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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 …

First things first: Yesterday’s free-logo deal? Back in business. Apologies to those of you who went through the process of creating a logo and then discovered the code didn’t work. It does now. (And, for the record, it did initially, because I tested it!) Today I’ve got one of the weirder — and better — bundles I can recall. For …

Chrome extensions are great for customizing the web browser, but Google is cracking down to try to keep them from seizing more control than you want to give them. On Monday, the company announced a host of actions to keep extensions in hand: Google will let you restrict extensions that seek to modify web pages so they only work on …

Only a week out from Google’s Oct. 9 event, presumably for the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones, Google Japan posted a teaser video with 30 seconds of people squeezing things — followed by a few seconds of a hand squeezing the outline of a phone.  That seems to indicate the new phones will retain the Active Edge …

There’s more information on our phones than in our homes, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, and we may need government regulations to protect our privacy. Cook, long a vocal proponent of user privacy, noted that our phones know about our relationships, what we look at online and what photos we take. All of that could be at risk if the …

Firefox Focus, Mozilla’s lightweight mobile browser, became a little more like an ordinary browser and a lot more like regular Firefox on Tuesday. Focus is a stripped-down browser initially designed for spur-of-the moment web interactions, blocking ad trackers and keeping no browsing history so you get more privacy. When it first arrived on Android, it used the built-in Google software …

Tired of emailing yourself photos? Sick of being interrupted by text messages? Microsoft is making it easier to use your Windows PC to access the photos and messages on your Android phone.   The company’s new Your Phone app, included in the upcoming Windows 10 October 2018 update, displays recent photos and texts from your phone — which you can drag, …

Google Maps is rolling out a commute feature for its Android and iOS apps with extra information to help with your trip to and from work. The commute section will suggest alternative routes if there are problems. Google Maps The new section will show details for each leg of your journey, including disruptions to traffic and to bus or train …

Two years ago, Apple targeted the left side of kids’ brains with Everyone Can Code. Now it’s turned its attention to the right side with its new Everyone Can Create program that launches Monday. With Everyone Can Code in 2016, Apple called out coding as an “essential skill.” It started delivering learning guides and tools to help students from kindergarten to college …

I’ve been watching Android for 10 years, from the moment it first blinked to life on the T-Mobile G1 phone. It grew up with support for on-screen controls and reached its teenage years with the Google Assistant. That’s an impressive feat for a mobile platform that already started far behind BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Apple’s then year-old iOS. Android survived where …