After the Google Pixel 8 Pro was released, there were a lot of rumors about its sensors. It was suggested that the main camera uses a Samsung ISOCELL GNV sensor, but this turned out to be erroneous. However, it was easy to make a mistake. In reality, the smartphone uses...
The YouTube video platform team has begun testing an innovation in its application that allows easy access to arbitrary content. Illustration: Shubham Dhage / UnsplashThe Play button allows you to play random Shorts videos. So far, the innovation is available to a small number of users, and the YouTube team...
After several months of testing, the YouTube video platform team began massively blocking the viewing of videos for users using ad blockers. This, in turn, led to a wave of removals – but not of YouTube apps. YouTube’s crackdown on ad blockers began on a limited scale earlier this year...
Smartphone exchange service SellCell analyzed data from 40 buyback sellers and found that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro depreciate not just quickly, but very quickly: within ten days after the start of sales, Google’s new flagships lost 63.7% of their value. Depreciation over time is a normal natural...
The authors of the PhoneBuff channel brought the Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max together again using their robotic arm. In the last battle, where the speed of work was assessed, let us remind you that the Apple smartphone won. In the new one, as we see, too,...
The YouTube video platform team has expanded the capabilities of its Take a Break feature for minor users. It works much like the iPhone’s time limit feature, plus it offers a few additional settings for users. Generated by the Midjourney neural networkThe feature debuted several years ago. YouTube “Take a...
Google has posted a notice on its support website about the imminent reduction of support for the proprietary Chrome browser on devices with the Android operating system. The description of Chrome version 120, whose release is expected on December 6, 2023, reports that the browser will lose support for the...
Google just recently began strictly blocking users who use ad blockers to watch videos on the YouTube platform. Immediately after this, the company increased prices for the YouTube Premium paid subscription, which allows you to watch videos with disabled advertising. The price increase affected several regions on the international stage...
YouTube has begun to actively combat ad blockers. YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton explains that the service is now warning users to allow advertising or try a YouTube Premium subscription. In some cases, users receive this YouTube notification regarding ad blockers but continue to watch videos, and in other cases,...
Google, without much enthusiasm, shares with the public statistics on the speed of adoption of different versions of the Android operating system. After several months of hiatus, Google updated its data for developers and it became known that Android 13 has finally jumped to the top spot. For comparison, in...
Google has acknowledged the problem and is now studying a glitch in Android 14, which, according to user reviews, has wreaked havoc on branded Pixel smartphones. The issue affects users who have multiple profiles. Many Pixel users have complained that the primary account, when set up, cannot access the storage,...
Google has shown that headphones equipped with active noise cancellation can be equipped with the ability to detect a person’s heart rate with just a software update. created by DALL-EAs stated in the Google document, audio plethysmography (APG) allows noise-canceling headphones to track a user’s physiological signals, such as heart...
As you know, Google has been paying Apple for a long time so that the former’s search engine remained the default search system in the latter’s products. But it’s not only Apple that pays Google, and now it has become known how much money the company spends on this. created...
The authors of the PhoneBuff channel compared the performance of the iPhone 15 Pro Max and Pixel 8 Pro. As always, using a robotic manipulator. Various benchmarks show that the Tensor G3 SoC in the new Google flagship is far from the performance of flagship platforms even of the previous...
Google some time ago began blocking the viewing of videos on the YouTube platform for users who use ad blockers. But while Google is fighting blockers with blocks, users are finding ways to bypass Google blocking. According to user @endermanch of the social network X (formerly Twitter), he found a...
iFixit specialists published a video disassembling the Pixel 8 Pro smartphone, and there is little interesting in it. Disassembly of this device begins with the screen, and here we can thank Google engineers: in order to unfasten the display cable, you do not need to disassemble the entire smartphone –...