An update to the Google app appears to be causing a lot of frustration for Android users. As spotted by XDA-Developers, a number of people have taken to Reddit to report problems with doing tasks like viewing the Discover tab on the home screen, opening Google Assistant or using features like Google Lens. While it …
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Google faced more antitrust concerns on Tuesday as the European Union’s competition authority opened an investigation into whether the search giant favors its own digital advertising business over that of its competitors. Investigators will also look at whether Google restricts its rivals’ access to user data. The company made $147 billion from online ads last year, according to Reuters — …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. Amazon Prime Day 2021 is entering the home stretch but there are still live deals on Roku streaming devices. If you’ve got an older TV without built-in streaming capabilities, any one of the Rokus spotlighted in this …
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Brave, the maker of a popular ad blocking browser, opened on Tuesday a public beta of its privacy-focused search engine, a first step in creating a product that could compete with market titan Google. Brave Search will become the default search engine in the Brave browser later this year. Unlike other new search engines, which generally repackage results from Google …
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This story is part of Amazon Prime Day, CNET’s guide to everything you need to know and how to find the best deals. This may not be an Amazon Prime Day deal but it feels like one. Google’s new Pixel Buds A-Series just hit the market at $99. However, if you want extras like wireless charging, wind reduction and swipe controls for …
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If the new Moto G Stylus 5G from Motorola seems familiar, that’s because it’s the follow up to January’s Moto G Stylus, which costs less and doesn’t have 5G. The Stylus 5G comes with a redesigned stylus, Android 11, a new security layer from Motorola’s parent company Lenovo, 256GB of storage, 6GB of RAM and a new processor. It includes …
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Amazon is one of the most successful businesses on the planet, but it’s also got issues, which we’ve been spotlighting in the runup to the company’s popular Prime Day sales. A lot of that revolves around its workplace and its workers, the very people making sure that what you’re buying gets to you in a timely manner. Warehouse employees and …
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Apple currently sells two Apple TV streaming devices, but only one of them makes sense. That would be the Apple TV 4K, which got a recent update that added a redesigned and much improved Siri Remote as well as a more modern A12 Bionic processor. The other is the Apple TV HD, which I’m reviewing here. It got the new remote, …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. iOS 15 has officially arrived. On Monday, during an online keynote for WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference, the company presented a preview of iOS 15, the next major version of the iPhone‘s operating system. It’s a follow-up to last year’s iOS 14 and …
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Google said Thursday it’s funding a project to increase Linux security by writing parts of the operating system’s core in the Rust programming language, a modernization effort that could bolster the security of the internet and smartphones. If the project succeeds, it’ll be possible to add new elements written in Rust into the heart of Linux, called the kernel. Such …
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