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When you start playing music on your smart display, you’ll see a Cast symbol on the bottom left showing what device is also streaming the song. This will work with most audio apps, including Spotify, Pandora and YouTube Music. Tap the badge and you’ll be taken to a separate panel with all your home’s connected speakers (or Cast-compatible output devices including Chromecasts) on a list. You can tap the devices that you want to have playing the music and use an onscreen slider to tweak how loud each one is. At the top of the list is a master control for volume that allows you to quickly soften the music when it’s too loud, for example. During a demo for Engadget, Chan played Taylor Swift’s Cardigan on a Nest Hub Max, then pulled up the list of other Assistant-enabled speakers available. He...

Fortnite has released its latest season, but millions of its players wont be able to enjoy it: The game has been pulled from Apples App Store, leaving iOS and macOS users unable to update to the highly anticipated Season 4. But this struggle is bigger than one update, one game, or even one company. Fortnites Apple user base is the newest casualty in a years-long antitrust battle between developers and one of the worlds richest companies. Epic Games sued Apple in mid-August, claiming that the companys App Store practices violate the Sherman Act. Epic says that Apples requirement that all mobile apps come through its App Store (and the 30 percent commission Apple charges for app sales and in-app purchases) is a monopoly, and that Epic as well as its fellow developers and their customers sho...

South Korea reported 441 new cases of the coronavirus, its highest single-day total in months, making lockdown-like restrictions look inevitable as transmissions slip out of control. The country has added nearly 4,000 infections to its caseload while reporting triple-digit daily jumps in each of the past 14 days, prompting health experts to warn about hospitals possibly running out of capacity. The 441 cases reported on Thursday was the biggest daily increase since the 483 reported on 7 March. South Koreas Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said 315 of the new cases were from the Seoul metropolitan area, home to half of the countrys 51 million people, where health workers have struggled to track infections linked to various sources, including churches, restaurants, schools and wo...

The images and reports out of California this week are overwhelming: concurrent colossal wildfires laying waste to property and landscapes, freaky orange skies, massive smoke clouds, worseningair quality, more than 64,000 people forced to evacuate, and all of it compounding the risks of Covid-19. The 2020 fire season has been record-breaking, in not only the total amount of acres burned at just over 3 million, but also 6 of the top 20 largest wildfires in California history have occurred this year. pic.twitter.com/CmmhH5wTVX CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) September 10, 2020 If this feels like déjà vu, heres why: Wildfires are growing more common and more severe in California. The most recent season of horror was 2018, which had 10 large fires that eachburned more than 500 acres. Most infamous w...

When you start playing music on your smart display, you’ll see a Cast symbol on the bottom left showing what device is also streaming the song. This will work with most audio apps, including Spotify, Pandora and YouTube Music. Tap the badge and you’ll be taken to a separate panel with all your home’s connected speakers (or Cast-compatible output devices including Chromecasts) on a list. You can tap the devices that you want to have playing the music and use an onscreen slider to tweak how loud each one is. At the top of the list is a master control for volume that allows you to quickly soften the music when it’s too loud, for example. During a demo for Engadget, Chan played Taylor Swift’s Cardigan on a Nest Hub Max, then pulled up the list of other Assistant-enabled speakers available. He...

Sometime next month, iPhone users will start seeing a new question when they use many of the apps on their devices: Do they want the app to follow them around the internet, tracking their behavior? Its a simple query, with potentially significant consequences. Apple is trying to single-handedly change the way internet advertising works. That will affect everyone, from Apples giant tech rivals most notably, Facebook, which announced today that its fighting back against Apples move to any developer or publisher that uses ad technology to monitor what their app users are doing on the internet. Update, September 3, 2020, 1 pm ET: Apple has announced it will delay enforcement of its new rules until early next year to give developers and advertisers time to adapt; it remains unclear how this...

Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma, the German hospital treating him has said. Mr Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany last month after falling ill on August 20 on a domestic flight in Russia. German chemical weapons experts say toxicology tests show the 44-year-old was poisoned with Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, prompting the German Government last week to demand that Russia investigate the case. "The patient has been removed from his medically induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation," Berlin's Charite hospital said in a statement. "He is responding to verbal stimuli. It remains too early to gauge the potentia...