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YouTube Music adds ‘Recent activity’ section, Bluetooth setting from Google Play Music

Ahead of the eventual deprecation of Play Music, YouTube Music continues to introduce features from Google’s original streaming service to entice users to switch. The latest additions include a “Recent activity” section and setting to “Allow external devices to start playback.” Last month, some users saw the “Last played” carousel on top of the “Library” tab renamed to “Recent…
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Apple shuts down Dark Sky for Android and Wear OS

Apple made a surprise acquisition of Dark Sky in March and there are signs that it’s already live in iOS 14. As part of this, Dark Sky is gradually being disabled for non-Apple devices and services, starting with a shut down of the Android, Wear OS, and web apps today. The…
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Stadia Achievements can now be viewed on iOS and Android

A month after launch, Stadia picked up the ability to view game Achievements online and on Chromecast. The streaming service logged awards from day one, but an interface wasn’t ready until December. Stadia Achievements are now rolling out on the Android and iOS apps. Like on the web, Achievements are accessed by tapping the People icon and selecting any profile. The main list provides a summary…
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Russian company offers ugly solid gold iPhone 12

Russian ‘luxury’ accessory company Caviar is noted for really ugly, crazily priced re-cased iPhones, and it’s solid gold iPhone 12 may be the ugliest version it has offered yet … Caviar buys iPhones from Apple, removes the casing and replaces it with its own ……
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PSA: Missing haptic feedback in the Twitter app on iPhone? The latest update brings it back

Last week, an update to the Twitter app for iOS removed the haptic feedback that is triggered when you like a tweet. As it turns out, this was simply a bug and a new update to the Twitter for iOS app today brings the functionality back. The removal of haptics support in the Twitter app appears to correlate to version 8.28 of the app, which was released on July 23. Usually, when you like a tweet…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 leaks in the flesh, showing hole-punch display and name

Ahead of its launch next week, Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Fold sequel has remained mostly in the dark so far. Tonight, a fresh image of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 has hit the web, showing off the internal display and confirming the new name. Leaked on Naver (via Max Weinbach), an in-the-flesh image of the Galaxy Z Fold 2 confirms a couple of key details about the upcoming foldable. For one, it confirms…
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