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Quick Charge Podcast: September 14, 2022

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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EU upholds antitrust ruling against Google’s actions on Android, drops fine to €4.1 billion

In 2018, the European Union ruled that Google’s app bundling with Android, essentially forcing its partners to include a long list of Google apps with their phones, was illegal. Google appealed that ruling, but the EU has just announced that it will uphold the decision, despite lowering the fine. The EU today announced that it would uphold its previous court decision that Google had violated…
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Google Assistant preps letting you make custom Quick Phrases for Nest Hub Max

Just last week, the Nest Hub Max was updated with another way to skip “Hey Google.” This currently only works for certain commands, but Google Assistant will eventually let you make custom Quick Phrases. About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs…
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What cameras fully integrate with the Google Home app

The beauty of smart home systems like Google Home is that you can connect tons of different devices from a plethora of different manufacturers. How well those devices work with Google Home is a complicated matter, however. We’ll go over cameras that work well with the…
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Google Play Store redesign for Wear OS starts appearing [U: Rolled back]

As telegraphed by September’s Google Play system update, the Wear OS Play Store is beginning to get its new redesign. Update 9/14: In recent days, this redesign has disappeared for most people that originally got it in a sign that Google’s not ready to launch it. However, some Wear OS owners do still have the revamp. Going back does emphasize how the original design is very barebones. That…
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