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Google has shared official instructions on how to know if your Nest Hub has been updated to run on Fuchsia OS. Last month, Google launched an update for the first-generation Nest Hub, switching it from Cast OS to Fuchsia, an operating system Google built from scratch that is pridefully “not Linux.” This marked the first major debut for Fuchsia OS, having to that point been something of a…

Jamf has released a new iPhone app called Jamf Unlock that’s designed to streamline logging into and unlocking a Mac tied to an enterprise management system. Even though macOS doesn’t yet support Face ID, Jamf is bringing Face ID unlock technology to the Mac using the iPhone as a bridge. Passwords are certainly something we all struggle with, and by enabling biometric technology on macOS…

Samsung has very quietly launched the Galaxy Chromebook Go as what we can only assume will be yet another affordable Chome OS-based laptop for the masses. 2020 and 2021 have seen Chromebooks and Chrome OS explode as the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed people to a work-from-home or e-learning model, and this has helped push the affordable browser-based model ahead of PC and Mac in sales figures. The…

Following the latest update, the Google app, Podcasts, and Lens are repeatedly crashing, while Assistant is also unavailable. Users across Google Pixel, Samsung, and Motorola phones are affected. After updating to version 12.23.16.23 of the Google app, users are seeing the application repeatedly crash every few minutes without any input. Since it’s also responsible for Lens, the Discover feed…