Kevin Hart is joining a superheroic comedy. Neill Blomkamp has departed the new RoboCop movie. Pennywise gets snacking in more new It Chapter Two footage. Plus, what’s to come on Fear the Walking Dead and Pennyworth, and we have a mighty need for today’s return of Invader Zim. Spoilers now!
Google is introducing a system-wide dark mode with Android Q and is hard at work to get as many apps as possible in line for the stable launch. While it already implemented the eye-soothing theme on many apps like Calendar, Phone, Messages, and Drive, other apps are still notably lacking one, like Gmail. On Wednesday, Google officially introduced Playground as the newest member of the dark mode club, although the AR stickers app possibly has had it for a while already.
Read MoreGoogle Playground has joined the dark mode club [APK Download] was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
You can pretty much get a smart anything these days, and while lots of connected products make sense, some can be more concerning. Smart ovens that show a live feed of your roasting turkey on your phone and can be switched off remotely certainly sound like a good idea, to begin with, but not so much when they turn themselves on in the middle of the night and heat up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Read MoreHot topic: June smart ovens have been preheating in the middle of the night, company blames user error was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Google's Wear OS platform is in a bit of a weird place. The operating system itself is still being periodically updated with new features and improvements, like the Tiles function that was released in May, but the third-party app library is still minimal, and Qualcomm has been slow to improve the underlying hardware. Still, Wear OS isn't going anywhere, and the closest thing to a flagship watch is the new fifth-generation Fossil Q lineup.
Read MoreFossil's fifth-gen smartwatches showcase Wear OS at its best was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
In Twitter’s ongoing crusade against the rampant abuse on its platform that it keeps promising to address (no, legit guys) (this time for realsies), the company recently announced it’s testing a new filter to hopefully help keep trash out of your DMs.
