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A good smart home demands openness: With as many different devices as you’ll need to really get every last corner of your home automated, it’s critical that they all play nicely with each other. For Google Home, part of that means not arbitrarily setting up platform boundaries, and Google’s smart home solution is open for…

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Welcome to episode 43 of The Sideload, a 9to5Google podcast. This week, Will is joined by 9to5’s Daniel Bader for an interview with Fairphone’s CTO Chandler Hatton. The trio discusses the brand-new Fairphone Gen 6+, the company’s first official US launch, the appetite for repairable devices amid the growing RAM crunch, and much more.

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Google said it will change its Search services in the EU in an effort to sidestep some of the €890 million (~$1 billion) in fines levied by the European Commission earlier this summer. The EU charged a fine of €460 million (~$534 million) on claims that Google had abused its dominance in search to prioritize…

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