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In line with the UN’s COP27 conference this week, Google is announcing expansions for flood and wildfire tracking to new countries as climate change continues to global conditions. Starting with floods, Google is bringing flood forecasting and alerts to 18 new countries this week. The expansion moves into countries within Africa, Latin America, and also Southeast Asia. Google uses these tools…

When we put together our ultimate list of current-model smartphones, Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra easily won out as the best Android option. It’s on sale at Amazon right now for $300 off the list price, bringing it down to just $900. That’s only ten bucks more than its lowest ever price during October’s Prime Day — still a strong deal. We deemed the S22 Ultra “an…

In any given workstation, file sharing is essential. With Microsoft Edge Canary’s new “Drop” feature, you can easily send and receive files from your PC to your Android phone, and vice versa. Much like Chrome, Microsoft Edge’s Chromium-based browser has a Canary channel, which is the beta version and test channel for all new features that need to be worked out before pushing live for a…

Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today. Since it was announced at I/O 2017, the visual search tool has come to more and more surfaces. It started out on Pixel phones in Assistant and Google Photos before expanding on Android and then the Google app on iOS, as well as mobile Chrome. Last year, Google Lens…