Gameloft’s much-anticipated racing game, Asphalt 8: Airborne, was due to be released last Thursday, August 8, but for some unknown reason the game wasn’t quite ready for public release. However, today the developer has announced that the game is scheduled to launch next Thursday, August 22.

Google pushed out an update for its Translate app on Google Play yesterday, bringing handwriting support for both Hindi and Thai. The upgrade also expands the app’s built-in “camera input” feature capabilities.

Following LG’s announcement in July, notifying consumers that it would be removing the word “Optimus” from the names of its upcoming flagship devices and replacing it with the letter G, there has been a lot of speculation suggesting that we could be seeing a new high-end Android tablet – dubbed the G Pad – which is due to be unveiled next month at the IFA in Berlin.

Samsung’s latest flagship tablet, the Galaxy Note 8.0, was announced at the Mobile World Congress back in February and today Three U.K. has confirmed that it will be offering the tablet in the very near future.

Google officially announced that some of its Google Now features will be making their way to its desktop client as well as its mobile search applications, back in May at its I/O event.

Over the next few days, Google will be rolling out travel information, reservations, calendar events and much, much more through Google Search.