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In this week’s Media Briefing, platforms, data and privacy reporter Kate Kaye talks with publishers about what Google extending the third-party cookie’s expiration date means for their advertising businesses. Google’s postponement: reprieve or predicament? Like an early riser leaping from bed before the alarm app buzzes, publishers are largely treating…

It’s been about a decade since I thought about Apple’s old slogan: “There’s an app for that.” That changed this Wednesday. Apple had nothing to do with it, though. Rather, it was an Android app spotted by Android Police. This week, developer Ray W released a new app on Google…

FORMER President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against three of the country's largest tech companies, claiming he and fellow conservatives have been wrongly censored. The class-action suit, filed on Wednesday, takes aim at Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube – as well as Former First Lady Michelle Obama. Read our…

In its latest usability tweak, Google Search has rolled out a new Settings button that makes it easier to access common options from one place as the company also tests out a dark mode toggle that’s easier to access. Over the past day or so, Google appears to have widely…

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday sought to play down concerns that planned anti-doxxing laws could lead to tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google pulling out of Hong Kong, saying anxieties over the legislation will fade in time. An industry group, Asia Internet Coalition, has warned that the three companies…

Gettr, the new pro-Trump social media platform, got off to a rough start this weekend after a number of prominent GOP figures had their profiles hacked on the Fourth of July. Several big-name Republicans were hit on Sunday, including the accounts for Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Marjorie Taylor-Greene and Jason…

There's still no official word from OnePlus itself but there are multiple users on the community forum reporting that an OTA update has been released for the Nord CE 5G. The update bumps up the version of OxygenOS to 11.0.4.4. The new version takes care of some issues, introduces a…

Introduction and Unboxing This is Google's third attempt at the Pixel Buds. The change from the first-generation corded Pixel Buds to last year's true-wireless Pixel Buds was significant, and one that resonated well. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," is very much Google's thinking with the Pixel Buds A-Series.…

No, Google+ isn't coming for your Instagram account -- it's just the Google Messages link preview generator Despite Google’s best efforts to kill off its Google+ social network, it keeps coming back. Remnants of the social network could still be found in the Google Phone app — now something called the…

Synopsis Look what happened in Arizona the other day, that remote desert state where the Canyon is Grand, the motto Ditat Deus (god enriches), and voting machines suspect. Today, it a place of election pilgrimage. Republicans are pitched against Republicans — actually it’s the Bhailog vs Old Fogies — and…