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DFINITY USA hosts DFINIHACK with 18 teams pushing the limits of DFINITY’s Internet Computer Blockchain

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Consistent innovation and the development and testing of new ideas are the lifeblood behind any successful organization, project, or individual. When new ideas surface, it is best to nurture, develop, and once ready, share them with the rest of the world to bring further inspiration. But the best ideas don’t often come from one person, or even one company. They are the result of collaboration — partnerships not just inside an entity, but with external parties, organizations, customers, and end users.

It may be difficult to believe, but the first hackathon — an event where software developers put their coding skills to work — was held more than 20 years ago, when 10 developers came together in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, with the goal of writing a program for the Palm Pilot, a personal digital assistant (PDA) that existed in the days before the iPhone. Since then, countless hackathons have been held around the world — inspiring cross-border collaboration that never could have been imagined, and bringing new innovations, ideas, and thought processes to push boundaries and think laterally.

The DFINITY Foundation, which is the primary developer behind the Internet Computer blockchain, recently hosted DFINIHack, a two-day internal hackathon. The event was DFINITY’s second internal hackathon, succeeding the June 2020 Tungsten event. 

Like hackathons of years past, DFINITY was not looking to host just any hackathon. Rather, this particular event looked to achieve several objectives following the completion of the competition. These goals included:

  • Inspiring the creation of new use cases for the Internet Computer
  • Provide an overall update to improve the developer experience — through assessment of existing resources and documentation
  • Promote DFINITY’s builder culture

Anyone who has ever witnessed or participated in a hackathon knows that it is adrenaline filled and chaotically fast. With teams working late into the night fueled with nothing but coffee, energy drinks, and pizza, participants are pushed to their physical and mental limits in creating, testing, debugging, and eventually presenting an end product. DFINIHack was no exception. It was intense to the very end, and each of the teams brought their very best during this two-day competition sprint.

The Winning Projects

Alas, despite the 18 teams that participated across five different time zones, only three winners could be crowned. Among the winners included projects that:

  • Focused on the synchronization of data across all of a user’s devices via end-to-end encryption (Project IC Vault)
  • Produced an app to securely store and manage a user’s identity and sensitive information; users could also directly authenticate through this app on-chain and thereby obtain access to other attributes (Project PrivIC)
  • Resulted in the creation of a decentralized application (Dapp) that elegantly builds canister smart contracts from only a few lines of code. After the build, a simple button is clicked to deploy directly to DFINITY’s Internet Computer blockchain (Project Sidekick)

The Runners-Up

Recognizing the incredibly hard work and effort put in by all of the teams, DFINITY wanted to acknowledge additional projects which also made an impact on the event and brought forward interesting and creative new use cases for the DFINITY IC blockchain. This recognition came through acknowledging three runners-up. Among this group included projects that: 

  • Developed a public algorithm for search engines to use. This algorithm is defined by advertisers, developers, and entrepreneurs, and finally removes the opacity that search engines today have when running their results through secret algorithms (Project DeFind)
  • Provides time-stamped notarization services, allowing users to prove the provenance of documents (Project IC Notary)
  • Produced a Proof of Concept (PoC) for talking to DFINITY’s Internet Computer blockchain over legal protocols. This project also allows developers to boot virtual machines (VM) directly from canisters, presenting a boot infrastructure that is completely decentralized and fail-safe (Project IC Netboot)

Looking Ahead

In just two short days, a multitude of new ideas, concepts, and projects were successfully developed, hashed out, and presented to an expert panel of judges. This panel, which comprised DFINITY’s top technical talent, also included Dominic Williams, DFINITY’s founder and chief scientist.

Needless to say, the judging panel was extremely pleased and impressed with the outcome, and is looking forward to future hackathons to come, as users become more familiar with DFINITY, the Internet Computer, and the possibilities enabled by decentralized blockchain technologies.

Like many other organizations, DFINITY has clearly recognized that bringing influencers from all corners of the globe to internal ways of working collectively inspires everyone to visualize things in a different way. Hosting hackathon events has not only been a great way to build community, but to also continuously generate fresh and relevant ideas — which simply would not be possible by working siloed within teams.

In the months and years to come, the blockchain community has much to look forward to in terms of new ideas and new concepts coming to life. DFINITY, with its hackathons and community engagement, will most certainly be at the forefront of these exciting developments.

Mega Tower – Casual Tower Defense Game review

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Mega Tower is a free-to-play game made by YOULOFT GAMES. This is an arcade game with tower defense gameplay. You play the commander and it is your job to guard the Mega Tower.

Place turrets around your tower to defend it against invading enemies. Merge your towers and titans to create stronger abilities.

You also have the ability to take control of other planets and mine them to get coins and other various goods. You can even play against live competitors with real-time PvP combat.

Listen or watch our review of Mega Tower to see this game in more detail and why we gave it the score that we did.

Listen to the embedded podcast to learn more and hear how we ended up with our score.

Watch the embedded video to learn more and see how we scored the various components.

BLUETTI unveils world’s first sodium-ion solar generator

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Climate change has long been pushing the globe towards carbon neutrality, which urges the transition from conventional energy systems to renewable ones like chemical batteries and battery-powered machines. The chemical lithium-ion batteries thereby have set their dominance for applications in consumer electronics, automobiles, and even aviation since their commercialization by Sony Corporation in 1991. However, the energy shift is facing the lithium supply crunch with rising large-scale demand. Referring to the periodic table of elements, sodium and lithium are the closest metals in the same group with very similar chemical properties, and there is over one-thousand times sodium than lithium in the Earth’s crust. Sodium-ion batteries thereafter have been a revival to be the optimal alternative with a consistent working principle.

BLUETTI Power Inc, based in Les Vegas, is the leading world manufacturer of solar energy facilities including solar generators, photovoltaic panels, and related accessories. Its energetic residential power stations launched in the past two years-AC200P, EP500, and AC300 have stood out from the promising solar solution market, and now it ventures to integrate the innovative sodium-ion battery technology into its upcoming solar products.

Recently BLUETTI has announced the world’s first sodium-ion solar generator-NA300 and its compatible battery pack – B480 on its social medias.

It is said that the NA300 and B480 seamlessly inherit all the style and appearance settings of its predecessor – EP500 Pro, especially four 20A plugs and one 30A L14-30 output ports driven by the built-in 3,000W pure sine wave inverter to juice up most household electrical appliances. Besides, the NA300 further outstrips the EP500 Pro’s incredible 2,400W solar input to 3,000W. It may be cited to be the fastest charging solar generator since it can be recharged from 0% to 80% in a short half-hour by 6,000W swift AC + PV dual charging. (3,000W Max. for both AC and PV)

However, NA300 provides a capacity of 3,000Wh, less than the 5,100Wh of EP500 Pro in the same size owing to the current sodium-ion battery technology limitations. Favorably, it supports up to two B480 battery modules (4,800Wh each) for a whopping total capacity of 12,600Wh, and the unit can sustain the constant supply for a family electricity needs for several days or even a week in grid failures or natural disasters with recharging by the solar panels. Additionally, NA300 also offers the 240V, 6000W connection with a Fusion Box and another NA300, IoT App Remote Control by iOS or Android, and other EP500 Pro’s merits.

The first-generation sodium-ion battery rivals the LiFePO4 battery cells widely used in other BLUETTI products in security and long cycle life except for the low energy density; yet the former excels in terms of cost, low-temperature performance, quick-charging, and other electrochemical aspects because of its chemical characteristics. BLUETTI’s sodium-ion battery can charge in less than 30 minutes to 80% SOC at room temperature. Besides, in a low-temperature environment of -20°C (-4℉), this sodium-ion battery pack in NA300 and B480 has a capacity retention rate of more than 85% and provides a system integration efficiency of over 80%, which is perfect for powering in winter or in regions with extremely low temperatures.

Apart from the debut NA300 makes at CES 2022, BLUETTI is also expected to take the wraps off a range of new products in front of global audiences, demonstrating their state-of-the-art technology and alternative power solutions towards a sustainable future. Stay tuned and check more information on www.bluettipower.com.

Flowtime Biosensing Meditation Headband review

Patrick Baker
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You are a busy person. I know this because I am, too, and so is nearly everybody else in our hustling and bustling society. Business isn’t a bad thing, but it certainly provides plenty of challenges to overcome.

One of the challenges we all face is finding time to relax and let go of the stresses of everyday life. Thankfully, this is not a new feat. Humans have been studying methods of relaxation for centuries and perhaps one of the oldest of these methods is meditation. 

The concept of meditation, when compared to the technological advances of the modern world, may seem rather archaic. It would almost seem that, by definition, meditation must remain separated from technology. However, the gap between the most down-to-earth practice of humans and our current technological habits is bridged by the Flowtime Biosensing Meditation Headband.

The Flowtime Headband

The headband itself is very lightweight and made mostly of plastic. The thin, silver frame of the headband is worn across the forehead, and there are pieces on either side made to rest on your ears. These two pieces are connected in the back by a black piece of elastic rubber. Three sizes of this piece come with the headband so that it can fit people with different-sized heads. The silver frame which rests across the forehead has five different sensors.

Initially, I was worried that these sensors would need to be pressed uncomfortably against my forehead, but I found that the Flowtime headband sat very comfortably on my head using the medium-sized rubber band. The headband is also light enough that I was able to forget I was wearing it while meditating.

The Flowtime headband comes with a white charging cable that plugs into a USB port. The opposite end of the charger appears to me to be unique to this device and attaches to the end of the headband by the ear.

Also included in the box for the headband are a quick start guide and a gift card for a three-month membership to the full version of the Flowtime app, which is free to download for both Apple and Android.

How It Works

The headband works using the five sensors contacting the user’s forehead. These sensors gather data about the user’s heart rate, breathing patterns, and five specific brain waves. To gather data, the headband must be connected via Bluetooth to a device that is running the Flowtime app. The app will analyze the data during the meditation session, and the results can be viewed in the app or exported as a CSV file.

Flowtime App

The Flowtime App was my favorite part of my experience using the Flowtime headband. Having never meditated so intently before, I was worried that I would be slightly in over my head looking at the data in the app. As it turns out, it was very helpful.

Upon creating a Flowtime account, the Flowtime app asks personal questions such as “Why do you meditate?” and “Have you ever meditated before?” to personalize the guided meditations that it suggests to you. The guided meditations are also divided into categories such as “Anxiety”, “Sleep”, and “Beginner” on the home page of the app.

The free three-month membership that comes with the Flowtime headband was nice to have, as it gives the user access to all the meditations in the app. However, the app also has a section for free meditations that cycle over time. There were enough meditations in that section that I believe I would certainly be comfortable using the Flowtime app without the unlimited access membership if that’s what I desired.

It’s also important to note that the Flowtime app supports the ability to use the headband even while meditating with other apps, a feature that I thought was very cool.

I enjoyed using the meditations in the Flowtime app. After a guided meditation, the Flowtime app shows a page with all the data from the meditation. This data includes Breathing Coherence, Brainwave Rhythms, HRV, Pressure, Attention, and Relaxation.

When I saw this, I didn’t know what any of it meant; however, through the app, I was able to read a little bit about what each of these statistics meant, what an ideal meditation trend for each statistic looks like, and how to try to control these things during a meditation.

For further understanding, I was able to click on links in the app that would take me to websites that would explain in further detail what each of these statistics is and why it’s significant to your meditation. I found this especially useful as a novice meditator because it allowed me to feel like I knew how to get better at meditating and showed me how these statistics were scientifically proven to be significant to meditating.

The Flowtime meditation app also keeps track of data from each meditation that a user performs and compares the results of each new meditation to all previous meditations. This makes it very easy to track your progress while meditating and see the results of practicing it regularly.

Before using the Flowtime app, I was also worried that it would be difficult to know whether the sensors on the headband were gathering information during a meditation, or if they would be easy to disrupt. To take care of this issue, the app conveniently has a tab that will check the headband to see if all of the sensors have proper contact and will tell the user to adjust the headband if necessary.

Battery

I could not find any claims for how long the battery for the headband was expected to last, but I certainly wish that it held its charge longer. The battery certainly does not take long to charge, but also has a hard time keeping a charge.

During my first use of the headband, I had no problems with the battery over two or three meditation sessions over about thirty minutes. After using the headband, I put it back in the box. In a few days, when I took the headband out of the box to use it again, the battery charge was too low, and I had to charge it again before using it. I hadn’t specifically recalled the battery being low when I finished using it the first time.

While I’m not exactly certain why this occurred, I do wish it was something that I didn’t need to worry about as much when I wanted to use the headband.

Overall

Before my experience with the Flowtime meditation headband, I was slightly skeptical about meditation practices. Using the Flowtime meditation headband certainly changed my mind as it was very enjoyable.

The headband was easy to learn how to use fit comfortably on my head. The Flowtime app was exceptionally helpful in teaching me how to meditate and tracking my progress. If there was one thing that I would improve about the product it would be the battery resilience. After using the Flowtime meditation headband, I believe I will add meditation to my repertoire of stress-relieving techniques.

Learn more about the Flowtime Bionsensing Meditation Headband at its website; purchase yours through Amazon for about $200.

Build your own electronics with the 2022 Complete Raspberry Pi & Arduino Developer Bundle

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At only $39.99, only your imagination stands in the way of what you can build.

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With access to 72 lectures and 8 hours of content, this course will take you from an intermediate level to an advanced level. You will learn to use the Raspberry Pi as the brain and the Arduino as the brawn of your projects.

Using serial, you will make the Raspberry Pi communicate with Arduino. You will build a complete Intercom system. This course will teach you the differences between Arduino and the Raspberry Pi.

ROS2 for Beginners

With access to 100 lectures and 10 hours of content, this course will help you master the ROS basics.

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With 49 lectures and 6 hours of content, you will learn the most important differences between ROS1 and ROS2.

You will learn how to install and set up ROS2 on Ubuntu, write applications, and migrate a ROS1 project to ROS2.

Raspberry Pi for Beginners: Complete Course

With 98 lectures and 10 hours of content, this course will take you from no knowledge to mastering your Raspberry Pi.

You will learn to build a complete surveillance and alarm system, as well use Python 3. You will also create your own web server and use Raspberry Pi’s GPIOs to control hardware components.

Arduino for Beginners: Complete Course

With access to 148 lectures and 14 hours of content, you will go from no knowledge to mastering your Arduino. This course will ensure you are confident to build your own projects.

You will create an interactive obstacle detection application, program the Arduino with C or C++ and learn through hands-on lessons.

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With access to 42 lectures and 4 hours of content, you will master Arduino OOP. You will be able to write classes for Arduino components to get the functionality that you want.

You will make easy and scalable code, with clear interfaces. You will also learn the best practices right from the beginning of this journey.

Practical Python: Learn Python 3 Basics Step-by-Step

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Forest Island: Relaxing Game review

Scott Webster
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Forest Island: Relaxing Game is a free-to-play anti-stress game developed by NEOWIZ. It is available from the Android Play Store. This game attempts to relieve your anxiety with calming music. As well as the serendipity of green forests, white beaches, and turquoise waters of nature. Create, decorate, and expand your very own Forest Island. Build various habitats, discover landmarks, and upgrade those landmarks to increase the island’s productivity. Invite animals like arctic wolves, foxes, deer, rabbits, and alpacas to your island. There are over 40 animals to collect in total. Just make sure to protect and purify your island. Should you close your eyes and listen to the relaxing music of Forest Island: Relaxing Game? Listen to or watch our review below to find out.

Listen to the embedded podcast to learn more and hear how we ended up with our score.

Watch the embedded video to learn more and see how we scored the various components.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6KYr1hklE

Treblab Z7 Pro wireless headphones review

Andrew Allen
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It’s the holiday season again, and one of the more popular choices this time of year is wireless headphones. Every large tech company makes a pair these days, and there are plenty of popular brands. But they aren’t the only players in town.

Treblab is a lesser known name but consistently releases great hardware options. We’ve been testing the latest addition to its lineup with the Z7 Pro wireless headphones and these are another solid entry by Treblab.

Design

The Treblab Z7 Pro wireless headphones have a fairly traditional design. These are over-the-ear canned style headphones. Each earpiece is a large padded cup that helps secure and keeps the headphones comfortable around your ears.

The outside of the Z7 Pro earphones are completely blank but the right cup is flanked with a capacitive touch area for controlling playback. Below this on the right side is an ANC profile button, power button, and Bluetooth sync button. This side also houses the status LED, main microphone, and a 3.5mm auxiliary port.

The left side is much less busy. Here you’ll find the charging LED and lone USB-C charging port. There’s not even a traditional Treblab logo on the earphone cans.

The earcups fold up for easy storage. They also spin around to allow you to set them down on a level surface. This adds two great ways to flexibly keep the Z7 Pro earphones packed away in the included case or your bag.

Touch controls

Part design and part function are the aforementioned touch controls. The right earpiece plays a little bit of DJ for all the options to interact with the Z7 Pro while playing audio. Many of these gestures will have double functions while on a phone call.

Play and pause are possibly the most used of these options and can be activated with a  double-tap of the touch panel. The same double-tap will answer and end a phone call.

Swiping up and down on the touch area raises and lowers the volume while gestures back and forth will replay or skip tracks. Holding the touch panel on the Treblab Z7 Pro will activate voice assistants or reject an incoming phone call.

I found these touch controls to be intuitive and responsive. There’s no excessive triple taps or small capacitive area to present a learning curve. The large panel makes for easy activation and the simple controls never failed me once.

Sound

Audio on the Treblab Z7 Pro headphones is just superb. The larger drives and sealed can make it better than say earbuds just by design. However, the mix of acoustics is very rich and balanced.

Treblab has found a nice combination of active noise cancelation, natural vocals, and great highs, mids, and bass. These headphones are some of the higher-end performers I’ve used recently.

Phone calls were also positively reviewed by myself and fellow callers. I held a few standard voice calls as well as Microsoft Teams calls on my desktop. Both instances presented no major hangups during those conversations.

Battery and charging

Treblab rates the Z7 Pro headphones for up to 45 hours of total playback. After using these for a few weeks, I’ve found this to be accurate. I can make it through a full work week without having to reach for a charger. It’s honestly been difficult to drain these headphones.

When you do need to finally top off the banks, the Treblab Z7 Pro headphones can be fully recharged in around 2.5 hours via USB-C. Quick charge is also on board when you are pushed for time. This will give you five hours of playtime back in under 20 minutes.

Conclusion

Treblab has a great option for over-the-air headphones with the Z7 Pro. These canned audio devices will live up to the companies claims with a rich listening experience, comfortable fit, and long battery life. You also get this for under $160.

While this may put it over the impulse purchase threshold for many, it still makes the Z7 Pro headphones a compelling option for those in the market for a holiday gift. These headphones can easily compete with much more expensive lineups from Apple and Beats.

Purchase the Treblab Z7 Pro from Amazon

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Learn Game Development with this premium bundle

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Have you ever wanted to learn to make your own games? If that sounds exciting then the 2022 Premium Learn Game Development Bundle is for you. This bundle contains 6 courses and 922 lessons to get you started on the path to becoming a game developer.

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Complete C# Unity Game Developer 2D Online Course

This course will teach you how to create video games using Unity, the leading free-to-use game development tool. This course contains 138 lectures and 18 hours of content.

You will learn C# and become very familiar with the Unity game engine. You will develop a game design & game development foundation.

The games that you will build in this course are:

  • Snow Boarder: A Side-Scrolling Jumping game
  • Laser Defender: A Top-Down Space Shooter
  • TileVania: A fast-paced classic Side-Scrolling Platformer
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RPG Core Combat Creator: Learn Intermediate Unity C# Coding

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OnePlus announced the Buds Z2 and brings the Red Cable Club to North America

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OnePlus has officially launched the OnePlus Buds Z2. At only $99, these wireless earbuds aim to make noise cancellation accessible for everyone.

Pete Lau, Founder of OnePlus said:

“The OnePlus Buds Z2 are an important milestone for OnePlus’ range of portable audio products. The Buds Z2 delivers exceptional active noise cancellation technology, a quality audio experience, and outstanding battery life at a price point that’s more practical than ever before.”

OnePlus Buds Z2

To keep you listening to your favorite playlist or podcast, these earbuds deliver noise cancellation of up to 40dB. Sporting a CD pattern design, the Buds Z2 comes in Pearl White and Obsidian Black.

The earbuds themselves are IP55-rated to provide resistance against water and sweat. The OnePlus Buds Z2 case is IPX4-rated, allowing it to withstand splashes of water.

Each earbud contains 3 microphones (1 feedback, 1 feedforward, and 1 beamforming) to ensure you are always heard loud and clear.

The rest of the OnePlus Z2 features include:

  • Up to 38 hours of battery life on a single charge
  • Flash Charge capable – Delivering up to 5 hours of playback on a 10-minute charge
  • 11mm dynamic drivers (the same as the OnePlus Buds Pro)
  • Dolby Atmos support
  • Bluetooth 5.2
  • Low latency (as low as 94ms in Pro Gaming mode)
  • Three sound modes: Cinematic Movie, Immersive Music, and Mobile Gaming
  • Transparency Mode allows you to listen to your buds while staying aware of the world around you

The OnePlus Buds Z2 are available today for $99.

Introducing the Red Cable Club

OnePlus is also bringing its Red Cable Club (RCC) to North America. The RCC is a community of enthusiasts that come together to celebrate OnePlus technology.

As an RCC member, you will receive exclusive perks, discounts, and promotions not available to the general public.

The RCC was initially only available to consumers that lived in India. Now North American users have access to the same perks.

Signing up is free and if you want the Buds Z2 today, you will have to sign up for early access.

Let me know if you are interested in these earbuds in the comments below.

Google launches new shopping features to help keep track of your online shopping

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As the holiday shopping season comes to a close, Google has been offering goodies to its users. Google has already launched a few new features this holiday season, and now they are focusing on your shopping experience.

These new shopping features are designed to help you keep track of what you want to buy and easily keep track of pricing as you do it.

Monitor those price drops

Waiting for deals on something that you want to buy can be frustrating and annoying. Having to constantly check to see if the price has dropped takes effort and time.

Beginning this week, Chrome for Android users in the United States will gain access to a new price drop feature.

Chrome will now show an item’s updated price right in the open tabs grid. No more manually refreshing websites to see if the price has dropped!

This feature will also come to iOS in the coming weeks.

Google Lens right from your address bar

When you are out shopping and you find something interesting, you can now search your surroundings with Google Lens right from the address bar. There is no more fumbling for the setting on your phone.

Google is also introducing Lens for Desktop. If you see a product in an image and want to learn more about it, you no longer have to Google it until you stumble upon the product.

Now you can just right-click and select “Search images with Google Lens”, select the product, and Lens will find the product for you.

Keep tabs on all your shopping carts

When shopping online, it can be tough to keep track of all your shopping carts. It’s easy to forget what sites you have been on, accidentally abandoning your shopping cart in the process.

Starting with Chrome on Windows and Mac in the United States, you can now open a new tab to see all your shopping carts in one place.

This tab will allow you to quickly see any site where you have added items to a shopping cart. Some retail partners may even offer you a discount when coming back to your cart.

Google has been hard at work trying to help make shopping online even easier. with these new shopping features. I am excited about Google keeping track of all my shopping carts and providing me with the information in one easy-to-use place.

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