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Do you remember when Razer, the PC gaming brand, made its own smartphone? The Razer Phone and Razer Phone 2 are mostly forgotten memories at this point, and now the brand is closing the door on its Theme Store for those devices. The Razer Phone and its sequel both shipped with a special Theme Store, which allowed the phone to redesign its UI based on packs available in the store. One click could…

Merely a day after Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4 launch, Xiaomi was quick to follow with a surprising punch. The Mix Fold 2 is the Chinese brand’s second foldable phone, featuring a surprising thickness of just 5.4mm when opened — barely enough to house a USB-C port — and 11.2mm thick when folded. While Huawei’s Mate Xs 2 is also 5.4mm thick when opened, bear in mind that it…

Google today announced a series of updates on improving information quality and literacy in Search, starting with Featured Snippet callouts. Featured Snippets are what appear at the top of Google Search results for certain queries that can be answered quickly. This “significant innovation to improve the quality” is focusing on the one-word (i.e. yes/no) or short sentence callouts. Using its…

In a slight departure for the Pixel’s social media presence, Google is running a wallpaper contest where the winner gets a free Pixel 6.  People in Australia, Canada (excluding Quebec), Japan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States are invited to create and submit a wallpaper for the Pixel 6 series and newer. Namely, the background has to incorporate the centered front-facing…