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After a lot of back and forth and Apple rejecting Facebook’s standalone iOS app version of its gaming service, the social media platform has followed in the footsteps of Microsoft and launched a web app of its young gaming platform for iPhone and iPad. Apple has seen a lot of criticism from Microsoft, Facebook, and more about its policy to not allow apps on iOS that function as game services.

The Tokyo Olympics are set to begin on Friday, and keeping in that friendly competitive spirit, Google is launching “Champion Island,” their largest-ever Doodle game, letting you compete for one of four teams across seven different minigames and explore a fantastic world. Created in partnership with STUDIO4°C, a respected Japanese animation studio, this latest Google Doodle lets you take on…

As of last month, all personal Google Accounts can enable the new Gmail that supports Chat and Rooms. The latter aspect, which will soon be renamed to “Spaces,” allows for large-scale productivity. Gmail now supports opening a Google Slides presentation directly to allow for multitasking with Chat.  Since launch, Gmail Rooms have only supported opening and editing Google Docs or Sheets for…

As Google’s Android TV platform continues to expand, the TVs running it are only getting better. For the past couple of months, I’ve been using the Hisense U8G that runs Android TV with a great display, and importantly, much better software performance than I expected. Table of contents Display & hardware: In a word, excellent Sound: As good as you’ll get outside of a…