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Around Friday, November 6, 2026, Google began rolling out the “Google Play system update”—part of the monthly “Google System Updates” designed to improve security and reliability—for Android devices.

Android XR smart glasses from Samsung are nearly here, with its Google-collab “Intelligent Eyewear” series featuring Warby Parker and Gentle Monster frames opening pre-orders next week — and ahead of that happening, we’re getting an early peek at how one of those companies is planning to hype up the launch.

Updates are supposed to make apps better, whether that’s by introducing new features, refreshing the UI, or improving performance, but it’s a different story when those very updates end up breaking functionality that worked perfectly fine before — yet that’s seemingly what some Samsung Health users are experiencing right now.

Yesterday, Samsung released One UI 9.0 (Android 17) for the Galaxy Tab S10+, Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+. Now, the brand is rolling out the new software to the only other device in the lineup, the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite.

A new Discord client built in Rust is looking pretty shiny and clean, even on low-end Android phones.

If you’re preparing outdoor lighting right now, a great deal on a Philips Hue outdoor light strip can save you both a ton of work, and a lot of dough too.

UCLA researchers developed PhoneBot, a small humanoid robot that uses an Android smartphone as its brain to walk on two legs.(Ruochen Hou et al./UCLA RoMeLa)

Google is rolling out a big update to Antigravity this week that features a new design, Voice Mode, and Remote Agents.

I love swapping out the bands on my Pixel Watch 5 and Fitbit Air, but Google’s official options are not cheap. It doesn’t take long to find a plethora of knock-off Pixel Watch and Fitbit Air bands around the web and, as it turns out, they’re actually really good.

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