June, 2017

• 20 June

  Google makes sharing the cost of a Project Fi plan supereasy

  

  Project Fi, Google’s fledgling wireless service, which only works with Google-branded Android phones, has a new feature that may make it more attractive to a wider audience. The just-launched “Group repay” is a new automated system that makes it easy to split your Project Fi group plan bill among up to six members of that …

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• 20 June

  Fitbit wants to shine a light on sleep apnea

  

  Fitbit is expanding its repertoire. The company known for motivating you to exercise with wearables that monitor your steps is now working on a device that will monitor your sleep and potentially detect if you have sleep apnea, CNBC reports. Fitbit says the project will track your blood oxygen level throughout the night to help spot irregularities. Sleep apnea is …

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• 20 June

  Google for Jobs is ready to help your employment search

  

  Google wants to help you find your perfect job. Starting Tuesday, the web giant’s Google for Jobs initiative means that with a simple search, you’ll be able to pull up listings for “entry level jobs in NYC” or “catering jobs in Louisville, KY.” Google automatically pulls listings from popular sites such as Monster, CareerBuilder and LinkedIn. Plus, developers and site …

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• 20 June

  Not even Apple’s first iPhone engineers knew all it could do

  

  How secretive was Apple about the first iPhone? Engineers working on the project didn’t even know what it really could do.  When building the first iPhone leading up to its release in 2007, Apple put together a group of engineers and designers tasked with working on the top-secret project. Hardware engineers didn’t even know what the software could do, and …

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• 20 June

  How Apple leapt ahead of Google, Facebook and Microsoft on AR

  

  This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. We knew Apple CEO Tim Cook was keenly interested in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). But earlier this month, Apple finally — and openly — revealed its plans to the world. Apple dedicated a significant portion of its Worldwide Developers Conference …

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• 20 June

  Firefox’s ad

  

  Firefox Focus, a mobile browser that developer Mozilla calls fast, private and simple, has entered the Android world. On Tuesday, Mozilla said that the app, which was released for iPhone and iPad users in November, is now available on Google Play. One of the most prominent features of the app is that it blocks ads that track a user’s online …

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• 20 June

  Bots and trolls are swaying opinions on Facebook, Twitter

  

  Your political views are being shaped by bots and trolls on social media, a new study confirms. Social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, have become tools for the spread of propaganda, according to the study released Monday by the University of Oxford. The research was conducted across nine countries, including the US, China and Russia. The report found social …

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• 20 June

  Leaked recording discusses Apple’s efforts to prevent leaks

  

  Apple is reportedly employing former members of the US Military, the Secret Service, the FBI and the National Security Agency to prevent internal leaks. Ironically, this info was obtained by a recording of an internal company meeting that was leaked to The Outline. The recording was one of many presentations for Apple employees about keeping the company’s secrets safe, the site …

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• 20 June

  Spotify officially arrives on the Windows Store

  

  Spotify was in no rush to join the official Windows Store. (Way back in 2012, we had to come up with this list of alternatives.) But now that hell has frozen over — in case you missed it, iTunes is coming to the Windows Store as well — Spotify has wasted no time bringing its own popular free-and-subscription music app …

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• 20 June

  iPhone’s 3D Ikea app could sell you a couch

  

  If there’s one think we know about the iPhone 8 (or iPhone X or iPhone Edition, or whatever it’ll be called) it’s that the phone will be able to use AR, or augmented reality, to place digital objects in the real world.  Apple made a big deal about that at its WWDC conference earlier this month when it unveiled ARKit, the software to …

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