Topic: google play
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Gemini AI Sidekick Comes to Google Play Games
The Google Play Store is undergoing a major redesign to boost personalization and cross-platform integration, with a significant upgrade to its gaming hub that adds social features and rewards systems. Gamer profiles are now more dynamic and public, allowing users to display activity, interact wi...
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Google Play Gets a Personal Touch
Google Play is introducing a centralized "You tab" to serve as a personal hub, consolidating user stats, rewards, subscriptions, and personalized content recommendations in one place. The You tab offers curated content like audiobook and game suggestions, with future updates enabling quick resump...
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Supreme Court Lets Epic's Antitrust Case Against Google Proceed
The US Supreme Court declined to intervene, allowing a lower court's injunction to stand, which requires Google to make significant changes to its Google Play Store policies by a court-imposed deadline. Google must now allow developers to use alternative payment systems, inform users about paymen...
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Google Play Games Will Now Share Your Gaming Activity
Google Play Games is updating to allow users to showcase achievements, track progress, and build communities through their profiles for a more unified gaming experience. The update will roll out starting September 23rd in most regions and October 1st in the EU and UK, with profiles appearing in t...
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Google's Epic Deadline: October 29th
The deadline for Google to implement court-ordered changes to its Google Play Store policies has been extended to October 29, 2025, following a joint request approved by the judge. The injunction requires Google to open its app ecosystem, stop mandating its billing system, and allow developers to...
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Play Games on Google Play with Gemini AI
Google is integrating its Gemini AI assistant directly into mobile games via an in-game overlay, allowing players to get real-time, voice-activated hints without pausing gameplay. The AI can analyze on-screen action to provide tailored advice, and the overlay will also centralize player profiles,...
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Google Halts Pixel 10 'Daily Hub' Preview for Improvements
Google has suspended the public preview of its Daily Hub feature on Pixel 10 devices to focus on performance improvements and refining the user experience. The feature integrated personalized information like calendar events, Magic Cue suggestions, and media recommendations directly on the home s...
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DOJ Seeks to Dismantle Google's Ad Empire in Antitrust Trial
The Department of Justice is seeking a court-ordered breakup of Google's advertising technology business after it was ruled an illegal monopoly, threatening one of Google's most profitable divisions. The government argues that dismantling key parts of Google's ad empire is necessary to restore co...
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Apple Pulls Women's Dating Safety App from App Store
Apple removed the women's dating safety app Tea from its App Store for violating terms related to content moderation and user privacy, including the exposure of minors' personal information. Tea experienced multiple security breaches that exposed users' driver's licenses, selfies, and private mes...
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Google I/O 2025: Gemini & Android 16 Updates Revealed
Google's annual developer conference will highlight major AI and mobile tech advancements, featuring updates to Android, Chrome, and its AI ecosystem, including the Gemini model family. The event will showcase Google's Astra project for real-time multimodal AI and Android 16, which introduces a v...
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Boox Palma 2 Pro: The Pocket-Sized Android That's Not a Phone
The Boox Palma 2 Pro is a pocket-sized Android device with a color E Ink screen and mobile data, blending features of an e-reader and a smartphone. It upgrades from the original model by adding a color display and connectivity, which may introduce more distractions compared to simpler e-readers. ...
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Sora Copycats Still Flood the App Store
The launch of OpenAI's official Sora app led to a surge of fraudulent copycat apps on the App Store, many using the "Sora" or "Sora 2" names to deceive users and bypass Apple's review process. These counterfeit apps, some rebranded from existing ones, have accumulated around 300,000 installations...
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Google Pixel's Camera Gets a Major Redesign in New Update
The update introduces a Material 3 Expressive design language, giving the Pixel Camera app a sleeker appearance that matches other updated apps and system components. Key visual changes include a redesigned shutter button without a solid outer ring, larger zoom controls, a rounded square selfie t...
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