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Air Wick launches smart essential oil diffuser with iPhone control and waterless design

March 2, 2020
With the rise in popularity of essential oils over the last couple of years, major brands are bringing smart features to diffusers. Air Wick is out today with its new Essential Mist Smart diffuser with iPhone control and a waterless design. Air Wick’s smart diffuser is a bit different than traditional ones in another way beyond the iPhone connectivity. Instead of having a small water tank…
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Apple agrees to $500 million iPhone throttling settlement, $25 per device

March 2, 2020
(Reuters) — Apple has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries. The preliminary proposed class-action settlement was disclosed on Friday night and requires approval by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California. It calls for Apple to…
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Android 11 DP1: New warning tells you if you’re misaligned for wireless charging

March 2, 2020
Android 11 has a bunch of tweaks to the operating system we’ve come to love, some major and some minor. Now, a little while after the first developer preview landed, we’ve spotted a new feature that tells Android 11 users when their phone is misaligned for wireless charging. We were first tipped off by a Reddit post regarding this new Android 11 feature. Apparently, when your Android device…
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Android 10’s ‘Rules’ rolling out to more Google Pixels w/ trigger-based settings

March 2, 2020
For quite some time, Android has been teasing trigger-based settings by the name of “Rules.” We thought that’d be available widely in Android 10, but Google never launched the feature. Now, Android’s “Rules” are starting to show up on a lot of Google Pixel devices, hinting they might be included in the next “Feature Drop.” So, what exactly are “Rules.” Essentially, this…
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