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This Week in Apps: App Store privacy labels, Facebook criticizes Apple over ad targeting, Twitter kills Periscope Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS and Android users downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020....

Google pulls the plug on Android Things Android Things made its debut in 2016. The custom Android aimed at the smart home devices but failed to take off.  Author Android Things shuts down (Pixabay) Google is pulling the plug on Android Things, a customised version of Android aimed at smart home devices. The company said that the Android Things Console would stop supporting new projects on January 5, 2021. It added that the console would be turned down for all current projects on the same date....

Popular virtualization software Parallels now supports Apple Silicon in an invite-only Technical Preview -- with notable caveats. Parallels is inviting beta testers to try out its Technical Preview for M1 Macs Parallels showcased an Apple Silicon version of its software at WWDC 2020, but this Technical Preview is the first time the company has made its virtualization app available to M1 Mac users. Parallels is sending invite emails, viewed by AppleInsider, with installation...

Tech Wrap The week is over, and we’re almost done with 2020 but there’s still a lot happening everywhere and in the world of technology. We got to know about a Facebook bug that exposed Instagram users’ personal email IDs and birthdays. Another Google product is shutting down. Apple has decided to halt business with Wistron following the clash with workers at the manufacturing plant. We also got an idea of how much Samsung’s Galaxy S21 series could cost. Qualcomm’s new chipset Snapdr...

The system is a stripped-down version of Android that allows developers to build smart devices that could access Google services, from computer vision to speech processing. When Google released version 1.0 in May 2018, it announced support for system-on-module hardware from NXP, Qualcomm, and MediaTek. After lackluster adoption, Google announced that it would refocus the Android Things project purely on OEMs producing smart speakers and smart displays in February 2019.  Android Things would be...

Google shutters its Android Things smart home operating system The system will shut down entirely in January 2022 Google has decided to shutter the Android Things operating system it launched to run smart home hardware. This OS was the final version of Google Brillo, which first released all the way back in 2015 . This system aimed to provide underlying architecture that manufacturers could use to update devices that feature Google Assistant integration. This means that manufactur...

Google has announced that Android Things, a heavily stripped-down Android-based operating system for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, will shut down early next year. The Android Things Dashboard, which is used for managing devices, will stop accepting new devices and projects in just three weeks-on January 5, 2021. Developers will be able to continue updating existing deployments until January 5, 2022, the company said in a statement. After the given date, the console will be shut down compl...

RIP Android Things, the Smart Home Platform We All Forgot Existed Share Filed to:android things Photo: JEFF PACHOUD/AFP, Getty Images To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. While Google is infamous for killing off its creations, there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of Andro...

georgeclerk via Getty Images Android Things’ days are numbered. Google has revealed that the Internet-of-Things platform is joining its ever growing pile of retired products in an FAQ page for developers. The tech giant originally launched Android Things as an operating system for all kinds of IoT devices until it decided to change the platform’s focus and make it a dedicated OS for speakers and displays OEMs can use for their products last year. “Following in line with those updates,” ...

Google plans on shuttering its struggling Android Things platform. Android Things was a stripped-down version of Android designed to work on Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. Existing developers will have up to January 2022 to keep running their existing deployments before Googles console stop working and all data is deleted. When it launched back in 2018, Googles Android Things platform seemed like an up-and-coming, low-cost alternative for IoT manufacturers and enthusiasts that could potentia...