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Google Calculator 8.2 adds two-column UI optimized for tablets

Following Lens last week, Google Calculator is the next first-party application to be updated for tablets and other large screen Android devices. Before this update, the tablet UI was just the landscape version of the app with additional functions shown to the left of the number pad (and basic operations). With version 8.2 of Google Calculator, that layout no longer takes up the entire width of…
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Quick Charge Podcast: May 24, 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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Google Discover is getting video ads as new formats come to Search, YouTube Shorts

Google Marketing Live is the company’s annual equivalent of I/O for advertising. The 2022 edition saw Google announce several new shopping and advertising experiences that end users can expect in the coming year, including Discover video ads. YouTube Shorts has been testing ads since last year, and Google announced today that it’s “now gradually rolling that out to all advertisers around the…
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How to disable video autoplay in Google Discover on Android

Google Discover is a wonderful tool and something I end up using every single day. Unfortunately, even great tools have features you may want to disable for various reasons. One of those features is video preview autoplay. Here’s how to disable Google Discover’s YouTube video autoplay function. Table of contents What are YouTube video previews in Google Discover? How to disable YouTube video…
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