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NBC’s new free streaming service Peacock launched earlier this month with over 20,000 hours of shows, movies, news, sports, curated channels, trending highlights and exclusive originals — about two-thirds of which you can watch totally free. The platform is home to popular shows like Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock; movies like The Bourne Identity and …

Update, Aug. 3: The Pixel 4A is here. Read CNET’s review. Original story follows. With Android 11 public beta available now and a final version potentially launching on Sept. 8, Google is ramping up its mobile updates. This means we’ll likely see followups to its midrange Pixel line, which is expected to be called the Pixel 4A and 4A XL, very soon. …

Philo, a skinny-bundle TV streaming service, is adding one of its most requested features: the ability to watch with Google‘s Chromecast streaming devices. But the company is doing it with a bit of a twist. In addition to simply casting video onto a TV, Philo‘s Chromecast support was developed as a technological precursor for features like social viewing and watch …

Lots of smartwatches try to look like the Apple Watch. But the Oppo Watch is so similar-looking from a casual distance, it’s uncanny. Oppo’s first smartwatch was unveiled earlier this year, but the addition of Google Wear OS is new, along with its eSIM support for LTE data. The Oppo Watch is available internationally starting today, but there’s no word …

Google Search is celebrating the 20th anniversary of popular song and dance combo, the “Cha Cha Slide,” with a hidden surprise.  When you search “Cha Cha Slide” on Google, a microphone appears next to the music video and prompts you to tap along to an interactive edition of the hit song. Google says the hidden feature is best experienced with …

For years, Twitter has offered both a website and mobile apps for iPhones and Android. But in 2017, it decided to marry the two approaches. The result is one of the highest-profile examples of what’s called a progressive web app, a technology that could rejuvenate the web and challenge the power of app stores. The web got its start as …

Update, Aug. 3: The Pixel 4A is here. Read CNET’s review. Original story follows. We think we know a fair amount about Google’s next flagship smart phone — presumably the Pixel 4A — but we didn’t have a firm sense of when the thing would actually arrive. That changed Thursday, thanks to a clever tease posted to the Made by Google Facebook …

Since 2018, Google has let you type doc.new, slide.new and sheet.new into your browser address bar to fire up a blank document for G Suite’s Google Docs, Google Slides and Google Sheets. Now there’s a new option using the same approach from Adobe: PDF.new. Adobe invented the Portable Document Format standard, which is now widely used for digital documents like …

Google announced Wednesday that it will, for the first time, offer free access to some features of its Google One cloud storage, including automatic phone backup for Android and iOS users – even if they don’t have a Google One account. A new storage manager tool will also be available to Google users on both mobile operating systems, as well …

Google is working to dramatically increase the power of web browsers. There’s one big problem: The plan could create new security problems that undermine the web. The web has had a remarkable track record of thwarting attacks. You can generally click a link and trust that your browser will protect you. By contrast, app stores require constant monitoring to keep …