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The Phone by Google (as it’s officially named) app is losing a “Nearby Places” feature that “allowed business name search queries entered into the Phone app to provide local business phone number results beyond just your personal contacts.”  Google says “only a very small number of people use this feature” as the “vast majority of users go to Google Search or Maps when seeking business-related phone numbers.” Some people liked this capability for… Source link

Matt Reeves and Lizzy Caplan on the set of Cloverfield, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this month. (Photo: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection) Fifteen years ago, Matt Reeves launched the Cloverfield universe by shepherding the 2008 found-footage monster movie to the big screen. The film’s $175 million global gross ensured that there would be plenty more cinematic universes in Reeves’s future, including the Planet of the Apes-verse and, more recently, the Bat-verse branch of the DC… Source link

LAS VEGAS — Nate Diaz put on a vintage performance Saturday in the main event of UFC 279 at T-Mobile Arena, submitting Tony Ferguson with a guillotine choke at 2:52 of the fourth round in the new main event. Diaz left the door open for a return to the UFC, but said he planned to show fighters how to take over another sport. “I want to get out of the UFC for a minute and show all these UFC fighters how to take over and own up another sport how you’re supposed to do it,” Diaz said in the… Source link

Alex Kantrowitz Elon Musk appeared to indicate “X.com” could become a Twitter competitor. Musk bought the domain name in 2017 from PayPal as it had “sentimental value.” Twitter is attempting to force Musk to buy the social media company in court for $44 billion. Elon Musk teased a possible Twitter competitor if he isn’t forced to go through with the $44 billion deal. Musk responded to a question on Twitter as to whether he’d launch his own site by simply tweeting “X.com” on Tuesday. The comment… Source link

New leaks from a marketing site appear to confirm that the camera for the Pixel 6 will have a new Magic Eraser feature, and the devices will apparently get five years of Android security updates (h/t 9to5 Google) According to reliable leaker Evan Blass, the Carphone Warehouse website was showing images of Google marketing materials for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro (the images have since been taken down, but you can view the earlier versions of the Carphone Warehouse pages on the Wayback… Source link

(Credit: Google) Google appears ready to debut the much-rumored Pixel 4a on August 3. On Thursday, the company’s “Made by Google” social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter were updated to show a new background image mentioning the phone, which was spotted by 9to5Google.  The company has also created a special web page on the Google Store that reveals a little more—after you solve a puzzle. The company covered the remaining words to this phrase, “The Google ___ ____ ____ ____… Source link

Google’s next budget phone, the Pixel 4A, is likely just days away from going on sale. The company has posted a teaser on its online store, saying that “the Google just what you’ve been waiting for phone” will be revealed on August 3rd. 9to5Google spotted the page. To unlock the full message, you need to tap the various boxes until the colors match Google’s logo: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, and red. Google has also updated some of its social media images (like the header for… Source link