If you’re considering kitting out your home with smart home tech just in time for winter, your first step should probably be a smart thermostat. The nascent tech has become a hotly contested sector in recent years, with devices from the likes of Nest – which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet – leading the charge. Another top brand emerging from the smart thermostat industry is Ecobee, a Canadian company that, alongside Nest, differentiates itself from cheaper, copycat hardware with official support for voice commands.

User privacy is an ever-growing concern among technology customers. With its latest tactical smartwatch — the Tactix Delta — Garmin is taking those concerns seriously. Unfortunately, Garmin’s efforts come at a huge price tag. Like…a really huge price tag. Right now, you can get your hands on Garmin’s latest privacy-focused smartwatch for about as much as the average flagship smartphone — a whopping $900. For that money, you get a couple of interesting features you most likely won’t find anywhere else.

If geometry and physics are what you looking for a good time, then head out to Google Play Store and download the recently ported Cubes vs. Spheres. As it name implies, it’s a battle between three-dimensional objects: you are defending your turf from a horde of invading cubes by throwing balls at them. It is, no doubt, a simple gameplay but it will certainly entertain you for hours. The game starts off easy, although you will be soon using 6 different types of Spheres that can blast, freeze, flatten, and confuse the Cubes into oblivion.

TL;DR The Live Albums feature in Google Photos is rolling out now. Google announced Live Albums at its hardware event on Tuesday, alongside the Google Pixel 3 and the Google Home Hub. Using Live Albums, you can easily create themed photo albums using the power of AI. The new Live Albums feature allows you to create photo collections on-the-fly using the power of Google Assistant. All you have to do is make a new album within Google Photos and then select the people you would like to appear in that album.

Kris Carlon / Android Authority Realme launched its first tablet, the Realme Pad, less than six months ago. It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it definitely stood out thanks to its budget price tag. Unfortunately, the company revealed last week that it wouldn’t be bringing any OS updates to the slate. The saga made us question just how important OS updates are to people when buying a tablet. We posed this question to readers and here’s how you answered it.

Passive income ideas might just change your life. Passive income is income that you earn while you’re not working. That doesn’t mean earning money for nothing, but rather it means earning money from a business or an idea that you set up previously and that is now running on its own. You’ll wake up a little richer every day It means escaping a situation where you are trading time for money; so that you’re free to choose what you do with your time once again.

Earlier this year, Google and Childish Gambino joined forces to bring the shirtless dancing moves of the rap star to Google Playground. The Playmoji of Gambino — a.k.a. Donald Glover — could be inserted into your photos and videos and even interact with you while you shoot. Now, Google and Childish Gambino are at it again, this time with an AR mobile game called Pharos AR, available now for Android and iOS.

The Popcorn Time APK for Android is a TV and movie streaming app gaining lots of popularity. Originally a program for Windows, you can now use a Popcorn Time Android app to stream the latest releases on your phone or tablet. It’s not available on the Play Store, but you can download the Popcorn Time APK in other places online. Users are installing it in the millions. There are a few things worth noting about how the Popcorn Time Android app works.

Ray Tracing is coming to mobile: Ray Tracing is a hot topic for PC owners. However, it won’t be long before hardware Ray Tracing could make its way into a smartphone. Imagination Technologies is working on hardware ray tracing for its next-generation IMG B-Series GPU. (YouTube)Windows terminal review and customization tricks: Microsoft’s new terminal application is modern, fast, and highly configurable. You can run tabs and panes with the Power Shell, the Command Prompt, and with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) shells like Ubuntu.

Alongside the new name is the updated One UI aesthetic. As with other One UI-ified Samsung apps’ headers, the Galaxy Store’s header takes up almost half the screen real estate. That might seem like a waste of space, but you can get to more of the app with one hand. Based on the screenshot, the top navigation menu of Galaxy Apps has been moved to the bottom in the Galaxy Store.