Update, Sept. 28, 2021: Amazon announced several new Echo and Ring devices during the annual fall product launch event. We also got a first look at several new health-related products, including the Halo View fitness tracker and two health platforms: Halo Nutrition and Halo Fitness. Original story follows. Amazon’s Halo fitness band is a wearable that’s designed to track everything from your movement …
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Whenever I’m bored and open up TikTok, it fills huge portions of my day with lip syncing videos, celebrity gossip and clips of animatronic cats dancing to saxophone music. You’d think that in an airplane, thousands of feet above the ground, we’d finally be able to break free of the clutches of the addictive video-sharing app and focus on, well, …
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Apple Arcade added Detonation Racing, an explosive new racing game from Electric Square, on Friday. The latest game brings Apple’s $5-a-month service to 198 games. See at App Store Detonation Racing features the eccentric Dr. Boom as the host of the “least responsible game show of all time.” Players must navigate a course rigged with explosives and massive obstacles at every …
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Uber is now offering free Rosetta Stone language classes to ride-hail and deliver drivers, the company said Thursday. It aims to make interactions between drivers and patrons easier while teaching drivers new skills that can help them find jobs beyond Uber. The drivers will have free access to all 24 languages Rosetta Stone offers, directly from the Uber Driver app. …
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Uber is now offering free Rosetta Stone language classes to ride-hail and deliver drivers, the company said Thursday. It aims to make interactions between drivers and patrons easier while teaching drivers new skills that can help them find jobs beyond Uber. The drivers will have free access to all 24 languages Rosetta Stone offers, directly from the Uber Driver app. …
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Hey, Android users. A new safety section is coming to Google Play. Starting next year, Android developers will be required to include a privacy policy with their app. The requirement covers both first-party and third-party app developers. The app policies will let you see safety and privacy guidelines before downloading the app, so you’ll know how your data is collected, …
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Robinhood Markets, the company behind the wildly popular investing app, on Wednesday priced its initial public offering at $38 a share, at the bottom of its expected range. The IPO — one of the most anticipated stock market listings of the year — values the company at about $32 billion. Robinhood sold 55 million shares at low end of its …
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Facebook said on Tuesday that it is launching a tool called Sensitive Content Control on Instagram. The feature is designed to give people more control over how much sensitive content appears in the Explore part of Instagram’s app. “You can think of sensitive content as posts that don’t necessarily break our rules, but could potentially be upsetting to some people — …
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Facebook’s double ambitions in virtual and augmented reality could be meeting in the middle with the Oculus Quest 2. A new developer toolkit for the Quest allows blending of passthrough cameras with VR graphics, enabling mixed reality. Mixed reality has been bubbling up on the Oculus Quest for a while: In addition to the headset’s way of scanning the world …
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Apple Arcade just added Jetpack Joyride from Halfbrick Studios, the creators of Fruit Ninja (also on Apple Arcade). The new game is Apple Arcade’s 196th title so far. You can check out the new game Friday. See at App Store Take on the role of Barry Steakfries in this high-tech endless runner. Don your jetpack and navigate an obstacle-ridden laboratory while …
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