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Stadia Changelog: Orcs Must Die 3 hints at the end of Google exclusivity

It’s been far from a quiet week for Google Stadia with big announcements from Google itself, but on the game front, the lead up to E3 has left a bit of a drought. In some good/bad news, depending on how you look at it, the Stadia exclusive Orcs Must Die 3 is heavily teasing at a debut on other platforms, probably Steam. Stadia Changelog is a weekly series on 9to5Google where we round up some…
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Google’s Android 12 Beta 2 feedback survey is now available

Android 12 Beta 2 rolled out this week with a ton of changes, and Google is now asking users to participate in a feedback survey.  Like last month’s form, the Beta 2 survey starts by asking users to rate their satisfaction with Android 12 Notification and Quick Settings and the Volume Panel. The latter was slimmed down, while the former now adapts to your wallpaper, among other layout…
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Hands-on: iOS 15 brings an all-new Weather app with maps, animations, and more

The Weather app is attracting quite a bit of attention with this year’s release of iOS 15. It’s getting an all-new design, new real-time notifications, and more. Head below as we take a closer look at the all-new Weather app in iOS 15 including maps, design, and more. Hands-on: The new Weather app in iOS 15 One of the headlining changes in the iOS 15 Weather app is the interface. It…
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Google Calculator app reaches 1 billion download milestone

After adding up the figures, the Google Calculator app has now surpassed the 1 billion download milestone over on the Play Store. Given that the Calculator app comes pre-installed on millions of devices each and every year, it’s no surprise that this is one Google app to…
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Google Chrome no longer plans to hide full URLs because it doesn’t help security after all

For the past three years or so, Google has been working on a project behind the scenes with the goal to hide full URLs in the address bar. Now, Google is pulling the plug on its Chrome experiment and will not hide URLs. Google’s experiments with hiding the URL bar have gone through a few iterations, but the biggest move came in Chrome 86 where Google actively hid the full URL in the omnibox.
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