Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The vast majority of social media apps are free for all to use, including Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. In exchange for the free use of the platforms, you give the networks the right to harvest your data to assist advertisers in serving you the appropriate marketing materials. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if, instead, you paid a flat monthly fee for access to specific social media platforms?

The latest Humble Bundle is a collection of digital board games available on Android and Steam. Coming in with a value of over $139, you can grab a handful of the available games for just a dollar, or the entire bundle of 18 games for $8. For just $1 or more, you get access to the following Android games: Abalone Discover our new version with brand new graphics inspired by the latest edition of the famous strategy game.

TL;DR Martin Cooper, who made the first mobile phone call in 1973, just published a book about that historic event. The book chronicles the development of the first mobile phone and the rivalry between Motorola and AT&T. On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper held a wireless box to his ear and used it to talk with a man about three miles away. While this seems like nothing extraordinary today, at the time it was a revelation.

Officially announced a few days ago, the K’2 comes with two connectors including a regular USB connector and a regular micro USB one at opposite sites and can connect to a variety of Android devices and computers (whether they’re PCs or Macs). The device measures just 1.34 x 0.66 x 0.27 inches or 34.5 x 17 x 7 mm, and can be easily attacked to key chains. Furthermore, the K’2 uses microSD cards in order for the company to be able to reduce its overall footprint, and while it ships with 16GB of storage, you can swap it later for a 32GB card.

“Current status for Nougat: Hooks are generally working now. However, they’re still unreliable for inlined methods and when JIT is used (which is often the case). I had give a few technical insights here. I’m currently thinking about the different situations that need to be handled and I create unit tests for them. Then I need to fix those which are failing or even crashing the device – ideally without recompiling the whole ROM like in previous versions.

In today’s app update roundup, payment app Square Register gets a new look and becomes easier to use, while the Yahoo! Android app gets revamped, and now includes summaries of news stories. Square RegisterThe Square Register app has now been updated, offering you more useful interesting features that help you easily receive payments. Square Register is a very easy way of receiving payments using nothing more than your mobile device, coupled with a free reader the company offers, for a fee of 2.

This week in Apple news we saw mega-retailer Target unwittingly suggest that there are several new Apple products on the way. It turns out that the company’s inventory system lists products it knows are coming well in advance, which strongly suggests we will see a few new Apple products within the next month or so. Elsewhere, we saw the new Lady Gaga video which was shot entirely on an iPhone 11, new rumors about an iPad keyboard case and trackpad, iPhone XR sales still going strong, and more!

The new Marvel Comic giveaway promises to offer comic fans over 700 free #1 digital issues, all for free, on the condition that they register beforehand. In order to get your hands on all of this comic book extravaganza, you just need to sign up (Marvel registration link below), and then wait for further instructions from the company. Invitations will be getting served in batches, so that the company’s servers don’t get jammed like the last time.

Now that the Google Assistant digital AI is available on more Android phones, Google is also expanding its reach to include support for more connected devices. That also means those devices can be used with commands given via the Assistant-based Google Home smart speaker. The best services for your Google Nest speaker The Best In a blog post, the company stated that Google Assistant and Home can now work with devices from Best Buy’s Insignia brand,  That means you can set it up so when you say, “OK Google, turn on the fan”, it will activate if the fan is connected to the Best Buy Insignia Wi-Fi Smart Plug.

TL;DR Google Photos can now automatically make themed videos on demand. Themes include Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day, among others. Google said more themes will rollout as the year progresses. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Google Photos automatically takes your photos and groups them together into themed movies. This can be done on the mobile app and the web. Do not expect much in the way of machine learning, however.