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Google launches Trips, a free Android and iOS app that serves as trip planner and travel guide, with custom itineraries as well as flight, hotel info, more — Going places — Google today announced Trips, a new app that serves as a trip planner and travel guide for anyone who is exploring a new place.
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Tweets: @sliver86, @mattmcgee, @cjdowner, @sergiocagol and @viticci
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google sends out invites for October 4 “made by Google” hardware event in San Francisco, will livestream it on YouTube — Google today tweeted out an indication that it will unveil new devices on October 4. People have been expected Google to show new mobile devices …
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| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
iPhone 7 has the highest color accuracy and peak brightness of any mobile display, making it the “best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested” — The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
New federal rules for autonomous vehicles arriving Tuesday, call for 15-point “safety assessment”, aiming to avoid inconsistent patchwork of state laws — The White House vs. robot cars — So far, manufacturers of self-driving cars have operated in uncharted waters … | BBC: |
GoPro to launch foldable Karma quadcopter for $799 on October 23, new Hero5 action cameras and GoPro Plus $5/month sharing service on October 2 — Camera-maker GoPro has unveiled a foldable drone that fits in a backpack. — The Karma aircraft also features a detachable stabiliser that can be used to make handheld shots more steady.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos gets in-app sharing and expands on auto-generated montage videos with “concept movies” that have a theme based on content — Getting emotional — Since the day it launched, one of Google Photos' more compelling features has been its automatically generated montage videos.
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Tweets: @googlephotos and @dflieb
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google buys API.ai, a startup with dev tools for speech recognition and a conversational assistant app with 20M+ users — Google today said that it's acquired API.ai, a startup with tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Books launches “Discover”, a personalized suggestions feature, to better challenge Amazon's Kindle app — Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer a better challenge to Amazon's Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read.| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Intermittent and random glitch with iPhone 7's new Lightning EarPods stops volume controls from working; Apple says fix coming soon — Some iPhone 7 users have found an annoying glitch with the wired Lightning EarPods that come with the iPhone 7. — The issue, which I've also experienced …
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9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, Tech Times, MacRumors and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @mgsiegler. Thanks:@stevetweedie
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Google's tech incubator and think tank, Jigsaw, will soon release Conversation AI, a set of tools that use machine learning to combat online trolls — Around midnight one Saturday in January, Sarah Jeong was on her couch, browsing Twitter, when she spontaneously wrote what she now bitterly refers to as …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter no longer counts photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets against the 140-character tweet limit — Beyond 140 characters — Tweets are holding steady at 140 characters, but a variety of additions to your tweets will no longer count against that limit..As The Verge reported last week …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook buys Nascent Objects, a startup with tools for rapidly prototyping hardware ideas — The company will join Facebook's new top-secret hardware lab, Building 8. — Facebook has acquired Nascent Objects, a small Bay Area startup that offers what the company calls a …
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