Qi2 is a great short-term fix that will stifle innovation

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Qi2 brings an open standard so any phone can have MagSafe charging. Compatibility issues and market conditions mean it could stop the next great thing from happening.

Google will let you search your Chrome browsing history by asking questions like a human

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You’re neck deep in a research project but the finish line is in sight. You hit the close button on your browser. It vanishes and takes the dozens of tabs you had open with it. You heave a sigh of relief — and then remember that you need to verify just one more detail from one of the web pages you had open. The problem is that you have no idea which one it was or how to get back there. You start

Desktop Chrome is getting a feature that’s a lot like Circle to Search

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Google Lens in desktop Chrome is getting an AI-powered upgrade that could make it feel like a desktop version of Circle to Search. As part of a Chrome update, Google will let you click a new button right in the search box to activate Google Lens so you can select things that you want to search for. Then, thanks to a sidebar that pops up right within

Chrome is going to use AI to help you compare products from across your tabs

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Google wants to help ease the pain of comparison shopping across multiple tabs in Chrome with a new AI-powered tool that can summarize your tabs into one page.

The tool, which Google is calling “tab compare,” will use generative AI to pull product data from tabs you have open and collect it all into one table. Assuming it works and pulls accurate information

Spectre Divide is a fascinating Valorant-like shooter where you control two bodies

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I am getting absolutely stomped in Spectre Divide, the just-revealed 3-on-3 online shooter from a new game studio staffed by talent from Oculus VR, Valorant, Apex Legends, Halo Infinite, and more. I am not good at this free-to-play PC game. But I can’t stop thinking about how I might get good — by intelligently swapping between two

Judge dismisses Republicans’ claim that Gmail unfairly marked its fundraising emails as spam

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A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee that claimed Google’s Gmail inappropriately filtered its emails to users’ spam folders leading up to the 2022 midterm elections.

The case was dismissed with prejudice, meaning that the RNC can’t bring its claims to another court, though it can

The best way to watch the Olympics is on TikTok

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At prime time each night, NBC airs the day’s highlights from the Paris Olympics to tens of millions of people. Viewers have watched the US women’s gymnastics team clinch gold in a “redemption tour” after winning silver in Tokyo; they’ve been in awe when US swimmer Katie Ledecky finished a race, her competitors so far behind her

SiriusXM is launching a standalone podcast subscription service

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SiriusXM just announced a standalone podcast subscription service called SiriusXM Podcasts+. The platform will be available via Apple Podcasts starting August 5 and will offer a “premium listening experience” for some of the “biggest shows across the SiriusXM Podcast Network.”

Subscribers will enjoy an ad-free experience, bonus content and early access to new episodes of popular shows. None of the