Earlier this year at CES 2017, Google announced that its Google Assistant voice command feature would find its way into smart TVs. Today, Sony confirmed that its upcoming 2017 lineup of Bravia 4K televisions, which already have Android TV installed, will be the first to incorporate Google Assistant. The best Google TV and Android TV devices: What are your options? The Best That’s the good news. The bad news is that if you buy one of the new 2017 Sony Bravia televisions right away, you won’t get access to Google Assistant out of the box.

One of Team 17’s most popular titles is Worms 2: Armageddon, which has over a million installs and a four-star rating based on over 60,000 reviews. That game usually goes for $4.99 but is on sale today for only $2.49, a savings of 50 percent. 10 best escape games for Android Apps The best thing about spending a measly $2.49 on Worms 2: Armageddon? There are no ads and no in-app purchases.

Five years ago today, Google and LG partnered to release one of the most cherished Android smartphones ever: the Nexus 5. Though not necessarily the best looking or the most popular handset, the Nexus 5 nonetheless captured something special. Despite its oft-discussed flaws, this smartphone stole the hearts of many Android fans (indeed, created many fans) and is still used as a reference device even today. On its birthday week, I’ve been thinking about how much it achieved, and how far smartphones have really come since its release at the end of 2013.

Android is full of little features, some of which are surprisingly important for how little we talk about them. Many older ones helped shape the Android we know today. Here are ten particularly important older Android features. Related Articles Related Related Articles Related ART and AOT (Android 5.0 Lollipop) Android Runtime (ART) was a huge deal when it officially launched in Android 5.0 Lollipop. With ART came ahead-of-time compilation (AOT), improved garbage collection, and tons of other features.

👋 Morning! As the summer solstice approaches, we're officially getting "zero night" at the moment, just a long darkish twilight. Love the long evenings!June 11, 2021 The EA hack Hackers have broken into game publisher Electronic Arts, and made off with more than 780 gigs of data, including source code for game engines. Now being sold online, it’s audacious and may cause havoc for online play According to posts on a dark web forum, someone is claiming to have obtained 780 gigabytes of data, including the source code for FIFA 21, along with EA’s Frostbite game engine, used by FIFA, Battlefield, Madden, and more EA games.

Update: March 9, 2020: Deadline reports that during Disney’s annual shareholders meeting today, its CEO Bob Chapek confirmed that Disney Plus subscriber numbers have now reached the big 100 million user milestone less than 16 months since the service’s launch. The company previously predicted it would reach 60 million subscribers five years after its November 2019 launch date. Original article: November 13, 2019: Disney Plus officially launched on Tuesday, and for a few hours, many users encountered issues with the new streaming service.

TL;DR A new French law prohibits the use of smartphones and tablets in school. The intention of the law is to help curb smartphone addiction and preserve the classroom as a place of learning. The law is similar to another French law that prohibits employers from requiring staff to always be “connected.” French lawmakers passed a sweeping bill on Monday that effectively bans the use of smartphones and tablets in French school systems, we learned via The Washington Post.

With less than a month to go before Christmas arrives, it’s time to get ready for the most famous yearly trip in history with the updated Google Santa Tracker app. The new version adds some features, including the ability to keep track of Saint Nick’s trip around the world on December 24 on an Android TV. The best NEW Android apps from June 2022 Apps In addition, the updated app includes more support for Android Wear smartwatches, although specifics have not been revealed.

A few weeks ago, we reported about T-Mobile’s two MyTouch phones that will be made by Huawei and are expected to come later in the year. The two mid-range devices, one of which features a slide-out keyboard, will supposedly run ICS and come with decent, although unimpressive specs. We’ve also seen a supposed picture of the slate model (non-QWERTY), which, although as blurry as they get, gave us an idea about how the new MyTouch devices will present themselves (just like the Nexus One, if you ask us).

Electronics manufacturers have been equipping their products with fingerprint scanners for years now. In the smartphone industry, Motorola fitted a fingerprint sensor on the 2011 Atrix 4G, though it gave up on the technology for the second generation of the device. Still, nobody got it right so far, and, as a result, fingerprint-based authentication has failed to make a meaningful impact in the market. We might be on the cusp of a fingerprint technology revival, though.