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How to clear your cache on an iPhone If you, like me, open a new tab on the Safari app of your iPhone every time you have a dumb question to Google search, you probably have a million tabs open right now. You definitely don't want someone to come across your dumbest questions, so yes, you should close your tabs. For good measure....

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This Week In Techdirt History: June 13th - 19th Five Years Ago This week in 2016, we were learning more about the scope of Peter Thiel's attack on Gawker (and the further exploits of his laywer...) while Gawker was exploring a questionable legal counterattack. The issues with corporate sovereignty in trade agreements were getting more main....

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Why the hell are Google's Nest cameras so expensive? Companies like Wyze changed the game, and Google didn't change with it By all appearances, I'm Google's perfect smart home customer. I'm already deeply invested in the Assistant ecosystem, I've got tons of smart displays and speakers, and as the new owner of a house, I'm constantly in the ma....

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Google messages now lets you adjust the font size using pinch to zoom Because you shouldn't struggle to decipher your texts Google is constantly improving its text messaging app with new features. It recently got a bunch of enhancements, such as the ability to automatically declutter your inbox and send encrypted RCS messages. These are significant improvement....

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What Google's AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. In a paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature last week, scientists at Google Brain introduced a deep reinforcement learning technique for f....

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Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro: Everything we know so far Google Pixel 6 is hot in the rumor mill with multiple leaks presenting a deeper peek into the upcoming Google smartphone. It is also speculated that the Pixel 6 will be accompanied by the bigger Pixel 6 Pro phone. It is highly likely, the Pixel Fold and even an XL model may debut alongside the Pixel....

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Google Assistant debuts new Black history feature for Juneteenth In honor of Juneteenth, Google Assistant has an important new feature. On Saturday morning, Google unveiled the addition of a Black history function, available to users of any Assistant-enabled smart speaker, smart display, or phone. Just ask "Hey Google, what happened today in Black history?" an....

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Google Doodle commemorates Juneteenth with illustrations of Black joy Google is spotlighting Juneteenth in its latest Google Doodle. Detroit-based artist Rachelle Baker created the art to honor the true end of slavery in the U.S. on June 19, 1865. On Thursday, Juneteenth became a federal holiday. Baker's illustration symbolizes Juneteenth through images ....

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Google swears this is your very, very, (very) last chance to add a Nest Detect to your system Expand your Next Secure while you still can Update Final stock refresh What's the only thing Google likes more than introducing new products and services? You, in the back? Yes, that's right: killing them off. Last fall, we spott....

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Text-recognition superpowers are coming soon to the Chrome OS scan app You'll also be able to create multiple pages in a scan It's been over a year since the pandemic brought students and employees across the globe home to work online. The demand for flatbed scanners and printers have soared, and thanks to Chrome OS 89, its new scanner app makes digitizing your....

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Update Chrome right now to patch another dangerous zero-day exploit At some point in the future, we’ll go a week without having to warn you about another zero-day exploit, but this is not that week. Google rolled out an update for the Chrome browser on desktop this Thursday that features four security fixes, including one for an exploit discovered earlier this....

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Pinned conversations are starting to arrive in Google Messages Keep your friends and family above all those two-factor authentication codes Google has spent the last decade trying to get messaging right, but it seems its dedication to RCS is finally paying off. Its Messages app has gotten really good lately, picking up end-to-end encryption and starred messa....

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Google Maps and your business: Time to check it, now, today It’s time to take a peek at how you and your business appear on Google Maps – and the rest of the internet. This isn’t just about having your own web page, and it’s not about updating your “under construction” Facebook group. It’s about seeing your business ....

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Here's why Google Photos uploads for some aren't counting against account storage Some Photos users are luckier than others Google's new storage policy came into effect on June 1 and dropped the free unlimited backup plan for Google Photos. However, some users — including a couple of us at AP — have managed to upload several GBs of media without it occupying even a....

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No, 'Big Tech' Should Not Give 'Big Telecom' Billions Of Dollars For No Reason A few weeks back we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that "big tech" companies get a "free ride" on telecom networks, and, as a result, should throw billions of dollars at "big telecom" for no real reason. ....

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Battling bias, Google is changing how skin color is classified Google is changing how it classifies skin color, quietly working on a new system which the search giant hopes will avoid embarrassing accusations of bias in future tech. The ways in which machine learning and artificial intelligence, along with wearables and other devices, deal with different skin c....

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Google Pixel 6 leak confirms weird new direction The Google Pixel 6 represents a whole new direction for the industrial design of the Google Pixel line. It would appear that smartphone that represents the most essential bits of the Android experience from Google does not need to be basic – it does not need to be a clean, standard slate on wh....

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Letting Newspapers Band Together To Demand Payments From Internet Companies Is Bad For The Internet And Bad For Journalism In the wake of Australia getting its ridiculous, anti-open internet link tax passed into law, the push to create similar such laws everywhere else has gone into overdrive. In the US, the main driver of this effort (which has been pushed by legacy newspaper giants) has been an antitrust exemption t....

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Google makes Hand Raise in Meet more visible, but you'll probably still get ignored You've all been there: The Google Meet meeting is about to end, and you've got something important to ask, but the meeting host just isn't noticing your pleas. "Alright folks, if there's nothing else, see you next time," they chirp, leaving your question unanswered. Last year, Google made it ....

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Google seems to be working on an alternative to Apple's Find My network Your lost phone could soon receive help from 3 billion Android devices One of the most salient features of an Apple AirTag is how it utilizes the roughly one billion iPhones out there — via the Find My network — to ping its location even when it's not in Bluetooth range. Wouldn'....

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Google really wants you to use virtual desktops on your Chromebook It plans on showing your virtual desktops all the time Most of us probably feel overwhelmed by the endless slew of browser tabs and and all the software windows cluttering up our PCs. Thanks to virtual desktops for Chromebooks, managing your tasks is way easier: you can create a workspace for ea....

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Google Meet is making it difficult to ignore raised hands Google's here to save you from embarrassment The pandemic has put a lot of us in front of screens, but interacting in online meetings is not always an intuitive experience. Although a minor change, Google is doing its bit to make things better by improving the hand raise feature in Meet. ....

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New Pixel 6 leak hints at an exciting camera upgrade If all goes according to plan, Google should unveil the Pixel 6 in late September o early October, which is the usual launch window for Google's Pixel flagships. But we won't have to wait until then to know everything there is to know about the handset. Google's phones are usually the worst-kept sec....

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After Tesla, AMD Scores Customer In Google: What You Need To Know Advanced Micro Devices, Inc (NASDAQ: AMD) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) subsidiary Google announced the launch of T2D on Thu read more....

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Wear OS 3.0 upgrade hopes dashed yet again by uncertainty Google has taken users of its smartwatch platform on an adventure these past few weeks. It dangled the promise of what could be the biggest update to Wear OS yet but then opted to remain mum on any update plans until later this year. Smartwatch makers didn’t help matters by being just as ambig....

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In Australia's increasingly polarized media landscape, SMH fights to stay in the middle The Australian news media landscape has become increasingly polarized, with News Corporation on one side and a growing group on the other. The Drum finds out how The Sydney Morning Herald is trying to stay in the middle. In recent times, major news publishers in Australia have made million-dolla....

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Google Meet makes it easier to figure out who has their hands raised Google has announced a bunch of new updates for Google Meet’s Hand Raise feature, which is the effect that appears when one of the people on the video chat wants someone’s attention. Google says the changes are designed to make it easier for participants to see when someone raises their ....

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Google's dedicated Assistant app hits 500 million installs on the Play Store It's still just a shortcut, but a very popular one If you've ever had to send a text while driving or set a timer while cooking, you know how helpful Google Assistant can be. It's as essential a tool as anything else you'll find on your phone, and since it's built right into the standard Goo....

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Google Photos wants to highlight your treks into the great outdoors All of the good times with family, friends, and the adventures you've had Since late last year, Google Photos has been using a streamlined, but powerful algorithm to generate bunches of themed slideshows from users' libraries of photos and videos — including some back-of-the-catalog de....

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An essential tool for students and educators is coming to Chromebooks — here's how to try it early Projector gains even more useful presentation features It's been many months since we covered Projector for Chromebooks — an upcoming presentation tool for students and educators. Google has since been working behind the scenes to finish up this new feature for Chromebooks, and thanks to a ....

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Everything is Workspace now, even your free Gmail account Even you. Look in the mirror. You're Workspace now. It seems like Google is kind of bullish on its "Workspace" label lately. Originally a replacement for G-Suite, as in the paid upgrade to standard Google services for companies and corporations, the Workspace label is now apparently being ap....

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Google might replace the At A Glance widget with something better in Android 12 Live Space could be your new source for contextual information Android 12 is chock full of changes big and small, from a major visual overhaul with Material You to new privacy tools to help keep user data safe. As Google continues to push its phone lineup forward, some of those changes are exclus....

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Nvidia Shield TV is getting a Google TV-like facelift With an emphasis on a̶d̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶s̶ content discovery Shield TV devices are widely regarded as some of the best Android TV boxes money can buy. Nvidia's historically been great about software support, too, providing updates for years. A new....

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Hugh Grant Hits Back at Claims He Married Anna Eberstein for This Reason Hugh Grant is setting the record straight. The 60-year-old Undoing actor took to Twitter on Thursday (June 17) after he noticed some misinformation on Google about why he married his wife, Anna Eberstein. Click inside to see the tweet… Hugh tweeted a photo of the Google results for his wife....

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How to edit Google Docs offline on your computer or smartphone Using Google Docs offline is helpful if you don't have a steady internet connection or want to edit files without Wi-Fi.....

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New navigation tab shows up for more Google Photos users It's a central hub for all the photos you've shared, or others have shared with you Google has been pushing a lot more functionality into Photos as of late, even after it sunset its most popular feature by far. Check your app today: if the odds are in your favor, you might see a new en....

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Australian Official Admits That Of Course Murdoch Came Up With Link Tax, But Insists The Bill Is Not A Favor To News Corp. Earlier this year, we wrote a lot about the ridiculous anti-open internet Australian link tax that is now being pushed elsewhere around the globe. Anyone paying attention to the details knew that it was extreme crony capitalism at work, with the government forcing one set of massive companies (nam....

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How to use Google's Nearby Share feature to send files wirelessly between Android devices and Chromebooks Google's Nearby Share feature lets you send files, photos, links, and more wirelessly between Android phones or tablets and Chromebooks.....

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Future of Media: GB News ad accidents, influencing backlash, meet Simon Bevan I hope you've been enjoying our Creative Transformation Festival and are looking forward to our Mobile deep-dive next week. GB News Every week I write about the misplacement of an ad somewhere out there on that digital internet thing. This week took a slight turn. The brand safety crisis occu....

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Revamped Wear OS could technically come to your watch, says Qualcomm Technically you could wake up a billionaire tomorrow. Technically. When Fossil confirmed that it wouldn't update its existing smartwatches to the all-new Wear OS, speculation was rife that this could possibly be due to hardware limitations. It turns out that this might not be true, as Qualco....

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The Pixel Buds A-Series are now available for sale They're just $99 and come in White and Olive colors We've been expecting the Pixel Buds-A Series for a while. We've been hearing about them since they surfaced in FCC listings in March. Google has also been teasing us about them, first in April, by featuring them in a promotional email and then b....

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The Pixel 5 was the perfect 2020 phone, but I'm looking forward to the Pixel 6 2021 calls for a little something extra Whether through a stroke of luck or an ingeniously-timed move, the Google Pixel 5 was a smartphone perfectly adapted to the era it was released in. After a series of Pixel flagships, the regressive mid-ranger seemed like a disappointment on paper, but it pr....

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A security bug in Google's Android app put users' data at risk Until recently, Google’s namesake Android app, which more than five billion installs to date, had a vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to quietly steal personal data from a victim’s device. Sergey Toshin, founder of mobile app security startup Oversecured, said in a blog p....

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The Philips Hue app has gone dark on the Play Store Good luck finding an alternate download Earlier this morning, it appears that the official Philips Hue app listing was taken down from the Google Play Store. At the time of writing, the URL for the app is returning a "not found" message from Google's servers. Exactly what's happened is not clear,....

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Why AMD's Stock Is Trading Higher Today Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) shares are trading higher after the company, and Google Cloud, announced T2D, the first instance in the new family of Tau Virtual Machines powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors. read more....

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After years of teasing, RuneScape is finally available on Android But it's in rough shape Since April, we've known that the popular MMORPG RuneScape would arrive on Android this summer, and Jagex even announced at the beginning of this month that the game would arrive on June 17th. Well, the developer has stayed true to its word, and so RuneScape is f....

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You could soon learn languages while searching on Google YouTube and Assistant could soon follow The last thing any of us expected at Google I/O was an AI demo involving a conversation with a sentient paper plane, but Google being Google delivered the unexpected. The demo showcased Google's brand-new LaMDA conversational AI which could now reporte....

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Recent Antitrust Push Is Weirdly Narrow, Pretends Telecom And Banking Don't Exist As you've probably noticed, there's a big new "antitrust" push afoot in DC. As you may have also noticed, many of these proposals don't actually do a whole lot to reform US antitrust or monopoly problems in any broad way. Scholars for decades have warned that US antitrust enforcement has become fe....

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10 things in tech: Zuck's no longer a top CEO, Google salaries, Apple health clinics Zuckerberg fell from Glassdoor's top CEOs list, we reveal Google salaries, and Apple considered health clinics: 10 things in tech you need to know.....

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Digital creative is set to be the new data rush Addressable, personal, dynamic, data-driven – call it what you will, there is no mistaking the sea change in strategic positioning within medialand towards an engagement model driven by a creative-first approach. The recent launch of MediaCom Creative Systems, 'to unite its creative and media tea....

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How adopting AI helped families find the right care home during the Covid crisis Care homes hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons in 2020 as the sector struggled to cope with the outbreak of Covid-19. Despite, or perhaps because, of this demand for high-end care, homes able to provide first-class accommodation and facilities remained abundant. With top-end locations chargi....

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