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A whole new approach to multitasking on its way to Android — and you can start benefitting from its brilliance this minute.

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Google pulled off a surprise this year by releasing Android 16 months ahead of the usual schedule. The stable build for its Pixel smartphones was released in the second week of June, and at the moment ...

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