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Android Gingerbread, you’ve lived a good life. Now it’s time to rest. Photo: Gizmodo Whether you’re running it for a nostalgic feel or you’ve held on to a device for too long, it’s time to say goodbye to the decade-old Android Gingerbread. Google is officially laying it to rest. As of Sept. 27, the company will no longer allow devices running the vintage version of Android 2.3.7 or lower to connect with Google services, effectively cutting off every essential part of being an Android… Source link

Google is ditching a massively unpopular auction format that underpins an choice screen it offers in the European Union, it said today. Eligible search providers will be able to freely participate. The auction model was Google’s ‘remedy’ of choice — following the 2018 EU $5BN antitrust enforcement against Android — but rivals have always maintained it’s anything but fair, as we’ve reported previously (here, here, here, for eg). The Android choice screen presents users in… Source link

Microsoft Edge Kids Mode is designed to let kids browse the web safely, without forcing parents to deal with cumbersome parental control software. (Image: Microsoft) Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday debuted a new kids mode for its Edge web browser, the first such feature from any major browser. The move, the company says, is meant to ensure that parents can let their children jump online without worrying about the kind of content they’ll come across. Available starting today, Microsoft Edge Kids… Source link

Nest Hub 2 with Sleep Sensing Google Google on Tuesday unveiled the second-generation Nest Hub, a smart display and speaker that can track your sleep using a built-in radar sensor. It launches on March 30 for $99 but customers can order it beginning Tuesday. This is the latest way Google is trying to make its smart home hub stand out from similar devices sold by Amazon and Facebook, and it’s the first to offer sleep tracking. The second-generation Nest Hub looks similar to the first model, which… Source link

Bloomberg Just How Big and Important Is Sanjeev Gupta’s Metals Empire? (Bloomberg) — Sanjeev Gupta is fighting to save his sprawling empire after Greensill Capital, its biggest lender, collapsed into administration.While the markets for GFG Alliance’s steel mills and aluminum smelters are buoyant, a court filing revealed on Monday that Gupta’s group had told Greensill in February that it would be insolvent without its funding.That casts a shadow over operations that employ about 35,000… Source link

Terraria Re-Logic Google Stadia made news this month when it announced it was shutting down its original first party production house, and would instead focus on third party partnerships for the service going forward. But one of those may be on the rocks, according to a recent thread from Terraria creator Andrew “@Demilogic” Spinks. In a thread posted late last night, Spinks lamented about how he has been locked out of his Google Account for… Source link

Google plans to release a version of Chrome that will run natively on Apple’s new Macs with Arm-based processors on Wednesday, according to Mark Chang, a Chrome product manager. Google actually began rolling the new version out Tuesday, but paused the rollout because that version may have crashed unexpectedly. In theory, a native version of the notoriously resource-hungry browser might run more efficiently on Apple’s Arm-based computers. In our reviews of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro,… Source link

(Pocket-lint) – Could Apple one day take Google’s throne as the king of search? Maybe. The Cupertino company has been “stepping up efforts” to develop a rival to Google Search, according to a new paywalled Financial Times report. Since iOS 14 released, Apple has begun to show web search results and… Source link