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​Parent tips: How to use your phone to control your Nintendo Switch

Your Nintendo Switch has parental controls, enabling restrictions on everything from online access to certain ratings of games. Or, you can be cruel and set daily play timers…and even cut your kid off after a certain time. You can also do this with your phone, without even using the Switch. The Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app is available on Google …

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​How Android is helping keep a Pakistani language alive

You’ve likely never heard of Torwali, one of 27 highly-endangered Pakistani languages. But now its roughly 80,000 speakers can use their native language to text and make status updates on their Android phones. Zubair Torwali, who heads up an organization that works to promote northern Pakistan’s languages, explained in Google’s Asia blog Friday how a Google engineer helped his group …

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