Written by Joey Peters
Today Google took over as America’s most valuable company briefly knocking Apple down to second place. Apple then shortly took back the number one spot but things are changing because the last time the Google overtook Apple was a long time ago. That wasn’t the only Tech Story today, watch the full video to catch up on today’s Tech News.
Watch the YouTube Video Here: https://youtu.be/ZXqTtrLugKM
Written by Joey Peters
Instagram has changed everything and everything includes the change of the icon design, and the UI in all of the applications that they make. I don’t think it was a good move on Instagram’s part. That wasn’t the only Tech Story today, watch the full video to catch up on today’s Tech News.
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Written by Joey Peters
Samsung has added a new application to their Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge called DT Ignite and with this app comes the power of Samsung to put any app on your phone so basically they will be getting companies that want to pay Samsung to put their app on the device and Samsung just wants the money. That wasn’t the only Tech Story today, watch the full video to catch up on all of the Tech News of today!
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The Google I/O app has hit the play store for those of you that are heading to the conference.
One thing that is always hard about going to these conferences is that it is hard to schedule so many things and go to them. This app helps to make that a little easier on your frail little heart.
Google has still been updating their I/O event website with new information as we start to get closer to the event. The app has a few Material elements that we haven’t seen before, so that means that we could see an update to some Material stuff in one of the sessions.
The app looks very similar to last year’s. You are able to navigate to things such as the explore, where news is going to be posted, your personal schedule so you know where to be and when, and videos of previous sessions.
It’s going to be a great year for tech!
Tune in to my channel (PurifyHD) to see a live stream of the keynote. Not the keynote itself, more rather my initial impressions live.
Hope to see you there!
Written by Joey Peters
Google will soon use Material Design on YouTube and drop the design they have right now and I think it is a good idea because personally I think that it looks great. That wasn’t the only Tech Story today, watch the full video to catch up on today’s Tech News!
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Written by Joey Peters
iFixit opened up the new MacBook only to find new tamper evident screws which will tell Apple that you have either taken the screw out or opened up your computer to see the internals which voids your warranty. That wasn’t the only Tech Story that happened today, watch the full video to see what happened in the Tech World today!
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Since 2014, Apple has moved their WWDC registration from first-come-first-serve to a lottery system. In 2013, WWDC sold out in 70 seconds. In the years since that developers entered a random lottery, and they were selected to go. Your card is only charged when you are a confirmed winner.
This puts developers on common ground, which gives them all a fair chance to grab a ticket to this year’s conference. Apple stated that they are planning on sending winners notifications on 25 April, some people have already begun to see charges on their cards for $1,599. If you have not received a notification just yet, do not give up. Apple says that all attendees will be final at 17:00 (5pm) on Monday 25 April.
Along with the entry lottery, Apple is proving scholarships to 350 students and STEM organization members. Apple is also providing assistance for travel for up to 125 of its scholarship attendees with financial issues.
Be sure to stay with Currently Techie as we give you news and updates in the upcoming weeks. And go and check out our WWDC 2016 breakdown page.
Header image screenshotted from Apple’s WWDC registration page.: 22 April 22:30.
Information learned from 9to5Mac.
Apple announced the dates of WWDC ’16 today. That also means that the ticket lottery has started today. If you go, the price is $1,599 USD.
Things that are expected to come out at this year’s conference includes OS X 10.12 [Big Sur?] as well as iOS 10.
The “kickoff” event where all of the new features and the main keynote for releases is not taking place at Moscone west this year. It is taking place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. All other sessions will be held at the Moscone West Center. The annual WWDC bash will be taking place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium as well.
Features to OS X could include Siri on the Mac. Since the release of Siri back in 2011 it has been a dream of all Mac users to see the personal assistant implemented on Apple’s desktop operating system. A dedicated music app, and a few other features such as backing up your time machine recovery disks to iCloud are high up on the “likeliness list”.
iOS 10 could see a new “Rootless” system that is aimed at prevented even adminstrator level users from gaining access to certain file systems on the iPhone, iPad, or even Mac, but is expected to be able to disabled on OS X. It could make jailbreaking in the future a challenge for those of you who do. A new app on the home screen [great] could be the “Home” app. This would make all of your home automation appliances (The Internet of Things) through Apple’s HomeKit would be able to controlled from one app instead of separate apps such as “ADT” for your home alarm or “Wemo” for your light switches and outlets.
Not a lot is known about other things, and we will continue to look at the rumour mills.
Header image thanks to Apple.
Written by Joey Peters
A drone hit a British Airways plane as it was landing in London. This is a very serious matter and very dangerous! This isn’t the only Tech Story today… watch the full video to find out what happened in the Tech world today!
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Written by Lance Nickel
On Wednesday, Google pushed Developer Preview 2 for Android N, the latest Android release, expected to be announced at I/O 2016, to their developer platform.
There are a few new things that are worthwhile to talk about, amongst the inevitable bug fixes and security updates.
One of those is called Vulkan. It is a new 3D rendering API, which is aimed at providing low overhead GPU control to developers. It allows for nicer graphics, especially in games, and with the style of Material Design, will probably bring faster speeds of which you didn’t think was possible. This is kind of like Metal from Apple.
Another feature is some new launcher shortcuts. Apps can define shortcuts which the user can make available in the launcher to perform some quick launching actions quicker. These shortcuts come in the form of jump lists to thing such as recently sent messages to people, or to go to a specific section of an app, like your home feed on Instagram.
Unicode Emoji 9 support also comes to this update, with a few new emojis, and a new design for people emojis. These emojis were redesigned by Google to “look more human”. They also seem to have skin tones that were updated as well.
Other than that most of the other things were just things that were expected to come out of a developer preview update.
Header image icon by Google for Android N
