Articles tagged "Online services"

Like last holiday season, both Google and Amazon have aggressively discounted its smart assistant speakers. Google is currently offering a great bundle deal for anyone who is looking to cover their home with Google Assistant. The bundle...

At the end of November Amazon announced that Apple Music would soon be supported by its Echo smart speakers with the Alexa virtual assistant built-in. Today the integration has finally gone live, around two weeks after the initial reveal. The...

It looks like the year couldn't end without yet another Facebook scandal. This time around the company has come clean about discovering a bug in its photo API that allowed apps to access unposted photos from 6.8 million accounts. The bug affected...

MIUI is Xiaomi’s Android skin and a long time ago, the company used to develop its UI for non-Xiaomi devices. These days, Xiaomi doesn’t do that anymore, but it does allow its devices to be unlocked and flashed as the customer pleases. The company...

Starting today, Google now lets you switch the voice to have either an Australian or British accent for Google Assistant across your devices. You could always do this in the past, but it involved changing your system language to another region...

Google Photos is a popular photo storage service offering free unlimited storage for photos and videos for iOS, Android, Mac, and PC as long as you don’t mind that google compresses your files a bit to save space. The latest change to Google...

If you’ve been trying to access Allo today, you probably were upset to find that an outage wasn’t letting messages go through and Google Assistant, which first launched on Allo, was not working either. Following a report from 9to5Google about...

Apple finally adds support for the Apple Music app to work on Android tablets. This comes just a few days after Amazon announced Apple Music support on all its Echo smart speakers – just in time for the holiday season. Apple made the right move...

Yesterday, we reported that Google will be shutting down Hangouts in 2020. This based on a report by 9to5Google. Google Real Time Communications product lead Scott Johnston confirmed on Twitter, however, that this is untrue. According to...

[Update: Google confirmed this isn't exactly true. We are leaving the original story below as is but you can check the update here.] According to a report from 9to5Google, a source familiar with Hangouts’ future claims that the messaging service...

Google has been holding out on a brand new color for the Google Home Mini during its Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale. The Google Assistant speaker was up to half of at some retailers, some even throwing in a free smart home accessory like a smart...

Today, Instagram announced a new update coming to Instagram users. The update gets rid of some of the icons on profiles and replaces them with literal text. Rather than icons for each tab, they are now properly labeled with text, which should make...

Instagram has become an immensely popular social app over the past few years and it is now cracking down on accounts with fake followers and removing likes and comments that were created by these third-party apps. In a new blog post, Instagram...

You can now make Skype calls through your Alexa-enabled device. This integration was initially announced back in September, but it's only gone live today. You can use Skype through Alexa if you own an Amazon Echo, Echo Plus, Echo Dot, Echo Show, or...

Instagram has come forward to users informing them that as a result of a security flaw their passwords could have been exposed. An Instagram spokesperson has said to The Information that the issue was 'discovered internally and affected a very small...

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium have expanded to 7 new countries - Chile, Colombia, Japan, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine - bringing the services' availability to 29 and 21 markets, respectively. The two services share the...

Spotify Connect is now enabled for free-tier subscribers (it was a Premium perk until now). You will need to update the firmware of your smart speaker to get support, though. Connect allows certain smarter than average speakers to stream...

Spotify has published its latest earnings report today, and it has plenty of good news for the streaming service. First off, it now boasts 191 million total active monthly users. What's more, of those 87 million subscribe to its paid tiers. This...

According to an APK teardown performed by 9to5Google, the option to “Unlock with Voice Match” is slowly being depreciated. The first indication of this was the omission of the aforementioned option on the Google Pixel 3 duo. The Google App...

Instagram added a new feature to its mobile app called Nametag. With Nametag, you can create and customize your own nametag, that others can then scan to follow you. The Nametag option is under the menu on the top right of the screen on your...