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[ad_1] (Pocket lint) – Have you ever been on hold? For example, have you called a customer service line or your bank and been subjected to, well, elevator music? A new Android feature, called Hold for Me, could make those situations a little less unbearable. Here is everything you need …

[ad_1] Google has ditched the face scanner on its flagship Pixel smartphone, just a year after introducing it with fanfare. The search giant announced two new 5G Pixel phones at its annual hardware event, a bite-sized keynote that lasted just 30 minutes, and both featured fingerprint sensors instead of the …

[ad_1] Even though Tuesday night’s debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden was called the potentially most-watched debate in American history, early ratings paint a different picture. Nielsen found that television viewership declined by more than 35% since the first debate in 2016, which maintains the title …

[ad_1] Eliud Kipchoge has rejected suggestions that the next generation of groundbreaking Nike shoes violate the spirit of the sport, although he has admitted that they could give him a big advantage in Sunday’s London Marathon. The world record holder confirmed that he would wear the Alphafly Next% s, which …

[ad_1] This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it during the week. Facebook’s changes under the hood are a power grab. My colleague Mike Isaac wrote about Facebook’s latest step in making its apps, its main social network, Instagram, and the …

[ad_1] Disney’s theme park division has long been one of its most lucrative businesses. Now, after years of reliably generating huge profits, it has been wiped out in the span of a few months by the coronavirus pandemic. Yesterday, the company announced it was laying off 28,000 employees at its …

[ad_1] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Today, the Center for African Leadership Studies (CALS) and xHub Addis announced that Ethiopia’s first cohort of business mentors for entrepreneurs and business leaders will graduate via virtual ceremony on Friday, October 2, 2020. The Mentor Development Program, which was moved online due to the limitations …

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook began allowing people to use the Instagram photo-sharing app and the Messenger messaging app to communicate with each other on Wednesday, as part of a planned integration of the social network’s top messaging apps. With the changes, people who use Instagram can now send photos, …

[ad_1] Today, Google will announce Pixel 5 and 4A 5G. Well, not so much “announce” but launch, as the company already told us these phones would be coming when it announced the Pixel 4A in early August. We know what to expect because these phones have been leaked in every …

[ad_1] A few weeks after the Ethiopian government introduced new banknotes to combat organized crime, the police seized counterfeit banknotes from the new coins circulating in the city of Bahir Dar in the Amhara region. The two individuals captured in the city of Bahir Dar with 200 and 100 counterfeit …