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How we designed and built the Pixel Fold's hinge

Over the past few years, George Hwang has folded lots of paper — in fact, he’s doing exactly that while we’re talking. “Early on, we would just fold and unfold pieces of paper to see that form,” he says, showing me the paper gently folded in half. “We had to find the right balance of making something super thin while also maximizing the display.” George is a Pixel Product Manager, most recently for the Pixel Fold, and he’s been working on the foldables…

Apple’s WWDC23 Swift Student Challenge winners code to share their passions with the world

Every year, as part of its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple issues a challenge to students across the globe: create an original app playground using the Swift coding language. This year, Apple increased the number of winners from the 350 awarded in previous years to 375 so even more students could be included in the event and recognized for their artistry and ingenuity. “We are amazed by the talent we see from the young developers who enter…

Connect on the go and learn new skills with new Android features

A few weeks ago at Google I/O, we announced features that can make Android devices more helpful, secure and expressive. We’re introducing these throughout this year within regular updates, ensuring your devices keep improving in between our yearly OS releases. Today, we are announcing seven new updates and features rolling out now to help you learn new skills, stay productive on the go and protect your information. Here’s what you need to know for…

App Store developers generated $1.1 trillion in total billings and sales in the App Store ecosystem in 2022

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced the App Store ecosystem facilitated $1.1 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2022, building on developers’ track record of strong, resilient growth, an independent study by economists from Analysis Group found. The App Store continues to create incredible opportunity for developers around the world, with more than 90 percent of the billings and sales accruing solely to developers and businesses…

Apple and Google lead initiative for an industry specification to address unwanted tracking

Location-tracking devices help users find personal items like their keys, purse, luggage, and more through crowdsourced finding networks. However, they can also be misused for unwanted tracking of individuals.Today Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices for unwanted tracking. The first-of-its-kind specification will allow Bluetooth location-tracking devices…

Email reports in Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics can be the most helpful tool you have. It’s how you get all the most important data on your website, mobile apps, and marketing channels. There’s nothing you can’t uncover with the right configurations and monitoring, so it’s your best friend when it comes to serious data analysis. But of course, along with all this data comes the very real fact that it can be overwhelming. There’s so much right at your fingertips! But because there’s…

Lucky number Android 13: The latest features and updates

Android 13 helps ensure your devices feel unique to you – on your terms. It comes jam-packed with new capabilities for your phone and tablet, like extending app color theming to even more apps, language settings that can be set on an app level, improved privacy controls and even the ability to copy text and media from one Android device and paste it to another with just a click.There are many reasons to love Android 13, but here are our top 13:Personalized…

10 reasons to switch to Android

In the last year, over a billion new Android phones were activated. Ready to join the fun, but not sure which phone is best for you? Consider one that’s loaded with the best of Google, that can fold to fit in your pocket or fit your budget, or has a camera that can capture any shot. Regardless of which phone you choose, making the switch from iPhone to Android has never been easier.Starting today, support for the Switch to Android app on iOS is rolling…

Apple invites families to create and learn at Apple Camp sessions around the world

Apple Camp — the popular free program for children and families — will return to Apple Store locations around the world, with sessions taking place each week from June 20 through August 31. Now in its 20th year, Apple Camp returns in person with a new two-hour format for families, giving participants the chance to create their own digital comic book about protecting and celebrating the planet. Parents and guardians can register now at apple.co/apple-camp.…

Chronicling the faces of Juneteenth with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

The Combahee River flows southeast through South Carolina, a 40-mile route that spills into the Saint Helena Sound. More than a century and a half ago on June 1, 1863, the Combahee turned the tide of emancipation when Harriet Tubman and her regiment of 150 Black Union troops led more than 700 escaped slaves to freedom aboard two gunboats. For Tubman, the river marked her heroism as the first woman to lead an armed US military operation in the Combahee…

A bigger piece of the pi: Finding the 100-trillionth digit

The 100-trillionth decimal place of π (pi) is 0. A few months ago, on an average Tuesday morning in March, I sat down with my coffee to check on the program that had been running a calculation from my home office for 157 days. It was finally time — I was going to be the first and only person to ever see the number. The results were in and it was a new record: We’d calculated the most digits of π ever — 100 trillion to be exact. Calculating π — or…

Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip

CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced a completely redesigned MacBook Air and an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro, both powered by the new M2 chip — which takes the breakthrough performance and capabilities of M1 even further. MacBook Air takes everything users love about the world’s best-selling laptop to the next level. With an all-new, strikingly thin design and even more performance, MacBook Air also features a larger 13.6-inch Liquid…