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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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| 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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| Sam Rutherford / Tom's Guide: |
iPhone 7, 7 Plus cameras don't produce as sharp or well exposed images as Samsung's Galaxy S7 line, but OIS, f/1.8 aperture, 2x optical zoom are major upgrades — While their resolution may have stayed the same, the 12-megapixel rear cameras in Apple's iPhone 7 and 7 Plus look offer a big improvement in picture quality.
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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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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Photos expands on auto-generated montage videos with “concept movies” that have a theme based on content and gets in-app sharing — 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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| 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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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Wearable tech company Thalmic Labs raises $120 million from Intel, Amazon, and others — Thalmic Labs, the Canada-based wearable technology company, has announced a substantial $120 million (USD) Series B funding round led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Fidelity Investments Canada.| 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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| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Sources: GV-backed gym membership startup ClassPass hits $150M run rate, up from $100M in summer of 2015, and now-positive gross profit margin of 17% — ClassPass, the Google Ventures-backed gym membership startup, has seen its revenue accelerate despite a change to its pricing model … Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe offers Instant Payouts to all contractors after early rollouts at Lyft, Care.com, goPanache, to help marketplaces pay contractors more quickly — Stripe, the startup that competes against the likes of PayPal's Braintree and WePay to provide payment services to digital businesses …
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Thanks:@tdrinan| Reuters: |
Indonesia asks Google to pay for 5 years of back taxes; bill for 2015 alone could be about $400M — Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided payments, a senior tax official said.
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