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Our favorite apps, games, and entertainment from 2021 for all of your new tech
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Our staff lists their choices for the best of the year Continue reading…
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How to get the most out of your Pixel’s Now Playing feature
The other day, I was watching the documentary The Beatles: Get Back, which flashes on the screen the names of the songs being played and happened to miss the identification of a song I didn’t Read more…
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TCL resumes selling its Google TVs after rolling out software fixes
Image: TCL After briefly halting sales of its 6-Series and 5-Series Google TVs due to sluggish, buggy software, TCL this evening announced that the TVs are back. “Recent software updates have allowed us to make Read more…
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White House says it will set up a website to distribute 500 million free COVID tests
President Biden details plans to make coronavirus tests easier to find amid the surge of the omicron variant. | Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Biden said today that Americans will soon be able to Read more…
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Google Voice now lets you set custom rules for phone calls
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google Voice now lets you create rules that dictate how the service responds to incoming calls from specific contacts. And yes, this includes having Google Voice automatically ignore certain Read more…
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Google is turning off the controls for OnHub routers at the end of 2022
Google OnHub router Google’s insistence on cloud-based controls for its networking products has occasionally caused issues, even though it was supposed to make life with OnHub routers simple. Now it will be a reason pushing Read more…
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Here’s why streaming services are always duking it out over channels
photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images There’s something extraordinarily frustrating about subscribing to a TV service only for that service to lose the programming you signed up for. But that threat of lost Read more…
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Creating an app to help your community during the pandemic with Gaston Saillen #IamaGDE
Posted by Alicja Heisig, Developer Relations Program Manager Welcome to #IamaGDE – a series of spotlights presenting Google Developer Experts (GDEs) from across the globe. Discover their stories, passions, and highlights of their community work. Read more…
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Disabled passengers were promised autonomous vehicles — they’re still waiting
It turns out that designing autonomous vehicles for disabled passengers is an immense challenge Continue reading…
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Disney and YouTube TV cut a deal to bring back ESPN, FX, and other channels
Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Disney and YouTube TV have reached a deal today to put more than a dozen Disney-owned channels back on Google’s internet TV streaming service. The news follows Read more…