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Alphabet said it will remove links to news from Canadian publishers on its Google search engine after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government passed a law requiring digital platforms to pay local news outlets.  The Online News Act “creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply…

Google says it plans to remove Canadian news links from its search results and other major products once Canada’s hotly contested Online News Act takes effect in the coming months. The bold show of force comes less than one week after Meta announced it would cut off Canadian users’ access…

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June Wan/ZDNETThe Google Pixel's minimal approach to Android has never won any awards for native customization and configurability; not with the likes of Samsung's One UI and OnePlus' OxygenOS in contention.  That's why I'm always excited when I discover useful features tucked within tabs and tabs of settings, hardly utilized…

        | Published: Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 11:11 Google has officially launched the Pixel Fold for sale in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan. But what sets this foldable phone apart from the competition is its groundbreaking user-repair option, made possible through Google's partnership…

Stories. They're everywhere. The feature pioneered by Snapchat in 2013, and embraced to a rather ridiculous extent by Meta and baked into everything from Facebook to Facebook Messenger to Instagram (most successfully, by far) to WhatsApp, experimented with by Google even, is now on its way to Telegram. On that…

Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that YouTube is considering adding online games that would be playable on the site and within the mobile app. According to the report, Google employees were recently invited to try out a new product called Playables. Users can play the games from a…

Image: Google While long-time tech observers were basically waiting for Google’s Stadia game streaming to die the minute it was announced, there’s no denying that the low-latency tech was cool. And, according to a recent report, Google isn’t abandoning it… or at least the company isn’t ready to let go…

This summer, Google will leverage the over 1 billion Android devices out there to locate tracker tags and headphones. As part of this, Find My Device is getting a new logo. For the past several years, the icon for the Find My Device app on Android has been a white…

Welcome to another week's recap. Interestingly enough, our top story of the week was Nothing's transparent USB-C cable for the Phone (2). The cable has the brand's engraving as well as six tiny circles, which we hope are LEDs, but are likely just part of the design. While on the…