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LineageOS 18.1 upgrades to Android 11, coming to Pixel 5, 4a, OnePlus 8, more

Official builds of LineageOS version 18.1, the Android 11 based update to the ever-popular third-party ROM, are becoming available for the Pixel 5, Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel 4a, and OnePlus 8 series. While Google’s phones have some of the longest life spans in the Android world — though the crown now belongs to Samsung — third-party ROMs like LineageOS can offer support well beyond the…
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Google Admin console redesign brings card-based interface

The Google Admin console is how administrators manage Google services for people in their organization, and a redesign is rolling out over the coming weeks to help modernize it.  The top bar still leverages a blue accent color rather than switching to a completely white…
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iPhone 13 Pro Max will have slightly better main lens than rest of lineup – Kuo

Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with a new supply-chain report that indicates that the iPhone 13 Pro Max will have a slightly better main lens than the rest of this year’s lineup. The report says that the wide-angle camera on the largest of the four models will have a marginally wider aperture than the iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13, and iPhone 13 Pro … The wide-angle lens being made for…
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Tips and tricks for backing up the data from your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Today, March 31 is World Backup Day – a good reminder to check in on how your device backups are looking. Even with Apple’s high-quality products, it’s important to backup regularly. No device works flawlessly all the time and there are many scenarios outside of device failure when a backup is crucial like upgrading, accidents, bugs, loss, or theft. Let’s look at a variety of ways to…
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Airline industry body to launch COVID passport for the iPhone

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced today that it’s going to launch a COVID passport for test results and vaccine certificates for the iPhone in mid-April, reports Reuters. The COVID passport app was due to launch by the end of March, but it’s…
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Google ‘looking into’ Chromebook bug that can reveal your location data from guest mode

A useful feature of Chrome OS is Guest Mode, which essentially acts as an incognito mode for a friend or family member to use your machine without access to any of your data. Unfortunately, though, there’s a bug that can actually reveal your location data to another user who is on Chromebook’s guest mode. This bug comes from how Chrome OS handles Wi-Fi logs. That data, when accessed, can…
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