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Stadia Achievements can now be viewed on iOS and Android

August 1, 2020
A month after launch, Stadia picked up the ability to view game Achievements online and on Chromecast. The streaming service logged awards from day one, but an interface wasn’t ready until December. Stadia Achievements are now rolling out on the Android and iOS apps. Like on the web, Achievements are accessed by tapping the People icon and selecting any profile. The main list provides a summary…
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Russian company offers ugly solid gold iPhone 12

July 31, 2020
Russian ‘luxury’ accessory company Caviar is noted for really ugly, crazily priced re-cased iPhones, and it’s solid gold iPhone 12 may be the ugliest version it has offered yet … Caviar buys iPhones from Apple, removes the casing and replaces it with its own … designs. The company says its iPhone 12 will go on sale in October, which may not yet reflect the delay Apple announced…
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Buildots raises $16 million to automate construction site reporting with AI

July 30, 2020
Data-driven construction reporting company Buildots this week announced it raised $16 million, a combination of a $3 million seed round and a $13 million series A. Cofounder Roy Danon says it’ll be used to scale and improve the company’s products as Buildots expands to new regions around the world. Large construction projects — which some countries have allowed to continue during the…
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Samsung could ditch Bixby and Galaxy Store as part of Google deal

July 29, 2020
(Reuters) — Samsung is considering dropping its Bixby virtual assistant and Galaxy Apps Store from its mobile devices as part of a new global revenue-sharing deal with Alphabet’s Google, according to correspondence seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Google has tried for years to get Samsung, the world’s leading mobile device maker by units sold, to drop its own services and give greater prominence…
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