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Google News Showcase launching in Colombia, third Latin American country

Google launched its $1 billion licensing program in late 2020 to support publishers and surface card-based content across its platforms. Google News Showcase is now coming to Colombia. The effort today has signed over 1,000 — up from 800 in July — deals with news publications in Germany, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, UK, Argentina, Australia, Czechia, Italy, India, Canada, and Austria.
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Here’s how to officially turn on YouTube Picture-in-Picture (PiP) for iPhone right now

Back in June, Google started rolling out Picture-in-Picture support in YouTube for iPhone. It’s not widely available yet, but YouTube Premium subscribers can experimentally enable it today. One perk of being a Premium subscriber is the ability to “try experimental new features.” YouTube.com/new shows what’s available with test capabilities featuring an end date and button to manually…
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Hands-on: This deconstructed Google Pixel is the perfect wall art for Android superfans [Gallery]

Old smartphones can be a collector’s item to the right person, but often, they end up sitting in a drawer. If you’re a big fan of the Android platform and, specifically, Google’s Pixel lineup, then this neat Google Pixel wall art from Grid Studio might just be for you. Grid Studio takes older smartphones and turns them into decorative wall art by reconstructing the device and putting its…
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Google bringing Smart Reply suggestions to comments in Docs

After launching in Gmail, Smart Reply has expanded to more and more Google products. Google Docs already has Smart Compose, and it’s now adding Smart Reply suggestions when commenting. Smart Reply in Google Docs saves you time replying to comments in Docs by suggesting…
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New Pegasus zero-click iPhone attack defeats Apple’s Blastdoor protections

A newly discovered NSO Pegasus zero-click iPhone attack against a human rights activist managed to succeed despite Apple’s Blastdoor protections, according to security researchers at Citizen Lab. It is unclear, however, whether the protections Apple added to iOS 14.7.1 would have succeeded in blocking the attack, as it took place at a time when iOS 14.6 was the latest version available ……
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