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Google Maps restores compass when navigating on Android

After initially removing the compass within Maps on Android way back in early 2019, Google has now restored the much-loved feature after fan pressure. The little floating compass widget was unceremoniously ripped from Maps in what Google said was an “effort to clean up the Navigation screen” — which you can see in the header image above. However, in an official support thread, Google…
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BMW’s futuristic-looking electric scooter is ready for production, design filings show

New design filings for the BMW CE 04 show that the radical electric scooter may be closing in on series production. We first caught wind of the BMW CE 04 project last August when BMW registered a slew of new trademarks for motorcycles and scooters. Then we finally got our first look at the new electric scooter last November when the company showed off its CE 04 electric scooter concept, hinting…
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Samsung April 2021 security update is rolling out now to these Galaxy devices

Samsung was once among the worst in the Android world when it came to updates big and small, but in 2021 they’re arguably better than Pixel. Now, Samsung is rolling out the April 2021 security update to its huge lineup of smartphones including Galaxy S21, S20, A52, and more. The April security patch, technically, hasn’t been fully released when Samsung started its rollout. Google follows a…
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Eight Photoshop Visual Pranks To Try on April Fools’ Day

Tomorrow is April Fools’ Day, and with such a bummer of a year leading up to this point (and things are only now just starting to look better in a few places), everyone could use some laughs. To that end, photographer Richard Wakefield shows how you can create eight visual…
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Quick Charge Podcast: March 31, 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 Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…
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