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Google and Framework making an upgradable Chromebook, starting at $999

Google and Framework are working together on a modular Chromebook that can be upgraded with various components over time and is set for early December availability with pre-orders opening today. The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition is gray in color and made of “precision formed and milled aluminum housing” with a large gear logo on the lid. It weighs 1.3 kg (2.87 lbs) with a slightly…
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Logitech’s Android-based G Cloud runs your cloud games with 12-hour battery life

As far as gaming goes, there’s a huge case to be made for the cloud. To bolster that a bit, Logitech is going all in with the new G Cloud gaming handheld, which gets a whopping 12 hours of battery life and lets you play games from major cloud services. What we’ve come to see in portable gaming within the last couple of years is genuinely impressive. Consoles like the Nintendo Switch and…
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This is how close LG's Rollable was to being a real phone

LG was supposed to release another phone with an unusual form factor after The Wing as an answer to Samsung’s foldables. At CES 2021, the company confirmed that it was working on a phone with a rollable display and that it was going to be available later that year. It never got to launch the device before shutting down its mobile business after its newest models, which included the Wing…
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Google Tasks upgrade brings Assistant integration and will replace ‘Reminders’

As we’ve been expecting since June, Google is “simplifying [its] task management solutions by migrating Assistant and Calendar Reminders to Google Tasks.” The years-old Assistant Reminders offering is quite bad. Adding them via “Hey Google” voice commands is fine, but interacting via touch using the Google app on Android or assistant.google.com/reminders results in a slow, laggy…
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