Get a new Pixel ($695 at Amazon) phone for the holidays? Sweet! Even if it’s an older model, and not a Pixel 3 ($250 at Amazon) or Pixel 3 XL ($400 at Walmart), you still have a fully capable phone that over time will gain most of the same software features as the latest Pixel …
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Google seems to be feeling that holiday giving spirit. On Wednesday the company announced that it’s adding a way to donate to charity through the Google Play Store. All you have to do is visit play.google.com/donate on your Android device. From there you’ll be able to see a list of participating nonprofits, including: American Red Cross Charity: Water Doctors Without Borders USA …
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It won’t arrive in time for Black Friday, but the first Pixel Slate tablets will soon land with customers. After beginning to accept preorders last week, Google now shows estimated shipping times of two to four weeks, depending on which model you buy. Announced at Google’s October event, the Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Google …
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Google now includes a pair of USB-C earbuds in the box with the Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL. The earbuds look a lot like the company’s wireless Pixel Buds and work much in the same way. Instead of touch interaction on the earbud itself, there’s an in-line remote, with volume controls and a means to summon Google Assistant. But …
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Google has made its Voice Access app available globally after two years in beta. The app lets you move around or between screens and open apps through spoken commands. “Voice Access can be useful for people who have difficulty using a touchscreen due to paralysis, tremor, temporary injury, or other reasons,” Google writes in the app’s Play Store listing. The …
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Google wants to make web addresses more readable, but apparently not everyone is happy with how it tried doing so. In the latest version of Google’s Chrome browser, released earlier this month, Google hid the HTTP or HTTPS prefix and stripped out website domain qualifiers like the initial “www” or “m,” which indicates a website geared for mobile devices. But Google …
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Google wants to fix one of the web’s oldest and deepest technologies: the uniform resource locator, or URL, used to give every website a unique address. “People have a really hard time understanding URLs,” Adrienne Porter Felt, an engineering manager on Chrome’s security team, said in a Wired interview published in conjunction with Chrome’s 10th anniversary on Tuesday. “We want to …
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Managing storage on a phone or tablet is one of the more annoying tasks we have to commonly deal with. Users are faced with questions of deciding which apps to delete, how much room it will save, and hunting down files that just aren’t needed. Google’s Files Go app was recently released, and its entire purpose is to help you …
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Now playing: Watch this: 6 cool things you can do with Bixby Voice 1:41 The clickable button on the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus has finally fulfilled its purpose. Located just under the volume rocker on the S8’s left side, the Bixby button will now launch brand new voice software that phone owners have been waiting months for. “It’s not …
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