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Google’s Pixel feature drop brings battery, bedtime, safety, and Assistant changes

Since late last year, every few months Google rolls out a handful of new features that are exclusive to Pixel-branded smartphones, and the latest Pixel feature drop is rolling out starting today. The update includes a handful of changes that could help extend a phone’s battery life, help you get a better night’s sleep, and […]

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Google’s Envelope makes your smartphone dumber with a piece of paper (Digital Wellbeing Experiments)

A few months after launching the first in a series of Digital Wellbeing Experiments designed to help smartphone addicts use their phones less, Google is back with a few new unusual ideas. The most unusual of the bunch? Envelope. It’s an app that lets you wrap your phone in a paper envelope so that you […]

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Google’s Paper Phone lets you print what you need, leave the phone at home

Over the past year or so, Apple and Google have started adding features to their smartphone operating systems to… encourage you to use your phone less. It’s kind of weird that we’ve reached a point where smartphone addiction is a widespread enough concern that companies are trying to find ways to help you put your […]