What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naivete here. Read MoreDaily Archives: May 18, 2016
What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naivete here. Read More
In seemingly bizarre news out of the porn industry, PornHub is launching a new fitness system (wearable + workout videos) called BangFit. As its name suggests, it helps you bang to get fit. Here’s how it works: Users can join the game at this website, which will allow users to then sync the game to their phones. BangFit offers options for one player, two players, and three players.… Read MorePornHub launches BangFit so you can bang to get fit
The keynote for Google I/O 2016 just ended, and here's a summary of all the biggest news. The post Google's Biggest Announcements From I/O 2016 appeared first on WIRED.
Google’s Biggest Announcements From I/O 2016
After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today.
Pali Bhat, Google’s senior director of product management for Android Pay, told me that one and a half million users in the U.S. now set up Android Pay on their phones every month. Read MoreGoogle brings Android Pay to ATMs, Chrome and more apps
Google is updating its Android Studio developer environment with a whole slew of upgrades under the hood that’ll make it faster. The company unveiled the new tool at its Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View. Making the developer experience easier is critical to companies like Google to encourage developers to build apps Android-first, which is important to capture moments… Read MoreGoogle releases an updated, faster version of Android Studio
The company's behind a crop of new headsets coming, but its bigger VR play involves the operating system you probably already use. The post Google Daydream: The Next Android Will Have Virtual Reality Baked Right In appeared first on WIRED.
Google Daydream: The Next Android Will Have Virtual Reality Baked ...
Mobile apps often provide a better user experience than browser-based web apps, but you first have to find them, download them, and then try not to forget you installed them. Now, Google wants us to rethink what mobile apps are and how we interact with them. Instant Apps, a new Android feature Google announced at its I/O developer conference today but plans to roll out very slowly, wants… Read MoreGoogle takes a new approach to native apps with Instant ...
Google’s Android Wear smartwatch platform launched more than two years ago and it’s now supported by more than a dozen brands and runs on more than 100 watch designs. Today, the company took the wraps off version 2.0 of Android Wear, the biggest update of the platform yet. Google will release the developer preview of Wear 2.0 at I/O, but it’ll take until the fall before… Read MoreAndroid Wear 2.0 gets a keyboard, standalone apps, activity recognition ...
You get to choose the name of Google’s next Android release. Traditionally, every Android release is named after something sweet: Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat, Jelly Bean, etc. Previews are always named after the next letter in the alphabet at first (N, in the case of the latest release); Google then announces the full name shortly before the final release. This time, the rumor… Read MoreGoogle wants you to choose the final name for Android ...
We don’t know if Google will launch its own virtual reality headset at its I/O developer conference this year, but Android N, the next version of the company’s mobile operating system, will feature a special mode for VR apps. Read More