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Google Home is getting deeper Gemini integration and a new widget

Ars Technica

Google AI will also plug into a new Android widget that can keep you updated on what the smart parts of your home are up to. The company has announced new automation capabilities with generative AI, as well as better support for third-party devices via the Home API.

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Accessibility Widgets and Plugins: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There’s no easy way to say this, but in most cases, it’s better if you uninstall that plugin (or overlay, or widget)— it’s not going to have the impact you intended. Let’s talk about overlays (and plugins and widgets). For this article, I’m using the words ‘overlay’, ‘plugin’, and ‘widget’ interchangeably. That’s important!

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How to work with the Windows 11 Widget panel

The Verge

Windows 11 has introduced a brand new Widgets panel, where you can access a variety of updated information using configurable topic boxes (what Microsoft calls information cards). Here’s how to make the most of the current Windows 11 widgets. Access your widgets. Adjust your widgets.

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Google’s new Gmail widget highlights the problems with iOS widgets

The Verge

Google’s Gmail application has been updated for iOS 14 with a new widget — but it’s probably not the kind of Gmail widget you may have been hoping for. Right now, there’s just a single iOS 14 Gmail widget that just does one thing: offer quick links to your inbox, the compose menu, or search. Gmail’s seems. questionably helpful.

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Spotify now has its own iOS 14 widget

The Verge

Today, the leading subscription music service announced the launch of its widget for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. Similar to Apple’s own widgets for Apple Music, Spotify’s serve as a means of quickly getting back to something you were recently listening to. The small widget displays just whatever you were playing last while using the app.

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Music Widget brings back the original Mac OS X iTunes widget

The Verge

Way back in 2005, Apple released Mac OS X Tiger, and with it, the original implementation of widgets on the Mac through its Dashboard software. Music Widget only works with the Apple Music app, though— Spotify (or other music apps) won’t work with the widget. I have an early beta version of my Music Widget up for download.

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Instagram mulls iPhone widget for easier account switching

Digital Trends

Instagram is reportedly developing an iPhone widget that would make it a lot easier to switch between multiple accounts.

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