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You can now snooze Google Calendar notifications in Chrome

Google is adding a small but highly useful feature to the Calendar website that lets you snooze notifications. This was a “top user request” that’s long overdue for the web client. On macOS, “Snooze” is available under the More dropdown, with Google advertising the new capability using the below promo. It’s only available on Chrome browsers, and you must “have desktop notifications…
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GoPro’s new ‘Quik’ app brings powerful photo and video editing features to your iPhone

GoPro is out today with a big change to its iOS app. It’s now been transformed into “Quik” and has been redesigned to work with your photos and videos no matter if you took them with one of the company’s action cameras, your iPhone, or DSLR. Quik includes powerful, easy-to-use editing tools, themes, filters, and music along with a new “Mural” feature that automatically creates…
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Android’s new Fast Pair UI expands to Fitbit devices, plus more Bluetooth accessories

We saw late last year that a new iPhone-inspired Android Fast Pair UI was rolling out for mainly first-party Google accessories such as the Pixel Buds. This new UI is now more widely available for earbuds supporting Fast Pair including the OnePlus Buds but more importantly Fitbit smartwatches. While we don’t know exactly when this change was made, as it has likely rolled out since first…
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Google Go reaches 500-million Play Store download milestone

Although designed for modest smartphone hardware and those mainly in emerging markets, Google Go has now reached the impressive 500-million-download milestone on the Google Play Store. While more of a replacement for the dedicated Google app — itself a streamlined…
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Google Family Link letting parents set ‘always allowed’ apps, get more detailed activity reports

With screen usage increasing in the past year due to distance learning and the need for alternative entertainment, Google is updating Family Link with more tools that tell parents “how kids use devices.” Google says these features have been highly requested, starting with parents being able to designate “always allowed” apps for kids that will continue to work “even when [the] screen…
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