Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Tech

Google Pixel Tag is only available in 8 countries, and excludes Europe

With Google’s Pixel Tag now offiically available, Google has also confirmed where the Android Find Hub tracker will be on sale, and it’s a limited list. more…

Google Pixel Tag is only available in 8 countries, and excludes Europe

Google's Pixel Tag, an Android Find Hub tracker, is currently only available in eight countries at launch, according to the company. This list of supported countries is notably limited compared to the two dozen countries where Pixel 11 phones and the Pixel Watch 5 are sold. The countries where Pixel Tag will be sold at launch include: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and New Zealand.

However, it's unclear whether the tracker will function in countries not officially supported, as Google has not provided a definitive answer on that matter. Nonetheless, it is likely that the device will at least work in such regions, considering travel is a primary use case for trackers like this. Buyers in unsupported countries may face limitations, as they might not be able to purchase the Pixel Tag from authorized retailers or utilize Google's warranty if they obtained the device elsewhere.

Currently, Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom (which is part of Europe but not the European Union), is notably absent from the list of supported countries.

Written by urgent.news from 9to5Google's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

This story

This is one outlet's version. Read the fullest account.

Read the original at 9to5google.com →

More in Tech

Found a cool repo on GitHub? Swap "hub" for "manual" and get it running

You find a great project on GitHub. A self-hosted photo library, a local AI model runner, a tool everyone recommends. Then the README says "just run docker compose up ", and you're left wondering…

  • Swap "hub" for "manual" in GitHub links to access setup manual.
  • Manual generated from repository files for specific system compatibility.
  • GitManual AI Agent provides troubleshooting and error explanations.

I Broke My Own Firestore Rules in Production Once. Now the Emulator Catches It First.

The deploy that taught me the lesson I changed one line in my Firestore security rules. It looked safe — I was tightening a read rule on a collection so only the owning tenant could read its…

  • Broke Firestore rules in production, causing silent failure for legitimate user.
  • Rules fail silently, making issues hard to detect until user reports.
  • Use Firebase Emulator Suite in CI to test rules and prevent shipping failures.

Solana Transaction Expired: Blockhash Mechanics Explained

You click confirm. The wallet shows pending. Sixty seconds later: "transaction expired," "blockhash not found," or "block height exceeded." No swap, possibly no fee, definitely no clear explanation…

  • Transactions have a 150-block deadline, roughly one to one-and-a-half minutes.
  • Expired transactions result in no state changes on the blockchain.
  • Check transaction status on a block explorer before retrying.

Build Buddy, Day 5: my vector search's best match was a wrong answer

Day 5 of MLH Global Hack Week: Builders Week. All week, Build Buddy has been collecting explanations from AI models about C# compiler errors. Some of them are right. Some are confidently wrong.

  • Build Buddy gathered AI model explanations for C# compiler errors
  • Vector search provided varied results, with wrong answer as best match
  • Trusted sources and relevance threshold needed for accurate retrieval

More from Wednesday 11 November →