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Google has spent the last few weeks hyping up its new Pixel 10 phones, which are very nice devices. They’re just not a big leap over last year’s phones. If you’ve decided to hang onto your Android phone a bit longer, there are some new goodies headed your way. If you’ve got a Pixel, Google’s revamped Material 3 Expressive interface …

This month’s Google Pixel drop includes a broader rollout of the company’s splashy UI revamp. Starting today, Google will bring its Material 3 Expressive design language to Pixel 6 devices and newer, in addition to the Pixel Tablet. In addition to this rollout, Google is bringing a bunch of new features to the Pixel Buds Pro 2, which it previewed …

It’s rare to find a gadget that can handle two totally separate tasks very well, but Google’s TV Streamer 4K pulls it off. The 4K set top box allows you to stream your favorite TV shows and movies, and is also an impressive smart home hub, with support for Matter and a built-in Thread radio. It’s currently on sale for …

OG Google Pixel users might recall a feature that dynamically adjusted their Pixel display’s white balance to match ambient lighting. The feature, which really only made its way to one Pixel smartphone, was called Ambient EQ, and it is now making a comeback. For reference, both Apple and Samsung continue to offer similar functionality on their phones. Apple calls it …

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Pixel 10 has “Adaptive Tone,” a feature that dynamically adjusts the display’s white balance to match ambient lighting. This technology is Google’s version of Apple’s True Tone and was previously available on the Pixel 4 under the name “Ambient EQ.” After a five-generation absence, the feature returns to the Pixel phone …

Tech giant Google has issued a global security alert and advised its 2.5 billion Gmail users to update their passwords following a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases. Google says that Gmail and Cloud accounts were not directly compromised. The massive data breach incident has triggered an aggressive wave of phishing and impersonation attacks targeting users across the …

Megan Ellis / Android Authority I’ve been on a mission to de-Google my life as much as possible in an attempt to control how much information a single company has about me. While there are some essential Google services I will never part with, switching my browser from Chrome has been a priority. Which password manager do you use to …

Ask Google’s AI Gemini to generate a deepfake photo of a politician or an image containing copyrighted material, and the chatbot will flat out refuse. But when Google added more photo editing capabilities with Flash 2.5, it also briefly opened up a dangerous loophole that gave the AI platform more potential for abuse. When I started testing Gemini’s new photo …

We’ve reviewed half of the Pixel 10 series, and Google continues to improve its phones in very tangible ways. We scored the Pixel 10 Pro 94, which is a high score, but well deserved. With brighter screens, a faster Tensor G5 chip and a bigger battery, a lot of the improvements are software based. Magic Cue uses on-device AI to …

Gemini already had a powerful built-in image generation model that could edit real photos with text prompts. Nano Banana makes it even easier, bringing new abilities to Gemini. The new AI model’s main feature is character permanence. You can upload a photo of yourself to the AI and tell Gemini to create an avatar of you. The AI won’t change …