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While most of the US will be staring into the sky watching the first total solar eclipse in years, Google will be gearing up to livestream the final unveiling of Android O. The announcement came via a dedicated Android eclipse site, which features a countdown timer for the Monday, August 21, 2:40 p.m. ET livestream of Android O, a link to the official NASA stream of the eclipse, as well [...]

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Facebook has acquired a German company called Fayteq that builds software add-ons for video editing that can remove and add whole objects from captured video using computer vision. The acquisition was first reported by a German startup publication (via Variety) and confirmed to TechCrunch, and could be useful as Facebook pursues additional video filter creation technology, [...]

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Apple just dropped a brand new beta for your favorite iOS update of the year. While iOS 11 isn’t coming out until September, the company has been testing the new version for a couple of months already. I still don’t recommend installing the beta on a device you use every day, unless you’re willing to [...]

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Google has long sold its Cardboard VR format as a super accessible platform for getting people into virtual reality. One of their major initiatives for it has been in education markets through its Google Expeditions program, which allows students to get in the center of 360 photos and 3D scenes with historical importance. The program [...]

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Don’t worry, Microsoft is in no danger of going away: what will go is thousands of jobs mostly in sales, mostly outside the US, mostly to benefit cloud growth. Major financial news channel CNBC has confirmed Microsoft’s announcement of major job cuts as the company undergoes a “major reorganisation”. Having failed in phones, leading to losses of [...]

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The social network says the anonymized data could help the Red Cross and others focus on areas that have been hit hardest. Facebook plans to share user data with aid organizations to help out in emergences. In a blog post Wednesday, the world’s largest social network said it will create “disaster maps” for aid groups like the [...]

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Google has announced a new stand-alone DayDream headset that cuts the cable and eliminates the need for a VR-enabled smartphone. To be precise it has revealed to its I/O Developers conference that it has developed a Qualcomm-based reference design for a headset and HTC and Lenovo will be the first to produce it by the [...]

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Apple will launch 60 educational sessions at all its stores focusing on coding, digital media, and art and design. Apple will soon launch a range of educational sessions at 495 stores covering coding, media, and art and design to help people get more from their Apple hardware. The new sessions, dubbed Today at Apple, aim [...]

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As Microsoft announced last week, the Windows 10 Creators Update will start rolling out to users on April 11. As part of this update, the company is also making some changes to the privacy settings in Windows 10 and how it informs its users about the data it collects from them (because it doesn’t give them the option to [...]

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We round up the latest rumors for Samsung’s next flagship, the Galaxy S8. Samsung needs a hit after the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, and the Galaxy S8 is believed to launch in April. It’s been eleven months since Samsung announced the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, but there are already plenty of rumors surrounding [...]

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