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Google announces a system "self-spatialization" for Android

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

David Heaney / DownloadVR: Google announces “autospatialization” for Android XR, an AI feature to transform 2D content, including games streamed…

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Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as it moves to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 2, 2025

Jess Weatherbed / The edge: Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as…

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Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes reduced fees for global app stores and a new program to allow alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 5, 2025

Sean Hollister / The edge: Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes a reduction in app store fees globally and a new…

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Swift releases preview of the Swift SDK for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 26, 2025

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Swift releases preview of the Swift SDK for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in…

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Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and GM CEO Sterling Anderson on GM’s plans for AI and autonomous driving, dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 22, 2025

Nilay Patel / The edge: Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and GM CEO Sterling Anderson on GM’s plans for…

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Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search AI Mode and Google Lens on Android in the US for those with an activated Search Lab account (Abner Li/9to5Google)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 12, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Inside Google’s AI Turnaround: The Rise of AI Mode, the Strategy Behind AI Previews, and Their…

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Australia’s APPP says Google has agreed to pay a fine of ~ $ 36 million on offers from 2019 to 2021 with suchra and optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand / Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 18, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: Why Chatgpt will be the next major growth channel (and how to capitalize) | Brian…

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Appfigures: the chatgpt application for iOS and Android reach $ 2 billion in global consumer spending, including $ 1.35 billion so far in 2025, up 673% in annual shift; Grok made ~ $ 25.6 million this year (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 15, 2025

Sarah Perez / Techcrunch:: Appfigures: the chatgpt application for iOS and Android reach $ 2 billion in global consumer spending,…

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Google says he revised his Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after failing to send higher level action to 10 million people in Türkiye in 2023 (BBC)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 28, 2025

Bbc:: Google says he revised his Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after failing to send higher level action to 10 million…

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Google researchers say that the early Android ockours system has detected and issued alerts for more than 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15 to 60 seconds (Kasha Patel / Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 19, 2025

Kasha Patel / Washington Post:: Google researchers say that the early Android alert system has detected and issued alerts for…

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Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

A profile of Valve, which PrivCo says generated $5.2 billion in revenue and $1.5 billion in net profit in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power (Bloomberg)

Browsing: Android

Google announces a system "self-spatialization" for Android

Google releases Android 16 QPR2, marking the end of Google’s annual OS release schedule as it moves to more frequent updates (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Google’s proposed Epic settlement includes reduced fees for global app stores and a new program to allow alternative app stores to become first-class Android citizens (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Swift releases preview of the Swift SDK for Android, allowing developers to build Android apps in Swift and making it easier to share code across iOS and Android (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and GM CEO Sterling Anderson on GM’s plans for AI and autonomous driving, dropping Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search AI Mode and Google Lens on Android in the US for those with an activated Search Lab account (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Australia’s APPP says Google has agreed to pay a fine of ~ $ 36 million on offers from 2019 to 2021 with suchra and optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand / Reuters)

Appfigures: the chatgpt application for iOS and Android reach $ 2 billion in global consumer spending, including $ 1.35 billion so far in 2025, up 673% in annual shift; Grok made ~ $ 25.6 million this year (Sarah Perez / Techcrunch)

Google says he revised his Android Earthquake Alerts algorithm after failing to send higher level action to 10 million people in Türkiye in 2023 (BBC)

Google researchers say that the early Android ockours system has detected and issued alerts for more than 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15 to 60 seconds (Kasha Patel / Washington Post)