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Google Doodle honors London’s first black fireman Frank Bailey

Today’s Google Doodle in the UK is honoring yet another of Britain’s trailblazers Frank Bailey on what would have been his 95th birthday. Born in Guyana, on this day in 1925, Frank Arthur Bailey worked on a German trade ship in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His work brought him to New York, where he worked in a hospital. A true trailblazer in every sense of the word, Bailey staged a…
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How to enable split-screen multitasking in Android 11 [Video]

If you have a large display on your smartphone, did you know you can enter split-screen for most of your apps and even some games? The split-screen process changed with Android Pie and has remained the same through to Android 11 now that gestures are the main UI input…
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Google celebrates Thanksgiving 2020 with adorable social distancing Doodle

Thanksgiving Day has arrived and for 2020, it’s going to be a very different experience for most people. To celebrate the day, though, Google has posted a new homepage Doodle to celebrate Thanksgiving 2020 and the history of the Thanksgiving holiday. Live now on Google.com in the United States, the Thanksgiving 2020 Doodle reflects how this year is not the same as the traditional holiday. In…
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Google TV app no longer shows content available on Netflix

The arrival of Google TV put heavy emphasis on the ability for users to manage all of their favorite shows and movies in one place, regardless of how many services they subscribe to. A hiccup in that plan first occurred earlier this week on Chromecast, but now things seem…
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Google advertising Pixel 5 in the UK with free movies from a ‘Mobile Cinema’

Like every other phone this year, a key part of the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 are 5G speeds. In the UK, Google is running a Map-based “Mobile Cinema” game where you can find free movies as part of a Pixel 5 advertisement. While we’re all a bit less mobile than usual this year, Google Pixel presents some of the most rewatchable British films, available to download in seconds from…
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Classic Hangouts now uses Google Meet for group video calling

Back in October, Google announced that Chat was going free next year as part of the eventual deprecation of classic Hangouts. The company detailed several transitions related to this, including a change to group video calling that brings Meet into the existing Hangouts…
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Samsung Galaxy Note20 series One UI 3.0 stable release nears as beta program closed

The One UI 3.0 beta program for the Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra that was announced last month ended today in South Korea, which suggests the release of One UI 3.0’s stable version is very close. However, Note20 series users in other countries might still receive beta updates as the program is not officially closed outside South Korea. The One UI 3.0 beta program for the Galaxy S20…
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