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Google Play Protect marks discontinued YouTube Vanced Manager as ‘harmful,’ prompts uninstall

March 29, 2022
The feature-adding and ad-blocking YouTube Vanced app was discontinued earlier this month, but the app’s developers said it would continue to work until changes to YouTube’s API killed it off for good. Now, those with the app still installed are seeing Google Play Protect marking Vanced Manager as “harmful,” and prompting the app to be uninstalled. Over the past several hours, Android…
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A fleet of Tesla Model 3s is going to be deployed for Uber drivers in London

March 29, 2022
London announced that it is providing funding to deploy a fleet of Tesla Model 3 vehicles through a vehicle subscription service to be available for private hire drivers such as Uber. Startup Breathe operates in the rapidly growing space of “vehicle-as-a-service” by providing an all-in-one car subscription that includes the car, insurance, service, maintenance, and repair. In practice, they…
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Venus Optics Laowa 45mm F0.95 Sample Gallery

March 29, 2022
DPReview news editor Gannon Burgett has spent the past week with Venus Optics’ Laowa 45mm F0.95 Argus lens attached to his Canon EOS R. Above is a gallery of images, including Raw, he captured around Lansing, Michigan. Check out the photographs to see how it performs…
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How to export a Google Doc to PDF in Google Drive

March 29, 2022
Google Docs has been a go-to product for many for quite a long time. Google Drive can handle complex text documents, as well as easy and simple tasks. One of those is exporting text documents as PDFs. Here’s how to export PDFs in Google Docs. Table of contents Why…
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Classic Hangouts app removed from Google Play and App Store [U]

March 29, 2022
In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with the iPhone app now removed from the App Store. Update 3/29: Hangouts for Android has been removed from the Play Store for new users. It no longer appears in search results, but is still available for…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 28, 2022

March 29, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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