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Lollipop comes to the best Android Wear watch you can buy. Photo: Motorola

Lollipop comes to the best Android Wear watch you can buy. Photo: Motorola

Motorola is today rolling out the latest Android 5.0.1 Lollipop update for the Moto 360. This is the major Android Wear update Google announced last week, which brings support for the company’s new watch face API, improved quick settings options, and a number of new features.

Some of the stunning watch faces coming to Android Wear. Photo: Google

Some of the stunning watch faces coming to Android Wear. Photo: Google

Google announced its biggest Android Wear update yet on Wednesday, which finally delivers a dedicated custom watch face API that allows developers and designers to build news faces with greater functionality. But it’s not all good news; Google says the custom watch faces you’ve already been using will be pulled if they aren’t updated to use the new API.

Image: Instagram/Hyperlapse

Image: Instagram/Hyperlapse

Instagram today brought added more features to its new Hyperlapse app for iOS, less than a month after it made its App Store debut. And yet, an Android version is still nowhere to be seen. It’s not that Instagram doesn’t want to bring Hyperlapse to Google Play, however — it’s that Android doesn’t currently offer the APIs it requires.

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Changing your app icons on Android is as easy as installing the right third-party launcher and a new icon pack. But what if you don’t want to use a third-party launcher? If you have a rooted Samsung device running a TouchWiz ROM, then you can use a simple app called WizIconizer to replace your stock icons with new ones.

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Pushbullet has acknowledged a major security concern with its popular Android app and promised to make improvements in future updates.

The company is working hard to implement the OAuth authorization framework to provide users with limited and revocable API keys that will make their data more secure — but it insists that your data is safe in the meantime just as long as you don’t share your existing key.

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