About Jules Wang
Jules joined the Android Police team in 2019. He currently contributes art for our stories and edits our podcast. Before that, he managed weekend news and wrote AP's newsletter.
Jules also contributes to our sister sites XDA-Developers and Pocket-lint. He also was editor at our now-sister site, Pocketnow.
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Google Play Store confirmed (finally) to drop Verizon from carrier billing program
Verizon tells us this was "a business decision"
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Google Play Store shoppers who bill their purchases through Boost Mobile or Verizon will soon no longer be able to. Verizon subscribers have been emailed about the change which will come into effect starting next month.
Google has announced it won't be replacing cookies with FLoC, the web browser tracking protocol it created to help deliver users personalized ad content — and had been maligned by privacy advocates — after all. Instead, the company will attempt to fulfill the same mission without as much intrusion with a new API dubbed Topics.
The more you buy the more you save with this Philips Hue smart bulb sale
Get two for less, save more with four
Looking for a jump start to automating your lights around the house? You can get a Philips Hue Bridge with up to four white smart bulbs at great discount for a limited time.
QR code scanning on Android turns out to be even more broken than we thought
OnePlus devices found to be affected, too
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Over the weekend, Google fixed up issues with its QR code-reading capabilities in the Google Camera and Google Lens apps where URLs were misread for Android 12 users. But some of those errors exist and persist in Android 11 devices, too, and not just from Google.
Acer's new student Chromebooks are affordable, durable, and easy on the environment
Two of them will be available within the next several weeks
Wherever you or your kids go to school — even if it's not at school — there's always an opportunity to get in gear for a new season of learning. Acer hopes you or, more chiefly, the IT department in your local district do so with its four new Chromebooks fit for weathering the roughest shocks and toughest messes.
Google's next AR headset is more than just a daydream
But if history is any indicator, it could be a nightmare
After years of lackluster attempts in the augmented reality space, Google is pushing its cleats down with multiple augmented reality projects, two of which are currently targeted to be out within the next three years.
Verizon and AT&T begrudgingly agree to avoid airports as they finally turn on C-Band 5G
Airlines want bigger buffer zones, perhaps more of them
AT&T and Verizon have delayed their plans to turn on C-Band 5G towers around even more airports than they originally promised to avoid in response to yesterday's multi-airline petition against them to government regulators.
Apple and Samsung are surviving the global chip shortage in ways only they can
Well, it's actually the global 'everything' shortage
Those on a tight budget for a new phone these days are facing the crises surrounding the global pandemic head-on. From lengthening lead times to a never-ending chip shortage, manufacturers are coping by putting number one first. And a new report indicates that consumers will be in for another year of this mess.
Gmail replaces its 'inbox zero' graphic to the relief of corporate art haters
But the new art? Hmm...
In news about banal skeuomorphic depictions of email, Gmail has updated its art for people who like achieving Inbox Zero. And if you've been invested in the discourse around minimalist — oversimplified, even — corporate revamps of brand identities like Discord and Firefox, well, you may think of this as a lateral move.
The budget-minded Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 is now available in the US
That's A8, not S8, not A 8.0
Samsung's newest mid-range tablet has made its way across the world, but until today, it wasn't to be seen in the United States. But things have changed as American retailers are now selling the Galaxy Tab A8.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was aware of anti-competitive ads deal with Facebook, Texas AG alleges
Meta's Zuckerberg and Sandberg also knew about 'Jedi Blue'
Court filings from the Texas attorney general's office which have just been unsealed allege that top executives at Google and Facebook (now Meta) knew of and supported a deal that gave the social media giant a sweetheart deal on internet ads. They're the latest revelation in the midst of a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against the search giant.
Our first photos of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 devices show just how big they are
Massive slabs
Whatever you think about Samsung's Galaxy Tab S8 series and the Ultra's notch — less intrusive than on those new MacBook Pros, but you definitely know they're there — it seems their physical appearances have been codified with the help of new images surfacing from the FCC.
Wyze's new Cam Plus Lite plan raises questions about the future of free services
Jimmy Wales has entered the chat and asked you not to scroll down
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Wyze has come a long way from making "too-good-to-be-true" home security solutions — some moments more unfortunate than others — but the forward path to sustainability means making great subscription services at affordable prices. With that said, the company is now offering a new name-your-own-price subscription tier for Wyze Cam Plus.
Setting Google Assistant timers on smart displays is pretty broken right now
But a fix is on the way
Google Assistant usually knows how to handle things when you ask it to set a timer. In the past couple of days, though, it hasn't been able to do so from your smart display.
The OnePlus 10 Pro has arrived — but the wait's just getting started
We'll talk more about it later this year
The sanctioned drip feed of tidbits about OnePlus's latest big-shot smartphone has been replaced with a full flood today as the company has officially announced the OnePlus 10 Pro for the Chinese market. It features a second-gen Hasselblad camera system, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, and 80W wired charging with the included adapter.
Google starts showing doorbell camera previews in At a Glance for Pixels on Android 12
An instant peephole
Google is rolling out an overhaul of its At a Glance widget which will enable Pixel owners to do and see a lot more right from their lock screens. We're now getting a good look at what's happening just out of our front doors with the option to check our doorbell camera from our lock screens.
It looks like a very bright future indeed for the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's display
They could be extremely expensive, impishly impractical lightbulb replacements
Samsung smartphones are known for their bright, colorful AMOLED displays and the ones on the Galaxy S22 series of devices look to be no exception, especially with this new information coming in.
When Spencer Buell of Boston Magazine came out earlier this month with a full-throated roar against the QR code, my knee-jerk reaction was to bang my head against the wall. I don't like hurting myself, though, so I stopped, read his piece in full, and began to feel out where he was coming from. After all, these weirdo pixels aren't really human-readable, require an expensive, sometimes unwieldy phone to be understood, can be exploited for deception or malware, and might not even make sense as a replacement for good ol' plaintext... at least at first blush.
Razer has a plan to sync your games with every single light in your house
It includes a new app and new hardware partners
Can't bear the thought of your living room, kitchen, or guest room looking drab? Want to spread the joy of all the RGB gear in, on, and around your Fortnite rig? Razer, which booted up its CES 2022 presence with a very un-RGB smartwatch, wants to bring every single smart bulb and lightstrip in your house under its roof with the Razer Smart Home app.
Razer and Fossil have made a smartwatch baby and you get three guesses what color the strap is
Skagen also has a new watch, too
Smartwatch producer Fossil is back for another year, taking the opportunity during CES 2022 to push forward its sixth generation of Wear OS smartwatches with its Skagen brand taking the lead. In addition, Razer is snagging a slice of the action by partnering with the company for a limited edition wearable.