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Audible on iOS gets hands-free listening and more thanks to Alexa voice commands

Audible has updated its iOS app today with a nice addition – Alexa support. That means you can now use voice commands to start listening to a book, ask questions, or get help with anything else Alexa is capable of. Audible shared the news in a blog post today: “While listeners have long enjoyed Audible on Alexa-enabled devices, this development will allow voice control right in our app…
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Google Doodle kicks off the final group stage games of World Cup 2022

After honoring the start of the 2022 World Cup, the latest animated Google Doodle highlights some of the final phases of the initial group stage at the world’s biggest sporting event. With all 32 teams having now played at least two matches at the World Cup in Qatar, this abstract animated Google Doodle features soccer cleats jumping up and down in colors that at least appear to represent…
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Samsung tablets on Android 13 still don’t have a two-column notification shade

Android 13 is more widely rolling out on Samsung tablets and follows Android 12L earlier this year. The taskbar was that update’s biggest addition, and we hoped to see more tablet UIs — namely a two-column notification shade and lockscreen — but that’s not the case with Samsung’s Android 13 update. Samsung (11-inch Tab S8 shown below) continues to use its single-column notification…
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Google has updated the original Chromecast for the first time in over three years

In a new batch of Chromecast updates, Google has released new firmware for the first-generation Chromecast for the first time in years. Since 2013, Google has offered the Chromecast series as a way to affordably turn any TV into a smart TV, connected to apps on your Android or iOS phone. As Google’s Cast system is primarily built on web tech, those original Chromecast devices — meaning those…
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