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For this week’s 9to5Rewards, we’re partnering with Speck to give away two case bundles for the Samsung Galaxy S8 or S8+. If you win, you’re going to get a total of 4 different cases from the same company that made the Presidio cases for Pixel that we gave away in February…
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Google has now released MobileNets, a family of computer vision models for TensorFlow. What’s special about these? They run entirely on the lower-power mobile devices that we all carry around in our pockets.
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Google Photos has long been able to automagically create videos from the photos and videos you upload to the service, but for Mother’s Day earlier this year Google added a feature that makes movies specifically for that occasion. Now, Google is appropriately extending that feature to Father’s Day, which is coming up on June 18th…
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Yesterday was Marissa Mayer’s official departure from Yahoo, where she served as CEO since 2012. After many years of her trying to turn the company around, shareholders finally put Yahoo to its independent death earlier this month with their votes to approve Yahoo’s sale to Verizon.
Mayer is walking away with a hefty $260 million, though, and apparently has her mind on one big life change: she gets to use Gmail again, a product she helped create.
Plex has today announced that its Android app is gaining the ability to play most locally stored video files on your device. The update should make the Plex app a great option for those looking for an easy way to play a wide variety of video file types…
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Google today announced an update to its Local Guides program — perhaps the biggest one in a while. Starting today, Local Guides can reach up to level 10, whereas previously the “game” was capped at level 5. That means those who previously maxed out their points have reason to start updating Google Maps data again…
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There are lots of companies that make objectively terrible phones, and occasionally Honor has been one of them. But Honor, even though it still fell short in the end, had a highly-respectable United States handset launch last year with the Honor 8. Now the successor to that device, the Honor 9, has been announced in China, and it looks pretty nice.
Lenovo subsidiary Motorola has today announced the latest in its annual lineup of affordable smartphones, the Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus. The two handsets are yet another $100-$200 budget offering from the company, mostly just building on last year’s Moto E3 with improved specs and new metal designs…
In this week’s top stories: Google redesigns media notification controls in latest Android O developer preview, Google outlines when Pixel and Nexus devices will stop receiving telephone & online support, and Amazon seemingly confirms 8GB of RAM for the OnePlus 5.
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This week’s 9to5Rewards partner is Wellbots, a US-based online retailer that specializes in smart products like drones, robots, wearables, home automation devices, connected toys and more.
The company has the popular Amaryllo smartphone-controlled iSensor HD to give away to 9to5Google readers this week.
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The BlackBerry Keyone might look pretty durable, but don’t be fooled. JerryRigEverything, a YouTuber quickly becoming known as the master of smartphone durability tests on YouTube, has now given the phone the full treatment. Let’s just say it was pure carnage.
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Alphabet Class A shares ($GOOGL) hit new record highs today, soaring past the $1,000 per share mark. Alphabet Inc Class A is up 7.80 points on the day, or 0.78%. Alphabet Inc Class C, on the other hand, is straddling the line just below the $1,000 mark, sitting at 983.28 at the time of this writing and up nearly the same amount.
OnePlus’ latest flagship, the OnePlus 5, is right around the corner. Now, thanks to the sleuthy work of a OnePlus forum member, we have our hands on all — or at least some — of the phone’s wallpapers. You can download them below.
I’ve been noticing a weird issue with Google Home off and on for the last couple weeks, but it has become particularly annoying this weekend. Basically, the device has been interrupting many of my queries with “Sorry, something went wrong,” and then asks me to try again in a few seconds. At first I chalked it up to a random glitch on my end, but it seems it’s a bit more than that.
If you’re experiencing this problem as well, just know that you’re not alone.
