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Google tidies up its smart home app

Google wants to tidy up the event feed in its Home app to make it easier to see what’s happening in your smart home. An update coming later this month will feature a “clutter free layout,” the search giant says, and it will group related entries to avoid you having to scroll through “a list of repetitive events.” The above screenshot released by the company shows a more concise, streamlined design. Alongside this feed update, the company has officially announced a new… Source link

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Existing home sales fall in February

Homebuying activity faded in February. Existing home sales declined 7.2% to a seasonally adjusted 6.02 million units in February from a month earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The number of sales was down 2.4% from the same month a year ago. January home sales figures were revised slightly down to 6.49 million from 6.5 million. The results came in much higher than analysts’ expectations of a 6.2% month-over-month decline to 6.1 million units, according to… Source link

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Google Home app gets much-needed redesign with interactive buttons

The Google Home app is getting a fresh design that should make it a lot more intuitive, according to a report from 9to5Google. The upcoming 2.49 update will let you interact with your devices from a single screen, resembling the device control panel on phones with Android 11 and up. Judging by the update’s release notes on the App Store, it seems Google is hoping to make the app a lot more user-friendly than what it is right now, saying it should help you “quickly find what you’re… Source link

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How to connect your robot vacuum to Google Home for Google Assistant voice control

Robot vacuums are great for getting the dirty work done for you (admit it, you never cleaned under the couch before you got one, right?). And while these busy little bots can be set on a schedule in their accompanying smartphone apps, or sent on a run with a push of their button, connecting them to Google Home gives you more ways to command them to do your bidding, including just with your voice. The majority of robot vacuums with smartphone apps will work with Google Home for voice… Source link

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Google launches new Google Analytics 4 home page

Google has released a new home page for Google Analytics 4 properties. Google said “the Home page surfaces information that’s relevant to you based on your behavior in Analytics.” Google added that “you can use the page to monitor traffic, navigate around Analytics, and get insights about your websites and mobile apps.” Google said the new home page “provides more personalized content as you continue to use Analytics.” How to see it. To access it, click on… Source link

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Pending home sales fall for a third consecutive month

Homebuying in the U.S. was slower than anticipated in the first month of 2022. Pending home sales, a leading indicator of the health of the housing market, declined for the third straight month. The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index, which tracks the number of homes that are under contract to be sold, fell 5.7% in January from December and dropped 9.5% from the same month a year ago. Contract signings were down across all regions in the U.S. The results came… Source link

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Google is testing a new home page that looks suspiciously like Bing and Yahoo!

Since its launch in 1998, the Google search engine home page has kept its clean and minimalist interface, including the famous Doodles. However, this could be about to change, as the Mountain Viewers are testing a new design, including information such as news, weather and more. If we just stop for a moment to think, we can realize that this idea is not new. The home pages of Yahoo! Bing and MSN have made it their standard to provide us with a good dose of news and “interesting… Source link

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US home price growth stalls in the final month of 2021

Home price growth in the U.S. paused in the final month of 2021, but the full year logged in record gains. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted an 18.8% annual gain in December, unchanged from November. The 20-City Composite posted an 18.6% annual gain, up from 18.3% a month earlier. The 20-City results were higher than analysts’ expectations of an 18% annual gain, according to Bloomberg consensus estimates. “For the year,… Source link

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Rising crime and the work from home conundrum: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, February 22, 2022 Crime, like working from home, is an economic issue Enough already. If there was ever a pithy slogan or rallying cry suited for a leader in crisis, the above sentence would be perfect for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and could be applied on at least two fronts: working from home and the Big Apple’s skyrocketing… Source link

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