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First, a quick recap: Google had already teased—intentionally—a new Gemini smart speaker during its Pixel event a couple of weeks back, and just days ago it promised an upcoming Google Home update on October 1, complete with a partial image of what appears to be a new Nest camera.
Those hints at new Google Home products aren't the leaks we're talking about now, though. Instead, it seems Google may have inadvertently left images of its new Nest hardware in the Google Home app following a recent update.
The images, which were spotted by Android Authority and appear to have been subsequently yanked from the app, don't reveal anything startlingly new about the new Nest cams, aside from the fact that they exist.
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As part of a Thursday meeting with the White House's AI Education Task Force — chaired by Melania Trump — Microsoft said it would provide a free Microsoft 365 Personal subscription to college students for a year's time. Microsoft normally charges $99.99 annually for that Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, so that's a fairly substantial savings for a college student.
Students will need to sign up for the (free) subscription using a college ID email address. The subscription includes everything that the Personal subscription already does, including access to Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more, plus Copilot and 1 TB of online storage.
There is a catch, of course: the first year's free. After that, students will either be asked to pay another year's subscription — though that will be discounted by half, to about $50 per year or $4.99 per month, Microsoft said.
Microsoft is also offering students and teachers free AI courses via LinkedIn Learning, the company said.
Microsoft isn't the only company trying to convince U.S. students to join their programs. In addition to the typical student discounts offered to college students. Google said in April that the company will offer Google Gemini Advanced, plus perks like NotebookLM Plus and 2TB of cloud storage for free.
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This may not seem like a big deal in itself, but Edge also has built-in ad blocking. Combine the two together and you get a pretty potent combo: you can watch YouTube videos in the background (a feature that's only available to YouTube Premium subscribers) without any ads (also restricted to YouTube Premium), all free of charge.
Android Authority first discovered this feature in Edge Canary, which is the most cutting-edge version of Edge with the latest features and developments. Note, however, that Edge Canary is unstable, may crash, and may not work properly on all devices. If you want to try it out, you can download it on the Google Play Store.
Background playback with no ads
To activate the ad blocker in Edge, go to Settings and then Site settings. Then select Block ads and activate Adblock Plus. This is a built-in feature. No need to download an additional extension.
To activate background playback, you need to enter edge://flags in the Edge address bar. This will take you to the experimental features that are still under development. Here, search for Video Background Play and toggle it to enabled. Rest
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