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Google starts rolling out Play Store Material You redesign, but it only scratches the surface

October 10, 2021
Google’s Material You rollout continues with the Play Store over the last 24 hours but this redesign is not too visually encompassing yet, while availability is currently quite limited. The Play Store’s initial Material You redesign is limited to the four main homescreen feeds. It starts with a pill-shaped search bar that allows your profile avatar to slot in nicely. Just underneath…
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OnePlus 9RT, Buds Z2 will launch next week

October 10, 2021
While OnePlus has publicly said it wouldn’t make a OnePlus 9T this year, the company is now teasing the coming launch date of the OnePlus 9RT and its new earbuds too. Announced on Weibo, the OnePlus 9RT will see a launch date of October 13 in China. In that post, OnePlus…
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Google’s Fuchsia is expanding to ‘additional smart devices and other form factors’

October 10, 2021
According to new job listings, Google is looking to expand the Fuchsia operating system from its current home on the Nest Hub to “additional smart devices and other form factors.” Having been in development for years, Google unleashed their next-generation, from-scratch operating system Fuchsia on the world earlier this year. Fuchsia debuted on the first-generation Nest Hub, with those…
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Chrome for Android more widely testing its ‘Web Feed’ RSS reader, here’s how to enable [U]

October 10, 2021
During I/O 2021, Google announced that Chrome for Android would be testing a built-in RSS reader. It’s considered an experiment that might not ever launch, but you can test the RSS-powered “Web Feed” in Chrome today. Update 10/8: Google has decided to more widely test the RSS-backed “Web Feed.” Namely, it’s being tested in Chrome 94 (the current stable release) and later versions. As…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 9, 2021

October 10, 2021
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…
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How to Create a Small World Photo in Photoshop

October 10, 2021
Want to create a “small world” or “tiny planet” image in which a landscape photo (often a panorama) is turned into what looks like a miniature planet? Here’s an easy-to-follow 2-minute tutorial that will teach you how to make one in Photoshop. Here are the…
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Huawei nova 8i and nova 9 coming to Europe soon

October 10, 2021
Huawei is not giving up on the European market and will allegedly bring two more of its nova series phones to the Old Continent soon. According to info from these should be the nova 8i and nova 9 though as you’d expect both will arrive without GMS support like all recent Huawei phones. nova 8i with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage will reportedly come in at €350 while the more recently launched nova…
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