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Today’s Deal is on the PNY Elite 64GB MicroSD card.  Today over at Amazon you can pick one of these Class 10, UHC-I cards for just $17.99.  The card is fast with an 85MB/sec throughput so it will have no problem keeping up with your Android phone or tablet for storing data and photos.  In fact, it’s fast enough to work in most digital SLRs or video recorders (like a GoPro) or your drone.

As I always remind readers, make sure you check your device to make sure it can handle a 64GB card.  For the vast majority of Android phones and tablets, Today’s Deal will work great but double-

check anyway.  There are a few phones still out there that only accept 32GB cards.  If you are intending this card for another device, be sure to check the specifications out for it too.  Chances are if your device cannot accept 64GB cards, it will still work, you just won’t be able to access all of the storage.

To get this great deal, head over to Amazon.  If you are an Amazon Prime customer, shipping on this card is free too.  If you need a bit more storage, the 128GB version of the same card is on sale today too.  It is $34.34.

It is pretty clear with the advent of “OK Google”, Google Assistant and the soon-to-be released Google Home that the Mountain View company wants you using your voice to get information or to give commands to your devices.  All of these voice-enabled apps & services improve all the time and the latest to see big improvements is Google Maps.  You’ve been able to use limited voice commands in Maps but yesterday Google made some back end changes that gave it a slew of new ones.  Now you can use commands like “Mute Voice Guidance” or “Navigate to Starbucks” all by voice without ever having to touch your phone while you are driving.  That’s safer for you, those in your car, and those around you.  Distracted driving leads to serious accidents and deaths each year and these new commands, hopefully, will cut that down some.

Google is preparing in a big way for next Tuesday’s big Google Event.  Not only has there been a huge amount of advertising around the event, the company has already setup their YouTube channel for the event.  That means that you will be able to watch the event live for yourself.  I personally love the fact that they are doing this and making all of their announcements known to everyone.  And, given that it is on YouTube, that means you can watch it on-the-go from the YouTube app on any device.

It has been a busy day for the Google Cloud and G Suite team at Google.  They have just announced that new versions of the Android apps for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides have been released to the Play Store.  In those updated apps, you can now retrieve a trashed file within the app itself.  To this point, if you delete a file on purpose or accident and needed to retrieve it, you had to go to the Trash folder in the web-based version of the app or Google Drive on the web.  Now you can bypass that requirement and do it all from the apps on your phone or tablet.