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2020 will be a year of refinement for Android phones

We wouldn’t blame you if you were a little disheartened by the state of the Android world this time last year.

I finally switched from Chrome to Mozilla Firefox — and you should too

I have been in an on-and-off relationship with Mozilla Firefox for the past five years.

Google Assistant now lets you torment roommates with ‘household notes’

Forget about the good ol’ passive-aggressive refrigerator note: Google Assistant will soon let you leave digital “household notes” directly on your Android-enabled Smart Display devices.

How Germany is preparing for the rise of the electric car

Electric cars and hybrids are a major part of Germany's climate policy.

[ESCAPES FROM THE HEAT] A Book about Growth—In Every Sense

After astronaut Rusty Schweickart looked down on Earth from space for the first time, he described a sense of awe that has become common to almost every space traveler since: “You realize that on that little blue and white thing there is everything that means anything to you, all history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, all of it on that little spot out there you can cover with your thumb.