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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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Android 11 brings wireless Android Auto to all phones

Starting with Android 11 later this year, all phones will soon be able to connect wirelessly to compatible cars with Android Auto. Over two years ago, Google finally made it possible for Android Auto to connect wirelessly instead of needing to be connected via USB to your…
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Here’s your best look yet at ZTE’s first smartphone with an under-display camera

ZTE has already announced that it plans to launch the first mass-produced 5G-enabled smartphone with an under-display camera in China next month, and now the company has shared new images that give us a better understanding of what that phone’s screen might actually look like (via Dutch website Tweakers). In the render at the top of this post, you can see that the phone, which will be called the…
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Fossil Gen 5 watches leap past Wear OS with VO2 max and sleep tracking

Google’s smartwatch operating system Wear OS has struggled to keep up with Apple’s watchOS, leaving users with some software disadvantages compared to the annually updated Apple Watch. Rather than waiting for Google to update Wear OS, Fossil is today pushing out its own software update for Gen 5 smartwatches, adding five “exclusively developed by Fossil Group” features that will make its…
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How to preorder the Samsung Galaxy Note 20

Samsung announced its new Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra phones at its Unpacked 2020 online event. At this point, The Verge’s Dieter Bohn has now published his full review of the larger Note 20 Ultra. You can read that here or watch the video component of the review…
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Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review: big phone, small updates

Samsung has settled into a new routine for its Galaxy Note line of smartphones: take some of the major new features from the flagship Galaxy S updates from earlier in the year, improve on them slightly, and add a stylus. Instead of being the first with new technology, the Note has become the phone that refines it. If there is something new for Samsung’s routine, it’s this new “Ultra”…
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