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New Google Home Update

Google Home Gets New Premade Voice Assistant Actions

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Google Home is getting a set of new premade voice assistant actions. Google calls them pre-defined actions, but the point is, you can skip a lot of the busywork that makes actions in automations a time consuming endeavor. For example, new "pre-defined voice...
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iPhone RCS E2EE Encryption

Apple Starts Testing Encrypted RCS on iOS

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Apple released a new iOS 26.4 beta this week and it brings the RCS feature we've all been waiting for. After code diggers discovered that encryption was in the works for RCS on iOS, Apple has gone ahead and pushed an initial test for it live in this new beta....
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Google Photos Gets a Fresh New Design

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Opening Google Photos on an iPhone this morning showed us an upcoming design change that could land on Android in the near future. Google appears to be readying a new bottom bar that takes on some style ideas from Apple's newest design language, without...
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Telegram Android Update

Telegram on Android Gets “Massive” Redesign

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Telegram announced this week that it has pushed out a major update to the Android version of its messaging app. They are calling this a "massive redesign," and that's mostly because it is finally catching up to the recent iOS redesign that introduced Apple's...
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Fitbit Personal Health Coach - iPhone

Fitbit’s New Personal Health Coach Arrives on iOS

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In October of last year, Fitbit began rolling out its new Personal Health Coach to Premium subscribers on Android in a Public Preview, giving them an initial taste of what the future of Fitbit could look like. Google and Fitbit were betting big on the idea...
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YouTube Music Lyrics Feature Now Behind Premium Paywall

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Bad news, non-Premium subscribers who use YouTube Music -- the lyrics tab is officially behind a paywall. The feature, if you haven't used it before, has the lyrics scroll automatically as the song plays for you. It's helpful if you're jamming some karaoke or...
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ChatGPT Gets Ads Starting Today

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If you caught the "Big Game" last night, you might've seen a few ads that teased the fact that OpenAI will begin testing ads inside of your ChatGPT sessions starting today. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman labels the ads as "deceptive" in a lengthy post on X,...
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Amazon’s Alexa+ Now Free to All Prime Members

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In February of last year, Amazon launched Alexa+ in early access, its generative AI-powered assistant. This week, Alexa+ is now available to all users in the US. What's even better, it's completely free to Prime members. What to do with Alexa+: Alexa+ is...
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