Google is preparing a redesign of the Home app that focuses in on Gemini and AI features, and I’m a little nervous about it, but still optimistic. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted newsletter that highlights the biggest Google stories with added commentary and other tidbits. Sign up here to get it delivered to your …
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Acer’s new Chromebook Plus Spin 514, announced at IFA 2025 in Berlin, Germany, is the company’s first laptop to use the Arm-based MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 processor. That chip was used in the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 that launched earlier this summer, and it was key to delivering excellent performance and marathon battery life in that fanless laptop. I dubbed …
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Editor’s note: This is part of our Countdown to Kickoff series, in which we highlight the NFL’s top teams, players, predictions and storylines to watch as the 2025 season begins. It could always be worse — in Dallas at least. Responses for The Athletic’s second annual Hope-O-Meter — the poll which measures how optimistic fans are about their team heading …
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Fernando Alonso has claimed that it is not “within our reach to fight with the McLarens” for pole at the Dutch Grand Prix, despite finishing second fastest in Friday practice. The Spaniard was just 0.087s behind pacesetter Lando Norris in Free Practice 2 at Zandvoort having also claimed the fourth fastest time in the day’s earlier one-hour session. The performance …
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Quarterback Shedeur Sanders (12) during joint practices with the Philadelphia Eagles on Day 13 of Training Camp at the NovaCare Complex on August 13, 2025. Photo courtesty of the Cleveland Browns.Cleveland Browns PHILADELPHIA — The Browns are hopeful that Shedeur Sanders heals quickly enough from his oblique strain to face the Rams next week in the dress rehearsal game Aug. …
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The Browns will evaluate Dillon Gabriel’s hamstring Saturday morning, but they are optimistic the rookie will start the preseason game against the Eagles, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. Gabriel strained his hamstring Aug. 2 and didn’t return to full participation in practice until this week. Veterans Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett and rookie Shedeur Sanders will not play this week. …
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