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How to Block YouTube Ads on Your Android TV
The experience of watching YouTube videos somehow keeps getting worse, and if you watch them on your smart TV, get ready to begin seeing a lot of unskippable 30-second ads before your video has even started. As if that isn’t bad enough, YouTube may also start showing you ads when you pause a video. Fortunately,…
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Your Pixel’s Alarm Clock Has a Weird but Fatal Flaw
Whomst among us still relies on a traditional alarm clock to wake up? It’s one more task smartphones have come to dominate in their brief tenure. But both options have their pros and cons: A (charged) smartphone will never fail on your because your power went out overnight. (The McCallister family would’ve enjoyed a nice…
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There’s Finally An AirDrop for Windows and Android Users
AirDrop has been a source of pride for Apple users for more than a decade now, and a sore point for many who want a simple solution for sharing files between Windows and Android. But after years of struggling with different standards and technologies, Google and Microsoft have finally figured this one out: Google’s Nearby…
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Use Google to Translate Text in Any Image
Let’s say you have an image you need to translate. Maybe it’s a still from a show, and it uses subtitles in another language. Perhaps it’s a photo of a sign with instructions or directions that you can’t read. You might have a screenshot of an article on your phone that you’d like to learn…