Show Notes
- Android News
- Android phone manufacturers keep pretending that Android doesn’t exist.
- How Android Doze works and how to tweak it
- Project Ara is now dead.
- Rumor that there is a hardware event on October 4th, with new smartphones with the Pixel name, a 4K Chromecast, Google Home, Daydream VR, etc.
- Samsung officially conducting investigation of battery explosions on Note 7. Sales suspended in interim.
- The Power of “Early Access” to an App.
- App News
- Street View update can automatically detect and blur faces, group unpublished 360 photos, and soon point out photography sites.
- Preview version of Crossover runs Windows apps on Android and Chromebooks.
- Facebook adds Instant Video to Messenger.
- Google Contacts updates with better labeling, duplicate managements, etc.
- In Other News
- Mark Zuckerberg built an AI that controls his house, and he’ll demo it next month.
- Phillips Hue now works with Google OnHub.
- Verizon introduces LTE Advanced in 461 cities.
- Gene Wilder dies at 83.
- Project FI has a powerful feature hidden in plain sight.
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