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How to Get Google Assistant on Your PC
One day, every digital assistant will be at our fingertips no matter what platform we prefer — so yelling at Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, or whoever else comes along will be as easy as clicking an icon and fumbling through verbal commands. Until then, however, there’s clever workarounds to get things like Google Assistant on…
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How to Pretty Up Your Photos With Google’s ‘Portrait Lighting’ on Pixel
Who needs the newest Pixel, anyway? Google is now rolling out its “Portrait Lighting” feature — previously announced during the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 launches — to older devices. I just fired it up on my Google Pixel 3 XL, and found it a great tool for artificially tweaking the light source of…
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How to Change Your Default Music Player in iOS 14.5
It’s rare to see Apple add options to iOS that allow you to set the app you actually want to use to accomplish something as the default, rather than forcing you to use the official Apple app. And while I doubt you’ll ever be able to use anything other than the App Store to get…
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Don’t Let Google Scare You Into Paying for Google Photos
Google Photos is going away soon — or at least, the useful free service we used to store years’ worth of photographs is finally getting hit with a storage limit. Go beyond that, and you’ll have to pay to store your photos. That’s not great, but what’s almost as annoying are the scare tactics Google is…