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When you need to find an image, you probably head straight to Google image search. And if you need to find that image again… you probably do the search again. Well, maybe not anymore. Google has added the ability to “star” images and organize them for easy access later. First things first: this feature is […]
Google acquired the streaming music service Songza more than a year ago, and it has operated in parallel with Google Play Music all this time. But no more. Songza is being shuttered on January 31st, so existing users have about two months to migrate over to Play Music. The good news, most of Songza’s features […]
The Google+ redesign from last week may look pretty, but it’s also missing a lot of features that were available in the classic layout. This is true of every product revamp or relaunch: there will always be a tradeoff between getting all the bells and whistles of the new version and keeping the things you’re used […]
Every year toward December, Google releases a list of the best apps it recommends from the Play Store. It’s a great way for Android newcomers to discover interesting apps they might want to install on their devices and for platform veterans to find apps that might have flown under their radar. This year’s list is out, divided in […]
There’s a surprisingly wide variety of content available for Google’s dirt-cheap Cardboard VR system, but not many ways for end users to make use of it for their personal media. Enter Cardboard Camera, a new Google app that allows you to take a series of photos and automatically format them for the stereoscopic, 360-degree headset. […]
Google updated its support pages with an interesting item recently. Down at the bottom of the gift card page, is a US-only option called “Google Play credit gifts.” And sure enough, a new option to send a gift has popped up in the web Play Store. So, just in time for the holidays, you can give […]
As a former student of archaeology, Machu Picchu is a place that has always fascinated me. As someone direly afraid of heights, Machu Picchu is a place I will almost certainly never go, barring the invention of personal air transport. As such, today I was quite pleased to learn that Google’s globetrotting street view team […]
Sometimes I wonder if Google has an official Department of Whimsy where things like the never-ending doodles, Android mascots, and Santa Tracker are studiously maintained (and the inbox still overflows from bitter Google Reader fans). If so, then the DoM’s biggest yearly project has just begun with the timely update to the Google Santa Tracker […]
In preparation for the release of Episode VII in just a few weeks’ time, Google has partnered with Lucasfilm and Disney to bring the Star Wars experience into just about every Google app and service around. Fans can pick between the light side and the dark side on google.com/starwars and apps like Maps, Search, and Gmail will begin […]
Unless you regularly develop video games or other visually-intensive programs, you probably don’t know what Vulkan is. That’s OK. But if you are in the habit of developing visually complex apps for Android, the news that Google plans to support the Vulkan API is a big deal indeed. And it looks like the company intends […]
Google is getting into the annual celebration of the American consumer, known as Black Friday, with a plethora of deep discounts. I’d love to apply my normal flair and lame jokes to this article, but this is Black Friday and I ain’t got no time for that! So here’s the breakdown. Nexus 5X $80 off. A […]
Welcome back to another week of the Android Police Podcast. To catch us live on Hangouts On Air every Thursday at 5:30PM PST (subject to change as per the calendar widget below), just head over to androidpolice.com/podcast. For the unedited video show, click here (warning: this video is uncut). As always, we’ll take your questions […]
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