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Not everyone is comfortable with using a photo of themselves as a profile picture, and others might find it tough to find an image that represents them appropriately. To help you find something that works, Google has revealed its first batch of Google Illustrations.

When you set your profile picture in Gmail, Google Workspace, Contacts on Android, you can select an illustration. Options include animals, mythical creatures, locations and hobbies. Google says the initial batch of illustrations “is inclusive of various cultures, interests and backgrounds.” You can customize them by changing the colors and cropping the image.

Once you’ve selected and tweaked an illustration to your liking and saved it, your contacts will see it across several Google products. Google says it will expand the collection and bring illustrations to additional products and platforms, including iOS and the web.

New research this week puts the enormous loss of life caused by the covid-19 pandemic into greater context. The study of 29 countries across Europe and North and South America found that nearly all experienced a reduction in life expectancy last year, while some countries had the largest drops seen since World War II.

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Congress has only a few days to act before the federal government shuts down and begins furloughing workers.

The president of France later said that if the person who threw it “has something to tell me, then he can come.”

It’s almost hard to believe, but barring some kind of last-minute catastrophe, Amazon’s MMO New World is finally launching this week. It’s been a long road to get to this point, as New World has seen numerous betas and a handful of delays. Now, after an extended wait, MMO fans are finally going to get a chance to dive into … Continue reading