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May 28, 2015, 9:00 PM

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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.

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

More: NEWS.com.au, CNET, Marketing Land, ReadWrite, iMore, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech2, Electronista, iDownloadBlog.com and TechCrunch

Tweets: @jasonhowell and @caseyjohnston

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?

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 …

More: VentureBeat, BGR, BetaNews, BGR, Ars Technica, PCWorld, NEWS.com.au, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Register, Google Developers Blog, Android Police, TechCrunch, AndroidGuys, The Next Web, Business Insider, internetretailer.com, TechnoBuffalo and BetaNews. Tweets: @pmarca

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.

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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.

More: 9to5Google, BGR, TechCrunch, Android Authority, ZDNet and The Overspill

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.

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 …

More: Official Android Blog, 9to5Google, Android Police, Android Authority and CNET

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Play Store Now Lets Developers A/B Test Their App Listing Pages, Customize Their Catalog Page

More: Ars Technica, Android Developers Blog, Telegraph, CNET, 9to5Google, Engadget and VentureBeat

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Google's Now On Tap offers help when you hold home button based on context of what you're doing on phone, suggests possible actions with indexed apps

More: Inside Search, CNET, Greenbot, TechCrunch, Droid Life, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Search Engine Land

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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Tweets: @joshconstine and @markgurman

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 …

More: Computerworld, Ars Technica, The Register, Slate, Quartz, Tnooz, The Tech Report, 9to5Google and AndroidGuys

Conor Dougherty / New York Times:

Google redesigns Cardboard VR headset to fit larger phones, updates SDK with support for iOS, partners with GoPro to develop 16-camera 360-degree VR recorder

More: Wired, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, The Next Web, USA Today, YouTube Creator Blog, Fortune, TechSpot, Business Insider, Engadget and Engadget

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.

More: The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Next Web, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, Android Police, PhoneDog.com, The Official NVIDIA Blog, CNET, Seeking Alpha, Engadget, The Official NVIDIA Blog and The Verge

Ganesh T S / AnandTech:

NVIDIA Shield Android TV review: gaming performance exceeds other set top boxes but media playback disappoints

More: Gizmodo, PC Perspective, IGN, Bloomberg Business, Tom's Guide and SlashGear

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.

More: Official Apple Support, MacRumors, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore and iPhone in Canada Blog. Thanks:@apollozac

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

More: USA Today, The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, GeekWire, TIME, SlashGear, Seeking Alpha and Eater

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 …

More: Computerworld, PCWorld, CNET and The Verge

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 …

More: Wired, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Verge, Reuters, Washington Post, Bloomberg Business, SlashGear, Gizmodo, internetretailer.com, CNNMoney, MacNN, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch and Yahoo Tech. Thanks:@toddbishop

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.

More: The Verge, AppleInsider, Android Police, BetaNews, BGR, Android Authority, CNET, PCWorld and iMore

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Chromecast Gets Autoplay, Queuing, Second Screen And Multiplayer Game Powers — Google's Chromecast is a quiet little media secret agent turning the search giant into a big time home entertainment player. All told, users of Cast-enabled software have hit the little button to put …

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Gamasutra and Lifehacker

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