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Google Weather outage broke app & widget, made Assistant think it’s 0 degrees outside [U: Fixed]

July 15, 2022
This morning, an outage affected Google Weather across Android, Google Assistant, and more, that made it unable to show your local forecast. On Android devices, the Google Search app comes bundled with a Weather applet that hosts the delightful “weather frog” — adorably, his real name is Froggy — and lets you see the forecast for today, tomorrow, and the next 10 days. Some of this same…
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What’s better than Nothing? Something. Dbrand iPhone skin shows your phone’s internals

July 15, 2022
The Nothing Phone launched this week, and the most distinctive thing about the design is a transparent rear cover to reveal the internals of the device – along with some funky lights. You can now give your iPhone 13 Pro Max the same look with a new Dbrand skin … Dbrand iPhone skin mimics Nothing Phone Dbrand is known for snark, and the iPhone skin is no exception: The company has named it…
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Razer takes on Elgato's Stream Deck with its Stream Controller

July 15, 2022
Many creators use a control pad like Elgato’s Stream Deck to help them manage livestreams and create art. Razer is looking to make moves in the space with its own control pad, the Stream Controller. The company is working with Loupedeck on the device, which seems to be…
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GLAAD: Social media platforms don't do enough to protect LGBTQ users

July 15, 2022
Social networks still aren’t doing much to safeguard LGBTQ people against abuse, according to GLAAD. Bloomberg notes the media monitoring organization has published its second-ever Social Media Safety Index, and has given failing scores to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube after examining their LGBTQ-oriented features and policies. While GLAAD found that all the platforms had…
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How to play music on multiple speakers in the Google Home app

July 15, 2022
One of the distinct advantages of having Wi-Fi speakers is the ability to wirelessly play music on multiple devices at the same time. It just so happens you can do this through the Google Home app on your phone by creating speaker groups. All you need is a few Google Home…
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Google Chrome for desktop looks to be testing a new PWA install dialog

July 15, 2022
In Chrome, both on desktop and mobile, Progressive Web Apps are becoming more common among certain websites. The current look on Chrome for desktop is very basic and doesn’t provide much information for users prompted to install a website’s PWA. That looks to be changing in the future with Chrome for desktop testing a new dialog box for PWAs. Over the past few years, experimentation has…
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