It seems Google Duo may soon cease to work on uncertified Android devices, following the trend set by the Google Messages app. Earlier this week, an update to the Google Messages app included a notice that the app would stop working on “uncertified” Android devices. More specifically, a certified device is one that’s been tested by Google, is permitted to use the “Android” name, and comes with a suite of Google apps including Play Services. The latest update to Google Duo — version 123, rolling out now via the Play Store — includes a notice similar to the one included with Google Messages.

For the next few weeks, Sophos is running a special offering 30% off of Sophos Home to kick off the new year. Sophos Home is a suite of cybersecurity software that takes the power and protection of Sophos’ business-class offerings and makes them simple and easy-to-use on your PC, Android, Mac, and iOS devices. Beyond the usual job of keeping your device free of malware, viruses, and more, Sophos Home is able to prevent your devices from connecting to phishing websites that pretend to be things like retailers or your bank. With a Sophos Home subscription, you can keep up to ten computers fully protected through cloud-based remote management.

All of today’s best Android game and app deals are now up for the taking. Be sure to head below for a complete look at all of today’s best Android game and app deals. Alongside ongoing offers on Google’s Pixel 4a 5G, we are also now tracking a Verizon 4-day Flash Sale with plenty of notable Android handset deals. These Samsung’s Galaxy Fit 2 deals sits alongside this morning’s Samsung Chromebook 4 offers starting from $199, but be sure to browse through today’s Smartphone Accessories roundup for even more discounted add-ons.

While we’re now three weeks into 2021, Fitbit today just sent out its 2020 year in review. It’s quite straightforward with the now-Google company telling users of their most active day and total counts for the last 12 months. The rest of the email/page is compiled from “aggregated and anonymized data of global Fitbit users from January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020,” like how the daily average active zone minutes was 47 in 2020. Most people went to bed at 11:20 p.m. and woke up at 8:03 a.m. Rounding out Fitbit’s 2020 year in review is top reads from their company health blog and the two most-used Premium session videos.

The Fossil Gen 5 LTE is a simple update to its 2020 “flagships.” The underlying hardware and basic design are nearly identical to the Fossil Gen 5 Carlyle and Julianna, just with some revised buttons and an LTE antenna under the hood that brings the price up to $349. This is Fossil’s first Wear OS watch with LTE, and also the first it’s selling through Verizon Wireless. The Fossil Gen 5 LTE takes advantage of the Wear OS app and its ability to directly set up LTE connectivity with your carrier, no additional apps needed. Fossil Gen 5 LTE is shipping now from Verizon for $349.

A fun meme generator, powered by Google Maps Street View, lets you have Bernie Sit down anywhere in the world. Created by Nick Sawhney, bernie-sits. herokuapp. com simply invites users to “enter an address or location, and Bernie will appear there.” It’s a basic webpage that loads best on the desktop web. This Bernie meme generator leverages the Google Maps Platform available to third-party developers. At the bottom, it invites you to “Help keep this site alive!” Sawhney on Twitter notes how “@googlemaps is still charging me all over the place” for the generator given how people are using it to create new Bernie memes.

In September, Google Fiber announced a ‘2 Gig’ tier, and it’s now widely available in the first cities. Original 12/3/20: In recent years, Google Fiber has moved to just offer a single “1 Gig” plan at $70. This device is notable as the 1 Gig plan just uses Google Wifi, while Fiber in the early days provided a custom “Network Box.”Looking forward, testing in other locations — the ISP currently offers service in 19 — starts this fall, with a launch in “most” Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass cities early next year.

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I stuck with the original silicone tips that come pre-applied to the Mobvoi Earbuds Gesture and found the isolation pretty good overall. That said, I would often remove each earbud after a little while, as wearing earbuds all day does get tiring. The Mobvoi Earbuds Gesture are reasonably solid Bluetooth earbuds with a bit of a gimmick that, although works well, doesn’t mean you should pick them over an alternative pair. That said, the Earbuds Gesture are a decent buy if you want some long-lasting Bluetooth earbuds that are fairly lightweight, comfortable, and sound fairly solid.

Today’s top deals include Beats Solo Pro wireless headphones at $150, Samsung Galaxy Buds Live are $127, and the Lenovo Chromebook Duet at $237.50. Today’s deal is up to $140 in savings from the regular going rate, $10 under our previous mention, and matching the second-best offer all-time. Usually fetching $170, today’s offer amounts to 25% in savings, matches our previous mention for the all-time low, and is only the second time we’ve seen the earbuds at this price. Even with Samsung just announcing its new Galaxy Buds Pro, these discounted buds deliver active noise cancellation and up to 29 hours of playback and other notable features.

Google Stadia has offered a few “free play” weekends for select games over the past several months. Now, you can play Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and WWE 2K Battlegrounds for free on Stadia for a few days. Available on Stadia, Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and even Amazon Luna, the January Ghost Recon: Breakpoint free weekend takes place from January 21 to January 25. The game will be available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One consoles, PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, Stadia, Amazon Luna, and PC through the Epic Games Store and the Ubisoft Store.

In an effort to bring all of your messaging apps into a single place, Beeper does the heavy lifting and can even bring iMessage to Android and Windows. Each app feeds its messages into a single location and you can respond to messages from Beeper, as well as search through every single one of your chats. Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge. iMessage, Telegram, and other apps that Beeper integrates with support end-to-end encryption, and it seems like this app would essentially throw that away to bring the messages to other devices.

To get to that perfect-fit mattress, gathering data was a critical part of the process — both in the form of sleep research, and from customers themselves to learn exactly what they needed from their mattresses. We couldn’t really sell a mattress that was only 50% as good as we wanted it to be one day because we would get terrible product reviews, and we couldn’t build brand equity that way. With a product and process they were confident in, Tishman said his team felt good about launching the business and starting to gather the customer information they needed to deliver the perfect product to those who chose Helix.“The first three and a half years of our business, we were holistically a single DTC brand and started out as just mattresses and then extended into other sleep products, pillows, sheets, box springs, adjustable bases, et cetera.

Through all of that, Nvidia GeForce Now has also been working on expansions, and today, the platform has a big reveal. GeForce Now is heading to Australia later this year in its latest country expansion. The launch of GeForce Now in Australia is no small matter and comes alongside the service’s expansion to Turkey and Saudi Arabia as well. This latest expansion comes at the hand of the “GeForce Now Alliance,” a group of Nvidia’s creation that works with telecom agencies around the world to help push cloud gaming forward.

According to a brand-new report, OnePlus and Oppo have merged their respective hardware R&D departments, with Oppo taking charge of the entire recruitment process. Late last year, Carl Pei left OnePlus, with his cofounder Pete Lau moving into a new role overseeing “brand synergy” between OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme. This leads us to a new report from DoNews (via Android Authority) that claims the Oppo and OnePlus R&D departments have officially merged. However, DoNews claims that OnePlus and Oppo are now part of the “Oga Group,” which aims to better integrate the OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme brands through R&D efforts.

Although Chrome dominates the mobile browser space on Android, Mozilla’s Firefox is a decent alternative with added — but limited — support for third-party extensions that make it a potential candidate for your browsing needs. Adding new extensions has been a bit of a pain though for a while, so Mozilla has now decided to streamline the process and make it even easier to add or find browser extensions to the Android build of Firefox. While this is great news, you will still be limited to adding “official” extensions to the Android version of Firefox. Mozilla has confirmed that work is ongoing to add support for more Firefox extensions on Android, which might make it a really solid alternative in the long term.

Renders of the upcoming Sony Xperia 10 III have been shared online showcasing a familiar design and hinting at some internal inclusions. Steve Hemmerstoffer (aka @OnLeaks) shared a series of high-quality renders over on his official Voice page alongside some of the proposed Sony Xperia 10 III specifications. At the rear, the renders suggest the same triple camera setup is set to arrive on the Sony Xperia 10 III, but it’s not yet concrete on what sensor or focal lengths we’ll see. However, beyond this first look courtesy of renders, little is known about what the Sony Xperia 10 III will bring to the table.

Weezer today released the lead single off their upcoming album, “OK Human.”  The music video for “All My Favorite Songs” features a surprising number of Google Pixel 5 devices in what’s presumably a promotion. The opening moments also feature the new Google Assistant and Pixel Launcher with custom band wallpaper. It’s not clear whether Google was involved in furnishing the Pixel 5 devices seen in this new Weezer music video. It comes as a Google Photos parody of ‘Photograph’ by Nickelback was an official collaboration released last year, and there was of course the time a Pixel 3 appeared in Avengers: Endgame.

Google is updating Calendar on the web with basic offline viewing functionality.“My calendars” will be stored for offline access, but reminders and tasks are excluded. Disabled by default, end users can click the Settings gear icon in the top bar and find the “Offline” menu to “Turn on offline calendar.” Google warns that this feature is “not recommended on public or shared computers.” In fact, admins have the option to disable it for their domain. Offline access to Google Calendar on the web is currently only listed for Workspace customers.

To use two apps side by side on Android today, you need to open one app, and then activate split screen for that app via the Recents view. According to information viewed by 9to5Google, Google is working to bring a full revamp of the split screen system in Android 12 with a new feature called “App Pairs.” Where the current split screen system effectively “pins” one app, Android 12’s App Pairs system will group two apps together as one “task.”On the left, you’ll see how the recent apps view works with split screen today, only allowing you to select a new app for the bottom of the screen. Just like with split screen today, the Android 12 App Pairs system will offer a divider to let you adjust how much of the screen is taken up by each app.

It’s Wednesday afternoon and that means it’s time to gather up all of today’s best Android game and app deals. While much of yesterday’s best are also still live down below, today’s highlights include titles like hocus 2, FineScanner AI Pro, Fait – The Machine, GPS Speed Pro, Infinite Puzzle, and more. Today’s Android hardware deals are headlined by Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 at more than $120 off that now sits alongside this Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 deal.***Act fast on these deals from our previous roundup as they are jumping back up in price at any time.

This week, TCL has confirmed that it will update its 2019 and 2020 releases to Android TV 11. TCL says that, in Europe, it will bring Android TV 11 to its 2019 and 2020 models. Google has already said that its goal is to bring the new Google TV UI to current Android TV models, but that won’t be a strict requirement across the board. Right now, there are no official details on what Android TV 11 might bring with it aside from support for the Google TV UI.

“I came across Shipt and … the founder was talking about how the quality of the shoppers and the personal experiences between the shoppers and the customers was the competitive advantage that Shipt was going to capitalize on,” Manning explained. Technology is important, but I really love the way Shipt talked about the personal connection, and the quality of the shoppers, and how that was the area where Shipt was going to invest, and it was going to win.”This year, Shipt has been investing more, and Manning has been on the front lines of scaling Shipt into a larger organization that can still be relied on to deliver not just products, but quality experiences to Shipt customers, employees and partners. Whether that was through substitutions, different membership options, or building real relationships with Shipt shoppers, Manning said that putting the customer and shopper first is the way that ecommerce companies can win.

Creating Customer-Driven Healthcare with Hilary Coles, Co-Founder of hims & hershims & hers is the first true consumer healthcare brand that, through its platform, creates an easy, transparent, and high-quality experience for all those frustrated with their current healthcare option. Coles also says that at hims and hers, there are no bad ideas. That curiosity has served hims and hers well thus far, and Coles says that the company is planning to expand even more in the coming years.

Scaling: How to Allocate Resources, Find Bottlenecks, and Enter New Markets with UrbanStems’ CEO, Seth GoldmanWhen Goldman joined the team, UrbanStems had just gone through a disastrous Valentine’s Day, during which the company’s operations broke down and customers were left without their orders. Data drives everything that Goldman and the team does at UrbanStems, including finding out where the bottlenecks were in the system that were causing backups. Goldman said that when expanding your business into new markets, understanding the ROI of moving into those cities is the first step.

Ecommerce Aid for Health-Ade: How Calvin Lammers Helped Build An Ecommerce Team and Generated Brand Awareness Across Channels Using Lessons He Learned at the Hottest CPG BrandsLammers joined Health-Ade after cutting his teeth at some of the biggest healthy CPG brands on the market, Kind, Bai, and Spindrift, but when he entered the world of kombucha, he had his work cut out for him. Awareness was key, and building up the brand meant pushing content on digital channels in order to really educate the audience on not just the brand, but the benefits that kombucha offers as well. So, it’s hugely impactful, and I think that’s been a major focus for us in the brand, in that we realize that there still is a huge section of the population that not only doesn’t know Health-Ade, but doesn’t know even what kombucha is.

A powerful data science team is one of the key reasons that Stitch Fix has been able to launch its valuation into the billions and Stephanie Yee is the VP of Data Science and one of the leaders of that team at Stitch Fix.“Stitch Fix is really trying to distill a lot of these things that are ultimately very difficult to categorize into what we would call a latent space, but really to say, ‘Okay, we have something like style, but style is not what lunch table did you sit at in high school,’” Yee said. That assessment can turn into a box of goodies delivered to a customer’s door, but it can also be a way to turn an online shopping experience into something more personal by delivering data in an easily-digestible way. Yee explained that Stitch Fix is exploring the many uses of GPT-3, which is taking long tail natural language that is normally hard to process, and turning it into content that is helpful to a potential customer.

You might not know the answer to those questions, but the marketers who put that creative together sure do, and you better believe that they thought long and hard about each of those aspects and dove deep into some data to decide exactly what to include in the adThose minuscule details may seem frivolous to the naked eye, but the data proves that every decision you make in your creative process has an impact on the bottom line, and the ecommerce businesses that pay attention to the data while still putting their own spin on the creative aspect are the ones that are rising to the top. Those metrics are then passed along to a cooperative of brands and creatives, and the data is distilled into reports that marketers use to guide the decisions they make.“Instead, we need to think about data and creative A.I.

Cezar explains that BLK & Bold was built as a way to make coffee more accessible, and to do that they needed to make sure they weren’t siloing where they were offering products, who they were offering them to, and what message they were sending to potential customers. So whether it was through the social impact aspect of what they were doing, the fact that BLK & Bold is a minority-owned company, or the impeccable quality of the products, Cezar says that customers could find BLK & Bold in a number of ways.“We want consumers to still consume coffee, consume specialty coffee, but we want them to know that brand B versus their brand A actually has a different value proposition that allows you to extend your impact without really changing your behavior,” Cezar says. As Cezar mentioned, before they launched in any stores, his team wanted to make sure that BLK & Bold was set up from a logistics standpoint, design aspect, and that a number of other items were crossed off the checklist that would make the product more sustainable and desirable to many customers.

Sharma is the CEO of Sharma Brands, a company that reamins one of the best-kept secrets among the DTC community and which helps brands scale into the tens of millions. In order to get those brands into a new stratosphere, Sharma explains that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of tests that should be done in order to understand what content you should be putting forward to make sure you’re getting in front of the right people for the long-haul. In terms of finding content that converts, Sharma advises that brands try to find organic ways to reach potential customers.“You can’t expect your customer to go browse around your site and learn about your brand and learn why they need your brand, or how your brand is going to make their life better, or the deal that they might be able to get, or the coupon…. you want to put everything in one simple experience so that somebody who has no time, somebody who has no patience, somebody you could assume they don’t have the knowledge of how to navigate a site can basically come to your site and get what they need and they know why they’re getting it and just create something really easy to use.”

Today, Jay is the founder and CEO of Texas Humor, an eCommerce shop so successful that Jay decided to take the leap and also build Sauceda Industries, which helps manage not only Texas Humor logistics, but the logistics of many other D2C companies. The rejection stung, and it notched a chip on Sauceda’s shoulder that he carried with him as he built an entire logistical arm of his business to not just solve his shipping problems, but to offer aid and services to other smaller DTC companies as well. Sauceda doesn’t like rubbing people the wrong way. That principle has carried through into all of the marketing materials Texas Humor still sends out emails, which Sauceda said he is working to personalize even more.

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Today’s best deals include the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential, plus official Pixel 4 cases, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6. Best Buy is offering the Lenovo Smart Clock Essential bundled with four C by GE White Smart Bulbs for $30. Amazon offers Google’s official Pixel 4 Fabric Cases from $16.50. Amazon currently offers the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 10.5-inch Tablet 256GB for $529.

With the launch of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL in 2018, Made by Google also released a pair of USB-C earbuds for $29.99. After two years on sale, the Pixel USB-C earbuds are no longer available for purchase from the Google Store and other retailers. Besides offering first-party wired headphones following the removal of the 3.5mm audio jack a year earlier, Assistant is a key aspect of the Pixel USB-C earbuds. The Pixel USB-C earbuds came with the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, but they have not been included (worldwide) in the box of subsequent phones.

LG’s space in the smartphone market has been chipped away at for years, but next year the company might actually call it quits. Software support has also been an ongoing issue for LG as the company has been notorious for not updating its Android smartphones in a timely manner for years. To put things in perspective, the last time that an LG phone was truly compelling against Samsung, Apple, and Google releases was the LG G4 released in 2015. There have been some highlights in the time since such as LG V60, LG Velvet, and even the wacky LG Wing, but those efforts were simply too little, too late.

OnePlus confirmed that we would see OxygenOS 11 on the OnePlus 7 and 7T series at some point in Q1 2021, and credit where it is due, the Chinese firm has delivered. Now, this isn’t a full release, as the OxygenOS 11 Open Beta 1 for the OnePlus 7 and 7T series is still a beta build after all. However, given that this is essentially the same core build as found on the OnePlus Nord, OnePlus 8 and 8T series, bugs are likely to be at a minimum. OnePlus has removed the OxygenOS 11 . zip files temporarily due to issues with device wipes occurring on OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro hardware — OnePlus 7 Pro devices are not affected.

After announcing the Android 11 roadmap for devices including the original Xperia 1 and 5, Sony has now started the official rollout of the OS upgrade for both devices.[Update 01/20]: After updating the original devices, Sony has now started the rollout of Android 11 for the Xperia 5 II. While a 710MB update is by no means small, it’s a lot smaller than the Android 11 update has been for some other devices out there. If you do have either the Sony Xperia 1 or Xperia 5, you should be able to pull the Android 11 update by heading to your device Settings > System updates panel.

Hitman 3, the conclusion of the World of Assassination trilogy, has launched across all platforms, even bringing State Share support as a Stadia exclusive feature. The launch of Hitman 3 is particularly exciting for fans of Google Stadia, as the game marks the formal debut of State Share — a feature previously only seen in beta on Crayta — which is the ability to attach the “state” of your game to a screenshot or video capture. As our Damien Wilde notes, Hitman 3 uses State Share in Stadia to allow you to share a particular starting point and equipment, though not any in-level progress. This is because all three games fall under the same Hitman: World of Assassination hub, and each game effectively serves as DLC.

While it proves to be one of the more daunting device automation apps on the Play Store, Tasker 5.11 is now rolling out with some notable improvements and the ability to screen calls before they even start ringing. The update was announced by developer João Dias (aka @joaomgcd), who confirmed that the Tasker 5.11 update is rolling out now via the Play Store over on the official app subreddit. Call screening might prove to be an impressive new addition, as you can set Tasker as your default Caller ID & Spam app, where you can configure the automation app to reject calls before they have even popped up on your device. This feature takes advantage of the CallScreeningService API to block callers, but due to this implementation method, you need to be running Android 10 or higher to take advantage of Call Screening within Tasker 5.11.

The Dimensity 1100 and 1200 all while including an integrated 5G modem — but without support for mmWave 5G. The Dimensity 1100 comes with four Cortex-A78 clocked at 2.6GHz with both chips including four Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. The Dimensity 1200 chip includes support for 200-megapixel sensors, or a dual 32-megapixel plus 16-megapixel configuration. The Dimensity 1100 chip supports 108-megapixel single sensor cameras, or the same 32-megapixel plus 16-megapixel configurations.

Another core Google app has now reached the 500-million install milestone on the Google Play Store – this time, it’s the turn of Lens. The Google Lens app itself has only been available as its own separate entity since 2018, which puts into perspective how impressive the 500-million install milestone really is (via Android Police). Some features have found their way into the Google Camera app over time, but Lens does have some unique options you won’t get without downloading it — or using an alternative. We won’t say that Google Lens is 100% accurate most of the time, but it gets pretty darn close, and even just as a reliable, relatively lightweight way to scan QR codes, we think it’s a must download or install on your Android device.

One of the pardons was for Anthony Levandowski, who was convicted of stealing Google’s self-driving technology before departing for Uber. Uber then purchased Levandowski’s startup (Otto), and placed him in charge of the ride-hailing company’s self-driving efforts. President Trump granted a full pardon to Anthony Levandowski. Mr. Levandowski is an American entrepreneur who led Google’s efforts to create self-driving technology.

It seems that later this year, Google intends for its Messages app to stop working on uncertified Android devices. It was once possible to manually install those Google apps onto an uncertified Android device. Broadly speaking, Google Messages has been irrelevant to the conversation of uncertified Android devices, as the app is not preinstalled on most devices, and must instead be installed via the Google Play Store. Simply put, if your phone is an uncertified Android device, you’ll lose access to the Google Messages app starting on March 31.

An associated capability that lets users print a PDF copy of a webpage and have that file automatically upload to Google Drive was also supposed to be deprecated. However, the feature is now living on in the ‘Save to Google Drive’ Chrome extension.“Save as PDF” stores a local copy, while the “Save to Google Drive” destination takes that file and automatically puts it in Google Drive. However, this feature is now going to live on through the Save to Google Drive Chrome extension.

With some distance from the holidays, Google is bringing back a popular deal where new Fi subscribers can get the Pixel 4a 5G for $299. Get up to a $200 phone discount with the purchase and activation of a Pixel 4a (5G) phone from fi. google. com. Like in November, the full $200 discount requires “somebody who is new to Google Fi on either a new plan, or a new member as a part of an existing group plan.” Those that previously subscribed and dropped off do not qualify. Meanwhile, existing MVNO subscribers can get the phone for $100 off.

A minor update to YouTube TV for Android today sees Google change the app name to “YT TV.” Additionally, the Android/Google TV app icon has also been ever so slightly tweaked. Update 12/2: Version 4.48.2 is rolling out via the Play Store today and reverts the homescreen name back to the full “YouTube TV.” It’s not clear why Google dropped “YT TV” after nearly two months. Original 10/5: Version 4.40 for Android (phones and tablets) sees the app name change from “YouTube TV” to “YT TV.” This change is reflected on homescreens and app launchers, but not on the app info page or Play Store listing. Meanwhile, on the Android TV/Google TV front, another update sees the YouTube TV app card change.

However, since the device launched in September, quite a few users have run into a problem with the Chromecast with Google TV crashing and showing a “can’t load Android system, your data may be corrupt” screen. This doesn’t happen often, but it seems to be an unfortunately common problem on the Chromecast with Google TV. In any case, though, this error results in the system putting up a blue and black error screen that says that the Chromecast with Google TV “can’t load Android system” and that “your data may be corrupt.” It’s a daunting screen for anyone who hasn’t encountered it before but, thankfully, there are some easy workarounds here. After it boots back up, hopefully this time without the “data may be corrupt” error, you’ll need to set up Chromecast with Google TV again from scratch.

Chrome is now letting users manually “Edit password” from the central list on chrome://settings/passwords. For some users in Chrome 88, the address bar will show just a domain rather than the full URL. Chrome 88 will block macOS, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS users from downloading unsafe image, audio, video, and text formats (like . png and . mp3) over HTTP on an HTTPS page. Developers can start submitting Manifest V3 extensions to the Chrome Web Store as Chrome 88 now features support for the latest format revision.

The Gmail web client now lets you resize the Google Chat and Rooms side widgets. You can now resize the Chat and Rooms sections in the left-side navigation of Gmail on the web. It builds on the general ability to show/hide entire sections by tapping the caret symbol next to Chat, Rooms, or Meet. The ability to resize Google Chat and Rooms in Gmail will be fully rolled out to the following Workspace customers over the coming days: