Alphabet is selling its Boston Dynamics robotics division to Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank. The news arrived via a press release yesterday, confirming that the Google parent company had agreed terms for the Boston Dynamics sale, which it had been trying to offload since March 2016.
Boston Dynamics is responsible for the creating a slew of spirited robots such as Big Dog, Atlas and Handle, which have been the subject of many headlines (and GIFs) in the past few years.
Facebook in 2004. YouTube in 2005. Twitter in 2006. iPhone in 2007. Android in 2008. The launch of these landmark products has changed our lives dramatically over the last decade. We didn’t know it at the time, but these were milestones on the road to a new world. They were some of the key moments of the mobile revolution.
Not all changes brought by the mobile revolution have been positive. In fact, for certain groups of people from around the world, the explosion of mobile has brought misery and exploitation.
The grand conspiracy to leave Nexus owners high and dry when it comes to fancy new Google Pixel features like fingerprint gestures has finally been exposed. But as with most conspiracies, the explanation is far more pedestrian than the conspiracy nuts would have you believe.
Far from an elaborate scheme to force Nexus owners into the more expensive realm of Pixel phones, the simple answer seems to be that bringing fingerprint gestures to the existing Nexus devices just wasn’t a priority at Google, even though it is apparently “doable”.
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Chialin Chang, President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business at HTC, has resigned. HTC said it is a personal career move, while media reports indicate Chang intends to launch an AI startup in the future. The move arrives soon after HTC posted its worst revenues for 13 years. HTC’s President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business, Chialin Chang, has resigned. HTC announced the move on its investors page earlier today and it’s effective immediately, though Chang’s successor is yet to be named.
Although the list of new features for version 2.1 of the VSCO Cam Android app is short and simple, the results are anything but. Users can now import larger images and utilize better location and privacy settings while enjoying performance enhancements on this stylish image editing app.
VSCO Cam is an easy to use image editing application, touting itself “The Standard of Mobile Photography.” It includes an expected set of tools, from Crop and Rotate to Vignette and more, but is truly designed to quickly and easily apply preset styles to your photos.
The popularity of Google’s Chromecast stick shows no indication of declining , and as the number of countries the device is available in continues to grow, more and more consumers are starting to take notice of what this little device is capable of. So many in fact, that a new report by The Wall Street Journal indicates that the Chromecast has surpassed Apple TV all together in video streaming, to become the second most popular streaming device in the United States.
Update: Best Buy’s CowBoom is offering a pre-owned LG G Watch for the low price of $69.99! The deal is today only, check it out here.
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Now that the weekend is over, it is time to put the games away and get back to work. Best Buy has the LG G Watch on sale for $159.99, which is a substantial savings over normal price, and something for you to mull over this Monday morning.
Misfit, the popular wearable manufacturer, will soon allow users to control many more smart devices than they ever have before. The company has just announced that the Misfit Flash and Shine Fitness Monitors will be able to work with a bevy of applications and smart devices, including Spotify, Nest, IFTTT, Logitech Harmony home systems and many more.
Here is the entire list of integrations Misfit is adding to their product lineup:
In case you love Chameleon Launcher on your Android tablet, you should know that the team responsible for the app is working on a smartphone version. While we have no release dates for the app at this time, we have some good news for you. The Chameleon team is looking for testers to try out the smartphone version of their launcher.
So far, 25 testers are needed to try out the first Chameleon Launcher versions (see Source link below to sign up), and the developers are looking Android users that own one of the following devices:
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