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Google’s password autofill can now use biometric authentication on Android

Password managers make it much easier to have secure passwords for all of your accounts, and Google takes that a step farther by building one right into your Google account. Now, Google’s password manager can use biometric authentication with Android autofill. In what’s absolutely an overdue change, the Autofill with Google password manager now offers the option to use a fingerprint sensor…
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Review: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra gets the formula right at the wrong time [Video]

Smartphones have reached a bit of a plateau over the past few years, with mainstream flagships essentially just trying to surpass each other in getting closer and closer to perfection. With its Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, Samsung improves on what’s been an excellent formula with the Galaxy Note 10 and S20 series and crafts a phone that is truly excellent. It’s just hitting the market at completely…
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Nvidia Shield TV seems like it might be exempt from Android TV’s new homescreen ads

Google’s Android TV has long been an attractive platform partially because it lacked blatant advertising. That’s starting to change with a prominent homescreen “highlights” row that’s rolling out, but it seems possible that Nvidia’s Shield TV is exempt from these ads. This week, a couple of app updates to Android TV have seen homescreen ads rolling out to most users of the platform.
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Android 11 will force apps to use built-in camera app, ignore 3rd-party defaults

Android 11 has a lot of changes for good, but as we approach release some minor changes are starting to come to light that some users won’t be very happy with. Starting in Android 11, for instance, users won’t be able to select a default camera app in certain scenarios. On an official issue tracker thread, Google confirmed (via ) that Android 11 is ditching the default camera app selector.
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