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• “Ok, I’ve had enough Google”: how to deactivate Assistant
  

  Google Assistant can be wonderful and make our lives easier, but it can also be activated unintentionally and become quite a nuisance. In this article, you can learn how to turn off Google Assistant.(This is a preview – click here to read the entire en…

• Google expands bug bounty program beyond security vulnerabilities to large-scale platform abuse methods
  

  

  Elite hackers aren’t the only thing Google has to worry about when it comes to its platforms. Perhaps just as pernicious are simple abuses of its systems and products — often stumbled upon by an average person with too much time on their hands. For instance, finding ways to purchase items from Google without paying, or getting around restrictions on content use and sharing. It’s these issues that the Mountain View tech giant is aiming to uncover by officially expanding its Vulnerability Reward Program to include reports on techniques to successfully bypass its abuse, fraud and spam systems.

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  Google expands bug bounty program beyond security vulnerabilities to large-scale platform abuse methods was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• TensorFlow 2.0 announced with a new focus on usability, preview coming later this year
  

  Most of our audience is at least familiar with seeing the name TensorFlow appear in our coverage. For the uninitiated, Tensor Flow is a machine learning framework/library created by Google that allows developers to leverage the emerging technology for…

• ‘Lazy loading’ feature to speed up browsing now available in Chrome Canary
  

  Web pages are becoming more and more complex, but browser vendors have been hard at work trying to offset that with performance and caching improvements. For example, Service Workers allow sites to cache certain data locally to speed up load times (or…

• Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference
  

  

  The Play Store has long warned about the dangers of downloading large apps and games over mobile data. Just one big download can wreck your capped data plan. Now, the Play Store appears to have sprouted a new menu option to control this. You can now choose network download preferences.

  Head into your Play Store settings, and the new “App download preference” option should be near the top in the General section.

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  Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12
  

  

  A sad bit news hit Project Fi users’ emails today. Google’s MVNO service is shutting down text forwarding on September 12. While I’m sure not everyone on the carrier uses this feature, I personally have relied on it since joining Fi. 

  

  Google notes that call forwarding to another number will continue to work, so there’s that. One of the reasons I use text forwarding is to keep my original number on Fi while using my Verizon SIM for data.

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  Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12 was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory
  

  If you’ve been a Wear OS user for a while, odds are you’ve noticed that wearable apps in the Play Store are sometimes not very good. Google is looking to change that, and asking nicely didn’t work. Soon, the app quality guidelines that rolled out with…

• Ditch the bloatware and annoying defaults on Samsung devices
  

  Samsung smartphones have more apps and features than you’ll ever need. If you disable the ones you don’t use or want, your Galaxy smartphone will feel faster and better.(This is a preview – click here to read the entire entry.)

• T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local ‘Team of Experts’
  

  

  At its Uncarrier event held today, T-Mobile unveiled several new promotions and services aimed at bolstering its reputation as a customer-friendly, “subversive” wireless brand. Among them: a free year of Pandora Plus for customers, discounted live music tickets from Live Nation, free 30-day service trials, and the official launch of a customer service overhaul.

  The Pandora Plus promotion follows closely after Verizon’s six-month Apple Music promotion, and offers ad-free music with offline listening and unlimited replays and skips.

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  T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local ‘Team of Experts’ was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

• Google One is open to everybody starting today
  

  Google One, Google’s new cloud storage management and product support service, has had a strangely protracted rollout. It was announced all the way back in May, and showed up on the Play Store shortly thereafter. It wasn’t long until invites started g…

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