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India’s competition regular has been investigating Google for a while India’s competition regular has been investigating Google for a while India’s competition regulator has been investigating Google for a while now. It has been investigating whether Google has a dominant position in five sectors. Those sectors are: licensable OS for smartphones, app store, web search services, non-OS specific mobile web browsers, and online video hosting. It has been concluded that Google does hold a dominant position in all those areas....

According to 91 Mobile, Instagram on the iOS app users are reporting having to watch Stories that they’ve already seen. This means that if they want to return to a user’s story timeline to pick up where they left off, they’ll have to start from the very beginning. That’s not much of an issue if the user has only two or three Stories up at a time, but it becomes annoying if the user has more than 20....

As of this writing, the July SMR (Security Maintenance Release) for the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+, and Galaxy S21 Ultra is rolling out in a few European countries, including Germany and the UK. The new firmware version for the phones in these regions is G99*BXXS5CVFB. The update should soon reach other markets, including the US. This update for the Galaxy S21 series is unlikely to bring any notable user-facing change. It appears to be all about the latest security fixes....

The LG DualUp has a crazy 16:18 aspect ratio The LG DualUp has a crazy 16:18 aspect ratio We’re all used to seeing displays that are in landscape orientation nowadays; this goes for laptop displays and standalone monitors. Most applications, games, and videos show up the best in a widescreen format. In fact, displays are getting even wider. However, LG has other plans in mind. The new LG DualUp monitor will be slightly taller than it is wide....

For those of you who are keeping count, this is the tenth Pixel feature drop. It is coming to all Google phones since the Pixel 3a. Some new features are included here, while some existing ones are coming to more phones. Do note that the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro will get some exclusive features, exclusive to those two phones, at least for now. So, this update is coming to the Pixel 3a, 4, 4 XL, 4a, 4a 5G, 5, and 5a....