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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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| Natt Garun / The Next Web: |
Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2015 in one handy list — That's a wrap on all things Google. In case you missed the keynote, here's a recap of all the highlights you may have missed. — Android M — Kicking off the keynote, Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai announced …
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| Reto Meier / Android Developers Blog: |
Google Play services 7.5 includes Smart Lock for Passwords, App Invites beta, Google Cast, Remote Display API, Google Fit, more — A Closer Look at Google Play services 7.5 — At Google I/O, we announced the rollout of Google Play services 7.5 that deliver new capabilities and optimizations to devices across the Android ecosystem.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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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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| Dave Morin / Path Blog: |
Path and Path Talk acquired by Daum Kakao; services to continue — A New Chapter for Path — In 2010 a small team of us set out to build a company focused on quality products that bring you a source of happiness, meaning, and connection. Five years later, Path continues to follow …
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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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| 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, razors, 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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| Sébastien Page / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Apple releases temporary fix for iMessage-crashing text bug, says update coming soon — Apple publishes temporary fix for Messages issue, says software update coming soon — In a new support document published Thursday night, Apple acknowledges the Messages bug that was first uncovered two days ago …
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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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Pebble Time teardown: display not fused to front glass making them independently replaceable, small battery — Pebble Time Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide
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