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| Anil Sabharwal / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Photos launching today on Android, iOS, and web with unlimited storage to help you organize and share photos and videos for free — Picture this: A fresh approach to Photos — Every second of every day, people around the world are capturing their memories through photos and videos.
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Google VP of Streams, Photos, and Sharing Bradley Horowitz: Google Photos is like Gmail for your images — Bradley Horowitz Says That Google Photos is Gmail for Your Images. And That Google Plus Is Not Dead. — An interview with Google's head of Streams, Photos and Sharing
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| Pali Bhat / Official Android Blog: |
Google announces Android Pay, will allow users to pay in over 1000 apps and at 700K US stores — Pay your way with Android — Credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, cash, coins. Forget fumbling through your wallet next time you're in a store—what if you could pay with just a tap?
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google announces Android M coming later this year with improved app permissions, app links, mobile payments, fingerprint API, more — Google announces Android M, available later this year — Google has just made the next version of Android official. During the keynote address …
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| Jamal Eason / Android Developers Blog: |
Google launches M Developer Preview with system images for testing on Nexus 5, 6, 9, and Player — Android M Developer Preview & Tools — Today at Google I/O, we announced a developer preview of the next version of Android, the M release. Last year's developer preview was a first for Android and we received great feedback.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google's free, automated “Cloud Test Lab” service will let developers test apps against top 20 Android devices — Google announces the “Cloud Test Lab,” a free, automated testing service — Upload your APK and Google will test it against the top 20 Android devices.
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| Ross Miller / The Verge: |
Google announces Brillo, a cut-down Android-based OS for the Internet of Things, and Weave, a communications layer for those devices — Google announces Brillo, an operating system for the Internet of Things — Google is rejoining the Internet of Things platform wars.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Google Play saw 50B app installs in past year, launches Play For Families store section — Google fires another volley at Apple in the war of the app stores — Google Play is growing up. — For years, the search giant's store for apps, music, books, TV shows, and movies for Android devices …
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| TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquires Augmented Reality Company Metaio — Apple has acquired Metaio, an augmented reality startup that launched way back in 2003 as an offshoot of a project at Volkswagen. The company's site said it stopped taking new customers, and now a legal document shows Apple has bought it.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Google announces Jump, an ecosystem for creating and sharing virtual reality content, includes camera rig, software, and YouTube-based player — Google Jump is an entire ecosystem for virtual reality filmmaking — Near the end of the opening keynote at Google's I/O developer conference …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches Shield 4K Android TV set-top box for $200 with 16GB of flash storage, $300 with 500GB hard disk drive — Nvidia launches its Shield set-top box for Android TV — with optional 500GB hard drive — If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
New 15-inch MacBook Pro is first MacBook to support 5K and 4096×2160 4K displays — New 15-inch is the first MacBook to support 5K displays, 4096×2160 4K — Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Pro is the first of Apple's notebooks to officially support single-stream 4K displays at a full resolution of 4096×2160 at 60Hz.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon planning to expand its private-label goods under its Elements brand to include grocery items such as milk, cereal, razers, vitamins, cleaning products — Amazon Plans to Add Its Own Line of Food — Milk, cereal, baby food and household products would carry Elements label
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Brings Turn-By-Turn Directions To Offline Maps — Google just announced that turn-by-turn directions will soon be accessible from Maps even when you don't have a data connection. — Rounding out a series of announcements about improvements to the offline experience of its major mobile apps …
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| Tricia Duryee / GeekWire: |
Amazon launches free same-day delivery for Prime members in 500 US cities for orders above $35 — Amazon launches free same-day delivery for Prime members in 500 U.S. cities, including Seattle … Amazon is launching free same-day delivery today for more than one million items across … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Opens Inbox To All, Adds Smart Reminders, Trip Bundles, Undo Send And More — Google today announced that Inbox, the Gmail-based mobile email client the company launched late last year, is now open to all. Until today, you still needed an invitation to use the service, though invites have long been pretty easy to come by.
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