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Now arriving for some beta users Love it or hate it, Material You seems like it’s here to stay. Google updated most of its apps last year in the months leading up to Android 12’s official launch, but that’s not to say it hasn’t kept updating and tweaking some existing designs. The Phone app picked up dynamic themes last year, but lately, we’ve seen evidence that a more thorough redesign was on the way. Now, your Pixel might already be home to an all-new… Source link

Welcome back to our Workplace newsletter. Today: an interview with Google’s head of Workspace, why it’s a good time to be an executive recruiter and how inflation is impacting the talent market. — Michelle Ma, reporter (email | twitter) Google is heading back to the office Monday was a big day for Google: the start of its three-days-in-office policy. The road back to the office has not been easy, with numerous pandemic-induced delays. The… Source link

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro devices started receiving Google’s March Pixel drop of new features, improvements, and fixes, and now the company has started the rollout of an April update (via 9to5Google). According to Google, wireless charging updates and camera fixes for the Pixel 6 lineup should improve performance with certain (unspecified) accessories and crush bugs that could zoom in the front-facing camera preview with certain apps or pop up a… Source link

Beating the Monday blues will be especially trying for Google employees this week. Starting today, workers are required to come into company headquarters three times a week. But according to Laszlo Bock, former chief of Google human resources and current CEO of Humu, this hybrid model won’t be around much longer. Bock says that after three to five years of flexible work models and hybrid plans, the normal in-office schedule will prevail at Google—and beyond. He predicts this transition… Source link

After two years of mostly remote work and months of changing plans about when to bring people back to the office, Google’s hybrid work arrangement begins today. That means that most employees will be expected to be in the office three days each week, with the rest of the time spent working remotely. Google has spent a considerable amount of time and energy reconfiguring office spaces to accommodate a hybrid work arrangement and to give employees peace of mind about returning even though we… Source link

I’ve given up on Google Pixel phones and I think you should too. Before Pixel superfans decide to launch angry hot and bothered Tweets, I think by the time you hear my points you’ll agree with me 100 percent. My Pixel adventure started with a carrier-purchased Pixel 2 XL with 128MB of storage in 2017. It was near MSRP but my carrier was offering several hundred dollars off with a trade-in of an old junker phone I had, so I made the jump. The Pixel 2 XL was as impressive as the… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads of apps… Source link

This may sound familiar, but there’s something wrong with the latest software update for Google’s Pixel 6 phones. As Google tweaks the version of Android it distributes to phones running its custom Tensor chip, there have been some odd issues, but instead of problems with Wi-Fi or a slow thumbprint scanner, this time, it’s affecting another key feature: notifications. They still pop up on the phone just as regularly, but for some reason, the strength of the vibration is now… Source link

Google announced on Wednesday that it would test letting Android developers use their own billing systems in their apps, the first step in what could lead to a dramatic reshaping of the app economy. However, Epic Games, which has been a strong proponent for opening app marketplaces and sued Google after the search giant removed Fortnite from Google Play for including direct payments, still isn’t happy. It plans to continue advocating for an app ecosystem that offers more choices,… Source link

A rendering reportedly showing what the Google Pixel Watch could look like based on leaks obtained by from Jon… Source link