Show Notes
- Guru factory resets his Nexus 5.
- App News
- Chrome for Android does an AMA. No extensions planned for Chrome for Android.
- Google Fit updated, adds a widget, a Wear watch face, and new estimates for distance travelled and calories burned.
- Meerkat now released for Android. (Play Link)
- NYT Now App goes subscription free…but not available for Android.
- Google acknowledges WebView related app and device crashing. Claims new version will fix.
- In Other News
- Marty McFly didn’t have enough room to get to 88mph.
- House passes the USA Freedom Act to end bulk collection of metadata. Must now go to the Senate.
- Woman fired after disabling work app that tracked her location 24/7.
- Chromecast adds CBS, HGTV, FOX, FX, Pluto, and Haystack to its stable of Chromecastable channels.
- Chase to replace all debit cards with chip enabled cards.
- Skype’s real time translator is now open to all.
- Nearly 3 out of 4 households own a smartphone, outnumbering people who have laptops.
- Verizon to acquire AOL for $4.4 billion.
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