Facebook’s Instant Articles platform to support Google AMP, Apple News
One of the problems publishers face today in making their content more readable on mobile devices is that there are multiple, competing formats available for this purpose.
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Google announces untethered, fully tracked, standalone VR headsets
New “visual position system” is an AR Google Maps for indoors
BitTorrent Is Shutting Down Its Live TV Streaming Service
There’s no word on what will happen to those technical assets, or what the company aims to do with the underlying P2P-based live streaming protocol.
What’s Next in Computing?What’s Next in Computing?
It is also possible the next era won’t arrive for a while, or that only a subset of the new computing categories will end up being important.
Apple Music redesign will put video in the spotlight
The company plans on up to 10 different series for the service before year’s end.
Apple is in talks to launch its own Venmo
Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps?
Google iOS search now finds streaming movies, music and TV
It finally does the same stuff that Google search for Android and desktop.
Webroot deletes Windows files and causes serious problems for users
The company’s antivirus product erroneously flagged files in a Windows folder as malicious
Amazon’s camera-equipped Echo Look raises new questions about smart home privacy
Amazon’s responses to questions about the new device are a bit of a mixed bag, and due diligence should be employed by users with privacy concerns.
Google Trips travels farther into Features Land
The travel logistics app, which pulls from your Gmail inbox to help organize your vacay, adds a few more bells and whistles.