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In an effort to phase out third-party cookies, Google has been advancing the rollout of FLoC for placing targeted ads on websites. This week, though, the Chromium-based and privacy-focused browsers Brave and Vivaldi have announced that they won’t be adopting FLoC. What is FLoC? The Federated Learning of Cohorts API is designed to group large numbers of people with “similar browsing…

One week ago, Google announced its developer conference with an elaborate “punchcard” puzzle to reveal the dates and free, virtual nature. The Google I/O 2021 homepage has now been updated with a countdown and game to pass the time. Google I/O 2021 will kick off in 33 days, 22 hours, 43 minutes, and 13 seconds… Similar to past years, Google stylized the I/O 2021 countdown with digits first…

The Nokia 2.2 is the latest device to get the Android 11, the 2019 entry-level phone now entering its first wave of updates. That wave includes the following 24 countries: Cambodia, Czech Republic (T-Mobile Czech Republic), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece (Cosmote), Hungary (Magyar Telekom), Iceland, Indonesia, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia (Monet, T-Mobile), Malaysia, Montenegro…

ZTE is launching the Axon 30 Ultra tomorrow, April 15, and the company gave up on fighting leaks and rumors, so it posted all key specs by itself on Weibo. The new smartphone is now confirmed to have a 4,600 mAh battery with 66W fast charging, a 6.67” AMOLED with 144 Hz refresh rate and all the latest flagship-tier hardware on the inside. The ZTE Axon 30 Ultra will have UFS 3.1 storage and…