Amazon S Fire Tv Sticks Hit Their Lowest Prices Ever For Black Friday

Whether you get the Fire TV Stick Lite or the Max, you still get mostly the same experience. The Max of course, has better performance and also has WiFi 6 included. That is important if you’re doing a lot of streaming of 4K content. All, except for the Fire TV Stick Lite come with the new Alexa Voice Remote. So you’ll be able to control your entire TV with this remote....

January 11, 2023 · 1 min · 156 words · Peter Munoz

Android 12L Feature Drop Brings A New Splash Screen

Google has its hands full this month, as it’s sending out several updates to its phones. There’s the latest feature drop, the March security patch, and the final version of Android 12L for the Pixel 6 phones. While it seems like a lot, it’s all worth it because it’s all helping push Android 12 to be more stable. There’s a new splash screen after the Android 12L feature drop There’s a new splash screen after the Android 12L feature drop...

January 11, 2023 · 2 min · 368 words · Keith Ellis

Android Wallet Google Wallet Google Pay Just Pick A Name Stick With It

This is the problem with Google, they decide to make a change to a product and think its a good idea to change the entire name. The process for Google was going from Google Wallet to Android Wallet. Then a few years later, it decided to break up Android Wallet into two apps, Android Wallet and Android Pay. Where Android Pay was the app that you’d use to send money to your friends and Android Wallet was the app you’d use to pay at stores and such....

January 11, 2023 · 4 min · 764 words · Jerry Hamilton

April Security Update Doesn T Fix Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Or Does It

Both Samsung and Google recently published their respective security bulletin for April 2022. Interestingly though, only Samsung’s bulletin mentions the fix for the Dirty Pipe vulnerability. The company lists the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number CVE-2022-0847, which Google had assigned to Dirty Pipe earlier this year, as a high-severity CVE item fixed by Google. However, the identifier CVE-2022-0847 is nowhere to be found in Google’s updated security bulletin. Even the Pixel-specific security patch for April 2022 doesn’t mention it....

January 11, 2023 · 2 min · 423 words · Kristin Reid

Assistant Driving Mode Gets A Homescreen Shortcut

Assistant Driving Mode originally required you to use a voice command such as “Hey Google, let’s drive” and “start Driving Mode” to launch the car-friendly UI. In October, Google added the ability to automatically activate Driving Mode when you connect your phone to your car’s Bluetooth. It can also launch by itself when it detects car movement. Now, the company is letting you add a homescreen shortcut as well. Several users have reported seeing an “Add driving mode to Home screen” prompt at the bottom of the Assistant Driving Mode app grid in recent days....

January 11, 2023 · 2 min · 424 words · Ronald Holden
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