More and more people have some form of hearing impairment in this increasingly loud day and age. You may remember hearing aids as bulky devices sitting behind your ears that are barely good enough to make people hear again, but this is far from the truth today. Most hearing aids support some form of audio streaming. Still, you need a compatible Android phone for most of them.

The Emoji Kitchen on Gboard combines two emoji to create a new mashup sticker. The collection houses thousands of combinations, and Google adds more every few months. The resulting mashups add more personality to existing emoji, allowing you to convey emotions that a single emoji can't. We tried many of the combos, from cutesy to disturbing. This guide walks you through the best Gboard Emoji Kitchen combos to try on your phone, whether it's a top 5G phone or a budget-friendly model.

Even though Android is my preferred operating system, I still have a trusty old iPhone 13. As a tech blogger and Android Police’s Google editor, that just makes sense — I need to know the competition to better understand and cover Google’s products. One thing I love about Apple’s ecosystem is MagSafe, and I’m happy to see that it will come to Android soon in the form of the Qi2 wireless charging standard.

Google’s multimodal generative Gemini AI is capable of creating a multitude of outputs, including images. After the tool was caught repeatedly creating inaccurate images of historic scenes, Google has now decided to pull the emergency brake and temporarily paused Gemini’s ability to create images of people altogether.

Generative AI development is incredibly fast-paced. Just a few months after Google first announced its next-generation Gemini model, the company recently went public with the next version of its generative model, Gemini 1.5. Just as all eyes are focused on Gemini and its big GPT competition from OpenAI, Google has announced yet another AI advancement. The company has revealed Gemma, its new family of open models developed by DeepMind and other divisions.

Google’s hardware products are routinely plagued by issues, so much so that some of our team members won’t unequivocally recommend Pixel phones anymore. The problems are nothing new, and the company had to deal with multiple class action lawsuits over the years, started and joined by customers disgruntled with the quality of their hardware. There is now a new class action lawsuit in town, alleging Google knowingly sold overheating Pixel 6 Pro units.