Spotify Car Thing 2.0: Verizon is killing its in-car Google Assistant/hotspot gadget

Credit: Verizon TL;DR Verizon has announced that it’s discontinuing the service for its Hum in-car accessory line. These gadgets offered vehicle diagnostics, roadside assistance, mobile hotspot functionality, and enabled Google Assistant support. Verizon says it’ll discontinue the Hum service on December 31. Verizon launched its Hum accessories for cars back in 2015, and these were … Read more

Samsung could bring one of Apple’s most polarizing notification features to One UI 8.5

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung reportedly has a notification summary feature in the latest One UI 8.5 build. This feature will use AI to summarize your notifications, much like Apple’s polarizing effort. In saying so, it looks like Samsung is using Google’s work-in-progress notification summary feature. Apple debuted AI-based notification summaries … Read more

All Amazon Fire tablets drop to record-low prices!

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority As much as other brands try, Amazon really has no competition in the budget tablet market. Why would you get anything else if you want an affordable pad? Especially when we can find deals like today. All main iterations of the Fire tablet series are at record-low prices. You … Read more