News & Reviews:   Google

Apple is facing serious kickbacks since Netflix and Spotify decided to stop all subscription payments from Apple’s App Store and now Youtube TV. So remember to switch your payment method before March if you’re still paying your Youtube TV subscription through Apple’s App Store.

If sources are to be believed, Google seems to have already started work on the next Pixel smartphone. Certainly, it's very early to have rumours of the Pixel 5 floating around but we do have some news on that front this time. Recently, sources deemed reliable have claimed that Google is already working on prototypes of the Google Pixel 5 smartphones.

It seems that someone at Google had a trigger finger on the post button today. Keen eyes spotted the developer preview page updated from Android 10 to Android 11 earlier, suggesting that Google may already be on the verge of releasing a beta for the next Android version to developers.

If you're the type to spice up your text conversations with emojis, you'll probably appreciate the latest feature for Gboard. The default Google keyboard app now has a fun feature that's called Emoji Kitchen and it lets you mix and max different emojis to make new ones.

15 years ago this week, the beta of Google Maps was launched. As time passed by, it has now become one of our favourite navigation apps that has guided us through many journeys. To celebrate its 15th birthday, Google has redesigned the app icon and rolled out several new features, let’s find out what they are!

In a collaboration between Google and The Pokémon Company International, you can vote for your favourite pokemon from 14 February 2020 at 9:59PM onwards. If you are interested in taking part, all you need to do is search for “Pokemon vote” and vote for your favourite pokémon.

If you're like us, you probably encountered videos with annoying ads while browsing the internet or watching YouTube, some that appear in the middle of watching a video. This can happen even for short videos, which gets annoying. Now, it looks like Google wants to start putting a stop to that by setting up restrictions.

Prior to the Huawei Mate 30 series release last year, it was most unfortunate that Huawei got caught in the trade war. The company is still not clear out of being able to use Google Mobile Services (GMS) yet, so they have been trying different ways to survive without it with their own Huawei Mobile Service. Despite this, international countries out of China still relies on GMS a lot, so what is Plan B?

We know that there are some of you out there who will never upload your personal files onto the cloud services like Google Photos and iCloud for privacy concern. Not to say there are many news regarding celebrities’ photos being leaked from the services as well. Not long ago, Google accidentally sent some of the users’ private videos from Google Photos to the other users, and they have apologized to those who were affected by the issue.

The public has long wondered how much Google makes a year through YouTube but those numbers were never revealed. But recently, YouTube's parent company decided to include YouTube ad revenue in its quarterly report and it's a massive USD 15 (~RM61.76) billion.