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Google's 2020 Halloween treats: AR ghosts, spooky ringtones, magic cats Google is one of the companies offering some fun digital treats for Halloween this year, ones that you can enjoy using your phone and, for Nest owners, your smart doorbell. The content includes new AR experiences involving ghosts and skeletons, as well as special spooky doorbell ringtones for Hallow....

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This artist wants you to Google 'the next American President' We may not know who will become the next American President until Election Day, but Google "the next American President" and you'll find the search engine already has an unexpected idea.....

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Fox News viewers write about 'BLM' the same way CNN viewers write about 'KKK' It's no secret that U.S. politics has become highly polarized.Even so, there are probably few living Americans who ever witnessed anything that quite compares with this fall's first presidential debate.Was it really the case that the nation could do no better than a verbal food fight, with two candi....

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Google Play Music we'll miss you, moving on is just an option Google Play Music came into existence in May 2011, and now after nine years of audio goodness, the service is finally laid to rest. Every online presence of the music service has been phased out by Google in the last few weeks – joining the fate of Google+, Reader and other lesser-known products b....

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What it's like to get locked out of Google indefinitely "I'm angry at myself for not having even thought of the possibility I could lose my Google account with everything in it."....

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Facebook revenue soars despite July ad boycott Facebook has recorded record third-quarter revenue on the back of strong digital ad-spending despite contending with an advertiser boycott and the worst ravages of the coronavirus. The North Face, Verizon, Unilever and others pulled advertising from Facebook in July after civil rights groups launch....

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Google ad sales bounce back from Covid-19 dip Google bounces back Google parent Alphabet recorded third-quarter net income of $11.25bn, far ahead of the $7.06bn income recorded just a year ago as Silicon Valley's FANG quartet find their teeth again. Revenues saw a commensurate rise, jumping to $38.01bn from $33.01bn over the same period....

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How to delete a Google Classroom course, or archive it to keep its data and grades To delete a Google Classroom class, you'll need to be the head teacher of the course, not just an instructor.....

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Google's lack of foresight and strategy is stifling Pixel sales in India Poor planning is to blame, rather than high prices When Google announced that its new budget champ, the Pixel 4a, would cost ₹30,000 — a whole 25% less than the Pixel 3a — it felt like Google has finally learned to hit the right note for India. The company nearly checked all the....

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Google Maps: Street View catches giant hiding in a forest in the snow - is it real? GOOGLE MAPS has been used recently by users to try and find the most bizarre images they can find. This image spotted online could be the most strange sighting yet but is it real?....

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Black Friday came early for this stunning Sony 65″ 4K TV – just $600 at Amazon One of the most popular Sony smart TVs just dropped to a new all-time low price thanks to an early Black Friday 2020 deal at Amazon. The Sony X750H 65-inch 4K Ultra HD LED TV is an absolute steal for $1,000, but right now it's on sale for just $599.99. This TV is a new-for-2020 model with a specta....

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Google Meet on web finally gets custom virtual background support Google Meet, the company’s video chatting software for quickly launching remote meetings or group calls, has finally received support for virtual backgrounds…if you’re using a web browser, at least. Google Meet users on mobile will need to wait a bit longer to get the same support,....

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Wow-ify your Wi-Fi with a refurbished Nest Wifi router and point system for $230 ($39 off) Refurbished by Google with a 90-day warranty included When your internet is working properly, you shouldn't have to think about it. That's what Google's goal was when it released its Nest wifi system last year. We really liked it, and now DailySteals is offering a Nest router and an additional po....

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Changing Section 230 Won't Fix Politicians' Issues With Section 230 In the week leading up to a potentially extremely consequential election, Congress is once again setting its sights on its favorite whipping boy, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 clarifies that users are responsible for the content they post online, not the websites ....

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Google Stadia now lets you stream over mobile data, but why would you want to? Stadia had a fairly big October, but one addition you may have missed was the arrival of game streaming over mobile data. Specifically, Google upgraded mobile data streaming from an experimental feature to a fully supported one, thereby allowing users to stream games over 4G and 5G, assuming they ha....

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The major tech companies: how they've approached healthcare in 2020 Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook healthcare initiativesThe major tech companies have all been trying to get into the healthcare space for the last few years, whether that was with Amazon making acquisitions in the space, including Pillpack and Health Navigator, or Google buying Fitbit, or both App....

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Daimler Trucks' self-driving haulage finds a key part of its autonomous vision Daimler Trucks just gone done inking a collaboration with Waymo, and now it’s picking out cutting edge sensors for its self-driving haulage as the pieces slot into place for autonomy. The German automaker announced earlier this week that it would be working with Google spin-off Waymo on an aut....

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OnePlus 7T series gets new OxygenOS Open Beta with October security patch It's almost November OnePlus has become slower and slower at shipping security updates in a timely manner, ranking far behind devices from Samsung, Google, and other companies in our security update tracker. The OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro took over a month to receive the September security update....

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The top U.S. Google searches before Election Day are... all about the election With this election cycle finally coming to an end next week (in theory) on Tuesday, Nov. 3, Americans have been busy looking up questions related to last-minute political and voting news. For the period between Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, these were some of the top searches we asked Google. 1....

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Bixby gets a new Google Assistant-inspired look (APK Download) Plus performance improvements Bixby has never been the most popular voice assistant, but that hasn't stopped Samsung from finding ways to make us use it. From the dedicated Bixby button, to mapping it to the power key itself, Samsung would clearly like this to be a success. Its latest effort to ....

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Samsung's Galaxy Apps redesign is focused on Fortnite and not much else Samsung is using Epic's battle with Google to its advantage Samsung has operated its own app store for years, the Galaxy Store, seemingly as a backup ecosystem in case the company's relationship with Google ever soured. There aren't many reasons to use the Galaxy Store over the Play Store, b....

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Troubleshooting connection issues on Google Fi is about to get easier Google Fi presents a pretty good value, offering a decent price for cell service, and good promos to boot. And as a multi-network MVNO, you get service through several different carriers depending on where you are, which can mean a better overall signal than simply being locked to a single carrier....

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Pixel 5 and 4a 5G detailed for AT&T release Today we’re looking at what it’ll meant to purchase a Google Pixel 5 or Google Pixel 4a 5G from AT&T. Both devices were revealed to be released in November of 2020, at which point they’ll both have 5G connectivity – or 5G so far as AT&T provides it. The Google Pixel....

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Google Meet finally allowing people to set up custom backgrounds But only on Chrome for the desktop at this point Google Meet has finally caught up to Zoom in the only important way that matters: custom backgrounds. Now, instead of just being able to cut down on background noise and/or blurring out your background, you can now replace it entirely with the imag....

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Nixon Scandal Resulted In A Law To Prevent The Politicization Of Antitrust Cases; Meanwhile Trump Uses His Politicized Antitrust Effort In Campaign Ad Everyone knows about President Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, but you might now know as much about another huge scandal that preceded that one -- involving Nixon meddling, for political purposes, in an antitrust case by his Justice Department against a large "tech" company/conglomerate a....

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You can now buy the new, more affordable Nest Thermostat, available now at Google Store, Best Buy, Home Depot, and more Just in time for the cold weather Google's completely redesigned Nest Thermostat is now generally available for purchase at retailers, escaping pre-order limbo at the Google Store as sales open at other storefronts. It's minimal, attractive, and pretty cheap at just $130, making it pretty low-ris....

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Google confirms the Nest Secure has been discontinued, additional sensors will be available in December It was released in 2017 and never received a direct successor Update More sensors coming Google released the Nest Secure in 2017 as a simple security system with motion sensors and a keypad, but it never received an upgrade, even....

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Independent Ad-Tech Firm Captify Nabs Ex-Comcast Exec as CRO Key Insight Former Comcast executive Brendan Condon is joining Captify, the second largest independent holder of search data behind Google, to drive company growth worldwide. Condon's role will be primarily concerned with the TV, CTV and video programmatic landscape to target programmatic buyers and....

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How to add students to your Google Classroom from any device in 3 different ways You can add students to a Google Classroom by sending an email or by sharing an invite link or class code.....

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Google Messages conversation categories are about to roll out It sorts messages into 5 specific categories that make it quicker to find what you're looking for Latest update As the default messaging app on many Android devices, Google Messages is an important tool for staying in touch....

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Free Market Advocate Switches Sides, Calls For Direct Government Interference In Online Moderation Decisions There's something in the air. Call it TDS. Trump Derangement Syndrome. To acolytes of Trump, this means everyone opposed to Trump will find some reason to blame anything on him. But the derangement affects the acolytes more than it affects his opponents. Former free speech warriors have start....

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YouTube Gets CMOs and Creators to Talk Shop YouTube kicked off a new video series Friday, CMO x Creator Conversations, which features one-on-one conversations between chief marketing officers/chief business officers and creators on the Google-owned video site. The aim is to enable participants to tap into each other's unique insights and skil....

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Google parent Alphabet surges 8% after massive 3rd quarter earnings beat driven by recovery in advertising spend The earnings beat was driven by a strong recovery in online advertising spend at Google's Search and Youtube properties.....

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The brand new Pixel 5 is about to get a great Black Friday price cut Best Buy has planned two Pixel 5 deals for Black Friday that cut the phone's original price tag by up to $200. The brand new Pixel 5 sells for $699 unlocked, an affordable but still high price tag for a mid-range Android phone. Best Buy's deal offers at least $50 in instant savings for an ....

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Google is getting in the mood for a spooky Halloween Doing its part to help celebrate a socially distant holiday Halloween is right around the corner, and even if many of us won't celebrate the festivities the way we usually do, Google is trying to do its part to make the best of the situation with features that will help you have a socially distan....

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Google's new AI automatically turns webpages into videos If you have a product webpage, you'd wish that you could create a handy video to show to clients with all the info. However, you might not have the budget to hire someone to make it. To solve that, Google's AI team is working on a future solution that automatically converts webpages into videos. Go....

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Google launches VPN service for Google One users to browse privately One of my favorite things about being a Google Fi subscriber is the service's built-in VPN service; it's a neat added layer of security, especially when connected to public Wi-Fi. I've also wondered why Google hasn't made this service available more widely — but no more. Google today announced it'....

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Indian Embassy in Kuwait begins registration for repatriation of expats Kuwait City: The Indian Embassy in Kuwait has started registration for repatriation of Indian nationals. The embassy has opened the registration to collect the accurate details of the people who wish to return to India. Hence, Indians in Kuwait who wish to fly back home are requested to register at....

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Google One adds a VPN service to higher subscription tiers Google has a ton of apps and services, some of them not free, many of them relatively unknown. One recent service that checks those two boxes is Google One, which has practically replaced its old Google Drive and Photos paid subscriptions. Separating its cloud storage offering into a product of its ....

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Google Maps: Street View catches ghostly shoes hovering on pavement in Times Square GOOGLE MAPS has been used by Street View users more recently to spot the strangest sights they can find. Could this be the Street View lens' spookiest sight yet in the middle of New York city?....

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YouTube guided meditation video views skyrocket during pandemic We're all trying to cope with this year. During Google parent company Alphabet's earnings call Thursday, CEO Sundar Pichai noted that YouTube views for guided meditation videos went up 40 percent on the streaming platform since mid-March. We all know what triggered that. As social distancing....

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Get the Lenovo Smart Display 7 for just $60 ($40 off) OK Google, show me cat photos Lenovo was the first company to release a smart display powered by Google Assistant, even before Google itself came out with the Home Hub (later renamed to the Nest Hub). Lenovo followed it up with a new 7-inch model in 2019, which you can now buy for $40 off the ori....

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You can now set your Google Chat status to 'away' from Gmail Google Chat may not be popular among general consumers, but it does have more use in enterprise settings, especially since G Suite admins picked up the ability to migrate to it from Hangouts earlier this year. It's a small quality of live improvement, but for teams using Google Chat, you can now s....

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Google's stock is up 11% today as earnings beat expectations It's a big day for Google, and not just because the Pixel 5 is now available and the Pixel 4a 5G is up for pre-order. In fact, today's success probably has nothing to do with Pixels at all. Google parent company Alphabet just reported its third-quarter financial results, and numbers are looki....

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Alphabet's Q3 Revenues Top $46 Billion as It Faces Mounting Regulatory Headwinds After an earnings blip in the previous quarter and the looming travails of an antitrust probe, Google-parent Alphabet posted its Q3 revenues of $46.2 billion today. It indicated a business that has benefitted handsomely from global lockdown orders since the beginning of the pandemic. The figures amo....

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Google Cloud's revenue growth picked back up slightly in Q3, and it's continuing to help drive Google's strength overall Google's revenue numbers are out, and they show that Google Cloud's growth is accelerating as it takes on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft.....

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Alphabet sales growth back as Google key for advertisers Google parent Alphabet Inc returned to sales growth in the third quarter as businesses initially hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic resumed advertising with the internet's biggest supplier of ads.....

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Google tests a helpful app comparison feature on Google Play Google is testing a new feature that could improve discovery for Android apps on Google Play. The company confirmed it’s experimenting with a “Compare Apps” option that would allow Google Play users to quickly and more easily understand the slight differences between otherwise simi....

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Tech Q3 Earnings: Facebook, Google, Amazon Post Strong Revenue and Profit Gains Big tech companies continue to prosper in the time of COVID. Facebook, Alphabet (Google’s parent) and Amazon each reported solid growth for the third quarter of 2020 — results that reflect how people worldwide have upped their usage of internet giants’ services during the pandemic. The....

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GE smart LED light bulbs start at just $7.50 in Amazon's big one-day sale Amazon's early holiday deals are epic, including Black Friday prices on 36 different Amazon devices and bundles today. You can also save on everything from TVs and Instant Pots to headphones and laptops in Amazon's big Holiday Dash deals hub. In addition to all those great sales, Amazon is blowing....

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Android TV gets a Data Saver mode when connected to mobile hotspots (APK Download) Seems to only be available in India for now Google is rolling out a set of new data-friendly features on Android TV to help users monitor and reduce their TV's bandwidth usage when connected to a hotspot instead of Wi-Fi. The features are coming to Xiaomi, TCL, and MarQ TVs in India in the next f....

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