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With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. Google announced the release of Android 14, ...

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Fresh on the heels of its Made by Google event where it revealed all the details on the latest Pixel phones and Pixel Watch 2, Google has dropped the latest version of its Android operating system.

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