Putting essential features at your fingertips is good, actually. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Pixel 2 is an almost five-year-old phone, but it introduced a feature that I miss more and more with each passing year. It was called Active Edge, and it let you summon Google Assistant just by
Read MoreA screenshot from Google’s pétanque Doodle. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Google has a delightful new multiplayer Doodle that lets you play a game of pétanque online. If you haven’t heard of pétanque — I hadn’t before writing this article — it’s a game that’s kind of like bocce ball. The goal
Read MoreWelcome to the 443rd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Gmail has a new look. The new version rolled out this week on the web and includes Chat, Meet, and Spaces integration. That puts all of your work communications on a single web page. You can customize
Read MoreIn the second iOS 16 public beta, Shortcuts gained 11 new actions, including Find Tabs, Reading List, Bookmarks for Safari, plus new actions for Mail and Reminders.
Read MoreGayatri Suroyo / Reuters: Indonesia says it has blocked PayPal, Yahoo, Steam, Epic Games, and other websites for failure to comply with licensing rules introduced in November 2020 — Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules …
Read MoreReadWrite looks for rare experiences and companies in the tech world that we can recommend for highly motivational encounters. Our team was invited to “Make the Jump” at Limitless Flight in SLC, Utah. Jump is a highly technical VR experience, and we decided that because of the tech world we work in, for a team
Read MoreApple says that it is expanding ads on the App Store onto the Today tab as well as individual app pages.
Read MoreDell Cameron / Gizmodo: Human rights groups say Facebook approved English and Swahili ads instigating ethnic violence in Kenya, after claiming to foster “safe and secure” elections — Kenya’s national cohesion watchdog has threatened to suspend the social network from the country in a week if it doesn’t mitigate hate speech.
Read MorePhoto by Victoria Song / The Verge Apple Pay could finally be compatible with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox in iOS 16. MacRumors contributor Steve Moser found that Apple Pay works with Edge and Chrome in the iOS 16 beta 4, and shared his findings on Twitter. Moser’s screenshots show a “Continue with
Read MoreThis is the version I bought, and I love them so freakin’ much. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge One truth about me as a runner is that I need my jams. No jams, no run. I have meticulously curated playlists where the bass drops are strategically timed to gas me up when
Read MoreDan Maloney and I were talking about the chess robot arm that broke a child’s finger during the podcast, and it turns out that we both have extreme respect for robot arms in particular. Dan had a story of a broken encoder wheel that lead to out-of-control behavior that almost hit him, and I won’t
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: Salesforce, whose logo appeared on Helium’s website, also says it is not a Helium partner; Helium has removed both Lime and Salesforce logos from its website — Helium listed the two companies as users on its homepage — On Friday, Mashable reported that Helium, a crypto project praised …
Read MoreThe United States Secret Service says that it may disable iMessage on Secret Service members’ work phones going forward due to those messages being lost.
Read MoreLeonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are teaming up for an adaption of The Wager, a story set in the 1740s about a British naval ship that wrecks in South America.
Read MoreInto the Breach Once upon a time, my smartphone doubled as my most-used gaming platform. It’s hard to believe now, but there was once a period when app stores felt like a new frontier, and game developers had a blast experimenting with a little touchscreen rectangle that you always had in your pocket. Then the
Read MoreAmazon’s budget-friendly Smart Thermostat packs plenty of smarts for a mere $41.99. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon Prime Day is back, baby! OK, maybe not technically speaking, but so many Amazon devices are currently discounted at Best Buy and other retailers that it’s giving us a major sense of deja
Read MorePlus: The continued TikTokification of absolutely everything.
Read MorePlus: Google delays the end of cookies (again), EU officials were targeted with Pegasus spyware, and more of the top security news.
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post by Ryan Haines Google’s Pixel A series has a well-defined formula at this point. The budget series flirts with flagship properties like light, smooth software, and advanced camera processing while cutting a few corners to keep the price affordable. It’s worked well so far, with devices like
Read MoreIf you’re buying games or services for a family, this subscription service is worth a look. We break down the cost, features, and highlights.
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Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post by Robert Triggs In just a few short years, in-display fingerprint scanners have gone from the exciting cutting edge to being taken for granted. Button-mounted security, by comparison, just isn’t seen as that exciting, but we’re actually living through the technology’s golden age. Having spent time with
Read MoreMark Bergen / Bloomberg: How Modi’s government is increasingly skirting India’s own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a “fake news” pretext — Sandeep Ravindranath, an Indian filmmaker, posted his latest work to YouTube in May. The video …
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