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Google will make opting out of personalized ads on Android more effective this year

Android 12 will feature a slew of privacy features from a new Setting dashboard to the ability to disable app access to the camera and microphone. Another update later this year will make it so that users are better able to opt-out of personalized ads in Android applications. Google Play services has long made available an advertising ID that third-party developers can use to monetize their…
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Samsung has updated these devices to Android 11

It usually takes Android OEMs a fair bit to get the latest version of the OS on older devices, but Samsung has been getting better and better at this every year. For Android 11, the official update schedule kicked off in early December and continues to expand. Here’s every device Samsung has updated to Android 11 so far. This article will be continuously updated with new devices as rollouts…
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Panasonic Launches Lumix S 50mm f/1.8 Full-Frame L-Mount Lens

Panasonic has announced the Lumix S 50mm f/1.8 prime lens, its second of four f/1.8 lenses for L-mount that it plans to release that share a common filter thread size and position of select parts that make them more efficient to produce. The lens is comprised of nine elements arranged in eight groups and includes three aspherical lenses, one extra-low dispersion lens, and one ultra-high…
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Apple stops signing iOS 14.5.1, blocking downgrades from iOS 14.6

Apple today stopped signing iOS 14.5.1, an update that was released in early May with important security fixes. That means users who have updated their devices to iOS 14.6 or iOS 14.7 beta can no longer downgrade to iOS 14.5.1. iOS 14.5.1 was released on May 3 with a fix for a bug that prevented some users from seeing App Tracking Transparency prompts. In addition, the update patched a security…
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