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Most of our readers say Google Photos is worth paying for, despite storage changes

Starting tomorrow, June 1, Google Photos will change forever by ditching the free and unlimited storage that made the service so popular. In a poll, though, most of our readers said Google Photos is worth paying for. While the end of free, unlimited storage may leave a sour taste for many longtime Google Photos users, it’s easy to see why over 68% of our readers said they’d stick with the…
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Randy Pitchford: Creating LGBTQ+ understanding through games

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Representation in media matters and video games are the new frontier for the push for diversifying our entertainment. Gearbox Software reinforced that as its writers crafted an expansion pack for its…
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Report: Google once made it more difficult for Android users to keep their location private

It’s fairly well known that Google captures your location data almost constantly and, often, can directly pinpoint your location on both Android and iOS smartphones. According to some uncovered documents, Google once purposefully made it more difficult for Android users to stop this data gathering. Unredacted documents from a lawsuit between Google and the State of Arizona (via Business…
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This week’s top stories: Fuchsia OS release, Google Weather redesign, Fitbit snore detection

In this week’s top stories: Fuchsia OS begins rolling out to the first-gen Nest Hub, Google Weather gets a redesign on Android, Fitbit prepares snore and noise detection, and more. After five years of anticipation, Google has begun the process of releasing Fuchsia, a from-scratch operating system that is distinctly “not Linux.” The first device to get Fuchsia OS is the first-generation…
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Gmail for Android, iOS now lets you quickly change your Google profile picture

Google’s vision for the future of productivity involves making Gmail the one application you use for everything. In addition to email, messaging, video calls, and editing, the Gmail mobile apps now have a quick shortcut to change your Google profile picture. Opening the account switcher in the top-right corner of Gmail shows a list of all your accounts. This interface is standard across modern…
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