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Google Play Points promo for Pixel 5, 4a 5G owners suspended over ‘technical issues’

At launch, Google offered Pixel 5 and 4a 5G buyers a slew of subscription perks. One for Google Play Points is still available until the end of this month, but Google has “suspended” the promo due to technical issues. If you sign up, every Google Play purchase earns you Play Points that can be redeemed for store credits. There are various levels to the program that unlocks multipliers and…
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Google and Apple block NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app update over privacy issues

The UK government is bungling yet another aspect of the pandemic response as it appears Google and Apple have blocked a recent update to the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app over location sharing issues. According to the BBC, this recent update was supposed to be made available on the Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store simultaneously as nationwide lockdowns ease over ahead of the full…
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Clubhouse for Android is working, could see release in May [Updated]

The “drop-in audio chat” app Clubhouse has become massively popular on iOS over the past couple of months, but it lacks an Android app entirely. Following an interview in late February where the app’s cofounder revealed that an Android app was the “top feature” in development for the company, a teaser for its release has hit the web. In January, Clubhouse confirmed that it had plans to…
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Google Lens expands beyond mobile and comes to desktop web with OCR in Google Photos

Besides being its own app, Google Lens is also available in Image Search, Photos, and integrated across Android. Google is now bringing Lens to the desktop web inside Google Photos for convenient text copying through optical character recognition (OCR). Opening an image with words reveals a “Copy text from image” suggestion chip that features the (old) Lens logo and dismiss button. It…
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