Show Notes
- App News
- Researchers find 17 apps that bombard users with battery draining ads
- You can now use Duo without a phone number
- Google Phone app might add call recording support
- Open Source Alternatives to Google Maps
- WhatsApp only the second non-Google app to hit 5 billion installs
- gesturePlus customizes the Android 10 Gestures.
- Google might let you teach it how to pronounce names in your contact list.
- In Other News
- Google starts the process necessary to allow Fi and Voice on the same account
- Smaller tech companies warn Congress that Amazon, Google, and Apple are killing competition
- Carousel of Progress marks its 45th anniversary at Disney World. From 1967-1963 it was at Disneyland, prior to this, the World’s Fair.
- NBC Peacock service launches this spring and will be free for Comcast and Cox customers, as well as an ad supported free tier.
- We now suspect that Wyze Person Detection was terminated because Apple bought the provider.
- All new Chromebooks will get at least 8 years of automatic updates
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