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Saturday, Feb 28

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra vs. Google Pixel 10 Pro XL: This one's seriously close

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Between Samsung and Google's best phones to start 2026, here's how to pick the right one for yourself.

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Google dropped dark web monitoring: Should you care?

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Google's Dark Web Report removal eliminates automated breach scanning for users, though Security Checkup and Password Manager remain available as alternative security tools.

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Google Maps Could Soon Let You Restyle Street View With AI

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Leaked code reveals Google Maps is testing Nano Banana AI to let users restyle Street View images, bringing generative AI to over 2 billion users

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect — Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially…

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)

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Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more — Reiner Pope is the co-founder and CEO of MatX, designing specialized chips…

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Google exposes MASSIVE Chinese cyber espionage campaign targeting 42 countries

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(NaturalNews) Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) uncovered UNC2814 (Gallium), a Chinese-linked hacking group that infiltrated 53 organizations across 42 ...

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With free storage at max from Google to Shutterfly to Snap, the price for your memories is rising

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With close to half of Americans having over 1,000 photos on phones, the era of free cloud storage is ending. Keeping your memories now comes at a rising cost.

Google wants Intrinsic to be 'Android of robotics' as it pushes into physical AI

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In folding its Intrinsic project into the main company and out of "Other Bets," Google is aiming to mimic its Android strategy for robots.

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These 6 Google apps are irreplaceable on my Android phone

It’s fashionable to dislike Google, and I completely understand. Sometimes I even partake if the negative sentiment is warranted. We all have our gripes with Android, not to mention the Pixel smartphones that barely change year-on-year and…

It looks like Google wants you to look at Nano Banana, not Pixel Studio, after this patch

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Google reportedly started removing Gen AI tools from the Pixel Studio app.

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Open Letter from Google and OpenAI Employees Raises Concerns About Potential Military AI Use

Reviewed by Ayaz Khan. An open letter, titled "We Will Not Be Divided" (as of February 28, 2026) signed by 573 current employees of Google and 93 current employees of OpenAI calls on company leadership to decline requests described in the…

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How Google’s New ‘Circle To Search’ Is Stepping Up Nigeria’s Fashion Game

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If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram and taken a screenshot of a ‘killer’ outfit on a fashion influencer, you know the struggle. You spend the next forty minutes hunting through…

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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

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Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

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I took 200 photos on the Leica Leitzphone and the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL to see which is better — and it’s not even close

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I put the Leica Leitzphone and the Google Pixel 10 Pro XL through a 10-round showdown to test their main cameras, zooms, macro performance, and more.

Friday, Feb 27

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I just tried the new Leitzphone with a powerful Leica lens — and this might be the phone to finally take me away from Google Pixel

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Leica's first-ever smartphone, the Leitzphone, is a joy to use and photograph your life's moments with. Here are my first impressions after using it for a week.

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Looking for a ‘dumb TV’ experience? I found a hidden Google TV feature that lets you use your smart TV offline

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If you don’t want to sign up for a Google Account or you’d rather not connect your Hisense, Sony or TCL TV to the internet at all, there's a hidden feature in the Google TV smart platform that lets you use your smart TV offline, like a …

Change to Google Messages brings a unified look to the app

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Businesses trying to contact you via RCS are getting an updated profile on the app.

I pitted an $8,000 Leica against my $1,100 Google Pixel 10 Pro XL — here's how it went

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The Leica Q3 Monochrom shoots only in black-and-white, and you can apply monochromatic software filters to photos taken on the Pixel 10 pro XL. Both are great!

Waze vs Google Maps: Which app has the best incident reporting?

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Waze popularized incident reporting, but Google Maps has since caught up. But which of these two apps does it best?