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YouTube v12.29 includes hints about location-specific search [APK Teardown]

YouTube is a fantastic tool for learning about the world around us, but sometimes it's easy to forget that there are great things happening in our own backyard. A teardown of the latest update suggests we might soon have the option to add geography to our search criteria. This should make it a bit easier to separate videos about Alaska from the recipes for Alaskan King Crab, music videos, and whatever else people might associate with the name.

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Have you ever destroyed a smartphone? [Poll of the Week]

Last week's poll summary: Out of almost 2,300 total votes, 62.7% of our readers say that the Moto Z2 Force isn't the phone for them, and 15% say that they're still undecided. 16.6% have already either placed their orders or are planning to do so very soon.

Not to brag, but I'm probably the most careful person I know when it comes to phone safety.

I don't leave my phone face-down on the table, I always protect it with a case, and I even worry when my phone gets too close to the sink. I rarely drop my phone, and when I do it's usually nothing too bad.

The new Humble Mobile Bundle includes 9 awesome puzzle games

There's a new Humble Bundle live, and it's all about puzzles—action puzzlers, relaxing puzzlers, and everything in between. All you need to do is drop a few bucks, and you can get up to nine Android puzzle games with no DRM or in-app purchases. There are a lot of great titles this time, too.

As with most recent Humble Bundles, this one is set up in three levels. If you pay $1 or more, the base tier is unlocked with three games: klocki, Hook, and Zenge.

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Native ad-blocker appears in Chrome Canary on Android

Those who like to live life on the forefront of technology and run the Chrome Canary build on Android may have noticed an ad-blocking option appear in the settings menu.

The Canary channel for Android is an experimental and sometimes unstable version that includes some of the latest features Google are testing that are not yet ready for the prime time. Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal suggested that Google may soon include its own native ad-blocker directly inside Chrome for both mobile and desktop and it seems it may be gradually activating for some users. While the feature of an ad-blocker built native into the Chrome browser isn't official, a few seem to have got it working.

As with anything in the Canary builds of Chrome, features can appear and disappear just as quick. Google reinforced the experimental nature and purpose of the Canary channel stating that the ad-blocker specifically was "part of our general approach of running experiments to test possible features that could provide users with the best experience on Chrome".

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Ad-blockers are not anything new and many apps or browsers either support them or have extensions that allow support for an ad blocker. The elephant in the room is that Google runs its own advertising platform of which accounts for a huge chunk of its revenue. Presumably a Google-made ad-blocker in Chrome would exclude Googles' own AdSense ads, if such a feature was to make it into the stable build.

Google have previously expanded on the scope of the ad-blocker to suggest it will only target those ads that are intrusive to the user experience. How this is defined is yet to be seen but presumably will include pop-under and pop-over ads rather than simply blocking inline ads as traditional ad-blockers do. Despite appearing in the Canary build of Chrome for Android, a native ad-blocker is probably a while away from rolling out to the masses.

Drop us a comment below and let us know if you'd like to see an ad-blocker native in Chrome.

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Here are 63 temporarily free and 35 on-sale apps for your Monday

Welcome to the final day of July — I hope that Monday is treating you all well. Once again, I'm here with another app sales post. It's a long 'un, but maybe there's something in here that you'll enjoy. I already picked up a few of the icon packs and one of the games here today, so it's not all bad.

Free

Apps

Graphing Calculator + Math PRO $6.99 -> Free; 2 hours left
Notes plus 2 $0.99 -> Free; 2 hours left
eXport-it UPnP Client/Server $2.15 -> Free; 2 days left
Fuzzy Numbers: Pre-K Number Foundation $5.99 -> Free; 2 days left
Create Your Fingering Chart $0.99 -> Free; 3 days left
Fella for Facebook (Beta) $0.99 -> Free; 3 days left
APN Notificator $0.99 -> Free; 4 days left
AuditBricks - Site Auditing, Snagging & Punch List $5.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Jokes and Funny Posts $0.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Notifications in bubble Pro $0.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Screenshot Pro 2 $0.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Tiny RTF Viewer $0.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Здоровое питание, веганские рецепты и диета $0.99 -> Free; 5 days left
Math Symbols Keyboard $0.99 -> Free; 6 days left
QR & Barcode Scanner PRO $3.99 -> Free; 6 days left
Recent App Switcher (DIESEL Pro) $0.99 -> Free; 6 days left
Star Rover - Stargazing Guide $1.99 -> Free; 6 days left

Games

VR Earth Attack $0.99 -> Free; 2 hours left
魔塔新篇:龍族覺醒(黃金版)~~打發時間好游戲，百玩不膩，劇情和關卡衆多A $0.99 -> Free; 2 hours left
Aliensome: 1 2 3 Find It!

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[Deal Alert] US unlocked Galaxy S8 (G950U) and S8+ (G955U) on sale for $549.99 and $639.99 on eBay

The prices for the S8 and S8+ have been plummeting over the past few weeks. Just a couple of days after the latest price drop, Samsung has once again lowered the prices on both its flagships over on its eBay storefront, and is now selling a brand new Galaxy S8 for $549.99 and an S8+ for $639.99. Unlike some previous deals, these are the US unlocked models and not the dual-SIM variants.

[Deal Alert] US unlocked Galaxy S8 (G950U) and S8+ (G955U) on sale for $549.99 and $639.99 on eBay was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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16 new and notable (and 1 WTF) Android apps from the last week (7/25/17 - 7/31/17)

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so.

Please wait for this page to load in full in order to see the widgets, which include ratings and pricing info.

Looking for the previous roundup editions? Find them here.

Apps

Nintendo Switch Online

Android Police coverage: Nintendo Switch Online app shows up on the Play Store, but it doesn't work yet

The Nintendo Switch Online app is Nintendo's try at an online service for the Nintendo Switch that allows players to communicate, but instead of building it into the Switch, it is actually a separate app for your Android device.

16 new and notable (and 1 WTF) Android apps from the last week (7/25/17 - 7/31/17) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.