Google plans to shutter its Assistant Driving Mode Dashboard, announced in 2019, on November 21; Maps for Android’s car-optimized UI will remain (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google unveils Android 13 Go edition, with Material You, a Discover feed, and support for Google Play System Updates, arriving in 2023 on devices with 2GB+ RAM  —  Google announced and detailed Android 13 (Go edition) today with several sizable changes to the user experience …

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YouTube releases its 2022 recap for the US, highlighting the most-watched videos, top creators, breakout stars, top songs, and global top ads  —  Following the Music Recap earlier this week, YouTube is revealing the top trending videos of 2022 and other lists that more or less serve as a stand in for Rewind.

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Google rolls out support for signing in with passkeys on Android and Chrome to beta testers ahead of a wider launch in 2022  —  Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others in the industry want to replace website/app passwords with “passkeys” that just require you to unlock your device.

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Meta says Facebook for Android will soon use its own Chromium-based in-app browser engine, citing security and stability as reasons for its WebView alternative  —  When you open a link while in another app, it usually launches in your browser (e.g., Chrome) or a Custom Tab.

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Google begins rolling out a “results about you” tool on its Android app to let users see and remove results that contain their personal identifiable information  —  At I/O 2022 in May, Google announced a new tool to streamline the process of removing Search results that contain …

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Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021  —  Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.