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Apple and Google have proposed a platform that would let everyone's smartphones become part of a massive national contact-tracing network. Overall, the poll indicates that only 41 percent of American adults have both the technological capacity and the will to use a contact-tracing app.

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Niantic has confirmed that new changes will be implemented that will focus on the ranking system, encounters, rewards and more. With the Pokémon Go Battle League Season 2 about to begin, here’s everything players need to know to prepare, including the schedule and the changes. Trainers who finish the Pokémon Go Battle League Season 2 at rank 7 or higher will receive an Elite Fast TM, rather than an EliteChargedTM.

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With objects like the Rosetta Stone and the Parthenon sculptures in its collection, London’s British Museum has earned its place on many bucket lists. Not only are there more items available for your virtual visit, but the museum has also redeveloped the online search function, making it much easier to find specific objects.

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Open the Google Meet app ( Android iOS/iPadOS Tap “Add New meeting.” You may add an optional meeting nickname if you wish. Click “Save” to finalize and add the event to your calendar, then click “Send.” Your guests will receive an email with the meeting info and links to join.

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Further testing shows that plugging two devices in on the right side may send temperatures soaring, but apparently at least some MacBook laptops don’t respond in the same way. According to his testing, simply having a device plugged into a TB port is enough to raise temperatures by about 10 degrees (even if the TB port isn’t used to provide power).

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WarnerMedia announced last week that its new HBO Max streaming service will launch in May for $15 per month. As expected, there will also be a new HBO Max application that’s available for the fourth-generation Apple TV as well as iPhone and iPad. Those using an older Apple TV model will have to use AirPlay to stream content from their iPhone to the TV.

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Instead of finding and clicking on hyperlinked timestamps and song titles in the video description, this new feature incorporates that metadata right into the red progress bar built within the video player. I presume that this feature still isn’t available for most people, and it doesn’t work for many of the long album uploads that I enjoy listening to on YouTube.

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Unfortunately, the app will not use of the Apple/Google privacy-conscious exposure notification framework, and instead the NHS are rolling their own solution, as reported in a statement to BBC News today. The NHS app will send exposure events to a centralized server, which means it will necessitate that users share more information than if they had adopted the official Exposure Notification API, which Apple and Google are evangelizing.

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It’s emerged that the new iPhone SE, which started shipping last Friday, has a curious feature missing: unlike every other modern iPhone, you’re unable to bring up rich content on the lock screen or notification shade with a “Haptic Touch” long press.

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The Pixel Buds are now available today from the Google Store in Clearly White for $179 and will run for five hours on a single charge; with the carrying case, you can use them for up to 24 hours without running out of battery life.

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Facebook is creating a new video conference version of its Messenger app called Messenger Rooms, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday. The new service will allow users to host a meeting with up to 50 people at once with no time limit. Zoom's free version allows up to 100 people for a maximum of 40 minutes. Facebook users can invite people to Messenger Rooms even if they don't have Facebook accounts

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Apple appears to have created an official account on popular social networking app TikTok, which is a platform designed to allow users to share short videos. Over the course of the last several years, Apple has become more active on social networks, sharing images on Instagram and introducing accounts for Apple support and services on Twitter.

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Bill Gates thinks most countries will fight COVID-19 with interview-based contact tracing and a central database to track exposure. He calls contact tracing, which helps identify and isolate people who could spread the virus, an “ideal way” to stop the pandemic. American health authorities are attempting to rapidly scale up a contact tracing interview system that may require an “army” of disease detectives.

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The pseudoscience category is an especially bad look for Facebook, which has long failed in its efforts to prevent its platform from becoming a vehicle for conspiracy theories and has claimed to be cracking down on advertisers seeking to profit off of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic.

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Introduced as a privacy measure, you can tune how sensitive Smart Displays and speakers will be to “Hey Google,” with the feature now rolling out. Also, Google Assistant might not activate when you say “Hey Google” or “Ok Google,” particularly in a noisy environment. At the top right, tap Device settings “Hey Google” sensitivity.

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Supernatural, a new virtual reality fitness app you can play in your home, makes me sweat so hard I have to guzzle five glasses of water for every 15-minute workout. For Supernatural, you pay a $19-a-month subscription after a 30-day free trial, and you need an Oculus Quest, the virtual-reality headset starting at $399 that won a CNET innovation award last year.

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XRHealth founder Eran Orr has been aiming to position his company as the leading VR health software platform, courting developers to create content that can help people suffering from a variety of ailments. The software is pretty simple, but Orr is hopeful that his startup’s focus on simple exercises can help early patients alter their perception of VR tech.

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The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra employs 9-in-1 pixel binning, which means that the 108MP sensor actually produces 12MP photos. This would still be a massive file size for a smartphone, but what if Samsung was able to use something like 36-in-1 pixel binning, which would reduce 600 megapixels into a 16MP image.

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As schools around the world remain closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new features are designed to let kids increase their contacts on the app under parental supervision. The first new feature, called Supervised Friending, will launch today in the United States before other countries. The second new feature allows parents to approve other adults, like teachers, to add their kids to group chats.

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In addition to the Pocket Camp crossover items you can receive through the series' mobile spin-off, Switch Online members can nab an exclusive Nook Inc. silk rug from the Switch Eshop. If you have your Nintendo Account linked to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, you claim a free New Horizons Special Order Ticket from the My Nintendo menu in the mobile game.

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(The Edge Plus will have antenna for both sub-6GHz and mmWave 5G, though.) Still, it’s confusing to see Motorola trying to fight its way back to the premium phone space while at the same time limiting sales in the US to just a single carrier.

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James McConnell didn't know much about Facebook's Portal until Nan Owen, his 91-year-old neighbor, needed help setting up her video chat device last month as the UK locked down to combat the coronavirus. After she turned to WhatsApp, a Facebook messaging app, to stay in touch, her son sent her a Portal because the social network's video chat device works with the service.

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Celebrities have highlighted the four-year-old video messaging app in recent weeks, saying they’re using it to stay in touch with friends and family while social distancing. Marco Polo is free to use, though it offers a $9.99 monthly subscription that gives people long-term access to their old videos and chats. Bortnik says users’ data is only encrypted in transit, meaning it isn’t encrypted when it’s stored on MarcoPolo’s servers.

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The software giant unveiled Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions just a few weeks ago, and they’re largely designed to replace the existing Office 365 consumer plans with some extra features. “Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions are generally available today worldwide, with additional benefits added over time.”

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Apple only just announced the all-new iPhone SE , but there have already been murmurs around the existence of a bigger version of the phone. However, since we have very limited details at our disposal, we will have to wait for more information to be able to ascertain if Apple is indeed planning to launch the iPhone SE Plus.

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