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Google has been moving quickly to sand down Googlebook OS’ rougher edges. Recent fixes have expanded Better Together features to Samsung phones, while the company has clarified Intel app compatibility and promised to expand HDR playback to Googlebooks that launched without it. But new hardware rarely gets every wrinkle ironed out at once, and Google…

Last month, Google confirmed its plans to sunset Gemini’s usage-specific Gems and replace them with skills. These skills are easier to set up, access, and invoke in any conversation, and they don’t force you to use them in an isolated environment like Gems did. With its announcement, Google has already started bringing skills to Gmail…

Google Play has opened a private lane for apps that never touch the public app store catalog. On October 13, 2026, Google confirmed that anyone with a standard Google account can now build a custom Android app inside Google AI Studio and run it on their own phone through Google Play, with no developer account…

The chip shortage and accompanying price increases across the market have put financial strain on both manufacturers and consumers. Meanwhile, the pace of development of pricier processors and the even more expensive devices they power hasn’t slowed. But according to one industry insider, we may just find a savior from that unaffordable future thanks to…