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You have to admit that the pool of popular desserts that start with the letter “U” is rather shallow. It’s either this or Android Uncooked Cookie Dough. Regardless, we can’t expect too many people to know about this name. The company isn’t exactly advertising it and building statues like it used to. If you can’t recall, the first version of Android to get a dessert was Android 1.6 Donut. Since then, we’ve had Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich, Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo, and Pie....

This rule will come into effect starting November 1, when Android 13 is likely to be commercially available. So app developers will have to ensure their apps are compatible with Android 11 or newer by then (via Android Central). Any apps lagging behind the deadline will disappear from the public eye until the developer makes the necessary changes. Google is effectively forcing developers into compliance by hiding apps that haven’t been updated for a while....

Speaking on the Made by Google Podcast, Monika Gupta, senior director of product management for Google Silicon Teams, highlights the company’s efforts to make its Tensor chips into a rival for Snapdragon and Exynos. Her team is intended “to focus on what [Google] need[s] five years from now” for its chips. First, she discussed Google’s in-house approach to designing chips for its Pixel devices like Pixel 7 and 7 Pro ....

It encompasses seemingly everything that you get from the current Google Pay app. But with new features. Google’s aim here is to enable users to leave their real wallets at home as much as possible. A lot of that hinges of course on quite a few factors. Most notably having compatibility of the features so they fit into your life. Which won’t be possible for everyone right away. The new Google Wallet app will hold payment cards, IDs, and more The new Google Wallet app will hold payment cards, IDs, and more...

Of course, Google did not tell us a lot about the tablet, I mean it is still over a year away from actually launching. So that makes sense. But we do know that it’ll launch with Android 13, or possibly 14, depending on what part of the year it comes. But the pictures that Google shared of the Pixel Tablet were, well, underwhelming. It looks like the Galaxy tablets from 2014 It looks like the Galaxy tablets from 2014...