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Google Search gets modernized weather card on desktop web

February 23, 2021
Google Weather in Search for Android was last redesigned in 2019, and the desktop experience is now seeing a handful of tweaks that help modernize the old UI. The changes are subtle, starting with the temperature being the first piece of information displayed in the top-left. This is followed by precipitation, humidity, and wind next to it, while the right corner now shows the location, time…
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Nintendo teases Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 port for Switch

February 23, 2021
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is probably on its way to the Nintendo Switch. Tony Hawk, Activision, Nintendo, and Crash Bandicoot all teased the possibility in posts on Twitter today. This started with Tony Hawk posting a tweet asking for Crash Bandicoot’s help. “Just…
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Roblox plans to list shares on March 10, reports 82% revenue growth to $923 million for 2020

February 23, 2021
Roblox, the platform for user-generated games, will go public through a direct listing of its shares on March 10. The company also reported that it lost $253.3 million on revenues of $923.9 million for the year ended December 31. The San Mateo, California-based company original planned for an initial public offering last fall, but it postponed that plan and raised $520 million in funding from…
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LG denies the Rollable phone has been put on hold

February 23, 2021
LG Electronics has told The Verge that the company’s phone with a resizable screen, the LG Rollable, has not been put on hold. “I can firmly deny that any such decision on future mobile products has been finalized,” says an LG spokesperson. The denial comes in response…
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Concept: The natural next step for the iOS emoji keyboard after search is favorites

February 23, 2021
As Apple adds more emoji with each subsequent iOS update, it’s getting harder and harder to sift through all them just to find the emoji you want to use. The “frequently used” emoji panel helps with this to some extent, but it is dynamic and only “remembers” so many. Typing descriptors to search for emoji can be tedious, and what if you don’t know the proper search terms to bring up…
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Twitter relaunches ‘review before you tweet’ prompt on iOS to discourage offensive replies

February 23, 2021
Back in May of 2020, Twitter started testing a feature on iOS aimed at helping users rethink a reply before hitting the send button when it might contain offensive language. After pausing the testing, Twitter has announced today that it has relaunched the experiment. Here’s how Twitter described the feature when testing first started last year: When things get heated, you may say things you…
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