Statebuilder is a Civ-like game designed from the ground-up to play on the web (which I just learned you can play Freeciv itself on, too). I fear my morning is in grave jeopardy of disappearing without trace. Hate playing games on the web? — Read the rest
Google Reader used to be the pinnacle of RSS news consumption before it was discontinued in 2013, and many people are still bitter about its demise. While Google probably won't ever properly resurrect the service, it's currently working on the next best thing: An option to follow websites in Chrome, tapping into RSS. You can try it right now in Chrome Beta 92.
How To Geek reports that you can get started by activating the so-called web feed flag in Chrome Beta under chrome://flags/#web-feed (copy and paste this into your address bar).
Read MoreChrome for Android is getting Google Reader-style RSS powers was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
The majority of us turn to Google Search to discover all kinds of web content, but that might not be the best choice if you care about privacy. In order to improve its results and make more relevant recommendations, Google tracks your activity across the web. If you're looking for a privacy-focussed alternative, we have good news — Brave Search is here to offer another option.
The search engine is currently available in beta and will not track users, their searches, or clicks.
Read MoreYou can now try Brave’s privacy-focused Google Search alternative was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Kotaro and Hana are rambunctious small-clawed otters that are very curious about their human's popcorn machine. In fact, they're so excited, touching and jumping on and sticking their heads into the machine, that the human has to hold it away from the table while getting the popcorn started. — Read the rest
Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so. Today's list is broken up into several segments, ranging from best, average, to mediocre. So whether you're looking for the best games of quality or are simply looking for the latest free-to-play gacha titles, you're covered. This week I have the long-awaited arrival of Crypt of the NecroDancer, a fresh new solo card game from CD Projekt Red, and the official launch for the popular MMO RuneScape Mobile.
Read More12 new Android games from the last week: The best, worst, and everything in between (6/14/21 - 6/20/21) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
A neurointensivist from the University of Texas at San Antonio says he was inspired by a McFlurry straw to create the HiccAway, a straw that he claims will relieve 9 out of 10 hiccup sufferers. The straw has a tiny hole on one end, which makes you have to suck extra hard to draw water through it. — Read the rest
It seems like Google is kind of bullish on its "Workspace" label lately. Originally a replacement for G-Suite, as in the paid upgrade to standard Google services for companies and corporations, the Workspace label is now apparently being applied to everyone that uses Gmail. That's an odd expansion, since previously we've seen that you need to opt into the Workspace interface on Chat and Meet.
Now when you log into Gmail on a desktop browser (and assuming your PC or connection are slow enough that you can actually see it), you'll be greeted with a "Workspace" logo beneath the new multi-colored Gmail "M" envelope logo.
Read MoreEverything is Workspace now, even your free Gmail account was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Coca-Cola lost $4 billion dollars after Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo snubbed the sugary drink for water in front of the press. The simple act of sliding two Coke bottles out of his line of sight, choosing water instead, happened yesterday before a Portugal vs Hungary match. — Read the rest
What better way for a cat to tell her human she doesn't like her new gift than to hilariously fling them off as soon as she takes a few steps? Perhaps a bag of catnip would be a better choice.
Tilly the dog was thrown through the back windshield of his owner's vehicle when it crashed into another car in Idaho on Sunday morning. Tilly's owner, Linda Oswald, spent the next 10 hours trying to find Tilly with the help of other motorists who stopped to help, to no avail. — Read the rest
It's usually closed sliding glass doors that cause the trouble when dogs and humans think they're open and crash right into them. But this poor doggo has it flipped, whining to get into a door that is already wide open. Even when its chuckling humans tell the dog to come in, it takes a while before reality registers – the dog finally tries to tap on the glass, which causes it to stumble in.
This herd of elephants crossing China is pretty soothing to watch take a group nap.
CBS shares a bit about how high the drone pilot kept his camera, so as not to disturb the super cute wild elephants.
You can find toxicity anywhere on the web these days, but YouTube's comments section is a special kind of hell. I'm sure there are some examples of close-knit communities being kind on the world's largest video site, but they're few and far between. YouTube has tried to improve its comments (sorta), but with its latest test, the site is making it possible to read them in fullscreen mode on Android — the one place previously safe from having to interact with your fellow internet users.
Read MoreYouTube is testing a new way for comments to ruin your video experience on Android was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
A couple of weeks ago we saw a surprisingly loud 4-week-old wolf pup in Minnesota as it tried out some new howls. But the same can't be said for its Northwoods mate above. As hard as the baby wolf tries, the attempted howls don't quite cut it, at times sounding more like a timid cat. — Read the rest
The lip-smacking noises this 5-year-old porcupine makes says it all – Rico, who lives at the Cincinnati Zoo, is clearly enjoying that spoon dipped in peanut butter.
This silly pet pig makes it clear it isn't putting up with the irritating sound of a vacuum cleaner. No matter which outlet, which room, this pig finds it and unplugs that no good dagnab noise maker.
When not getting into trouble, Pretzel is pretty good at snoozing.
This four-week-old baby wolf in Minnesota experiments with howling for the first time on its own, according to Voyageurs Wolf Project, and it's much louder – and cuter – than I expected. Way to go pup!
Via Laughing Squid
In 1995, Princess Diana gave a legendary interview to the BBC's Martin Bashir in which she detailed the unpleasantness of the Royal Family and its eldest son, her then-husband Charles: "There were three of us in this marriage."
But in the negotiations before the chat took place, the BBC used fake bank statements to manipulate Diana and her brother into believing there was a palace plot against her, inducing her to agree to the interview as pre-emption. — Read the rest
This animation from Greenpeace UK offers an amusing impression of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson sputtering platitudes about recycling while plastic bottles, boxes and other trash falls like rain and piles up around him. Just when you think it's getting a bit too silly, the kicker comes. — Read the rest
When I lived in NorCal I volunteered at the Marine Mammal Center. I worked a night crew shift feeding, medicating and cleaning up after seals and their babies. A working seal hospital is really cool.
The Marine Mammal Center is run by a skeleton crew of paid folks and a huge army of volunteers. — Read the rest
Memorizing passwords is hard. That's why many of us use the same password across multiple sites. But this practice poses a huge risk, since it only takes one password breach to expose your account data from many different sites.
Not only that: changing passwords is itself a tedious task. You have to navigate to the site, sign in, find the account settings, open the password page — and then save it. Rinse and repeat on all your favorite sites, and that's a lot of work.
The good news is that Chrome comes with a strong password manager built-in. It's been checking the safety of your passwords for a while now. And starting today, whenever Chrome detects a breach, it can also fix any compromised passwords quickly, and safely.
Going forward, Chrome will help you change your passwords with a single tap. On supported sites, whenever you check your passwords and Chrome finds a password that may have been compromised, you will see a "Change password" button from Assistant. When you tap the button, Chrome will not only navigate to the site, but also go through the entire process of changing your password.
Going forward, Chrome will help you change compromised passwords automatically.
Importantly, you can control the entire experience and choose to go through the change password process manually from the start, or at any point during the process. And even if a site isn’t supported yet, Chrome’s password manager can always help you create strong and unique passwords for your various accounts.
Under the hood, Chrome is using Duplex on the Web to power this feature. We first introduced this technology in 2019 so that Google Assistant could help you complete tasks on the web, like buying movie tickets. Since then, we’ve expanded to even more tasks, now helping millions of people every week order food and check in to flights. Powered by Duplex on the Web, Assistant takes over the tedious parts of web browsing: scrolling, clicking and filling forms, and allows you to focus on what’s important to you. And now we’re expanding these capabilities even further by letting you quickly create a strong password for certain sites and apps when Chrome determines your credentials have been leaked online.
Automated password changes are rolling out gradually in Chrome on Android, to users who sync their passwords. It's starting in the U.S., and will become available on more sites and more countries in the coming months.
Password generation, password leak checks, automated password changes and many more safety features were developed at the Google Safety Engineering Center (GSEC), a hub of privacy and security product experts and engineers based in Munich, which opened in 2019. GSEC is home to the engineering teams who work to deliver the safest personal browser experience to everyone, and we look forward to bringing more new features to strengthen the privacy and security of Chrome in 2021.
Do whales really hug? This drone-shot video (below) shows two endangered North Atlantic right whales taking a leisurely swim while embracing one another with their flippers.
From AP:
— Read the restWildlife photographer Brian Skerry and scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the New England Aquarium captured the moment on Feb.
@eidenchorSee how the big guy of more than 300 pounds on board ! #tibetanmastiff #dog
♬ original sound – 🎶🐰Kôn Køn🦁🎶 – 彭十六
This big fella – a 300-pound Tibetan mastiff – needs some human help getting his front paws into the back of a car, but he does his darndest to hoist the rest of himself up on his own. — Read the rest
App shortcuts have been a part of Android for the past several years, and the most useful one from Google is arguably for the Play Store “My apps” page. If the shortcut has recently gone missing on your Pixel, there is fortunately a fix for that problem.
The post Here’s how to get back the missing Google Play Store ‘My apps’ shortcut on Pixel appeared first on 9to5Google.
In September, the last living Monkees, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz, will hit the road for what they say is their farewell tour after 55 years. From a press release:
— Read the rest"The Monkees Farewell Tour" will feature songs that span the band's entire career – from their 1966 self-titled debut album to 2016's Good Times!
These are definitely two large cats yowling at one another, and not two people trying to sound like large cats yowling at one another (though the confusion would be understandable).
Reddit user big_papa_geek posted a video of their cat, Salem, unscrewing and then snapping the lid of a food container before diving in for a snack. "I am honestly not sure if I am more scared or impressed…"
