One of the more useful things Google does with your Location History is aggregate visits. Google Maps for iOS is now gaining a revamped Timeline that better lets you browse your past travels.
Already available on Android, the new Timeline is rolling out to iPhones and iPads this week. It’s still accessed from the navigation drawer under “Your timeline.” However, instead of a single…
Ever heard of FlyHash? It’s an algorithm inspired by fruit flies’ olfactory circuits that’s been shown to generate hash codes — numeric representations of objects — with superior performance compared with classical algorithms. Unfortunately, because FlyHash uses…
Google Tasks for Android hints at Hangouts Chat integration
January 21, 2020
With the launch of Gmail’s Material Theme revamp on the web in 2018, Tasks was reintroduced as a standalone to-do app. Google Tasks now appears to be readying Hangouts Chat integration.
About APK Insight: In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the latest…
YouTube TV arrives on PS4 ahead of PlayStation Vue shut down
January 21, 2020
PlayStation Vue subscribers have likely already marked their calendars for January 30th, the day when Sony will pull the plug on its live TV service. But the death of Vue doesn’t mean PS4 users will have to move to different hardware for their live and on-demand fix, as YouTube TV is now available on the console. The service has a solid lineup of channels and DVR functions for $50 a month…
Facebook’s AI learns the relationships between physical places from first-person video footage
January 21, 2020
Computer vision systems generally excel at detecting objects but struggle to make sense of the environments in which those objects are used. That’s because they separate observed actions from physical context — even those that do model environments fail to discriminate…
Samsung’s efforts in cameras have evolved quite a bit over the past few years, but nothing has helped them take the top spots away from the likes of Google, Apple, and Huawei. Now, it seems Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is going to kill off the dual-aperture tech after just a…
The market for truly wireless earbuds has exploded over the past few years, thanks in part to the death of the headphone jack. Ahead of its Galaxy S20 reveal, Samsung is also preparing to launch a new set of Galaxy Buds, the Galaxy Buds+, and some renders have leaked this week to show them off.
Rumors of upgraded Galaxy Buds have been swirling for months, and at this point, it’s definitely…
Buy two Blu-ray movies or video games, get one free from Amazon
January 21, 2020
You can save a good amount of cash on Blu-ray movies and video games on Amazon right now. In addition to discounts, it’s offering a “buy two, get one free” promotion, and the selection is great. If you can’t make up your mind about whether you want three movies or…
“What do you think is the biggest hardware business at Microsoft?” asked Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week during a private media event. “Xbox,” answered a reporter who had been quizzing Nadella on how the company’s hardware products like Surface and Xbox fit…
After almost seven years, Nintendo has won a patent case that involved the original Wii. On Tuesday, the company announced that a federal court in Dallas ruled in its favor against iLife Technologies, overturning an earlier 2017 decision that would have forced Nintendo to pay out $10.1 million in damages.
The original suit, which was brought against Nintendo of America in 2013, alleged that the…
