‘Heads Up’ is Rolling Out to More Android Phones

Heads Up, a part of Digital Wellbeing, is reported to be rolling out to more Android phones thanks to an app update. For Pixel folks, they have had this feature for a bit, but if you're tired of nearly walking into something because your face is buried deep in...

Google Play Just Got Way Better for Wear OS Users

With the new Wear OS platform inbound, we're starting to see Google give its wearable OS a bit of love. After all of these years, it's about freakin' time. This week, Google is introducing improvements for Google Play, aimed at making the entire app...
Hangouts

Google Hangouts Takes Another Step Towards the End

Google Hangouts continues to creep towards its quiet death, reaching a new phase today that takes us one step closer to the end. Google is telling its Workspace (GSuite) customers that we are entering phase 4 and that means it's time to make a decision or...
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Pocket Casts Has Been Acquired

Pocket Casts, the popular podcast app that's one of the world's favorites, has been acquired. The buyer is Automattic, the company that owns Wordpress.com, the massive blog bro platform that so many of us read from each day. What does this mean for the future...
Facebook Messenger Soundmojis

Facebook Can’t Be Serious With “Soundmojis”

Facebook Messenger is getting a new feature. I'm struggling with how to explain it beyond that because this feature sounds like an April Fools' joke or one that only the evilest of minds would force upon the world. This is Facebook, soooooo... Are you ready...
Twitter

Twitter Yeets Fleets

Fleets are no more. The disappearing Tweets that Twitter first launched a little over a year ago never caught on and the company is ending their run. In a blog post announcing the news, Twitter said that they "haven’t seen an increase in the number of new...