In 1879, Sandford Fleming first proposed adoption of Universal Standard Time. In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II was proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom. In 1965, Eastern Airlines 663 crashed off Jones Beach state park after taking off from Kennedy Airport. In 1986, the Hinton Train collision killed 23 people. It is also Robert Klein’s birthday, he is 74.
Show Notes
- Android News
- Android distribution updated, Marshmallow has reached 1.2%, Lollipop at 34.1%, KitKat at 35.5%, Jellybean 23.9%.
- Android Studio 2.0 Beta released.
- Android Wear update introduces new gestures and speaker support
- Open Source repository F-Droid updated.
- App News
- Public Speaking for Cardboard Lets You Practice Speaking in Front of a Virtual Audience. (Play Link)
- Google Hangouts can now use Peer-to-Peer Connections for Voice Calls
- LastPass changes logo from Asterisk to dots.
- Remember the Milk gets 4.0 update, with new UI, subtasks, and more. (Play Link)
- Swiftkey acquired by Microsoft.
- In Other News
- The US ranks 55th in terms of LTE download speeds.
- Buy Your Own Doomsday Bunker in Northern Ireland
- Google will now warn you before you load sites with deceptive ads or buttons
- Google engineer finds USB-C type cable that is not only dangerous, it fried his hardware.
- Podcasts could come to Google Play Music later this month.
- Gmail now has 1 billion monthly active users.
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