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For those who don’t know, Google Assistant Driving Mode is a replacement for Android Auto on Android devices. After being unveiled around two years ago, Google is finally updating the interface of the Driving Mode. According to a new report by 9To5Google, the refreshed UI brings a host of new home screen improvements, especially in terms of a design overhaul. Back at the Google I/O event in 2019, Google showcased the Google Assistant Driving Mode to users....

Google Lens has become an integral part of the company’s services in recent years. In 2017, Lens was a Pixel-exclusive feature, but it was later released to other Android and iOS devices as a standalone app. Now, it has come to Google’s homepage to help users with its advanced image-searching capabilities. According to Rajan Patel, Google’s VP of Engineering for Search, this is a big deal for Google because the homepage doesn’t change often....

The lawsuits were filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday. Google also plans to file similar lawsuits with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) soon. It is seeking a ban on imports of Sonos products that make use of the infringed patents. According to Google, it filed the two lawsuits to defend its technology. The company says Sonos infringed its patents and “started an aggressive and misleading campaign” against its products....

The Play Store shows you the minimum OS requirements for the app you’re viewing The Play Store shows you the minimum OS requirements for the app you’re viewing A lot of us have older phones that we want to get more use out of. Thus, we sometimes download modern apps on them. One thing we worry about is whether the older operating system is still able to run newer apps. Now, you can know this before you download them....

Google added an RSS feed reader to its Chrome browser in October last year. It lets you follow websites to get an automatically updated feed of articles published by those sites. The feature was initially available to Android users but the company promised to bring it to the iOS app as well as the desktop client. True to its promise, Google rolled out the RSS feed reader to Chrome users with iPhones shortly after....