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Show Notes

* Android News

* CyanogenInc rebrands as Andrasta.

* Designed with our friends at Google might be the Nexus brand’s replacement.

* Android 7.1.2 adds fingerprint swipe for notifications to the older Nexus.

* Apps News

* Google Maps adds bottom bar for traffic, transit, and places.

* Play Store My Apps section to get Updates tab and allow sorting of installed apps.

* Chrome for Android adds new download features, performance improvements, and more.

* Google is finally making web apps first class citizens on Android

* Google Now Launcher being retired in a few weeks.

* In Other News

* Most smart TVs are tracking you, Vizio just got caught

* Congress is once again trying to make it harder for law enforcement to read your emails

* Judge rules differently than last year’s Microsoft case advising that the infringement of privacy took place in the U.S. not in the overseas data center.

* Petition seeks to rename Pittsburgh Airport after Mister Rogers.

* How we fought bad ad, sites, and spammers in 2016.