Android Marshmallow’s brand new statue! Photo: Nicolás Fischman

Android M is still a few months away from making its public debut, but Google today confirmed its sweet-based name with a brand new statue outside its Mountain View headquarters.

Forget the leaderboards and enjoy Fallout Shelter anyway! Photo: Bethesda

Fallout Shelter, the addictive vault-building game from Bethesda, finally arrived on Android on Thursday — and hackers have ruined its online leaderboards already.

If you were progressing well and looking to reach the top, you can think again.

Why didn’t they just…Google it?
Photo: Alphabet/Google

When Google reorganized itself into a subsidiary of a new over-arching company, Alphabet, you’d think that they’d have checked to see if anyone else was doing a similar business with the name.

In fact, BMW also does business as Alphabet, and they own the trademark and the .com URL to boot.

BMW makes cars, and Google is working on a self-driving car. That seems like possible grounds for a trademark infringement suit, right?

Get ready for the Nextbit phone. Photo: Nextbit

Nextbit, a startup smartphone maker led by Android veterans and a former HTC design chief, today confirmed that it will launch its “friggin’ awesome” debut device on September 1. The device will offer supercharged Android software that only gets better with age.

Vulkan is coming to Android. Photo: Samsung

Apple Metal, introduced at last year’s WWDC, gives developers low-level access to the GPU to maximize the graphics and performance potential of their games. Now Android gamers are going to get a taste of that, too.

No, Apple isn’t bringing Metal to Android — but Google is adopting an alternative called Vulkan.