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Google’s Family Link brings Android phones to preteens – CNET
The parental oversight tool that opens up Gmail accounts and other services needing a Google account…
Firefox Quantum challenges Chrome in browser speed – CNET
A beta version lets you test whether Mozilla's newly named web browser, replete with changes built…
Chinese government blocks WhatsApp chat service – CNET
Facebook might have to lower its billion-user tally now that its encrypted text-messaging service is reportedly…
Alphabet internet balloons could talk to your phone in 2019 – CNET
Project Loon gets more down to earth with plans to graduate from "moonshot" research idea to…
Apple’s Siri ditches Bing search for Google – CNET
If you'd rather see Google answering the questions that stump Siri, good news: Microsoft's Bing got…
Want innovation? Upgrade your PC, not your phone, says HP – CNET
Ron Coughlin, head of HP's personal computer group, believes his industry is sizzling, not stagnant. Also:…
Get ready for magic morphing fonts in your browser – CNET
Chrome and Safari can handle OpenType Variable Font tech that should open up design possibilities while…