Inbox by Gmail prompts you to create a reminder when you try to email yourself
Google’s Inbox by Gmail apparently has a new feature: when you go to email yourself an important thought or task, the app will attempt to get you to create an actual reminder over sending yourself an email.
The prompt appears right after typing your email address in the “To” field. If you tap on the prompt, any text you’ve added in the subject and body of the email will be quickly transferred over to the reminder, and all you have to do is tap “Save.”
While it’s nothing ground breaking, it’s a cool little feature, and it makes a lot of sense, as Inbox already has some neat integration with reminders. However, it’d be nice to see Google go even further with this feature and offer it in Gmail itself.
source: Android Police
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Microsoft’s 84-inch pen display isn’t going to ship on time
Looking forward to refreshing your office’s aging teleconference system with Microsoft’s 84-inch 4K collaborative pen display? You’ll have to wait: the company just announced that its $20,000 Surface Hub is going to miss its September 1st ship date.
According to a new blog post, the delay is a manufacturing issue. “We started taking pre-orders on July 1 and we’ve seen strong demand out of the gate,” wrote Microsoft Surface General Manager Brian Hall. “Based on the early interest we see, we’re tuning our manufacturing process to prepare for production at broader scale. To do this, we are adjusting our product roll-out schedule to ensure we deliver a great customer experience and set our partners up for success.” Microsoft hasn’t said exactly when it expects the oversized touch PC to ship, but plans to give customers an update early next month.
In the meantime, the company is still accepting pre-orders for both models: the $20,000 84-inch, 4K model with NVIDIA Quadro K2200 graphics as well as the $7,000 55-inch HD display, sporting a regular old Intel HD GPU.
Filed under: Displays, HD, Microsoft
Source: Microsoft
Walmart counters Amazon’s ‘Prime Day’ with its own sale
Walmart wasn’t about to let Amazon have all the fun. Not long after the online retailer announced its Prime Day sale, which is said to offer more deals than Black Friday, Walmart is saying that it will have discounts of its own online. According to USA Today, this month over 2,000 web-exclusive Rollback deals are expected to be available across multiple categories, including baby and home products as well as electronics and toys. In addition to this, Walmart’s also going to reduce the free-shipping order minimum from $50 to $35 for “at least” the next 30 days — and that’s starting next Monday. This isn’t the first time Walmart has tried to catch up to Amazon, though. Last year, the company started matching Amazon’s prices at brick-and-mortar stores, after it became apparent that the business was losing ground to its internet rival.
[Image credit: JeepersMedia/Flickr]
Filed under: Internet
Via: Entrepreneur
Source: USA Today
Apple Pay Officially Launches in the United Kingdom Today
Over the past several days, banks and merchants in the United Kingdom have been gearing up for the launch of Apple Pay, and as of today, Apple’s payments service will be officially available for use in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Apple Pay works at participating retail stores and within apps that accept it. Because it requires NFC, it is only available for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users, and Apple Watch users who have an iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, or 6 Plus. In-app Apple Pay purchases can be made with an iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, iPhone 6, or iPhone 6 Plus.
According to Apple’s UK Apple Pay site, banks and credit card companies that are participating in the Apple Pay launch include American Express, First Direct, HSBC, Nationwide, NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander, and Ulster Bank. Additional banks like Barclays, MBNA, TSB, and more are expected to add support in the future.
More than 250,000 locations in the United Kingdom support Apple Pay as of today, ranging from fast food places like KFC and McDonald’s to shops like Boots, Marks & Spencer, and Waitrose. A full list of retail shops and apps that accept Apple Pay can be found on Apple’s website.
Apple Pay has been available in the United States since last October and today’s UK Apple Pay launch marks its first expansion. Apple is also rumored to be working on expanding the payments service to several other countries, including China and Canada.
Does Power Saving Mode actually result in better battery life on the Galaxy S6?
Various devices have power saving modes that are great for extending battery life. On the surface, they sound great because everyone wants to use their phones for as long as possible without having to sit next to a wall outlet while charging. Power saving modes can really limit what is possible in reality. So it may or may not be worth it, especially considering that the added time on batter life may not be worth it.
Note: Power Saving Mode is different than the more intense Ultra Power Saving Mode.
This test will be conducted with the Galaxy S6 Edge to show whether or not Samsung’s Power Saving Mode has a real advantage when activated.
I mostly use my phone for social media, web browsing on Chrome, and the camera here and there. In terms of outside connections, I have Bluetooth on at all times for my Gear 2 Neo with WiFi and GPS being activated when available and necessary. Although this test is being done with the Galaxy S6 Edge, the battery only differs from the Galaxy S6’s by 50mAh.
I used my phone normally in its regular full power mode and then switched to Power Saving Mode for the next day (after charging). I kept switching between these each day for eight days and what follows are my results. Again, I switched to the opposite mode after charging and not an actual 24-hour day as some days go past 24 hours.
Day 1: Full Power
On the first day, I decided to test on full power for a baseline. Totally normal day and normal use. I had been using Power Saving Mode before this and one of its changes include turning off the capacitive buttons. When I turned Power Saving Mode off, they never came back for some reason. I then toggled the switch on and off a few times and they eventually came back returned. I assume this is a bug, but figured I’d mention it in case the bug actually kept Power Saving Mode partially on.
Overall, I got pretty great battery life. It was actually the best battery life I have ever had with this phone so far.
Total time: 28hrs
Screen on time: 4hrs
Day 2: Power Saving Mode
This is the first Power Saving Mode day. I expected a little less battery just because yesterday was unusually long lasting for no apparent reason. However, due to the day running long, my charging time was different. This meant it went two nights before charging from lengthy standby time. The only good thing was my phone was now basically dead first thing in the morning making future testing more accurate.
Using Power Saving Mode here did add a few more hours of battery life with roughly the same screen on time.
Total time: 35hrs
Screen on time: 4hrs
Day 3: Full Power
The third day was a much better test as the phone was charged in the morning. Interesting enough, it lasted almost as long as the others. A little worse screen on time and lower total time.
Total time: 31.5hrs
Screen on time: 3.5hrs
Day 4: Power Saving Mode
Again, the phone was charged in the morning. I was trying to keep my use roughly the same each day so the only deciding factor is Power Savings Mode. It seemed to be adding a few more hours of life. On this day, however, I had to go out for hours on the eve of Canada Day. The time was noticeably less as it was not on WiFi and had bad signal for a few hours.
Total time: 25hrs
Screen on time: 4hrs
Day 5: Full Power
On Canada Day, I was out all day. Not the best signal and WiFi networks were few and far between. I took lots of pictures today between all of the traveling done for the holiday and there was much more use than standby time.
Screen on time was definitely lower with all of the activity. I would imagine this was because of the power-hungry camera that uses a ton of battery and switches the display’s brightness to its upper limit when turned launched.
Total time: 18hrs
Screen on time: 2.5hrs
Day 6: Power Saving Mode
Signal was a bit iffy on the sixth day and I was mostly on WiFi. I took a few pictures, but not as many as the previous day and did most of my work with Samsung’s Multi Window. Running two apps simultaneously on the display is sure to deplete battery life.
Total time: 15.5hrs
Screen on time: 3hrs
Day 7: Full Power
Multi Window was used a lot on the seventh day for work-related purposes. I had low cell signal for most of the day, but also mostly on WiFi overall. Other than that just a normal day with normal use.
Total time: 20hrs
Screen on time: 3hrs
Day 8: Power Saving Mode
This last day was more like the first couple of days where basically WiFi was used the entire day. Chrome and YouTube were the apps used most.
I could of “cheated” and not used it for a couple minutes longer, saving me battery and allowing it to have just enough to get though the night. It would of added an extra 8hrs of total time making the results to be around 20hrs total standby time. I decided that was pointless and I’d just do the extra couple google searches draining the battery into low range.
Just a quick bonus story. I ended up plugging it into a quick charger as I went to brush my teeth etc before I went to sleep. Obviously not that long, but when I came back and unplugged it the battery read 20%. It went up 15% in only a few minutes. Very impressive and giving me easily enough battery to last the night.
Total time: 13.5hrs
Screen on time: 4.5hrs
Close
Overall, the testing was pretty fair. I had a few days on each mode where I did nothing much all day and a few days where I’m working the phone’s processor.
Here are the totals:
Full Power
Standby Time: 97.5
Screen on Time: 13
Power Savings
Standby Time: 89
Screen on Time: 15.5
Interesting results, right? I expected Power Savings to be ahead in standby time and only a little difference in screen on time, but the results show the opposite. In a normal week, I actually got more standby time with full power, but, despite that, a few more hours of screen on time with Power Saving Mode on.
However, on the eighth day, which was a Power Saving Mode day, I did say that it would have been possible for me to get roughly 7-8 hours more standby time, thus making the standby time on both about equal. Personally. I think over a month the results would become very similar. It seems much more dependent on how you use your phone overall.
In terms of actual use, I didn’t notice much difference when Power Saving Mode was on. The phone felt basically the same with only the buttons losing sensitivity. A few other differences is the home screen apps refresh a little more often when exiting an app and the camera launches a little bit slower.
Due to the added battery life, I’d recommend using Power Saving Mode most of the time; the results show it can really go either way. The only time I definitely don’t recommend having it on is when you are playing high-powered games or apps that would use lots of power. Another time to keep it off is if you are using the camera to take shots of things that are moving whether it be cars, animals, or children. I was in a car trying to take pictures of rare cars driving around me and Power Saving Mode added just a touch of delay when you press the capture button. I would always end up only getting part of or totally missing the car because of this. Very frustrating and a mistake I won’t make again.
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Diving into Android M: what else is new in Preview 2?
Last week Android M Developer Preview 2 arrived on scene. That very day I released our first “Diving into M” post for the second preview, which highlighted the changes to the launcher and the ability to now edit the status bar with the Tuner UI tool in the developer options.
While I had planned to create more follow-up posts, I quickly realized that most of the changes that had been discovered were pretty small and so the decision was made to play with it throughout the weekend before summing up everything that has visibly changed all in one post — while also commenting a bit on what’s not visible.
Want to dive even deeper? Check out our full “Diving into M” series by clicking here.
As we’ve already mentioned before, the Android M Developer Preview 2 is less about showing off new changes and more about (near) finalizing the many new APIs coming with Android M so developers can test them out prior to the final release. After all, this is a developer preview.
That said, there are some changes. Let’s start by talking about the under the hood stuff.
Stability, performance, and battery life
It has to be said that, even from day one, Android M’s stability was considerably better than we saw with L. This makes sense considering Lollipop was a big departure from KitKat, while M is more a minor evolution of what was started with Lollipop. With the new preview, stability only gets better.
I used my Nexus 5 as my daily driver the entire weekend and ran into virtually no problems. Not only was my experience with the phone smoother, battery life seemed better than it had with Lollipop and — while it might have been in my head — seemed better than it had in the first preview as well. How much better depends on how heavily it is used, but I will tell you that with Android Lollipop I generally found myself going to bed with 3 to 9% battery life on average. With M, it’s been around 15 to 18%, and this weekend it is has been slightly better than that (around 15 to 20%).
Bottom-line, Android M is shaping up to be a very stable, efficient build and should hopefully have considerably less bugs and other day-one issues than we saw with Lollipop. Considering Lollipop still is riddled with bugs and performance issues, we are really excited to see that M is taking a step forward here.
As for what’s new in the Android M Developer Preview 2? Here’s what all we found (in addition to the previously mentioned launcher and status bar changes):
Memory Manager UI gets reworked
One of the changes found in the original M Preview was an improved memory manager that added several new features including a way to better see how much RAM each of your apps was using.
Finding the setting in M originally required you to take several steps, but in Preview 2 it is more prominently found in its own “Memory” tab right in the Settings screen. Beyond that, the UI has also been cleaned up considerably making it much more pleasant to use than before.
Deleting screenshots from within notification tray
Each time you take a screenshot in Android (4.0 and higher), you’ll get a notification in your tray letting you know it has been saved. With Android M Developer Preview 2, however, there’s now also an easy way to delete them as well.
It’s a simple, minor change but still a welcome one for those times when you accidentally take a screenshot at the wrong moment or simply decide not to keep it.
No more dark theme
Dark theme is no longer in Preview 2.
The new (optional) dark theme in Android M was one of the first things we noticed when diving into the developer options for the test build. It was nice to finally have another option aside from the very bright standard UI. Unfortunately, it is no longer present in the second preview.
The removal of the feature just goes to show you that test builds don’t always give an accurate picture of what to expect from final software. Is the dark theme gone forever? Hard to say. It’s possible that they were merely testing it and decided it wasn’t worth keeping. Or dark theme might not be fully ready for prime time and was removed in preview 2 to further fix it up for a final release. Only time will tell for sure.
Wrap up
As you can see, there’s not much for new features here. There are a few other minor changes like the addition of a Google on Tap option in Google settings (but it does nothing at this stage), a slight change to “Storage” (now Storage & USB), but let’s remember that Android M’s big goal was about polish and that’s exactly what we are seeing with Android M’s second preview.
What do you think of Android M in general, both the first and second preview? For those that have tried the second preview, have we missed anything noteworthy?
Commuting with the fun, stylish and expensive Bolt e-bike
The Bolt looks sort of like a motorcycle, but it’s really more like a BMX bike with an electric motor bolted to it. The startup’s electric bike doesn’t try to compete with motorcycle maker Zero or scooter manufacturer Gogoro; instead it’s targeting the bicycle commuter that wants a smoother ride to work. While it also looks like a cross between a moped and cafe racer, it’s technically a bicycle with an electric motor and can technically be ridden in the bicycle lane. Angry cyclists aside, that also means you don’t need a license to ride it or a have to get it registered or insured. For urban environmentalists tired of showing up to work all sweaty, it could be the ultimate commuter.
The Bolt M-1 is fun to ride. You just get on, twist the throttle and you’re off. Not off like a shot. It’s not a motorcycle — far from it — but its electric engine is zippy enough to pleasantly surprise you the first time you open the throttle. The 140-pound frame and pedals remind you that you’re on something closer to a bicycle than a motorcycle. But it’s heavy enough that those pedals should only be used on flat surfaces or while pointed downhill. Or better yet, not at all. You can ride the M-1 like a bike, but it’s not ideal.
Even though I was riding a pre-production version of the bike (code-named: Raven), it’s sturdy enough to be jumped over speed bumps (something co-founder Nathan Jauvtis was happy to demonstrate during my initial test ride with him) and has a sufficiently sporty look so that it doesn’t seem like a standard moped. It’s cool looking enough to get the attention of the Engadget staff when I rolled it into the office. Did I mention it’s technically a bike?
It has the expected technical touches you would expect from a Silicon Valley startup. It uses a passcode instead of a key and has a USB charger for your smartphone and a companion app that connects via Bluetooth. Two quick-release batteries sit at the top of the frame like a motorcycle gas tank. The batteries can be removed and charged in your home or at work. Jauvtis noted that not everyone has a garage to charge their vehicle. This way you can lock up the M-1 and charge its batteries without connecting the bike to a wall.
The bike has two settings: Eco mode with a top speed of 20MPH pushing 1,000 watts with a 50-mile range and Sport mode with a top speed of 40MPH with a 30-mile range pushing 5,500 watts. While you would be tempted to buzz around town in Sport mode, legally you shouldn’t. Bolt notes that it’s for “off-road use only.” That’s because once the bike is out of Eco mode, it’s technically not an electric bike anymore and is subject to registration and the rider needs a license. So owners should never ride on the streets in Sport mode (wink wink). Of course if you do, and you’re a fan of obeying the letter of the law, Bolt will help you register the vehicle as a “special construction” (like a custom motorcycle) with the DMV.
That is, when the bike is available to the general public. Bolt is currently accepting $500 deposits to be part of the initial production of the bike. The deposit will secure potential buyers a spot in the crowdfunding campaign it will launch in September. The first bikes will cost $4,995 with normal pricing landing somewhere between $5,500 and $6,000. It’s not cheap. The first generation of any product rarely is.
In the meantime, the Bolt team is hand building 10 bikes for beta testers out of a garage and a living room in San Francisco’s Richmond district. Jauvtis is excited. The Bolt M-1 offers scooter and moped convenience without the licensing and registration barriers associated with those vehicles. The bonus is that it’s fun to ride and easy on the eyes.
Filed under: Misc, Transportation
Source: Bolt Motorbikes
What’s on your HDTV: ‘Ex Machina’, ‘Bojack Horseman’, ‘God of War III’
This week it’s discs vs. streaming, as the summer TV schedule is in full swing. On Blu-ray the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina arrives (as the first release with DTS:X surround sound), along with It Follows and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. For gamers, Rory McIlroy’s golf sim arrives, but the big highlight is God of War III Remastered on the PS4. Netflix follows up Chris Tucker’s comedy special last week with a feature on Tig Notaro, and the premiere of Bojack Horseman season two. Geeks Who Drink and Reactor premiere on Syfy, Mythbusters is back on Discovery and FX has the return of Married plus a new show Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll starring Denis Leary. If you insist on sportsing, there’s the MLB All-Star game on Fox while NBC has all the major racing series, and the surprisingly-controversial Espy Awards are Wednesday night. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Blu-ray & Games & Streaming
- Ex Machina
- It Follows
- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Powers (S1)
- X-Men: Days of Future Past the Rogue Cut
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
- The Longest Ride
- Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (Netflix, 7/15)
- The Human Experiment (7/17)
- God of War III Remastered (PS4)
- Godzilla the Game (PS4, PS3)
- Trials Fusion: Awesome Level Max (PC. PS4, Xbox One)
- The Fall (PS4, Xbox One)
- PieceFall (PS4)
- No Time to Explain (Xbox One, PC)
- Rory McIlroy PGA Tour (PS4 & Xbox One)
- The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PS4)
Monday
- 2015 MLB Home Run Derby, ESPN, 8PM
- Penn & Teller: Fool Us, CW, 8PM
- The Fosters, ABC Family, 8PM
- American Ninja Warrior, NBC, 8PM
- So You Think You Can Dance, Fox, 8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It), HBO, 9PM
- The 2000s: A New Reality, National Geographic, 9PM
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?, CW, 9PM
- Chasing Life, ABC Family, 9PM
- Major Crimes, TNT, 9PM
- Running Wild with Bear Grylls (season premiere), NBC, 10PM
- Cuban Chrome (series premiere), Discovery, 10PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 10PM
- Unreal, Lifetime, 10PM
- Murder in the First, TNT, 10PM
- Becoming Us, ABC Family, 10PM
- Making of the Mob: New York, AMC, 10PM
- The Whispers, ABC, 10PM
Tuesday
- 86th MLB All-Star Game, Fox, 7PM
- America’s Got Talent, NBC, 8PM
- WWE Tough Enough, USA 8PM
- Deadliest Catch, Discovery, 8PM
- Zoo, CBS, 9PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 9PM
- Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM
- Stitchers, ABC Family, 9PM
- Hollywood Game Night, NBC, 10PM
- Royal Pains, USA, 10PM
- Scream, MTV, 10PM
- Clipped, TBS, 10PM
- Proof, TNT, 10PM
- Tyrant, FX, 10PM
- Another Period, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Comedy Central, 12:30AM
Wednesday
- 2015 Espy Awards, ABC, 8PM
- Operation Wild (season finale), PBS, 8PM
- Melissa & Joey ABC Family, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Unsung: Kid ‘n Play (season finale), TV One, 8PM
- Baby Daddy, ABC Family, 8:30PM
- Suits, USA, 9PM
- Jim Rome, Showtime, 9PM
- Bullseye (season finale), Fox, 9PM
- Rogue, DirecTV 101, 9PM
- The Jim Gaffigan Show (series premiere), TV Land, 10PM
- I Am Jazz (series premiere), TLC, 10PM
- Key & Peele, Comedy Central, 10PM
- Catfish, MTV, 10PM
- Extant, CBS, 10PM
- Mr. Robot, USA, 10PM
- The Game, BET, 10PM
- Impastor (series premiere), TV Land, 10:30PM
- Why? With Hannibal Burress, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- The Exes (summer premiere), TV Land, 11PM
Thursday
- Food Fighters, NBC, 8PM
- Kids’ Choice Sports 2015, Nick, 8PM
- Boom!, Fox, 8PM
- Beauty and the Beast, CW, 8PM
- The Astronaut Wives Club, ABC, 8PM
- WWE Smackdown, Syfy, 8PM
- Dates, CW, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Aquarius, NBC, 9PM
- Wayward Pines, Fox, 9PM
- Dates, CW, 9 & 9:30PM
- Mistresses, ABC, 9PM
- Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (series premiere), FX, 10PM
- Dominion, Syfy, 10PM
- Lip Sync Battle, Spike TV, 10PM
- Rectify, Sundance, 10PM
- Under the Dome, CBS, 10PM
- Graceland, USA, 10PM
- Rookie Blue, ABC, 10PM
- Hannibal, NBC, 10PM
- Maron, IFC, 10PM
- Married (season premiere), FX, 10:30PM
- Geeks Who Drink (series premiere), Syfy, 11PM
- One Bad Choice MTV, 11PM
- Reactor (series premiere), Syfy, 11:30PM
Friday
- Bojack Horseman (S2), Netflix, 3AM
- Tig, Netflix, 3AM
- Masters of Illusion, CW, 8PM
- The Messengers, CW, 9PM
- Defiance, Syfy, 8PM
- Killjoys, Syfy, 9PM
- American Greed, CNBC, 10PM
- Dark Matter, Syfy, 10PM
Saturday
- The Bride He Bought Online, Lifetime, 8PM
- Cedar Cove (season premiere), Hallmark, 8PM
- The Millers (series finale), CBS, 8 & 8:30PM
- 3 Days to Kill, USA, 8:30PM
- Hell on Wheels (season premiere), AMC, 9PM
- Mythbusters (season premiere), Discovery, 9PM
- Power, Starz, 9PM
- Atlantis, BBC America, 9PM
- Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, BBC America, 10PM
Sunday
- F1 Germany GP, CNBC, 7:30AM
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ New Hampshire, NBC Sports Network, 1:30PM
- IndyCar Series @ Iowa, NBC sports Network, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Welcome to Sweden (season premiere), NBC, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Red Sox vs. Angels, ESPN, 8PM
- Last Tango in Halifax, PBS, 8PM
- Ray Donovan, Showtime 9PM
- Battlebots, ABC, 9PM
- True Detective, HBO, 9PM
- Humans, AMC, 9PM
- The Last Ship, TNT, 9PM
- Love You to Death, Lifetime, 9PM
- Golan the Insatiable (season finale), Fox, 9:30PM
- Masters of Sex, Showtime, 10PM
- The Strain, FX, 10PM
- Ballers, HBO, 10PM
- Falling Skies, TNT, 10PM
- Halt and Catch Fire, AMC, 10PM
- Naked & Afraid, Discovery, 10PM
- Save My Life: Boston Trauma, ABC, 10PM
- Brink, HBO, 10:30PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11PM
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Deleting Google Photos won’t stop your phone from uploading pictures
Google Photos is pretty amazing. Not only does it offer free, unlimited back-up space for your photos and memories, it also automatically creates collages, slide-shows and movies from your uploaded library. I loved it from the first moment I installed the app–but if you don’t, watch out: uninstalling Google Photos won’t stop your phone from uploading pictures to your account.
The issue was recently brought to light by the Nashville Business Journal, after David Arnott discovered hundreds of photos he thought he deleted preserved in his Google Photos account–all taken weeks after he uninstalled the backup app. It’s not a fluke, either: I tried it myself, deleting not only Google Photos, but also disabling my phone’s Google Drive and Google Plus apps, and my phone still backed up every photo I took. All six of these photos uploaded, even after I deleted the whole suite of apps:
It’s a quirk in how Google Photos deals with upload settings–instead of keeping it all localized within its own app, Photos farms out the task of managing uploads to the Google Settings app, which also handles location data, search functions ad settings and more. When you delete the Google Photos app, its settings live on, as do whatever backup settings you chose when you first installed it. It’s easy enough to disable (just pop into Google Settings and tap on “Google Photos Backup”), but it’s not very intuitive.
Filed under: Misc, Gaming, Mobile, Google
Via: Android Central
Source: Nashville Business Journal
NYT: Uber loses bid for Nokia Here’s maps to German automakers
It looks like Uber has been shut out of the purchase of Nokia’s mapping service Here by BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz. According to the New York Times, Uber is out of the running to purchase the mapping division which it had been rumored to have bid $3 billion. Uber isn’t the only company that’s been sidelined by the three german automakers. According to the NYT’s sources, Chinese companies Baidu and Tencent were also initially interested in the mapping technology, but have since lost interest. The automakers have long used Nokia’s mapping technology in their vehicles’ onboard navigation systems. Uber on the other hand, would be able to own the technology to help it better serve its passengers. While Uber may be out for now, if negotiations with the three automakers break down, the car-sharing company could be back in the running.
Filed under: Misc, Transportation
Source: New York Times
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