeting cord cutters. The search giant last week broke down how Gmail, YouTube, and Google Play use machine learning to interpret text in messages, including different connotations and suggestions, that can help identify phishing…
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Google’s New Android TV App Makes It Easier To Find Free Channels To Watch
Google rolled out a new shortcut to find free TV channels without jumping between multiple apps. The tech giant’s new Free TV Channels app can be found in your Favorite Apps row on your Android TV. The app gives you access to more than 115 free channels including local news, movies, TV shows, and sports,…
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Older Android Devices Could Soon Lose Support for Google Chrome and the Calendar App
Google will soon drop support for its Calendar and Chrome apps on Android devices still running Android 7.1 and below. Starting early next year, Google will raise its minimum operating system requirement to Android 8.0, or Android Oreo, alongside the release of Chrome 120. The news was spotted earlier by The SpAndroid. If you’re still…
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YouTube Is Testing Adding a Splash of Color to Your History and Playlist Tabs on Google TV
YouTube is testing out a colorful new design for the playlist and watch history sections of its app for Google and Android TVs. “We are rolling out a new layout to the Library on TVs for all YouTube users. This is part of our modernization efforts announced earlier this year,” a YouTube spokesperson confirmed to…