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For the unaware, Google Keep is a note-taking app on which you can create, share or collaborate with people on notes and lists. Moreover, Google Keep syncs across all of your devices, making it easy to take notes or share them. Google Keep is a part of Google’s G Suite bunch of apps. You can also create voice notes, or even set time-based or location-based reminders. All such features make Google Keep one of the popular and easy-to-use note-taking apps....

Workers are now working from home, students are studying from home, and people are meeting and greeting their family members using video calling apps. Taking advantage of the opportunity at hand, several big tech giants introduced video calling apps, which were essential for people working or studying from home. Google Meet is one of the video calling apps that also gained a lot of users during this time. Often, Google is pushing new updates for Google Meet, adding more features to make it more useful....

The Google Pixel 5a specs and launch date got tipped via new report According to Jon Prosser’s FrontPageTech report, the Pixel 5a will launch on Thursday, August 26. Do note that this could be the sheer launch of the phone, and it could be announced sooner than that. The report specifically says it will launch on August 26, and be available for purchase online or physically available in Google Stores. Google tends to announce its devices a week or two earlier....

The guidelines begin with “Basic compatibility” pertaining to notifications. This talks of enabling support for “MessagingStyle notifications” for direct replies and conversations. The second set of guidelines is known as “Better: Full support for Wear OS”. Here, Google asks developers to ensure their apps are compatible with square or round display shapes for Wear OS 3. Google also recommends making text large and “glanceable” under the Layout section, while asking devs to test their apps on emulators like Wear OS Square 1....

First spotted by 9to5Google, each autocomplete suggestion now appears inside. Earlier, it was a list of text against a background. It has been this way for years but Google is now preparing for a much-needed change. The top two corners of the top-most item and the bottom two corners of the bottom-most item are rounded to make the whole suggestion list look softer. The spacing between any two suggestions is also marginally wider, the new report reveals....

Available on the Pixel 4, 4 XL, Pixel 4a, Pixel 4a 5G, and Pixel 5, adaptive charging kicks in automatically when you plug in your phone to charge overnight. However, it has a couple of requirements. Firstly, your phone has to start charging after 9 PM. You also must set an alarm for between 5-10 AM. If you meet these requirements, your phone charges at the normal speed (supported fast charging speed) overnight till the battery reaches 80 percent....

Google has opted to significantly increase trade-in values for the Pixel 7 series The company is now offering trade-in values on iPhones with up to $1,055 in value towards the purchase of the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. As a reminder, those two phones start at $599 and $899, respectively. Needless to say, the iPhone 13 Pro Max will get you the most trade-in value, ranging from $900 to $1,055, depending on the storage model....

TechInsights took a deep dive inside the Pixel 6 Pro to find out. The entirety of the 5G radio appears to have come from Samsung’s System LSI branch. Moreover, the device tree file system analysis of the Linux kernel reveals that the Tensor shares some blocks with the Samsung Exynos chipset. It’s worth noting that Samsung has also developed the antenna and the 5G modem for the Pixel 6 lineup....

The Google Wifi app for iOS was delisted from the App Store yesterday, while the Android version followed suit today. The company originally planned to remove the Wifi app in June, but the process was delayed for unknown reasons. Google Wifi has been around since 2015 and has seen more than 5 million installs on the Play Store since then. The removal of the app means that it won’t show up on a standard search....

If the timing is accurate, then that could mean Google is planning to hold an announcement event earlier that month. Perhaps the first or second week of October. That would give the company a couple of weeks to handle pre-orders before the devices are ready to ship out. Timing-wise, it mostly fits in line with numerous past launches. Google typically holds an event in late September or early October. And then the phones usually end up launching and hitting stores a couple or a few weeks later....

In addition to the RTX 3080 Ti GPU, it comes with an Intel Core i9-12900H CPU. There’s also a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD for storage, and 32GB of RAM. As for the display, it’s 16-inches with a WQXGA resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate. With this thing you’ll be cranking the graphics up on all your games to max. But all of that said if this is more than what you’re looking to spend, not to worry....

As per the company’s announcement, the US Trending Videos are “based on in-country views of videos uploaded in 2021, excluding Shorts, music videos, trailers, and children’s videos. One video per creator.” Here are the top 10 videos on YouTube in 2022: YouTube releases its recap of the best videos, creators & songs of 2022 When it also comes to the US top creators, MrBeast’s channel sits at the top with 114M million subscribers....

According to Cybernews, “123456” is used in 111,417 cases, and despite the serious threat it imposes on the user’s security, it’s still at the top of the choices. Again, workers with system access haven’t changed in 2022, and 16,981 cases are detected with “admin” as the password. Root, Guest, and Service are other common passwords used by workers. Cybernews has categorized people’s passwords into the following categories: top passwords overall, names of famous people, swear or curse words, animals, cities, countries and continents, sports teams, food items, and season, month, and day names....

June 10 through June 20, if you sign up for Paramount Plus, you will get your first month for free. You can think of it as an extended free trial, since most streaming services are a week free trial, if there is even a free trial. There’s no promo code, or anything special you need to do to get this free month of Paramount Plus. However, you do need to be a new subscribers....

Here’s a first look at the OnePlus Nord 2 Pac-Man Edition You can see the phone’s front side here, and the Pac-Man unlock animation that leaked a while back. So, it seems like you’ll be able to choose between several Pac-Man-themed unlock animations. This is only one of them. The date/time on the display could also be a reference to Pac-Man 99. The device will likely arrive with some Pac-Man wallpapers, and quite possibly some Pac-Man audio cues as well....

The HONOR 50 is the first HONOR phone with Google services in a long time The HONOR 50 is the first smartphone in a long time to come with Google services. It ships with Android 11, and HONOR’s Magic UI 4.2 on top of it. You’ll find the regular suite of Google apps pre-installed, along with some of HONOR’s. Now, the device itself is made out of metal and glass. The design is almost completely symmetrical between the front and back sides, even though it’s slightly off....

This information comes from Digital Chat Station, a well-known Chinese tipster. He shared the information via Weibo, along with some additional spec information for the device. The HONOR 80 Pro+ to feature a 200MP camera & 100W charging He says that the phone will feature a 1.5K AMOLED display which will be “flexible”. By that he means curved, not foldable, just to be clear. So, the sides will be curved, as they are on many flagship Android phones these days....

Build and design Starting off with this tablet’s design, there’s not much that stands out. It’s a pretty straightforward slab with a singular camera housed in a slight camera bump. It has a solid metal body that feels nice to the touch. Picking up this tablet, it doesn’t feel like you’re grabbing a cheap device at all. We have two speakers on each side of the tablet with the USB-C port in between one pair....

Thankfully, Nest does allow you to pare down the number of notifications. Whether that’s by changing what’s monitored — particularly if you have a Nest Aware subscription. Or by changing how you receive the notifications. Of course, as with many of our how-to guides, this one focuses on precisely that designated topic. You can also set up Activity Zones as part of your notification changes to generate even fewer false alarms....

There are a number of use cases for such a feature. Copying a text from a photo you took is really simple, all you need is Google Photos. You need that app installed on your smartphone, so if you don’t have it, install it before we start this tutorial. We’ll explain how you can copy and paste text from a photo in this article, one step at a time, and we’ll also attach some screenshots, just to help you along....