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If you don’t use Chrome and you feel YouTube loads slower than it used to or should, you’re not crazy. Your internet connection (probably) isn’t the problem. And neither is your browser. Instead, the culprit is YouTube itself. Last year, Google rolled out a brand-new design for YouTube. This redesign not only brought a dark mode but was …

A Mozilla engineer says Google’s redesign has made YouTube slower on Firefox and Edge. Chris Peterson, the software community’s technical program manager, tweeted on Tuesday that the video sharing site loads at a fifth of the speed on non-Chrome browsers due to its architecture, as first reported by Sofpedia. YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than …

I live in San Francisco, which is one of the most beautiful cities in the world but also one of the most expensive. For that reason, I’m always on the lookout for ways to save money. Fortunately, Motorola has my back with a slew of budget and ultra-budget phones that don’t skimp out on features. In the US, there are …

A future Samsung Galaxy phone (although likely not this Galaxy phone) could have a flexible screen that’s unbreakable, delivering the first truly foldable handset. The Korean electronics giant said Wednesday that its recently developed phone panel has been certified by Underwriters Laboratories, meaning it’s ready to start shipping to consumers in actual devices. Samsung said it expects the new panel …

Voice controls are great, but when it comes to finding, playing and controlling music, screen controls can be far easier. To that end, Amazon on Thursday added a new Alexa Cast feature to its Amazon Music app for iOS and Android.  Like Google’s long-standing Google Cast feature, you’ll be able to pull up music in the Amazon Music app, tap …

Google, one of the top companies in the hot area of artificial intelligence, will begin letting customers directly use its custom processors for the technology starting in October. Google’s TPUs, or tensor processing units, accelerate AI tasks like understanding voice commands or recognizing objects in photos. Today, Google will let you pay to do that kind of work on its …

Qualcomm’s proposed $44 billion takeover of Dutch chipmaker NXP has become a casualty of the US trade war with China. Qualcomm on Wednesday didn’t extend its deadline for closing the deal, opting instead to buy back up to $30 billion in shares from investors. The deal had been on hold for nearly two years as China mulled the regulatory implications …

I called them “the most frustrating thing about Windows” — the forced automatic updates that lock you out of your computer until they’re done.  In March 2017, Microsoft made some pretty big strides toward solving the issue by letting you snooze an update indefinitely, but it still wasn’t quite enough. In the 16 months since, I’ve still had a couple …

Now playing: Watch this: If you’re not using Chrome, Google’s redesign just made… 5:13 On this podcast, we talk about: How if you’re not watching YouTube on Chrome, expect slowdowns. Facebook launching Watch Party. Apple releasing a patch to fix its slowdown issues for the MacBook Pro. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of …

You’re killing us, Google. Android P was only supposed to get three betas, you told CNET at the Google I/O developer conference in May, before you announced the official name. And yet, Android P beta 4 arrived Wednesday, and now you’re blogging that the official Android P unveiling is coming “soon.” While the Android P Beta 4 update is so very …