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The Pixel is the “Official Fan Phone of the NBA,” and Google is reminding people of that fact with a high-profile Pixel 6 ad ahead of five Christmas Day basketball games. Update 12/26: A shorter 15-second Pixel 6 Pro spot today has Magic Johnson — appropriately — use Magic Eraser…

The ByteDance-owned content platform has shown to only be getting bigger and bigger each year TikTok has become a titan within social and viral content in 2021. So much so that the ByteDance-owned platform has overtaken Google as the most visited website of 2021. CloudFlare, a security company, released this…

Your smartphone knows a lot about you, and in some cases, too much. Certain features and settings are enabled on Android by default that we think you might want to disable them right now. A word of warning, simply disabling a few settings on your Android smartphone will not instantly…

The Pixel is the “Official Fan Phone of the NBA,” and Google is reminding people of that fact with a high-profile Pixel 6 ad ahead of five Christmas Day basketball games. Google and the NBA broadened their partnership just before the Pixel 6 launch to make it the “Official Fan…

TikTok has overtaken Google to become the world’s most popular domain for 2021. The video-sharing app jumped six places to take the top spot from the world’s biggest search engine, which ranked at number one in 2020 following research complied by technology company Cloudflare. ALSO READ: Tenant from hell: Landlord…

Most Android users still can’t upgrade to Android 12, but the first Android 13 leak has already arrived. This week, XDA obtained screenshots of a “very early Android 13 build” from an unnamed source. The features from this early build are still in development, and as XDA notes, there’s no…

Following many other tech companies in recent days, Waymo and Google announced today that it’s no longer having an in-person presence at CES 2022 due to the “quickly evolving COVID infection rates.” Update 1:38 p.m. PT: Google is following Waymo in pulling its show floor presence — usually a large…

Android TV OS provides the backbone for streamers of all kinds, with a growing app store and access to major streaming services including Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, and more alongside games both local and streaming from the cloud. Android TV is built into dozens of different TV models, but if…

The list of devices touting the newly unveiled Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is gaining a new inductee as the Xiaomi 12 is set to launch next week in China. : According to a new set of teaser posts over on Weibo (via XDA) and spotted by a Xiaomi fan…

With Android 12 now two months old, more and more OEMs are beginning to update existing devices to the latest OS version. Motorola has now detailed what Android 12 will bring to its devices next year and which phones will be updated. “My UX” remains the name of Motorola’s “comprehensive…