by dbadmin | Sep 29, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, Google Home, News
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown of the Google Home app has uncovered a Home Brief feature. This seems to be Google’s name for security-related summaries in the smart home app. We’ve also uncovered more details about the...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, google messages, News
TL;DR Google Messages has been working on a system to let you @mention other users in chats. Users who are mentioned in such a manner should see an @ symbol next to the chat. Messages may automatically suggest an @mention when you start typing someone’s name. Being...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Authority Insights, Authority Insights Newsletter, Features
One area where iOS beats Android is its deep integration with MacBooks, which is to be expected since Apple controls both ecosystems. While tools exist to connect your Android phone to a Windows PC, these solutions often fall short of Apple’s integrations. This gap...
by dbadmin | Sep 27, 2025 | Authority Insights, Google, google messages, News
TL;DR Google devs appear to be considering implementing some changes to how Messages displays link previews. Previews could drop the full URL, and might start omitting page descriptions. Messages may start coloring its previews to match page graphics. What do you...
by dbadmin | Sep 26, 2025 | Authority Insights, google messages, News
Credit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown of the latest Google Messages beta has revealed a change to group chat icons in testing. We managed to activate the option to remove a group chat icon and restore the default four-avatar...
by dbadmin | Sep 26, 2025 | Android Canary, Authority Insights, Linux, News
TL;DR Google is working to improve the performance of graphical Linux apps on Android, which currently run slowly using inefficient CPU-based rendering. This will be achieved by implementing gfxstream, a technology that forwards graphics API calls to the host’s GPU...
