Google revamps Home app

Just a day ahead of the release of Google’s Pixel 2 smartphones, Google cleans up its Google Home app, giving the app a sleeker look. Google simplifies the tabs and goes with just a Discover and Browse sections. Discover focuses more on your general needs and shows you tips about the different Google Home and Google Assistant functions and features, recommended searches and Chromecast apps, among many others.

The Browse tab, on the other hand, houses all your entertainment-related needs. At the top of the page you’ll see popular TV shows and movies you can browse through. Going through these there will be specific sections for different media streaming apps like YouTube, Google Play Movies, Netflix, and Spotify, among others. If you select on the TV shows, Music, and Movies buttons, that’ll take you to those specific categories. On top of that. There are new splash screens, too, for these categories with the titles showing up bigger at the top of the page and the volume controls getting a new look. If you’re wondering if you got these changes, the version of the app you should have is 1.25.81.13.

Source: Android Central

Square launches new contactless chip reader in Canada for $59

Square founder and CEO Jack Dorsey leads a roundtable of Canadian entrepreneurs during the launch of the Square readerBy Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Toronto- Payments innovagtor Square held an event this morning in downtown Toronto where they launched a new contactless reaer for local businesses to take debit and credit payments. Designed in part by hardware engineers from Toronto's North York office, now allows businesses to acceot various ways to pay including Interact as well as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Fitbit Play.

The new reader allows customers to tap their cards, mobile devices or wearables to make a payment securely in seconds.

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Rumour has it there won’t be a OnePlus 5T, OnePlus 6 expected early 2018

If you’ve been holding for OnePlus to release a OnePlus 5T, you might not get your wish. Rumour has it that OnePlus isn’t planning on releasing a T version for the OnePlus 5. Instead, they are setting their sights on releasing OnePlus 6 in early 2018. Last year, OnePlus released the OnePlus 3T to upgrade the OnePlus 3’s processor from a Snapdragon 820 to 821. The OnePlus 5 is a pretty powerful device on its own so we’re not surprised that an upgrade isn’t in the cards—or at least this is what the rumours suggest.

Source: GSMArena

New leaked renders give us better look at new Pixel devices

Pixel 2 XL

Google is hosting its Pixel event a couple of days from now but we’ve already seen so many leaks of the new devices. The latest one comes unsurprisingly from Evan Blass (@evleaks) as he shows off what the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are supposedly going to look like. And while they’re not completely bezel-less like the flagships of other brands, these do have less bezels than last year’s models. The Pixel 2 XL has less of a bezel than the Pixel 2. You can see the front-facing camera on the upper left with a speaker grille. Another speaker grille can be seen at the bottom, speculation is that could be housing the microphone but we can’t say yet.

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