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The Skyworth Clarus is the first outdoor TV with Google TV

December 20, 2022
Google TV is a great OS for streaming and finding the content you want. Whether that comes in the form of a Chromecast or natively installed on a TV, it’s one of our favorites. Now, even outdoor TVs are seeing Google TV loaded onto them, starting with the Skyworth Clarus. Outdoor TVs fall right into the luxury television category, right up there with a cliffside pool that overlooks the ocean. Of…
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Do’s and don’ts for cleaning your dirty iPhone

December 20, 2022
Studies have found our smartphones are usually dirtier than a toilet seat, carrying tens of thousands of bacteria, so creating a habit of regularly cleaning your iPhone is a healthy move. But what’s safe or best to use? Let’s look at how to clean iPhone with step-by-step do’s and don’ts. Table of contents How to clean iPhone iPhone cleaning DON’Ts Best items to clean iPhone Steps to…
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Google Search just saw its highest traffic ever, new Easter egg celebrates Argentina’s World Cup win

December 19, 2022
Yesterday’s World Cup final turned out to have a crazy ending, and courtesy of that roller coaster, Google Search saw its highest traffic ever. Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed on Twitter last night that December 18, 2022 saw the highest search traffic in the company’s 25-year history during the World Cup final. Pichai didn’t provide any direct figures on the record, but it’s easy to…
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What apps support the new Android 13 media player [Updated]

December 18, 2022
Android 13’s most obvious UI change is a redesign of the lockscreen and notification shade media player. However, not all music, podcasts, and audio apps have been updated to support them yet, and here’s our running list of what controls have been modernized. Original…
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Google giving Wear OS ‘low-power user interface expertise’ with KoruLab acquisition

December 18, 2022
With battery capacity inherently constrained by the size of wearables, optimizing the OS that runs on miniature devices is the approach to take. Google has acquired KoruLab to boost Wear OS on this front. When Wear OS 3 was announced in May of 2021, Google said it worked with Samsung “to optimize the lower layers of the operating system – taking advantage of low-power hardware cores to enable…
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