Google Wallet on Galaxy Watch asking for PIN to make payments is just a bug

Earlier this week, 9To5Google reported that Google Wallet on Wear OS had started asking for the PIN to make tap-to-pay transactions for some users. While the change offered increased security, many people were disappointed with it as they would now have to go through an additional step on their Galaxy Watch to make payments. Well, […]

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Google fixes Android 15 Beta’s NFC bug, working to improve notification channels

A few days ago, Google released the first Beta version of Android 15. It is available for compatible Pixel phones and tablets. While it was considered generally stable for smartphone enthusiasts, it had a critical NFC-related bug that could impact day-to-day usage. Google has now fixed it with a new Android 15 Beta update. Android […]

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Android : cette fonctionnalité IA traduit n’importe quel texte à la vitesse de l’éclair

La fonctionnalité Entourer pour rechercher (Circle To Search) continue d’améliorer sa formule. Avec la prochaine mise à jour de l’application Google, traduire du texte entouré sera encore plus rapide grâce à un nouveau bouton. Crédits : Google Vers la fin janvier 2024, Google a présenté la fonctionnalité Circle To Search (Entourer pour rechercher en bon […]

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Google’s Gemini might soon replicate Google Assistant’s music streaming integration

Google Assistant has been here for a long time, but now it’s time to move on from Google Assistant to Google Gemini. Gemini is Google’s brand-new, more intelligent digital assistant that better understands natural language and can keep a conversation going. It launched on Android phones and tablets a few weeks ago but hasn’t completely […]

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YouTube could cause battery life, smoothness issues on older Galaxy devices

Updates usually bring new features and performance improvements. However, sometimes updates also bring performance and reliability issues. One such issue could come to YouTube on older or affordable Galaxy phones and tablets. Older and lower-end Galaxy phones could have performance issues on YouTube with AV1 decoding Google’s Arif Dikici (Android Video and Image Codecs Team) […]

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Android 15 could enable wireless charging over NFC

In May 2020, the NFC Forum introduced NFC Wireless Charging, a standard for offering wireless charging over Near-Field Communication (NFC). This specification offers up to 1W of power transfer over a distance of 2cm. So, if there are two devices supporting this protocol, one device can send up to 1W of power to another device […]

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Galaxy S25 could offer improved GenAI capability with second-generation Gemini Nano

The Galaxy S24 series smartphones brought Galaxy AI, a suite of GenAI features, including Circle to Search (CtS), to help you with various tasks. These features are powered by Google’s Gemini Nano, the smallest/lightest version of Gemini that is designed to run on devices such as phones and tablets. It gives them GenAI capability without […]

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Google to soon fix accidental Circle to Search activations

The Galaxy S24 series introduced Circle to Search (CtS), a feature that allows you to search for anything on the screen by just drawing a circle around it. Currently, you can access CtS by long-pressing the home button or the navigation handle. However, people have been complaining that CtS gets activated accidentally quite a lot. […]

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App permission syncing between Galaxy Watch and Android phone coming soon

Since Google and Samsung merged Wear OS and Tizen, Google has been rapidly improving Wear OS by adding new and useful features to it, such as introducing new applications for the platform, including Google Calendar and Gmail, improving existing apps, including Google Home and Google Maps, introducing new Tiles, and offering new watch face and […]

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Google Messages now shows the RCS provider in a different place

Many of you reading this article might be using Google Messages as the default messaging app but most of you might not know that the messaging platform can show you who is providing you Rich Communications Service (RCS). To check that information, click on the profile icon/picture, go to ‘Messages settings,‘ and select ‘RCS chats,‘ […]

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Galaxy phones could soon get one more wallet app

Google Wallet is one of the most useful apps for Android devices as it allows you to store and access identification (ID) cards or documents, payment cards, boarding passes, and event tickets among other things. Unfortunately, it isn’t available in the world’s most populous country, India. Fortunately, that’s going to change soon. As spotted by […]

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Le génie tactique de DeepMind arrive sur les terrains de football

Dans le monde du football, le coup de pied de coin, ou corner, fait l’objet d’analyses au sein des entraineurs car il est exécuté à partir d’un point fixe et donne une bonne occasion de marquer un but. Dans cette optique, Google DeepMind travaille sur un assistant virtuel qui permettrait aux entraineurs de mieux préparer les matches à […]

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Future Pixel phones to use new Samsung modem with satellite connectivity

Since the launch of the Pixel 6, Google has used its in-house Tensor processors with Exynos modems. The Pixel 9, expected to launch later this year, will reportedly use a newer Exynos modem from Samsung to bring satellite connectivity features for messaging. That’s not the only Pixel that features the new Exynos modem. Even the […]

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Le prix des abonnements Bbox augmente encore, Google propose désormais une version Premium payante de Chrome, c’est le récap’ de la semaine

Bouygues Telecom augmente ses tarifs sans raison apparente, Google lève le voile sur Chrome Enterprise Premium, la gestion des cartes bancaires dans Google Wallet se simplifie, c’est le récap’ de la semaine.   Bonne nouvelle, Google propose enfin une version Premium payante de son navigateur. Alors que l’application Google Wallet se met à jour et […]

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