This week we talk about Android dark themes are becoming more popular, Night Sight is rolling out for everyone, and a new Google Glass has passed through the FCC.

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Hosts:

Stephen Hall

Abner Li

Top Stories:

Google encouraging Android dark themes to conserve battery life

Users have long requested Android dark themes for their apps. With demand only rising due to the inherent brightness of the Google Material Theme, Google’s apps have begun to adopt night modes. Now, the company’s own research can quantify the battery savings involved with darker interfaces.

Night Sight now rolling out to all Google Pixel devices for spectacular low-light performance [Gallery]

If you read a hundred reviews of any Google Pixel smartphone, you’ll come away with the consensus that these phones are worth it for the camera alone, and that’s very true. Lately, Google has been working some magic behind the scenes to make these cameras even better. Starting today, Google Pixel Night Sight is rolling out to all users.

2nd gen. Google Glass Enterprise Edition gets FCC certification, brings minor spec bumps

Google introduced Google Glass Enterprise Edition last summer, more than two years after we first broke the news on the device’s existence. Since then, the company has been working on a followup to that enterprise-focused mixed reality headset with some minor tweaks in tow. Today, that device passed through the FCC and we’re getting our first peek at a rough sketch.

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Google Store Black Friday starts this week: Pixel 3 BOGO 50% off, $99 Home Hub, $300 off Pixelbook, much more

Google adds messaging to Google Maps for iOS & Android to communicate with businesses

Android apps in split-screen soon won’t pause thanks to ‘Multi-resume’

Google Play Store has denied Tasker access to Android call and SMS capabilities

Android’s sharing menu will be redesigned to be much ‘faster,’ fixing is a priority

Manual Google Drive device backup support rolling out to Android now

PSA: Broken Google Pixel 3? Google and uBreakiFix are essentially helpless for now [Updated]

Night Sight now rolling out to all Google Pixel devices for spectacular low-light performance [Gallery]

Google Store Black Friday starts this week: Pixel 3 BOGO 50% off, $99 Home Hub, $300 off Pixelbook, much more

Google Home and Smart Displays will soon support replying to Broadcasts, add recipe cards, more

Google Clock integrating w/ Assistant Routines as Google Home can soon enable phone DND

DeepMind team working on AI medical assistant joins newly-formed Google Health

Google planning health initiative, appoints leader to organize AI, Nest, & Google Fit interests

Fossil Sport brings Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset for $255 w/ NFC, 41mm case, available today

2nd gen. Google Glass Enterprise Edition gets FCC certification, brings minor spec bumps

Waymo self-driving car service launching within two months, directly competing w/ Lyft & Uber

Project Fi’s ‘enhanced network’ adds free cellular VPN, enables mobile data on poor Wi-Fi

Google adds messaging to Google Maps for iOS & Android to communicate with businesses

Gboard using on-device AI to suggest relevant GIFs, stickers, & emoji as you type

Google developing new capabilities to make web apps as feature-rich as native counterparts

Google Weather and Search no longer displaying air quality data on Android or web

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