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AI-Enhanced ‘Circle to Search’ Is Coming to Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8 Phones
The modern generation of Android phones is getting new Google Lens-like features that put Search front and centre in every single app on Android by letting you highlight parts of images or text to generate Search results. The newly-announced Samsung Galaxy S24 and last year’s Pixel 8 models are all getting access to this, and…
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TCL’s New Tablets and Phones Feature Paper Displays
At its CES press conference today, TCL announced quite a few things but seemed most proud of the Nxtpaper 3.0 display technology. The company believes it could be a game-changer. Nxtpaper is a kind of wellness display technology that looks and feels like paper more than a harsh, glaring, harmful screen. According to TCL, 70%…
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Everything Big Tech Killed Off in 2023
Big Tech went on a murder spree in 2023. We saw the end of many once-loved products and services, all swallowed up into the great dark pit of corporate consolidation. Few companies kept their knives sheathed, and if this year taught us anything, 2024 is likely to be just as bloody. This was a bad…
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Google Finally Stops Handing Your Location Data to Cops
Google announced changes to the way it harvests your location data this week that will finally put a stop to its compliance with geofence warrants, a police surveillance technique that many say circumvents the Constitution. On Tuesday, the company published a blog post explaining that over the next year, Google Maps will stop sending data…