Google is testing out a new cheaper plan for YouTube Premium, with a Lite option. YouTube Premium currently costs £11.99 in the UK, $11.99 in the US and €11.99 in the rest of Europe and gets you advert free video viewing on all platforms, access to YouTube Music, background playback and the ability to download videos. However, there seems to be a subset of users who want to just watch […]
Fitbit announced the new Luxe fitness tracker earlier this year in April but it was delayed to go on sale until earlier in June. However, the new tracker has gone on sale on Google’s official Store as Google owns the fitness company now. The biggest change to the Luxe is the addition of a colour screen, a big change from the white or blue on a dark background for years. […]
According to a recent report from The Information Apple is using a lot more storage on Google Cloud for customer’s iCloud data. In the report, it mentions that Apple has recently dramatically increased its quota for storage with Google and the company is said to now be storing eight million terabytes on the service, which is also said to be costing $300 million a year. While Apple has its own data centres for […]
Apple announced support for Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos support inside of Apple Music at the tail end of last month. Support came to everyone on iOS 14.5 or later on Monday this week, shortly after the WWDC keynote. However, Apple has long supported Apple Music on Android and some rumours online have suggested that these new audio features wouldn’t be added. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case. […]
Later this month, Google is bringing support or its gaming streaming platform Stadia to more devices. Come the 23rd June, the new Chromecast with Google TV will get support as will some other Android TV based devices. When the Chromecast with Google TV was launched last year, support for Stadia was promised for the first half of 2021. Later this month, support for Stadia will come to the following devices: […]
Last week, Google released some new entry level Pixel Buds wireless earbuds. The new A-Series are roughly the same as the standard Pixel Buds from 2020 but are a lot cheaper, now undercutting Apple’s AirPods for the first time. Like the Pixel phones Google makes, the ‘A’ in the name indicates a more budget friendly version, much like the Pixel 3a and Pixel 4a. The standard Pixel Buds come in […]
Google is planning on opening its own retails stores in New York to compete with the likes of Apple and Microsoft who have had their own retail presence for a while now. Google has been slowly building up its portfolio of hardware products with the Pixel line and the products from companies it has acquired, from Nest and Fitbit. Google has had some retail stores before, with pop-up ones but […]
Google I/O was canceled last year instead of going ahead virtually, due to the obvious COVID-19 pandemic. Other tech companies, such as Apple hosted their events virtually and it was safe to say, Apple’s WWDC in 2020 was very well received, with little time to prepare and the the event they produced was high quality. Now for 2021, Google I/O is returning next month and it’ll be virtual. Google CEO […]
YouTube will be planning on removing the dislike counter on the bottom of YouTube videos in the near future, as the company begins testing new interface designs. YouTube has shared a concept of that the new interface could look like, which simply removes the number of dislikes a video has, while the thumbs down button still remains – only YouTube creators will be able to see the amount of dislikes […]
In the last couple of days, Google has begun to roll out a new redesigned YouTube app on newer Apple TV models, the new update brings the tvOS app up to spec with other versions of the YouTube app on other platforms. The new look has been available on Google TV for the best part of year at this stage. The new update adds a more modern design, with a […]
