Popular vendor of OS.http://aics-app.sakura.ne.jp/rss_share/201504271430106698867Microsoft, Apple, Google's latest news. Contains official and unofficial news.(ENG)As Twitter ends support for its macOS app, Twitterrific drops to $7.99 (Reg. $20)
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/17/twitterrific-for-mac-price-drop/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:27:32 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/twitterrific-macos.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Yesterday evening, Twitter officially announced that it is discontinuing support for its native macOS application in 30 days. In response, one of the most popular third-party Twitter clients for the Mac has <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitterrific-5-for-twitter/id1289378661?at=11l3RE">dropped its price</a>…</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:27:32 +00009to5MacHas the HomePod left a ‘white ring’ on any of your furniture? [Poll]
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/17/homepod-furniture-damage-poll/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:10:27 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/homepod-crop-circles.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>HomePod is making its mark on early adopters. Earlier this week, it was discovered that <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/14/homepod-wood-crop-circles/">Apple’s HomePod can leave a white ring</a> on certain wood finished furniture. While it’s unclear how widespread the issue is, Apple did acknowledge it a support document, saying that it is not unusual for “vibration-dampening silicone” to leave marks.</p>
<p>We’re curious: Have you noticed the HomePod leaving white rings on your furniture?</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:10:27 +00009to5MacHow to recover lost data from iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iMyFone D-Back for Mac
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/17/imyfone-iphone-data-recovery-for-mac/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:34:03 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/myifone-top-mac-01.png?w=1600" /></div><p>If you need to recover data from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod, there are a few options including Apple’s own recovery tools. But an app like iMyFone D-Back for Mac makes it easy to see all of your available options and recover specific data from backups via iTunes, iCloud and the device itself even if you don’t know exactly where to look. With the click of a mouse from your Mac you’ll also be able to easily isolate only the data you want, making it easy to find things like photos, messages, and data from apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Kik, WeChat and more. Head below to see how it works.</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:34:03 +00009to5MacGoogle’s Project Zero exposes new Microsoft Edge security flaw
https://www.onmsft.com/news/googles-project-zero-exposes-new-microsoft-edge-security-flaw
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:20:01 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/microsoft-edge-1039x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="microsoft, edge" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/microsoft-edge-1039x580.jpg 1039w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/microsoft-edge-250x140.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/microsoft-edge-768x429.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1039px) 100vw, 1039px" />A new flaw in Microsoft Edge has been published by Google, after Microsoft failed to patch it in the given time.Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:20:01 +0000On MSFTThis week’s top stories: HomePod’s ‘ring’ problem, Apple Watch helps save a life, Facebook’s spyware on iOS, more
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/17/top-stories-homepod-facebook-spyware-more/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:14:21 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/top-stories.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p><strong>In this week’s top stories: </strong>Another pesky text bug on iOS and macOS, more thoughts on the HomePod, Apple Watch helps save yet another life, and more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories..</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 16:14:21 +00009to5MacApple marks completion of new campus with first corporate address change since 1993
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/apple-new-campus-corporate-address-one-apple-park-way/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 02:32:20 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/park.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>On the heels of this past Tuesday’s annual <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/13/2018-annual-meeting-of-shareholders-recap/">shareholders meeting</a>, Apple has made the transition to <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-park/">their new campus</a> official by changing the company’s <a href="https://www.apple.com/contact/">corporate address</a> to One Apple Park Way. The change comes just weeks after Apple was <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/26/apple-park-employees/">given occupancy permits</a> for several sections of the main campus building.</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 02:32:20 +00009to5MacApple publishes new guide on how to use the HomePod [Video]
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/apple-video-how-to-use-homepod/
Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:06:26 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/homepod-13.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p>After a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/11/homepod-how-to-videos/">handful of how-to videos last week</a>, Apple has now published a new HomePod video on its Apple Support YouTube channel covering how to get the most out of the smart speaker, noting that Siri will be your main interface with the device.</p>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2018 00:06:26 +00009to5MacTwitter puts deadline on Mac application, will drop support in 30 days
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/rip-twitter-for-mac/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:27:50 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/twitter-app.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1024" /></div><p>Today Twitter has <a href="https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/964635739517407232">announced</a> that it will be killing its Mac application in favor of a web client. The social media giant tweeted on its platform today that the app has thirty days to live, and that it will no longer be supported beyond that.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:27:50 +00009to5Mac030: Apple Park pains, Subaru’s CarPlay, and Apple Watch impact | 9to5Mac Daily
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/9to5mac-daily-030/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:15:23 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/artboard-12x.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Today we’ve got a fun story out of Apple Park, the latest new CarPlay option, HP pushing Apple products, and a stunning story about Apple Watch.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:15:23 +00009to5MacNew and expanding locations across Americahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/bByx6CER0rY/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Our goal is to ensure that information serves everyone, not just a few. To do this, we want to hire people to develop our products in the widest possible range of locations, around the world and throughout the United States. </p><p>We opened our first office outside California in 2000. Now Google has offices and data centers in 21 states in the U.S, and last year we grew faster outside the Bay Area than in it. This year we plan on hiring thousands more people. To support that growth, today we’re announcing new or expanded offices and data centers in 14 states across the country. </p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="Google offices and data centers 2018" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/googleofficesdatacenters.max-1000x1000.png"/></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>This afternoon, I was at the groundbreaking for our new data center in Clarksville/Montgomery County in Tennessee. The Tennessee data center is part of a $2.5 billion dollar investment we’re making to open or expand data centers in Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Oklahoma. These data centers are what make Google services run for you or your business (in Tennessee alone, we answer millions of searches a day, and about 18,000 businesses and nonprofits use our search and advertising tools).</p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/TN2.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">TN2.jpg</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/TN3.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">TN3.jpg</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/TN1.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">TN1.jpg</span></div></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>And our data centers also have a strong impact on the economies around them. People often discuss “the cloud” as if it’s built out of air. But it’s actually made up of buildings, machinery, and people who construct and manage it all. Today we employ an estimated 1,900 people directly on our data center campuses. We’ve created thousands of construction jobs—both for our data centers themselves, and for renewable energy generation. And our renewable energy purchasing commitments to date will result in energy infrastructure investments of more than $3.5 billion globally, about two-thirds of that in the United States.</p><p>In addition to these five data centers, we’re investing in new or expanded offices in nine states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. Having talented people from different places, bringing diverse perspectives and backgrounds to work, is essential to the development of our products. In these locations, there will be jobs for thousands of people in a variety of roles—engineering, operations, sales and more.</p></div></div><div class="block-pull_quote"><div class="uni-pull-quote h-c-page"><section class="h-c-grid"><div class="uni-pull-quote__wrapper h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--8 h-c-grid__col-m--6 h-c-grid__col-l--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-2 h-c-grid__col-m--offset-3 h-c-grid__col-l--offset-3"><div class="uni-pull-quote__inner-wrapper h-c-copy h-c-copy"><q class="uni-pull-quote__text">The launch of Google’s data center in Clarksville is great news for Montgomery County. These high-quality jobs will benefit families in a real way, and I applaud Google's mission to improve education and advance workforce development for Americans.</q> <cite class="uni-pull-quote__author"><span class="uni-pull-quote__author-meta"><strong class="h-u-font-weight-medium">Senator Bob Corker</strong><br/> Tennessee</span></cite></div></div></section></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>In addition to job opportunities at Google, our recently announced <a href="https://blog.google/topics/causes-community/opportunity-for-everyone/">Grow with Google initiative</a> continues to create opportunities for more people across the country. As part of our <a href="https://www.google.org/billion-commitment-to-create-more-opportunity/">$1 billion commitment over the next five years</a>, I was thrilled today to announce a $300,000 Google.org grant to Goodwill of Middle Tennessee, to incorporate new digital skills trainings into their workforce-development program—including new local scholarships for our <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/grow-with-google/it-support-professional-certificate/">IT Support Professional Certificate</a>. </p><p>We’re proud to be a growing part of the Clarksville/Montgomery County community and others like it across the country. And we’re committed to helping more people participate in the opportunities that technology provides.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/bByx6CER0rY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:10:00 -0000Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:10:00 -0000The Official Google BlogHow to watch the Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Mixer Livestream on Feb. 19
http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/02/16/watch-age-empires-definitive-edition-mixer-livestream-feb-19/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:00:07 +0000The <em>Age of Empires: Definitive Edition</em> launch livestream will begin at 2 p.m. PST on Monday, Feb. 19, on the official <a href="https://mixer.com/ageofempires/mobile">Age of Empires Mixer livestream channel</a>.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:00:07 +0000Windows BlogAssassin’s Creed III could be getting an Xbox One remaster
https://www.onmsft.com/news/assassins-creed-iii-could-be-getting-an-xbox-one-remaster
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:58:02 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/assassins_creed_3-HD-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft, 3, Assassin's Creed, Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox One X" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/assassins_creed_3-HD-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/assassins_creed_3-HD-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/assassins_creed_3-HD-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />Ubisoft will apparently getting ready to re-release Assassin's Creed III on the Xbox One, as a new Xbox One version of the game has recently earned a PEGI 18 rating.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:58:02 +0000On MSFTApple Watch SOS saved a mom and her baby after a drunk driver hit their car
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/apple-watch-sos-saves-mom-baby/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:10:21 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/apple-watch-saves-mom-baby.png?w=1600" /></div><p>Apple Watch continues to save lives by placing life-changing technology in ordinary places. Kacie Anderson, who shared her story with <a href="https://www.shape.com/fitness/gear/apple-watch-sos-feature-car-accident#95">Shape.com</a>, is the latest example of someone with an incredible experience with Apple Watch. Anderson says her watch helped save her and her nine-month-old son’s life when they were hit by a drunk driver.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:10:21 +00009to5MacMicrosoft and Amazon battle beyond the cloud for third “most valuable company” spot
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-and-amazon-battle-beyond-the-cloud-for-third-most-valuable-company-spot
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:07:49 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa-870x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa-870x580.jpg 870w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa-100x66.jpg 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa-248x165.jpg 248w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/amazon-echo-alexa.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px" />For the first time ever, Amazon has not only broken the ranks of the top three most value companies in the US and in doing so, ousting Microsoft from its cozy perch at number three.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:07:49 +0000On MSFTGo behind the scenes of “Isle of Dogs” with Pixelhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/8-nJw8dYNMQ/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>"Isle of Dogs" tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies to Trash Island in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.</p><p>The film isn’t out until March 23—but Pixel owners will get an exclusive sneak peek this week.<br/></p><p>In “Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality),” the audience is taken behind-the-scenes in a 360-degree VR experience featuring on-set interviews of the film’s cast (voiced by Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, F. Murray Abraham and Bob Balaban). Get nose-to-nose with Chief, Boss, Rex and the rest of the cast while the crew works around you, for an inside look at the unique craft of stop-motion animation.<br/></p><p><br/>Pixel’s powerful front-firing stereo speakers and brilliant display make it perfect for watching immersive VR content like this. Presented in 4K video with interactive spatial audio that responds to where you’re looking, “Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality)” is a collaboration between FoxNext VR Studio, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Felix & Paul Studios, the Isle of Dogs production team, and Google Spotlight Stories.<br/></p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="ISLEOFDOGS_Stories.jpg" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ISLEOFDOGS_Stories.max-1000x1000.jpg"/></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>“Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality)” is available today on the Google Spotlight Stories app, exclusively for Google Pixel phones (Pixel and Pixel 2) and best watched on the Daydream View headset. To watch, download the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.spotlightstories">Spotlight Stories app</a>.<br/></p><p>On March 2, “Isle of Dogs Behind the Scenes (in Virtual Reality)” will become available in VR, 360 and 2D via YouTube VR and Fox Searchlight YouTube channel, and any platform that has the YouTube VR app, including Daydream and Sony PlayStation VR. “Isle of Dogs,” from Fox Searchlight, hits theaters on March 23.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/8-nJw8dYNMQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:00:00 -0000Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogCarPlay comes standard with Subaru’s brand new Ascent, pre-orders now open
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/subaru-ascent-carplay-standard/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:55:33 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/subaru-ascent-carplay.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Subaru has opened up pre-orders for its newest vehicle, <a href="https://www.subaru.com/ascent">the 2019 Ascent</a>. The new 3-row SUV comes with <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/carplay/">CarPlay</a> standard and joins some of the company’s other vehicles to offer Apple’s in-car platform.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:55:33 +00009to5MacCortana adds support for IFTTT and more smart home providers
https://www.onmsft.com/news/cortana-adds-support-for-ifttt-and-more-smart-home-providers
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:17:13 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683-870x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683-870x580.jpg 870w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683-100x66.jpg 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683-247x165.jpg 247w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/32bd827ebde7f5eb14358ac369accd8c-1024x683.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px" />Microsoft has just announced that Cortana is now supporting IFTTT as well as more new smart home devices from Ecobee, Honeywell and more. Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:17:13 +0000On MSFT9to5Toys Lunch Break: $150 off iPad Pro, iMac 21.5″ $1,350, Apple iPhone X Leather Folio $50, more
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/9to5toys-ipad-pro-imac-leather-folio/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:30:36 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/9to5toys-lunch-break.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by <em><strong><a href="http://9to5toys.com/9to5toys-newsletter-signup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter</a></strong></em>. Also, be sure to check us out on: <a href="http://twitter.com/9to5toys">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://9to5toys.com/feed">RSS Feed</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/9to5toyscom/228249133858390">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/b/105878626736210310777/105878626736210310777/posts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Google+</a> and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2013/12/11/safari-push-notifications-are-live-on-all-9to5-sites/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Safari push notifications</a>. <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/9to5toys-ipad-pro-imac-leather-folio/#more-520827" class="more-link">more…</a></p>
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:30:36 +00009to5MacHey Cortana, turn up the heat; Cortana now works with more smart home providers and IFTTT
http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/02/16/hey-cortana-turn-heat-cortana-now-works-smart-home-providers-ifttt/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +0000Cortana expands home automation skills, making it easier for you to control your smart home devices while on the go.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +0000Windows BlogOutlook.com beta now has a redesigned “People” section
https://www.onmsft.com/news/outlook-com-beta-now-has-a-redesigned-people-section
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:37:52 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-16.51.52-904x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-16.51.52-904x580.png 904w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-16.51.52-250x160.png 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-16.51.52-768x493.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px" />The redesigned "People" section of Outlook.com beta now uses the same design language as the Mail and Calendar sections of the web app.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 16:37:52 +0000On MSFTHP makes it easier for companies to deploy Apple devices as it launches end-to-end support
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/hp-daas-apple/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:49:34 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/hp.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p>While many large businesses have <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/07/apple-enterprise-data-mac-ios-jamf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embraced Apple devices</a>, and seen <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/10/28/ibm-mac-v-windows-costs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">significant benefits</a> as a result, others are worried about the resources needed to support mixed platforms. That’s the problem HP aims to solve by supporting iPhones, iPads, Macs and other Apple products with an end-to-end service …</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:49:34 +00009to5MacApple launches rich ‘Close Your Rings’ webpage to promote healthy living with Apple Watch
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/close-your-rings-webpage-apple-watch/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:34:32 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/activity1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Just in time for some weekend motivation, Apple has added a new page to their website promoting Apple Watch’s activity tracking features. The page, titled “<a href="https://www.apple.com/watch/close-your-rings/">Close Your Rings</a>,” details realistic and effective ways that Watch wearers can live a healthier and more active lifestyle by completing one simple goal each day.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:34:32 +00009to5MacMicrosoft refunding some EA Access subscribers due to double charge
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-refunding-some-ea-access-subscribers-due-to-double-charge
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:16:02 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1499445463333.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1499445463333.jpg 1024w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1499445463333-250x125.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/1499445463333-768x384.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Microsoft mistakingly double charged some people for EA Access and will be issuing refunds.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:16:02 +0000On MSFTHomePod Diary: For me, it’s the Apple Watch all over again – but should you buy one?
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/homepod-diary-review-siri/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:00:16 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/homepod-21.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p>Well, almost. With the Apple Watch, I was pretty sure it was a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/04/24/apple-watch-diary-first-impressions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointless device</a>, and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2015/07/31/apple-watch-diary-three-months/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was wrong</a>. With HomePod, I did think it was going to find a role as a HomeKit hub and a device to allow my partner to control lighting when her phone was in another room. But I <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/24/homepod-diary-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wasn’t expecting much</a> from it as a speaker.</p>
<p>And yet it’s the speaker which is <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/09/homepod-review-diary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning me over</a>.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, the sound quality isn’t up there with B&O or Naim – but is at least as good as a Sonos Play 5. I wondered last time whether two stereo-paired HomePods might go some way to closing the gap <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/12/homepod-diary-the-best-party-gadget-ever/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">between the two levels</a>, and I now find myself actively hoping this proves to be the case …</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 15:00:16 +00009to5MacEnter for your chance to win a custom Air Jordan III Inspired Xbox One X Console
https://www.onmsft.com/news/enter-for-your-chance-to-win-a-custom-air-jordan-iii-inspired-xbox-one-x-console
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:51:04 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jordan_Hero_01-hero.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jordan_Hero_01-hero.jpg 940w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jordan_Hero_01-hero-250x140.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Jordan_Hero_01-hero-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" />Microsoft is giving away Limited Edition Air Jordan Inspired Xbox One X Consoles, and you can enter now for your chance to win.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:51:04 +0000On MSFTSome ‘distracted’ Apple employees accidentally walking into Apple Park’s clear glass panes, claims report
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/apple-employees-walking-into-apple-park-glass/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:36:44 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/apple-park-interior-wsj-001.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p>An amusing tidbit this morning highlights a potential flaw in Apple Park’s all-glass design. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/apple-s-new-spaceship-campus-has-one-flaw-and-it-hurts"><em>Bloomberg</em> reports</a> that some employees who might not have been paying 100% attention to where they are walking have accidentally walked into the clear glass internal walls of the pods that make up Apple Park. As a remedy, employees stuck Post-It notes to the walls to make them easier to see. However, these had to be removed because ‘they detracted from the building’s design’.</p>
<p>Whilst there are some markings on these panes, it seems employees haven’t quite adjusted to their new campus. Apple is still in the process of moving employees over to the new campus; <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/26/apple-park-employees/">at last count</a>, it had permission to move in workers to 5 out of the 12 Apple Park sections.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:36:44 +00009to5MacPatent suggests Surface Pen could be getting its own version of a mouse scroll wheel
https://www.onmsft.com/news/patent-suggests-surface-pen-could-be-getting-its-own-version-of-a-mouse-scroll-wheel
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:36:35 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-773x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft, Surface, WIndows 10" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-773x580.jpg 773w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-220x165.jpg 220w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-632x474.jpg 632w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/20170823_105626-536x402.jpg 536w" sizes="(max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px" />A recently uncovered patent suggests Surface Pen could be getting its version of a mouse scroll wheelFri, 16 Feb 2018 14:36:35 +0000On MSFTMicrosoft pulls installer for “classic” Skype for Windows desktop app due to security issue
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-pulls-installer-for-classic-skype-for-windows-desktop-app-due-to-security-issue
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:34:45 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-14.33.21-861x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-14.33.21-861x580.png 861w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-14.33.21-100x66.png 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-14.33.21-245x165.png 245w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-16-at-14.33.21-768x517.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 861px) 100vw, 861px" />Microsoft has just pulled the installer for the old Skype for Windows desktop app, citing a security issue with the installer.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:34:45 +0000On MSFTiDevices unveils new battery-powered Instant Switch for smart home control
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/idevices-instant-switch/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:59:11 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/instant-switch-integrations-standalone_2017-10-17-2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>iDevices today has unveiled a new <a href="https://bit.ly/2o4rUh5">connected wall switch</a> that it says lets users seamlessly control their other iDevice accessories and their smart home products. Dubbed the Instant Switch, iDevices touts this accessory as an “intelligently-designed wireless remote wall switch…</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:59:11 +00009to5MacForza 7 updated with new features, Dell Gaming Car Pack launched
https://www.onmsft.com/news/forza-7-updated-with-new-features-dell-gaming-car-pack-launched
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:58:12 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f1ee7e00-c821-4b98-bbab-1c3e4dea29c5-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f1ee7e00-c821-4b98-bbab-1c3e4dea29c5-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f1ee7e00-c821-4b98-bbab-1c3e4dea29c5-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f1ee7e00-c821-4b98-bbab-1c3e4dea29c5-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/f1ee7e00-c821-4b98-bbab-1c3e4dea29c5.jpg 1120w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />This update brings several changes to the game, including new eSports features. It also sets the path for the Dell Gaming Car Pack, which adds several new cars to the game.Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:58:12 +0000On MSFTApple Pay now accepted at 5,000+ more online stores in Denmark, Finland and Sweden
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/apple-pay-nordic-countries-scandinavia/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:45:51 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/applepay2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/apple-pay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Apple Pay</a> is now accepted at an additional 5,000+ online stores in Denmark, Finland and Sweden …</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:45:51 +00009to5MacInfinite loop aimed to keep HomePod, Amazon Echo & Google Home in conversation for 48 hours
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/16/homepod-versus-echo-versus-home/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:58:15 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/homepod1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500" /></div><p><em>CNET</em> set out to keep a <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/homepod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HomePod</a>, <a href="http://amzn.to/2Byw7kX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon Echo</a> and <a href="https://9to5google.com/guides/google-home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google Home</a> in continuous conversation for at least 48 hours …</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:58:15 +00009to5MacGrab the Tokyo Ghoul anime’s first season for free on Xbox One & Windows 10
https://www.onmsft.com/news/grab-the-tokyo-ghoul-animes-first-season-for-free-on-xbox-one-windows-10
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:13:15 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray-870x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Tokyo Ghoul anime series" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray-870x580.jpg 870w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray-100x66.jpg 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray-248x165.jpg 248w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/TokyoGhoulSeason1Blu-ray.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px" />The first season of the popular anime series, Tokyo Ghoul, is now available to claim for free via the Microsoft Store on Windows 10 devices and Xbox One video game consoles. Here’s its official description. Tokyo lives in fear of creatures called Ghouls. By day, they live as ordinary humans, but by night, they become […]Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:13:15 +0000On MSFTMicrosoft Build 2018 registrations are now open
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-build-2018-registrations-are-now-open
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:00:03 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/seattlebuild-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft Build 2018 in Seattle" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/seattlebuild-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/seattlebuild-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/seattlebuild-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />Registration for the Microsoft Build 2018 event is now open via the official website. This year’s Build conference is planned for May 7th through 9th and will be located in Seattle. Microsoft Build is an event designed to attract a variety of developers and technology industry experts and insiders with the aim of helping attendees […]Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:00:03 +0000On MSFTSouth Park: The Stick of Truth now available to all on Xbox One
https://www.onmsft.com/news/south-park-the-stick-of-truth-now-available-to-all-on-xbox-one
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:38:29 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/southpark-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="South Park: The Stick of Truth on Xbox One" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/southpark-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/southpark-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/southpark-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />South Park: The Stick of Truth is finally available to buy digitally for on the Xbox One for everyone after being downloadable for free as a South Park: Fractured But Whole bonus gift for some gamers in several regions. The Xbox One version of the South Park: The Stick of Truth features slightly improved graphics […]Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:38:29 +0000On MSFTMIcrosoft’s To-Do app on Android updates to fix bugs & username error
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsofts-to-do-app-on-android-updates-to-fix-bugs-display-usernames
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:19:22 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/projectToDo-912x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Project To-Do, Project Cheshire" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/projectToDo-912x580.jpg 912w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/projectToDo-250x159.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/projectToDo-768x489.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px" />The official Microsoft To-Do app has updated to Version 1.24.55 on Android devices. This latest update mainly focuses on fixing bugs but that had been affecting the usability of it for some users such as the app forgetting their account and duplicate entries being created. Here’s the official release notes. If you were interrupted while […]Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:19:22 +0000On MSFT20+ must-know HomePod tips [Video]
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/20-must-know-homepod-tips-video/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:07:18 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/homepod-tips-featured.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>If you’re an Apple Music subscriber who’s all in on the Apple ecosystem, then the <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/11/homepod-hands-on-the-best-and-worst-of-apples-new-smart-speaker-video/">HomePod is a compelling smart speaker</a>. Not only does it sound excellent, but it has Siri built in, which can do things like control your music and control smart home accessories.</p>
<p>HomePod isn’t yet as “smart” as Google Home products with Google Assistant, or Amazon products with Alexa, but it has loads of potential, and already features many built in conveniences. Did you recently purchase a HomePod? In this hands-on video, we’ll walk through some of our top must-know tips for new HomePod users.</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 04:07:18 +00009to5MacHappy Lunar New Year! Wag hello to the Year of the Doghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/ywdcNC2XFE8/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Today marks Lunar New Year. Across the world, people are celebrating the end of the year of the Rooster and the start of the Year of the Dog.</p><br/><p>Whether you're enjoying <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tteokguk">tteokguk</a> with family or handing out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_envelope">red envelopes</a> for good luck, there are many ways to celebrate the holiday. According to <a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/story/US_cu_f9eEj1kBAACi2M_en">Google Trends</a>, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are among the countries searching the most for “red envelopes.” Meanwhile, top searched foods are nian gao, dumplings, pineapple tart, rice cake and peanut cookies.</p><br/><p>Since we’re dog people here at Google, we sniffed out a few non-traditional ways to celebrate. Howl you be spending the Lunar New Year?</p><br/><h2>Try your paw at drawing</h2><p>In the last year, people have drawn more than 3 million doodles of dogs in <i>Quick, Draw!</i>—a fun game that uses neural networks to try to recognize your drawings. In honor of Lunar New Year, our team snuck in a special version of <i>Quick, Draw!</i> with<img alt="Dog Face on Google " height="21" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PRxEfvtV9ggYFqYjGmwEjW_DVx9_wyLTVnqrUcj-jVj4ixE31EKkgAvumTCbSHCqRpHfsv3PXETp-Pq9K9QEp9i9OJKsUz4HDPW9I_lwXPwMaQQdmK9YQFe9nGWFIWYqG4cEODYT" width="21"/>-related items. Put your doodling skills <a href="https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/woof/">to the test</a>.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="Quick Draw Dog" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/dogOhIKnow_itsDog_16x9_180208a.gif"/></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>If you’re more of a data breed, you can check out the pawsome dog doodles from around the world in a special <a href="https://pair-code.github.io/facets/dogs">Lunar New Year version</a> of Facets Dive, a tool that visualizes large sets of data (in this case ruff-ly 140,000 dogs that people have drawn in <i>Quick, Draw!</i>).</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><h2>The dogs of Street View</h2>Lunar Year of the Dog means dogs are everywhere–including on Google Street View! We’ve had a lot of fun finding furry friends all around, from this one <a href="https://www.google.com.tw/maps/@40.7718685,-73.9681977,3a,75y,183.25h,72.08t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syOdp78iIS7W_wrATjDwb9Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">strolling through New York’s Central Park</a> to this<img alt="Dog Face on Google " height="21" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/PRxEfvtV9ggYFqYjGmwEjW_DVx9_wyLTVnqrUcj-jVj4ixE31EKkgAvumTCbSHCqRpHfsv3PXETp-Pq9K9QEp9i9OJKsUz4HDPW9I_lwXPwMaQQdmK9YQFe9nGWFIWYqG4cEODYT" width="21"/><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.323427,-1.9871622,3a,75y,159.29h,94.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCCqHVOSC0Zy29egYdg2uqQ!2e0!5s20110901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">hanging out in a small alley in San Sebastian</a>, to our friend here <a href="https://www.google.com.tw/maps/@-33.8985349,151.2758134,2a,75y,147.2h,87.83t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGnIUY6xseZqqBesAN3PcNA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">enjoying the Coastal Walk in Sydney</a>. Scroll through our favorites below, or find dogs on Street View in your own neighborhood.</div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Japan_Shikaoi_Hokkaido.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Japan, Shikaoi, Hokkaido.png</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text"><a 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url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/New_Zealand_Lake_Tekapo_dog_statue.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">New Zealand, Lake Tekapo dog statue.png</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Statue in <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/3JTPD6LNqP52">Lake Tekapo, New Zealand</a><p></p></div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/US_Oakland_Oak_Crest_Drive.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">US, Oakland, Oak Crest Drive.png</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8159486,-122.206808,3a,65.8y,204.55h,82.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s28NxLdJA4Vyz38y5PhVl1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656">U.S.</a><br/></div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Taiwan_Taipei_Temple_of_the_Eighteen_Lords.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Taiwan, Taipei, Temple of the Eighteen Lords.png</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Statue at Temple of the 18 Lords, <a href="https://www.google.com.tw/maps/@25.2723501,121.5949165,3a,75y,211.75h,105.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq0A39ayEe5gQyA9aZhracQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Taiwan</a></div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/Spain_Basque_Country_San_Sebastian.gif);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Spain, Basque Country, San Sebastian.gif</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@43.323427,-1.9871622,3a,75y,159.29h,94.91t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCCqHVOSC0Zy29egYdg2uqQ!2e0!5s20110901T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en">Spain</a></div></figcaption></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg 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Photos also lets you search for your dog using a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtGFBbwKEk">dog emoji</a>.</p><br/><h2>All dogs go to the Games</h2>We couldn’t let the moment pass without a Doodle (or two!). This cheerful pup on our homepage in many countries around the world isn’t just welcoming the New Year—it’s also celebrating the Doodle Snow Games!</div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="Lunar New Year Ski Lift Doodle 2018" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/2-16-Lunar_Ski_Lift.gif"/></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>In places not tuning into the Doodle Snow Games, you might see a different Doodle—also featured at the top of this post.</p><p>No matter how you celebrate or what language you say it in, happy Lunar New Year!</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/ywdcNC2XFE8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:30:00 -0000Fri, 16 Feb 2018 01:30:00 -0000The Official Google BlogEvan Spiegel defends Snapchat redesign, says complaints only ‘validate’ the changes
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/snapchat-ceo-says-old-design-never-coming-back/
Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:17:31 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/code2015_20150526_171440_5572-x3-2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Snapchat’s <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/06/snapchat-do-not-disturb/">highly anticipated redesign</a> has proven to be one of the company’s most controversial moves to date. Users, in various forms, have called on Snap to revert to the previous design, including <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/snapchat-petition-response/">one petition</a> that has accumulated over 1 million signatures.</p>
<p>Today, however, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel essentially ruled out any hope of the old design coming back…</p>
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Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:17:31 +00009to5Mac029: iOS 11 Telugu bug, Sonos has HomePod’s problem, and Carpool Karaoke 2 | 9to5Mac Daily
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:39:00 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/artboard-12x.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Today we’ve got new details about a Telugu bug affecting iOS 11, Apple enforcing iPhone X screen resolution on new apps, Sonos One experiencing the same issue as HomePod, and Carpool Karaoke being renewed for a second season.</p>
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 23:39:00 +00009to5Mac160: The HomePod Review | 9to5Mac Happy Hour
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:29:47 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/happy-hour-16-9.png?w=1600" /></div><p>This week Benjamin and Zac have a short chat about the new Apple HomePod. (Stay tuned for 9to5Mac’s official review later next week. This episode was also recorded before stain-gate, so thoughts on that next episode.)</p>
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:29:47 +00009to5MacApple renews Carpool Karaoke spin-off for a second season
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/carpool-karaoke-season-2/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:18:07 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/carpool-karaoke-with-tim-cook_7.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1536" /></div><p>One of Apple’s first original content efforts <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/08/you-can-now-watch-the-first-episode-of-apples-carpool-karaoke-series/">was a spin-off of James Corden’s popular Carpool Karaoke segment</a> from The Late Late Show on CBS. While <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/08/09/carpool-karaoke-reviews-roundup/">early reviews and user response</a> to the series were mixed, Apple has renewed its Carpool Karaoke spin-off for a second season…</p>
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:18:07 +00009to5MacUpdated Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/02/15/updated-microsoft-store-app-developer-agreement-microsoft-store-policies/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:00:51 +0000The Microsoft Store team has updated the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement and Microsoft Store Policies as of February 14th. The new version (8.2) of the Microsoft Store App Developer Agreement is available here. This update is particularly relevant to developers based in New Zealand or Australia who sell apps and/or in-app products. For more info, view the change history. The next time […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:00:51 +0000Windows BlogShazam update brings real-time lyrics syncing, interface tweaks, more
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/shazam-update-real-time-lyrics-syncing/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:53:56 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/2270-2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Popular music recognition service Shazam, which <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/11/apple-buying-shazam/">Apple announced it would be acquiring back in December</a>, has today released a new version of its iOS app. The update brings Shazam to version 11.7 and includes interface tweaks and more.</p>
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:53:56 +00009to5MacGoogle announces intent to acquire Xivelyhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/zFEUaPNyWIQ/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Today, Google has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire<a href="https://www.xively.com/">Xively</a>, a division of <a href="https://www.logmeininc.com/">LogMeIn, Inc.</a></p><p>By <a href="https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3598917">2020</a>, it’s estimated that about 20 billion connected things will come online, and analytics and data storage in the cloud are now the cornerstone of any successful IoT solution. This acquisition, subject to closing conditions, will complement Google Cloud's effort to provide a fully managed IoT service that easily and securely connects, manages, and ingests data from globally dispersed devices. With the addition of Xively’s robust, enterprise-ready IoT platform, we can accelerate our customers’ timeline from IoT vision to product, as they look to build their connected business.</p><p></p>Through this acquisition,<a href="https://cloud.google.com/iot-core/">Cloud IoT Core</a> will gain deep IoT technology and engineering expertise, including Xively’s advanced device management, messaging, and dashboard capabilities. Our customers will benefit from Xively’s extensive feature set and flexible device management platform, paired with the security and scale of Google Cloud. With Google Cloud’s deep leadership in data analytics and machine learning, our customers will also be uniquely positioned to build turnkey IoT solutions and focus on business value creation.<br/><br/>We look forward to sharing more details after close—stay tuned!</div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/zFEUaPNyWIQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:05:00 -0000Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:05:00 -0000The Official Google BlogWindows Community Standup on February 22, 2018
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/02/15/windows-community-standup-february-22-2018/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:00:32 +0000Kevin Gallo, VP of Windows Developer Platform, is hosting the next Windows Community Standup on February 22, 2018 at 12:00pm PST on Channel 9! Kevin will be joined by Andrew Whitechapel to discuss the latest updates to the application model which will be available in the next update for Windows 10. Andrew and Kevin will discuss […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:00:32 +0000Windows BlogApple will require all new apps to natively support iPhone X display from April
https://9to5mac.com/2018/02/15/apple-require-new-apps-support-iphone-x/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:42:06 +0000<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/ios-11-app-store.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p>Apple has informed developers today that all new apps submitted to the App Store from April 2018 must support the iPhone X’s Super Retina display. This means developers of new apps must ensure they accommodate the notch and go edge-to-edge on the 5.8-inch OLED screen.</p>
<p>Apple has not set a deadline for when updates to existing apps must support iPhone X natively. From April, all new apps must also be built against the iOS 11 SDK.</p>
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Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:42:06 +00009to5MacNow on iOS: one-tap access to real-time commute info and places around youhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/bByfmufG3gg/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Whether we like it or not, sometimes life just flies by. And in the moment, every minute counts. Just one minute can be the difference between catching the last train or walking home in the rain. Or getting to that new restaurant in time to snag the last table. <a href="https://blog.google/products/maps/get-real-time-commute-info-and-more-one-tap/">Last year</a> we updated Google Maps for Android to provide access to helpful everyday info–in real time–at the bottom of the home screen. Now we’ve rolled out that same useful update to Google Maps for iOS as well.</p><p><br/></p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gmm_iphoneX_Aexplore01.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Image1</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gmm_iphoneX_Aexplore02.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Image2</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gmm_iphoneX_Bdriving.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Image3</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gmm_iphoneX_Ctransit.max-2800x2800.png);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Image4</span></div></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Just swipe up and you’ll see three tabs–the explore tab, driving tab and transit tab–that will help you find a nearby restaurant, beat traffic, or catch the next bus. No matter what iOS device you’re using, Google Maps can get you where you’re going and help you explore the world around you.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/bByfmufG3gg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:53:00 -0000Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:53:00 -0000The Official Google Blog#ifdef WINDOWS – One Developer’s Guide to the Surface Hub
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/02/15/ifdef-windows-one-developers-guide-surface-hub/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:14 +0000Building experiences for the Surface Hub requires developers to tailor their apps for the big screen and multiple users interacting with different components at the same time. Gian Paolo Santopaolo came to Redmond all the way from Switzerland to share best practices for developing engaging and natural user experiences for the Surface Hub. He has spent the last 6 years […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:14 +0000Windows BlogThis Week on Windows: Amazon Music app, fifth anniversary of Surface Pro and more
http://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/02/15/week-windows-amazon-music-app-fifth-anniversary-surface-pro/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:08 +0000We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows! Visit this post to read about the Amazon Music app for Windows 10, now available from Microsoft Store, check out our Windows 10 Tip on 7 pro tips for getting started with Microsoft Edge as your PDF viewer or head over here for […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:00:08 +0000Windows BlogMicrosoft once again offers PUBG copy with new Xbox One X purchases, savings on Xbox One S
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-once-again-offers-pubg-copy-with-new-xbox-one-x-purchases-savings-on-xbox-one-s
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:53:41 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PUBGConsoleHERO-hero-hero.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PUBGConsoleHERO-hero-hero.jpg 940w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PUBGConsoleHERO-hero-hero-250x140.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PUBGConsoleHERO-hero-hero-768x431.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" />Just like this past holiday, Microsoft is once again offering a free PUBG copy with any new Xbox One X purchase. Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:53:41 +0000On MSFTVisual Studio Preview (15.6 Preview 5) now available
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/02/15/visual-studio-preview-15-6-preview-5-now-available/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:00:09 +0000We are pleased to announce the release of the Visual Studio Preview (15.6 Preview 5). This preview of Visual Studio includes the Preview SDK Build 17095 as an optional component. Download the Visual Studio 2017 Preview (https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/preview/) and give us feedback on the integration and setup experience. For feedback and updates to the known issues, please see the developer forum. For […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:00:09 +0000Windows BlogIt’s official: Xbox Live Free Play Days set for this weekend
https://www.onmsft.com/news/its-official-xbox-live-free-play-days-set-for-this-weekend
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Xbox-Live-Free-play-days-1050x568.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Xbox-Live-Free-play-days-1050x568.png 1050w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Xbox-Live-Free-play-days-250x135.png 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Xbox-Live-Free-play-days-768x416.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px" />As leaked by WalkingCat a couple of days ago, Free Play Days starts today and lasts all weekend long on Xbox Live. Xbox is unlocking Xbox Live Multiplayer for everyone with an Xbox One or Xbox 360 console, so you don’t even need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to play online. In addition, all Xbox […]Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:00:06 +0000On MSFTFor Surface’s 5th anniversary, save $200 on Surface Pro during President’s Day Weekend
https://www.onmsft.com/news/for-surfaces-5th-anniversary-save-200-on-surface-pro-during-presidents-day-weekend
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:40:49 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/edge-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft Edge & Bing on Surface Pro" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/edge-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/edge-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/edge-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Surface Pro, the US Microsoft Store and select retailers like Best Buy will offer $200 off the price of select 2017 Surface Pro models during President's Day weekend.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:40:49 +0000On MSFTWindows Insider Program continues to grow, Insiders for Business hits 30K milestone
https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-insider-program-continues-to-grow-insiders-for-business-hits-30k-milestone
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:36:25 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/windows_ninja_cat_wallpaper_full-1024x576.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Windows 10, Anniversary update, Microsoft, Ninja Cat" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/windows_ninja_cat_wallpaper_full-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/windows_ninja_cat_wallpaper_full-1024x576-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/windows_ninja_cat_wallpaper_full-1024x576-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />According to a new report, the Windows Insider Program continues to grow with the Insiders for Business program hitting the 30,000 organizations participating milestoneThu, 15 Feb 2018 16:36:25 +0000On MSFTDon’t forget to grab Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India and Crazy Taxi, now free with Xbox Live Gold
https://www.onmsft.com/news/dont-forget-to-grab-assassins-creed-chronicles-india-and-crazy-taxi-now-free-with-xbox-live-gold
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:53:31 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image-1-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image-1-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image-1-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/image-1.jpg 1440w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />Xbox Live Gold subscribers can now grab the 2.5D side-scrolling platformer Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: India and the score attack game Crazy Taxi for free with their subscription.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:53:31 +0000On MSFTLatest Patch Tuesday update for Windows 10 Mobile breaks PDF viewer in Edge
https://www.onmsft.com/news/latest-patch-tuesday-update-for-windows-10-mobile-breaks-pdf-viewer-in-edge
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:33:26 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-17.09.52-887x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-17.09.52-887x580.png 887w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-17.09.52-100x66.png 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-17.09.52-250x163.png 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Screen-Shot-2018-01-31-at-17.09.52-768x502.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px" />The latest Windows 10 Mobile cumulative update also created one big problem---- Microsoft Edge no longer is able to render PDFs.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:33:26 +0000On MSFTWindows 10 Mobile Photos app returns to former self with latest Fast Ring update
https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-10-mobile-photos-app-returns-to-former-self-with-latest-fast-ring-update
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:41 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-15.38.37-882x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-15.38.37-882x580.png 882w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-15.38.37-100x66.png 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-15.38.37-250x165.png 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-15.38.37-768x505.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px" />The previous update made the Photos app almost a truly universal app, though some advanced features such as Story Remix were missing on mobile.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:02:41 +0000On MSFTIt's easier than ever to travel with Project Fihttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/uUXe8YnAoWY/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>When it’s time to get ready for a trip, you want to focus on the adventures ahead, not the hassle of figuring out your phone coverage. <a href="https://blog.google/products/project-fi/bill-protection/">Bill Protection</a> already lets you use your data, including when you travel, without running up your bill, and today we’re giving travelers some extra peace of mind by expanding our international coverage and introducing a new way to figure out if you’ll be covered with Project Fi on your next trip.<br/></p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>Coverage from Argentina to Zambia</b><br/></p><p></p><p></p><p>Starting today, you can enjoy data coverage in <a href="http://goo.gl/A8ZofW">170 countries and territories</a>. Like always, the data you use abroad costs the same as the data you use at home. You’ll continue to enjoy the same high-speed international coverage, now in more places like Belize and Myanmar. And if you need some extra data when you travel, don’t sweat it—your data is still just $10 per GB or free with built-in Bill Protection.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="countries_new" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/countries_new.max-1000x1000.png"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption "><div class="rich-text">Here's what's new to our international coverage.</div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>Know before you go</b></p><p></p><p>Project Fi will now let you know whether you’re covered on your next trip based on your upcoming international flights from Gmail. You’ll receive a notification in your Project Fi app shortly before your trip that allows you to easily see your coverage options and costs. These notifications will be enabled by default, but you can turn them off <a href="https://support.google.com/fi/answer/7575927">in your account settings</a>.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--medium h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--4 h-c-grid__col--offset-4 "><img alt="notifications" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Screenshot_20180212-154350_framed.max-1000x1000.png"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption "><div class="rich-text">Know when you'll be covered on your upcoming trips.</div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p></p><p>If you’re already on Project Fi, you don’t have to do anything to activate your international coverage—it’s all part of your phone plan. If you’re considering joining Project Fi, for a limited time you’ll score $80 Fi service credit with the purchase of any new Fi-friendly phone. You can learn more about Project Fi <a href="https://fi.google.com/about/">on our site</a>.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/uUXe8YnAoWY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:00:00 -0000Thu, 15 Feb 2018 15:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogSurface Book and Surface Pro get new firmware updates
https://www.onmsft.com/news/surface-book-and-surface-pro-get-new-firmware-updates
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:19:13 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-31-at-14.01.55-853x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-31-at-14.01.55-853x580.png 853w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-31-at-14.01.55-243x165.png 243w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Screen-Shot-2017-10-31-at-14.01.55-768x522.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px" />MIcrosoft is rolling out new firmware updates for both the Surface Book and the Surface Pro. These updates are not major and are mainly to improve the overall stability of both the systems. Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:19:13 +0000On MSFTMicrosoft celebrates the fifth anniversary of Surface Pro
http://blogs.windows.com/devices/2018/02/15/microsoft-celebrates-fifth-anniversary-surface-pro/
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:00:09 +0000Surface Pro celebrates its fifth anniversary with a look back at its history and a special offer of $200 off the cost of the <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/surface" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new Surface Pro</a> over President’s Day weekend.*Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:00:09 +0000Windows BlogMicrosoft releases Photos Companion app for Android and iOS to simplify photo transfer to a Windows 10 PC
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-releases-photos-companion-app-for-android-and-ios-to-simplify-photo-transfer-to-a-windows-10-pc
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:53:57 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-14.33.43-870x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-14.33.43-870x580.png 870w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-14.33.43-100x66.png 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-14.33.43-247x165.png 247w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-14.33.43-768x512.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px" />The new companion app for the Windows 10 Photos app lets you easily transfer photos and videos from your smartphone to your PC over Wi-Fi.
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:53:57 +0000On MSFTSea of Thieves scale test coming this weekend for closed beta testers
https://www.onmsft.com/news/sea-of-thieves-scale-test-coming-this-weekend-for-closed-beta-testers
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:51:19 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sea-of-thieves-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Microsoft, Sea of thieves, xbox" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sea-of-thieves-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sea-of-thieves-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sea-of-thieves-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />The test is not going to be focused on adding in new features, or even trying to root out bugs. Rare is just trying to get as many people playing at the same time as they possibly can.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:51:19 +0000On MSFTMicrosoft announces Windows App Preview Program, giving early access to Windows 10 app updates
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-announces-windows-app-preview-program
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:46:10 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-01.55.20-853x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-01.55.20-853x580.png 853w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-01.55.20-243x165.png 243w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-15-at-01.55.20-768x523.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px" />Microsoft today officially announced the Windows App Preview Program, helping make it easier to test new versions of stock Windows apps. Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:46:10 +0000On MSFTHere are the other changes and known issues with Windows 10 RS5 build 17604
https://www.onmsft.com/news/here-are-the-other-changes-and-known-issues-with-windows-10-rs5-build-17604
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:24:20 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Windows-10-Wallpaper-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Windows-10-Wallpaper-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Windows-10-Wallpaper-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Windows-10-Wallpaper-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Windows-10-Wallpaper.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />Microsoft released today the first Redstone 5 build for Skip Ahead Insiders, and this build comes with many fixes for Microsoft Edge, the touch keyboard and more. Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:24:20 +0000On MSFTHere are the fixes, general changes, and known issues with Windows 10 RS4 build 17101
https://www.onmsft.com/news/here-are-the-general-changes-and-known-issues-with-windows-10-rs4-build-17101
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:14:32 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Windows-10-1031x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="The Windows 10 logo on a blue background" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Windows-10-1031x580.jpg 1031w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Windows-10-250x141.jpg 250w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Windows-10-768x432.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1031px) 100vw, 1031px" />We're dividing up the Windows Insider releases today, so have a look below for the known issues and fixes in Build 17101. Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:14:32 +0000On MSFTHere’s what’s new in Windows 10 RS4 build 17101 and RS5 build 17604
https://www.onmsft.com/news/heres-whats-new-in-windows-10-rs4-build-17101-and-rs5-build-17604
Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:04:58 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_3766-868x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Windows 10 Build 2017" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_3766-868x580.jpg 868w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_3766-100x66.jpg 100w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_3766-247x165.jpg 247w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DSC_3766-768x513.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px" />In quite a surprise announcement, Microsoft released today the Windows 10 Insider build 17101 for Fast Ring Insiders as well as the Insider build 17604 for Insiders who opted into Skip Ahead.Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:04:58 +0000On MSFTMicrosoft releases Windows 10 build 17101 to Fast Ring and first Redstone 5 build
https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-releases-windows-10-build-17101-to-fast-ring-and-first-redstone-5-build
Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:58:39 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_0706-773x580.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="Windows 10 Logo Featured Image Generic Hero" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_0706-773x580.jpg 773w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_0706-220x165.jpg 220w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMG_0706-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px" />Happy Valentines Day! Microsoft is showing Windows Insiders some love tonight by releasing Windows 10 Build 17101 to Fast RIng Insiders & Redstone 5 Build 17604 to Skip Ahead Insiders.Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:58:39 +0000On MSFTAnnouncing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17101 for Fast & Build 17604 for Skip Ahead
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Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:33:24 +0000Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17101 (RS4) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. We are also releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17604 (RS5) to Windows Insiders who have opted into Skip Ahead. Flighting to Skip Ahead Right now our focus is on stabilization for RS4. As […]Wed, 14 Feb 2018 23:33:24 +0000Windows BlogWindows 10 Mobile build 15254.248 is out with a fix for unresponsive touch screens
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Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:23:42 +0000<img src="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-21.22.00-846x580.png" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-21.22.00-846x580.png 846w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-21.22.00-241x165.png 241w, https://www.onmsft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Screen-Shot-2018-02-14-at-21.22.00-768x527.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px" />The Windows 10 Mobile build 15254.248 fixes an issue where the touch screen would remain unresponsive at startup, forcing users to either turn the screen off an on or restart the phone. Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:23:42 +0000On MSFTTwo #teampixel photographers say "I do" to Pixel 2http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/2OPCLFvBs9o/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Jenny and Colin Hayles are professional photographers (Jenny does weddings and Colin captures nature and wildlife) and proud #teampixel members. Knowing that a Pixel 2 can take high-quality photos, they wanted to see how their phones would fare in the most picture-worthy setting: a wedding. We spoke with Jenny and Colin about their experience using a Pixel 2 at an experimental wedding photo shoot.</p><br/><p><b>Tell us about your wedding experiment. How’d you come up with the idea?</b><b><br/></b>Colin: The concept developed when one of my shots was <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/teampixel-becomes-one-nature/">featured on #teampixel</a>, and I realized just how amazing the Pixel camera was. At first, I wanted to show that wedding guests have no excuse for taking lousy pictures if you have a Pixel. But Jenny and her creative team (shout out to our planner from <a href="http://www.instagram.com/jraeweddings/?hl=en">Jaqueline Rae Weddings</a>) went to the next level—she wanted to shoot professional wedding photos with a Pixel. Before we tried it out at a real wedding, we had to see what the Pixel was capable of—from details, to portraits, to action shots. We simulated the details of a wedding day—the gown and tux, rings, stationery, cake and flowers—and recruited our friends Michele and Tom (a real-life couple) to be our models. We used only a Pixel 2 (no reflectors, lights, or tripods) for the entire photo shoot. The results were, I think, better than any of us dared to hope.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/teampixel_weddingshoot_2.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">teampixel_weddingshoot_2.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text"><p>Our beautiful models Tom and Michele (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/mishca_w/">@mishca_w</a>). Special thanks to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/somethingborrowedbeauty/">@somethingborrowedbeauty</a> for taking care of the makeup and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jliaoo.hair/">@jliaoo.hair</a> for handling the hair!</p></div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/teampixel_weddingshoot_3.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">teampixel_weddingshoot_3.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Michele's gown came from from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/madewithlovebridal/">@madewithlovebridal</a>, courtesy of bridal boutique <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pearlanddot/">@pearlanddot</a>, and the jewelry came from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/apostle_boutique/">@apostle_boutique</a>.</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/teampixel_weddingshoot_5.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">teampixel_weddingshoot_5.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">These blooms brought to you by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fallforflorals/">@fallforflorals</a>, and Tom's tux came from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ewmenswear/">@ewmenswear</a>.</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/teampixel_weddingshoot_4.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">teampixel_weddingshoot_4.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/debbiewongdesign/">@debbiewongdesign</a> did the stationery and calligraphy.</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/teampixel_weddingshoot_.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">teampixel_weddingshoot_.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Cake and sweets courtesy of <a href="http://www.instagram.com/bakemydayyyc/?hl=en">@bakemydayyyc</a>.</div></figcaption></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>Which Pixel features did you use most during the shoot?</b><b><br/></b>Jenny: We used the <a href="https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/focus-portrait-mode-behind-scenes-pixel-2s-camera-features/">portrait feature</a> the most—it’s pretty much like shooting with a high-end prime lens with a large aperture. In other words, it beautifully blurs the foreground and background to create that fine art look. Shooting macro shots without an extra lens is fantastic for the details that brides love to see (like shots of their wedding rings).</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph_with_image"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid uni-paragraph-wrap"><div class="uni-paragraph h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--8 h-c-grid__col-m--6 h-c-grid__col-l--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-2 h-c-grid__col-m--offset-3 h-c-grid__col-l--offset-3"><figure class="article-image--wrap-small "><img alt="pix" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/pixproj101of101.max-1000x1000.jpg"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption "><div class="rich-text"><a href="http://instagram.com/haylescolin">Colin</a> and the models</div></figcaption></figure><div class="rich-text"><p><b>What's the biggest pro of shooting a wedding with a phone?</b><b><br/></b>Jenny: I loved being able to send images to the couple right away. Often brides and grooms see poor-quality images first, as guests begin to post on social media, but shooting with a Pixel, I can share beautiful images right away.</p><p><b>Did the couple feel more comfortable and natural when the photos were taken on a Pixel, rather than a big professional camera?</b><b><br/></b>Colin: Shooting with a Pixel 2 was a novel idea, so there was some curiosity. We shared images throughout the shoot with the team and bride and groom. There were comments that the next phone they get will be a Pixel 2! It made me think that it is an invaluable tool for non-photographers who work in the wedding industry—like florists—to take high-quality images of their work as well.</p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="pix2" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/pixprojbts_4_of_5.max-1000x1000.jpg"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption "><div class="rich-text">Behind-the-scenes at the wedding shoot: here's <a href="http://instagram.com/_gingersnapphotography">Jenny</a> with her Pixel 2 (decor and furniture came from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/modernluxerental/">@modernluxerental</a>)</div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>What other big events you're going to tackle next?</b><b><br/></b>Colin: We’d love to use the Pixel 2 for a honeymoon or engagement shoot. The idea of not taking along a heavy and conspicuous camera bag and coming away with high-quality images is an exciting and back-saving idea. We traveled to Cuba last year and used our first-generation Pixels to capture the bulk of the photos we took and I was so impressed. I only brought my camera gear along on one day of the whole trip.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/2OPCLFvBs9o" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:15:00 -0000Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:15:00 -0000The Official Google BlogMixed Reality at Microsoft – February update
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Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:00:20 +0000Microsoft HoloLens comes to Singapore and United Arab Emirates as HP, Honeywell, and Trimble showcase momentum for mixed realityWed, 14 Feb 2018 18:00:20 +0000Windows BlogMeet the couple that guides togetherhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/7iSWlM4-Lkc/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><br/><p>Local Guides come from all over the world, and they form a community of people who share their knowledge on Google Maps—everything from photos and reviews of local restaurants to accessibility information.</p><p>And for one long-distance couple, the Local Guides community helped bridge the miles between Malaysia and Bangladesh. Sumaiya Zafrin Chowdhury and Pavel Sawar got married in 2013 and became Local Guides in 2015. Nine months ago, Pavel moved to Malaysia to study information technology, and Sumaiya stayed in Bangladesh to pursue her career as an entrepreneur, community leader and social worker.</p><p>In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re spotlighting this Local Guides love story. We spoke to Sumaiya and Pavel about how they enjoy the community together, and how Local Guides helps them stay connected while they’re apart.</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>Tell us where it all began: how did you meet?</b></p><p>Pavel: I first saw Sumaiya at a social work event in 2012…first look, fell in love. One day I went to visit a slum, and saw her there serving underprivileged people. I am fascinated by her work.</p><p><b>You’ve been apart for nine months. How do you make a long-distance relationship work?</b></p><p>Sumaiya: I went to Malaysia twice and we had great fun together. We discovered many places. We try to meet every three months. We manage our relationship through social media, especially via video call and chatting through Google Hangouts. We share songs and pictures also.</p><p><b>When you’re in the same place, what are your favorite things to do together?</b></p><p>Pavel:<b></b>Sumaiya and I love to travel very much. As Local Guides, we also love to arrange meet-ups together and do social work and community activities.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/zaf_pvl_118.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">zaf pvl (118).jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Pavel and Sumaiya's wedding in March 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Nametags.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Nametags.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">At a Local Guides get-together in Dhaka, Bangladesh.</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Goat.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Goat.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Having some fun at Mohammed Ali Palace Museum & Park in Bogra, Bangladesh.</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Coconuts.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Coconuts.jpg</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Celebrating the new year with coconut water at Inani Beach in Bangladesh.</div></figcaption></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><b>So you connect over Local Guides together?</b></p><p>Sumaiya:<b></b>Yes, we use Local Guides community and Maps to plan activities and date nights. Sometimes, we celebrate our special days through mapping. We plan to visit new places and compare our points. Mapping and <a href="https://maps.google.com/localguides/meetup">meet-ups</a> are our favorite part.</p><p>Pavel: Every day we discuss Local Guides. When Sumaiya arranges a meet-up, I try to help her. When I arrange one Sumaiya helps me lot. We discuss our contributions, photo views, quality reviews, etc. Local Guides helps us to spend more time together. Local Guides makes our relationship closer.</p><p><b>Why did you both decide to join Local Guides?</b></p><p>Pavel:<b></b>Personally I love traveling, taking photos, and eating at different restaurants. As a traveler and explorer, I use Google Maps almost every day. I love to discover new places and I love to take photos. With Local Guides, I can help any other travelers also. I feel I am helping people in my community. Local Guides are like my family. It’s now part of my life.</p><p>Sumaiya: Pavel introduced me to Local Guides back in 2015. I joined in March 2015 because I love technology, traveling and photography. With Local Guides, I can do something positive for my society; that's why I was interested to join.</p><p><b>We recently did a post about <a href="https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/Are-you-one-of-these-7-amazing-types-of-Local-Guides/td-p/597946">seven kinds of Local Guides</a>. Which ones do you identify with?</b></p><p>Pavel: The Visualist and the Trailblazer.</p><p>Sumaiya<b>:</b> I identify as a Fact Hunter because I want all to know real information about a place…and Trailblazer because I love to discover and add new places.</p><p><b>For those that are new to Local Guides, what advice do you have for someone just getting started?</b></p><p>Pavel: First, spend some quality time on <a href="https://www.localguidesconnect.com/">Local Guides Connect</a>. See how others in the community are doing. <a href="https://maps.google.com/localguides/meetup">Arrange meet-ups</a>. Please contribute on Local Guides to be a good citizen. Don’t focus on points.</p><p>Sumaiya:<b></b>Upload proper pictures in proper places. Post useful and informative reviews that one can easily understand. Do meet-ups so that people can know about this community. And for the people of my own country, I want to advise them: please contribute more, add new places, and do your best reviews so that tourists can understand that our country is very beautiful.</p><p><b>What do you appreciate most about each other?</b></p><p>Sumaiya<b>:</b> Pavel is very punctual. This is the part of his character I like the most. He’s also a very trustworthy and hard-working person. He is very caring…he always supports me and appreciates my work.</p><p>Pavel: I can’t appreciate Sumaiya in a single sentence. Sumaiya is not only a good wife, she is also a good mentor for me. She gives support to me for my every good work. Without her I am nothing.</p><p>To discover a few beautiful (and unusual) places this Valentine's Day, check out these lists of <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/J3ReJdfNohy">romantic restaurants</a> around the world, and <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/NX2X5QQ9qPN2">film locations for famous love stories</a>. <br/></p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/7iSWlM4-Lkc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:00:00 -0000Wed, 14 Feb 2018 18:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogLooking for Europe’s top entrepreneurs: The 2018 Digital Top 50 Awardshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/pLbxyRG4bSM/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Tech entrepreneurs are changing the world through their own creativity and passion. To celebrate Europe’s thriving entrepreneurial scene and honor the most promising tech companies, in 2016 we founded the <a href="http://www.dt50.org">Digital Top 50 Awards</a>, in association with McKinsey and Rocket Internet. The 2018 edition of the awards are now open for applications.</p><br/><p>Now in their second year, the awards are organized, once again, under the patronage of Mr. Carlos Moedas, Member of the European Commission, and supported by strategic partners INSEAD, Ashoka and Tech Open Air. Companies with a digital product or service from the EU and from EFTA countries can apply <a href="https://www.dt50.org/apply">on the Digital Top 50 website</a> until April 1, 2018.</p><br/><p>All top 50 companies will receive free tickets and showcase space at Tech Open Berlin on June 20-21 2018, where the final winners in each category will be announced. The winner in the Tech for Social Impact category will be granted a cash prize of 50,000 euros, and all five winners will be provided with support from the founding partners to scale their businesses further—through leading professional advice, structured consulting and coaching programs, as well as access to a huge network of relevant industry contacts.</p><p> </p>Helping people embrace new digital opportunities is at the heart of our <a href="https://growthengine.withgoogle.com/intl/en-eu">Grow with Google</a> initiative in Europe. With the DT50 awards, we hope to recognize a new generation of entrepreneurs, and help them grow further and realize their dreams.</div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/pLbxyRG4bSM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:00:00 -0000Wed, 14 Feb 2018 12:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogCelebrating five years at Campus Tel Aviv (and many more to go)http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/ESpZM6smqAI/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Five years ago Campus Tel Aviv opened its doors. It’s a hub to support Israel’s strong and growing startup community, where entrepreneurs from different walks of life and at different stages of their journey can come together to learn, share and connect. </p><br/><p>And connect they have. Our members have hosted over 3,200 events with more than 250,000 participants, met with distinguished guests including the President and Prime Minister of Israel, and used Campus as a platform to empower their own communities and build ambitious new companies.</p><br/><p>Startups like <a href="https://www.syte.ai/">Syte.AI</a>, <a href="https://www.safervpn.com">SaferVPN</a> and <a href="https://veed.me/">Veed.me</a> have come to Campus to learn from Googlers and get help taking their businesses global. Tal Gadot, Omer Kenet and Tomer Mesika of <a href="https://www.rapidui.io/">RapidUI</a> joined Tel Aviv’s Campus Experts Summit in 2017. They sought help to launch their website builder and, after two weeks of working with Google mentors from the U.S., they decided to change their positioning and shift the focus of their go-to-market strategy, with great success.</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We've worked hard over the last five years to support underrepresented entrepreneurs and create a more inclusive startup ecosystem. For example, women make up around 40 percent of participants in our education programs and we heard from many women who were on maternity leave that they would love to fulfill their dream of starting a business. So we created <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8MKgi2eArA">Campus for Moms</a>, where mothers can bring their babies to work. We’ve expanded this program to our fellow Campuses in London, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Madrid and Warsaw. We’ve also helped support other community programs through marketing, free space and mentoring, such as She Codes, a women’s coding bootcamp, which has grown from 10 members to more than 16,000.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="20150428_GFE_TelAviv_3669.JPG" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/20150428_GFE_TelAviv_3669.max-1000x1000.JPG"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption "><div class="rich-text"><p>A participant of the Campus for Moms program takes part in a mentoring session.</p></div></figcaption></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We also created <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXCrOq2vj0&t=14s">APPlicable</a>, a program that helps startups make their mobile apps more accessible to people with disabilities. We connected more than 50 startups with groups of people with disabilities, who tested the app and provided feedback on the app’s accessibility. Through this program, a product lead at Fiverr realized how parts of their app were difficult to navigate using voice-over and incorporated recommendations from a tester. We’re looking forward to bringing the APPlicable program and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxHw4YddlQwheU4yRGwtMlMtLTQ/view">our learnings</a> to our other Campuses around the world in the coming months.<br/></p><p>Nearly every day we hear about Israeli entrepreneurs building exciting new technologies that can have a positive impact on the world. We’ll continue to support the startup community in Israel; later this year Campus Tel Aviv is moving to a larger location, and we’re also bringing on board a Head of Campus to lead our efforts there. I’m also excited to lead a number of new programs, both at our expanded space and globally.</p><p>Thanks to everyone who has been a part of our journey so far! Here’s to the next five years, and the great stories and successful companies that we’ll create together.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/ESpZM6smqAI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0000Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogThe next billion users are the future of the internethttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/3ya_V9tmjyE/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>In the late 1990s, I moved from Delhi to Stanford for a master’s degree in computer science. Getting off the plane in San Francisco, I was ecstatic about the amazing computing power, lightning-fast internet and easy access to knowledge available at an American university. Back home, most people across Asia could only get online at an internet café or over dial-up modems, and internet speeds weren’t great. Computing power was still a luxury.</p><br/><p>Today more than 3 billion people, more than half of them in Asia, own smartphones—devices many times more powerful than those top-of-the-line workstations at Stanford I was so excited to use. But despite this huge shift, many of us in the tech industry often find ourselves stuck in a previous way of thinking, where we assume that “computing” is something that starts with the privileged few in places like Silicon Valley and trickles down slowly to everyone else.</p><br/><p>This isn’t just an old idea, but one that has become completely wrong.</p><br/><p>The future of the internet is in the hands of the <a href="https://blog.google/topics/next-billion-users/">next billion users</a>—the latest generation of internet users to come online on smartphones in places like Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Nigeria. As time goes on, the <i>average</i> internet user will be more like these “next billion users” than the first billion who started on PCs. That means we need to look not at Silicon Valley or London but to places like Sao Paulo, Bangalore, Shanghai, Jakarta and Lagos to truly understand where the internet is going.</p><br/><p>The next billion users are already changing the internet in three key ways: a mobile-only mindset, an instinct for ubiquitous computing, and a demand for localized content.</p><br/><p>First, let’s start with the mobile-only mindset. Most of the next billion users have never used a PC and may never use one. They don’t think of the internet as something you access with a mouse and a keyboard. A computer is not a terminal where you type in queries. A computer is a smartphone, and it also doubles up as a <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/19/youtube-go-reaches-10-million-downloads-play-store/">television</a>, a <a href="https://www.blog.google/topics/google-asia/introducing-tez/">wallet</a>, a <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34699190">classroom</a>, and a portal for government services. Their expectations on how mobile apps should work is also completely different. When building our India-first, mobile payment app Tez, for example, we focused the app around “people and conversations” rather than the financial features, to reflect familiarities with chat apps. All successful global apps in the future will need to speak the universal design language of people who grew up on mobile phones rather than PCs.</p><p><br/>This brings me to the second point: ubiquitous computing. This means having natural interactions with a computer that can hear, see and understand—for example, asking “Do I need an umbrella today in Delhi?” rather than typing “Delhi weather forecast.”</p><br/><p>Because the breakthroughs that make ubiquitous computing possible rely on cutting-edge work in artificial intelligence, we tend to think that advances will start in the most prosperous parts of the world and expand from there. But we’ve found with the Google Assistant, for example, that the next billion users adopt cutting-edge technology astonishingly quickly. Since we launched the Google Assistant on the first feature phone in December, the Reliance JioPhones, usage of the Assistant in India has grown six times over the past four weeks. This isn’t just due to many semi-literate or illiterate users, but also the fact that typing is difficult for people who never grew up with a computer keyboard. The next billion users will be the first to truly embrace ubiquitous computing, expecting apps to work in a natural way rather than having to learn all the artificial commands that we did on PCs.</p><br/><p>Which brings me to the third way the internet is changing: local languages. There are estimates that web content is more than 50 percent English. Hindi, the #4 language in terms of global speakers, is not even in the top 30 languages for web content. And in countries like India, the generation coming online now is more comfortable in their native language than in English, and so language can be a big blocker to expanding internet access.</p><br/><p>You should not have to learn English to use the internet. The next billion users expect more content in their languages. And video is turning out to be the medium where they create and enjoy this content. Anyone can turn on a camera, share stories in their own tongue, and find huge audiences online. YouTube has seen an explosion of non-English content, such as the Telugu film channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/teluguone">TeluguOne</a>, with 1.8 billion views. Going forward, we believe the demand for local content will reverse the language imbalance, leading to an internet more inclusive of the entire world’s language diversity.</p><br/><p>At Google, we build technology with these three insights in mind—and we find that they don’t just help the next billion users, but the first billion as well. For example, the Google Maps team built Maps Offline for motorists in India who could not afford the data for navigation while they drive, but now the feature is used across the world, from commuters going through lots of tunnels to tourists visiting a new country.</p><br/><p>For a long time, we talked of a “responsibility” to make our technology work for the next billion users. But as the internet follows their lead, serving people in India, Indonesia, Brazil and Nigeria has become necessary for companies that want to stay at the cutting edge of consumer innovation, and the future. The next billion users are not becoming more like us. We are becoming more like them.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/3ya_V9tmjyE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:00:00 -0000Wed, 14 Feb 2018 06:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogWith love, from your Google Assistanthttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/xNryG_bdeLU/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph_with_image"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid uni-paragraph-wrap"><div class="uni-paragraph h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--8 h-c-grid__col-m--6 h-c-grid__col-l--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-2 h-c-grid__col-m--offset-3 h-c-grid__col-l--offset-3"><figure class="article-image--wrap-medium "><img alt="balloons" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/VDay_0004_Balloon.max-1000x1000.png"/></figure><div class="rich-text"><p>No matter how you like to spend your Valentine’s Day—with romantic gestures or like any other Wednesday—the Google Assistant is here to help you celebrate and have some fun. Just say …</p><ul><li>Hey Google, serenade me</li><li>Hey Google, will you be my Valentine?</li><li>Hey Google, tell me a love story</li><li>Hey Google, I’m single</li><li>Hey Google, I hate Valentine's Day</li></ul><p>So happy Valentine’s Day, Galentine’s Day or Wednesday to you and yours!</p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/xNryG_bdeLU" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:30:00 -0000Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:30:00 -0000The Official Google BlogBringing the power of AMP to Gmailhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/kqXKKcM4u2k/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>For the past few years, we’ve worked to make mobile pages load faster through an open-source framework called <a href="https://www.ampproject.org/">Accelerated Mobile Pages</a> (AMP). AMP started as an effort to help publishers, but as its capabilities have expanded over time, it’s now one of the best ways to build rich webpages. With this came the opportunity to modernize one of the most popular places where people spend their time: email.</p><p>Today, we’re bringing the power of AMP to email through the Gmail Developer Preview of "AMP for Email." This new spec will be a powerful way for developers to create more engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.</p><p>For example, imagine you could complete tasks directly in email. With AMP for Email, you’ll be able to quickly take actions like submit an RSVP to an event, schedule an appointment, or fill out a questionnaire right from the email message. Many people rely on email for information about flights, events, news, purchases and beyond—<a href="https://www.radicati.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Email-Statistics-Report-2017-2021-Executive-Summary.pdf">more than 270 billion emails</a> are sent each day! AMP for Email will also make it possible for information to easily kept up-to-date, so emails never get stale and the content is accurate when a user looks at it.</p><p>Companies like Pinterest, Booking.com and Doodle are developing new experiences for consumers using AMP for Email, and we’re excited to see what others will do soon.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/GmailAMP-Pinterest-01.gif);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">GmailAMP-Pinterest-01.gif</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Browse and save your favorite items in Pinterest</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/GMAIL_AMP_Booking_V02.gif);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">GMAIL_AMP_Booking_V02.gif</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">View hotel rooms and up-to-date deals on Booking.com</div></figcaption></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/GMAIL_AMP_Doodle_V02.gif);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">GMAIL_AMP_Doodle_V02.gif</span></div><figcaption class="article-carousel__caption h-c-copy h-u-mt-std"><div class="rich-text">Share your availability with Doodle</div></figcaption></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>The <a href="https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457">AMP for Email spec is available today</a> and we’re planning for support in Gmail later this year. To get developer preview access to AMP for email in Gmail, <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/campaigns/index__amp-for-email.html">sign up on our site</a>. By bringing AMP to email, we’re opening up new possibilities for companies to engage with their audiences, and we can’t wait to see what developers will build. Because AMP for Email is an open spec, we look forward to seeing how other email clients will adopt it, too. If you're a developer and curious about implementation details, check out <a href="https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/AMP-for-email-developer-preview.html">this post</a> to get an idea.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/kqXKKcM4u2k" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogThe browser for a web worth protectinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/D0qYzl2El1Y/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>The web is an incredible asset. It’s an engine for innovation, a platform for sharing, and a universal gateway to information. When we built Chrome, we wanted to create a way for people to interact with the magic that is the web, without the browser getting in the way. We created a browser that took up minimal space on your screen, made the omnibar so you could quickly search or get directly to a website, and built our pop-up blocker to help you avoid unwanted content. Since then we’ve also added features such as Safe Browsing, pausing autoplay Flash and more—all aimed at protecting your experience of the web.<br/></p><br/><p>Your feedback has always played a critical part in the development of Chrome. This feedback has shown that a big source of frustration is annoying ads: video ads that play at full blast or giant pop-ups where you can’t seem to find the exit icon. These ads are designed to be disruptive and often stand in the way of people using their browsers for their intended purpose—connecting them to content and information. It’s clear that annoying ads degrade what we all love about the web. That’s why starting on February 15, Chrome will stop showing all ads on sites that repeatedly display these most disruptive ads after they’ve been flagged. More technical details about this change can be found on the <a href="https://blog.chromium.org/2018/02/how-chromes-ad-filtering-works.html">Chromium blog</a>.</p><br/><p>To determine which ads not to show, we’re relying on the <a href="https://www.betterads.org/standards/">Better Ads Standards</a> from the <a href="https://www.betterads.org/">Coalition for Better Ads</a>, an industry group dedicated to improving the experience of the ads we see on the web. It’s important to note that some sites affected by this change may also contain Google ads. To us, your experience on the web is a higher priority than the money that these annoying ads may generate—even for us.</p><br/><p>The web is an ecosystem composed of consumers, content producers, hosting providers, advertisers, web designers, and many others. It’s important that we work to maintain a balance—and if left unchecked, disruptive ads have the potential to derail the entire system. We’ve already seen more and more people express their discontent with annoying ads by installing ad blockers, but blocking all ads can hurt sites or advertisers who aren’t doing anything disruptive. By focusing on filtering out disruptive ad experiences, we can help keep the entire ecosystem of the web healthy, and give people a significantly better user experience than they have today.</p><br/><p>We believe these changes will not only make Chrome better for you, but also improve the web for everyone. The web is a vital part of our day-to-day. And as new technologies push the web forward, we’ll continue working to build a better, more vibrant ecosystem dedicated to bringing you only the best experiences.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/D0qYzl2El1Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogIn our genes: How Google Cloud helps the Broad Institute slash the cost of researchhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/w6goqyQpSM4/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p><a href="https://www.broadinstitute.org/">The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard</a>, the pioneering biomedical and genomics research center, has been a valued collaborator since the early days of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). We helped them move their genomics data storage and analysis from an on-premises data center to the cloud; they helped us make GCP a useful and cost-effective place to conduct some of the most important research that science has to offer.</p><p>It’s been a privilege to support the Broad in their mission to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies. Today, we’re thrilled to be a part of an important milestone for Broad and the genomics community: On GCP, the cost of running Broad’s GATK Best Practices pipeline has been reduced to a little over $5 per genome.</p><p>Broad is one of the largest genomic sequencing centers around; on average a human genome goes onto a sequencer every 10 minutes. To date, Broad has processed more than 76,000 genomes, generating 24TB of data per day, and stores more than 36PB of data on GCP.</p><p>Once genomic data comes off a sequencer, processing and analysis is done in several steps. Those steps are strung together in an automated pipeline called GATK Best Practices.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="broad-institute-3b" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/broad-institute-3b.max-1000x1000.png"/></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>When Broad first brought the GATK Best Practices pipeline to GCP in 2015, the cost to run it was $45. Since then, Broad has steadily brought down the cost by twiddling a variety of GCP knobs and dials to arrive at a 90 percent cost reduction while maintaining (and even improving) the quality of the output. Here’s a sampling of what they did:</p><p><br/></p><ul><li><p><b>Task splitting</b>. In Broad’s on-premises environment, disk ate the lion’s share of its computing budget, so it strung together compute tasks so they could be performed by the same machine, minimizing disk access. However, any two tasks could have vastly different compute and memory usage profiles. In the cloud, Broad drove higher utilization and lower costs by appropriately sizing the machines to the task at hand (even though it involved more data transfers between machines). This resulted in a cost savings of approximately 30 percent.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/"><b>Preemptible VMs</b></a>. Broad’s genomics pipeline is short-lived and fault-tolerant, so it can take advantage of Preemptible VMs without worrying about shutdowns due to demand spikes. Broad programmed the pipeline to use Preemptible VMs, which are 80 percent cheaper than non-preemptible instances, by default. This resulted in an extra 35 percent savings.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/persistent-disk/"><b>Persistent Disk</b></a> provides durable HDD and SSD storage to GCP instances, and allows Broad to match its workloads with appropriately-sized and performant storage. Behold another 15 percent savings.</p></li><li><p><b>Data streaming</b>. <a href="https://verily.com/">Verily Life Sciences</a> contributed code to the HTSJDK, a library that underlies Broad’s <a href="https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/">GATK</a>. HTSJDK lets algorithms read data directly from a <a href="https://cloud.google.com/storage/">Google Cloud Storage</a> bucket, so the job requires less disk space. The cost of Broad’s production pipeline is now down to $5! </p></li></ul></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="broad-institute-2" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/broad-institute-2.max-1000x1000.png"/></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Most recently, Broad released the open-source version 4.0 of GATK, and researchers of all backgrounds, including those without computational training, can access the GATK Best Practices Pipeline through <a href="https://portal.firecloud.org/">FireCloud</a>, Broad’s cloud-based analysis portal. The pipeline includes all the cost optimizations that Broad has achieved with its production pipeline, and is ready to run on preloaded example datasets.</p><p>And while all users can access FireCloud at no cost, cloud providers do charge their own fees for data storage and processing. To help make it easier for more researchers to leverage this critical work, we’re offering a $250 credit per user toward compute and storage costs to the first 1,000 applicants. You can learn more on the <a href="https://software.broadinstitute.org/firecloud/documentation/freecredits">FireCloud website</a>.</p><p>We continue to be amazed by the progress the Broad Institute enables in the field of genomics, and are so happy it chose GCP as its cloud infrastructure partner. Learn more about the GATK Best Practices pipeline by reading the Broad’s <a href="https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/blog?id=11415">blog post</a>.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/w6goqyQpSM4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogHelping young women overcome hurdles to learning computer sciencehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/qvTBU-lTUAg/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Sophie Charlotte Keunecke never thought she’d be able to program a robot. But after she managed to do it by age 12, she found a passion for robotics and didn’t look back—and focused her studies, and ultimately her career, on that passion. At university, Sophie Charlotte discovered Open Roberta, an online platform developed by German research institution Fraunhofer IAIS that helps people learn to program by explaining complex concepts in simple ways. Open Roberta is supported by a Google.org grant and is part of our <a href="https://growthengine.withgoogle.com/intl/en-eu">Grow with Google</a> initiative, which trains people and businesses on important digital skills so that they can embrace new opportunities ahead. Sophie Charlotte now uses Open Roberta to teach female students about robotics, hoping to inspire them to follow a career path in programming. “It doesn’t matter if you are a boy or a girl, what matters is what you want to achieve and what you are willing to do to get there,” she says.</p></div></div><div class="block-video"><div class="article-module article-video "><figure><a class="h-c-video h-c-video--marquee" data-glue-modal-disabled-on-mobile="true" data-glue-modal-trigger="uni-modal-fZzlwX3tMdM-" href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fZzlwX3tMdM"><img alt="Sophie Charlotte - Inspiring young women to follow a career in computer programming" src="//img.youtube.com/vi/fZzlwX3tMdM/maxresdefault.jpg"/><svg class="h-c-video__play h-c-icon h-c-icon--color-white" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-youtube-icon"></use></svg></a></figure></div><div class="h-c-modal--video" data-glue-modal="uni-modal-fZzlwX3tMdM-" data-glue-modal-close-label="Close Dialog"><a class="glue-yt-video" data-glue-yt-video-autoplay="true" data-glue-yt-video-height="99%" data-glue-yt-video-vid="fZzlwX3tMdM" data-glue-yt-video-width="100%" href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fZzlwX3tMdM" ng-cloak=""></a></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>There are still barriers preventing students—especially girls and children from lower-socioeconomic backgrounds—to learn computer science. In the classes that she teachers, Sophie helps her students to overcome these hurdles, and through our support of the Open Roberta initiative, we’re also supporting Sophie’s goal: that one day these hurdles won’t exist.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/qvTBU-lTUAg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:00:00 -0000Mon, 12 Feb 2018 08:00:00 -0000The Official Google Blog#teampixel photographer Dave East heads to Icelandhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/_dfqeGU6jTA/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>This week, #teampixel heads north of the equator on a trip with photographer, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/daveast/">Dave East.</a> Check out his photos from Iceland (shot in subzero temperatures!) that captured everything from giant glaciers to epic waterfalls, and hear about why he loves his Pixel camera.</p><p><b>Can you tell us about your recent trip to Iceland shooting on Pixel 2 XL?</b><br/>Iceland was absolutely surreal. It is one of the most amazing places I have ever been to. The landscapes feel like another planet. Shooting on the Pixel 2 was just so easy, the camera is so good that when we were in a hurry I didn't even take out my DSLR because I knew the shots were going to be just as great on the Pixel 2. <br/></p><p><b>What are your favorite features on Pixel's camera?</b><br/>The portrait mode is amazing, it really gets the sense of depth perfectly. I also just think the photos are so crisp, it feel not like a phone camera at all.<br/></p><p><b>What piece of advice do you have for capturing great shots?</b><br/>For landscape work, check that your horizons are straight and that there is some depth to the shot or leading lines that draw your eye to something in particular. And make sure that you are shooting in a good time of day and that it is not too bright.<br/></p><p><b>Anything else you'd like to share with us and the #teampixel community?</b><br/>Just keep shooting, keep creating and keep exploring. My favourite thing in the world is travelling to new places and seeing new things. <br/></p><p><br/></p></div></div><div class="block-image_carousel"><div class="h-c-page article-module"><div class="article-module glue-pagination h-c-carousel h-c-carousel--simple h-c-carousel--dark ng-cloak" data-glue-pagination-config="{cyclical: true}"><div class="h-c-carousel__wrap"><ul class="glue-carousel ng-cloak" data-glue-carousel-options="{pointerTypes: ['touch', 'mouse'], jump: true}"><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Pixel_davideast_.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Pixel_davideast_.jpg</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Pixel_davideast_2.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Pixel_davideast_2.jpg</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Pixel_davideast_3_zj1RCJX.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Pixel_davideast_3.jpg</span></div></figure></li><li class="h-c-carousel__item article-carousel__slide"><figure><div class="article-carousel__slide-img" style="background-image: url(https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Pixel_davideast_4.max-2800x2800.jpg);"><span class="h-u-visually-hidden">Pixel_davideast_4.jpg</span></div></figure></li></ul><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-previous" data-glue-pagination-label="Previous" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-left" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate glue-pagination-next" data-glue-pagination-label="Next" data-glue-pagination-update-model="false"><div class="h-c-carousel__paginate-wrap"><svg class="h-c-icon h-c-icon--keyboard-arrow-right" role="img"><use xlink:href="#mi-keyboard-arrow-right"></use></svg></div></div></div><div class="h-c-carousel__navigation"><div class="glue-pagination-page-list"></div></div></div></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/_dfqeGU6jTA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:15:00 -0000Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:15:00 -0000The Official Google BlogThe High Five: roses are red, violets are blue, five top searches for youhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/UVQZ6kaPwIE/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Roses are red,<br/>Violets are blue.<br/>Here are this week's top searches for you:<br/>The Dow is down, but a rocket went up to the skies<br/>We're staring deeply into our valentines' eyes<br/>While the world’s best athletes go for the gold<br/>We met the new Gerber baby, just one year old.<br/>Now on to the trends, before my rhyme becomes drab—<br/>All the data we use comes from <a href="https://newslab.withgoogle.com/">Google News Lab</a>.</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><h2></h2><h2>Valentine’s Day</h2><p>Between flowers, a big teddy bear, a beef jerky bouquet, Valentine’s Jordans and chocolate-covered strawberries, there’s something for everyone on the list of top-searched Valentine’s Day gifts.</p><h2>New spokesbaby</h2><p>One-year-old Lucas Warren became a celebrity this week when it was announced that he’s the first Gerber baby with Down Syndrome. Meanwhile, another baby made her debut in the limelight: Kylie Jenner’s daughter, Stormi. Other top searched babies this week were Nick Foles’ baby, Janet Jackson’s baby, and Khloe Kardashian’s baby.</p><h2>All eyes on Pyeongchang<br/></h2><p>Figure skating is the <a href="https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_tpt/e30ea517341bec2bc7a3851c47132a758303ed1c41db85d98a2338d8f132bee0.png">most searched Olympic sport</a> in 46 states. The outliers are Alaska and Montana (where snowboarding’s at the top), Nebraska (where curling reigns) and Minnesota (where ice hockey wins all).</p><h2>Falcon Heavy</h2><p>After his foray into space this week, search interest in “<a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=Elon%20Musk%20car,Elon%20Musk%20rocket">Elon Musk rocket</a>” took off, and was 350 percent higher than interest in “Elon Musk car.” People searched for famous rockets—other than Falcon Heavy—this week, too: Flat-earther rocket, Saturn V rocket, Sea Dragon rocket and Soyuz rocket.</p><h2>Ups and (Dow)ns</h2><p>As the markets went on a rollercoaster, search interest in <a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F0cqyw,%2Fm%2F05dq_">Dow Jones Industrial Average</a> was 1,700 percent higher than search interest in NASDAQ, and people were searching for “<a href="https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=US&q=Stock%20market,Economy">stock market</a>” 1,400 percent more than “economy.”</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/UVQZ6kaPwIE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:30:00 -0000Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:30:00 -0000The Official Google BlogGet inspired: three weeks left to submit artwork for Doodle 4 Googlehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/PKUfyyiiH24/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>It’s been over ten years since I began doodling for Google and I’ve never been more excited about what’s coming up for our ever-changing logo.</p><p>We know that young artists inspire us, so for the 10th annual<a href="http://doodle4google.com">Doodle 4 Google contest</a>, we’re asking them to answer the question “What inspires you?” (in the form of a Google logo, of course). In a super exciting first, this year’s winner will work directly with the Doodle team to transform their art into an interactive doodle for millions to see and play.</p><p>Past winners have exhibited incredible creativity and charm—the hyper-imaginative, environmentally conscious world of <a href="https://www.google.com/doodles/doodle-4-google-2014-us-winner">2014’s U.S. winner Audrey Zhang</a> is a personal favorite, as is <a href="https://www.google.com/doodles/doodle-4-google-2017-ireland-winner">Robot Tom</a>, the star of 2017’s winning Irish entry by Erica Redmon—and I have no doubt this year’s entries will continue to inspire.</p><p>Picking a winner is always the hardest part. Luckily, we have some stellar guest judges to help, including actor Neil Patrick Harris, gold-medalist Laurie Hernandez, actor Ty Burrell of "Modern Family," Ibtihaj Muhammad from the U.S. Fencing Team, former Houston Astros outfielder Carlos Beltrán, 2017 National Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee, and award winning journalist Elaine Welteroth.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="d4g" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/489-GDU-Blog-Visua-r2l.max-1000x1000.jpg"/></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>As for prizes, five finalists will be invited to Google’s Mountain View headquarters and one winner will receive:<br/></p><p>• A $30,000 scholarship</p><p>• A $50,000 technology package for their school/non-profit organization</p><p>• And, as mentioned, a behind-the-scenes collaboration with the Doodle team to transform their doodle <br/> into an interactive experience that will launch this year on our homepage and app home screen</p><p>Submissions close on March 2—only three weeks away. Every K-12 student is encouraged to enter their doodle at <a href="http://doodle4google.com">doodle4google.com</a>.</p><p>Please encourage every young artist you know to participate. ❤🎨</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/PKUfyyiiH24" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0000Fri, 09 Feb 2018 17:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogFlourish helps journalists create easy data visualizationshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/QoVAwguE8C0/<html><head></head><body><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Data visualization brings more eyes, attention and understanding to complex stories. When it works well, it can make a story crystal-clear. But it takes effort, coding and time—and is sometimes out of reach for all but the biggest newsrooms.</p><br/><p>One easy way to make data visualizations is through <a href="https://flourish.studio/">Flourish</a>, a tool that helps you design and create graphics to embed on a website or export as a SVG file. We’re making Flourish free for journalists, so that it’ll be easier for newsrooms of all sizes and budgets to create their own data visualizations.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="vr.gif" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/vr.gif"/></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>We’re also working with design studio <a href="http://pitchinteractive.com/">Pitch Interactive</a> to make free virtual reality templates for newsrooms in Flourish. Here’s an example: The <a href="https://googletrends.github.io/search-tvshows-2017/">visual above</a> shows related Google searches for TV shows. Any journalist in a newsroom could use that template, but with different data. For example, <a href="https://googletrends.github.io/search-senators-2017/">the visual below</a> shows searches for U.S. Senators before this year’s midterm elections. (And <a href="https://github.com/GoogleTrends/vr-network">here’s the visual code on GitHub</a>).</p><p></p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><div class="article-module h-c-page"><div class="h-c-grid"><figure class="article-image--large h-c-grid__col h-c-grid__col--6 h-c-grid__col--offset-3 "><img alt="vrsenators.gif" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/vrsenators.gif"/></figure></div></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Traditionally, creating the same visual with different data is a tricky job involving developers. Flourish makes that easy—visuals can just be reused as they are, or you can create “stories” to narrate the visual by adding captions and leading the user on a visual journey.</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>With Flourish, journalists with no coding experience can make high-end interactive graphics and stories with no tech support—check out these <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI0e4-ERAU-M-I9FuNxirXWdhYkR0_G_x">tutorial videos</a> for extra help. Crucially for the data journalism community, Flourish lets newsrooms share templates with each other. Though newsrooms can create some private templates, they can open-source others.</p></div></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Flourish was <a href="https://medium.com/google-news-lab/envious-of-that-dataviz-now-you-can-do-it-with-a-flourish-bd6f5f9865e2">soft-launched</a> last year, and since then, the development team worked with designers and data journalists to build the launch version that has just been released. In that time, hundreds of journalists and newsrooms have signed up to use Flourish.</p></div></div><div class="block-image_full_width"><figure class="article-image--full article-module "><img alt="Newsroom Collage.jpg" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Newsroom_Collage.max-1000x1000.jpg"/><figcaption class="article-image__caption h-c-page"><div class="rich-text">Examples of how newsrooms have used data visualizations in their reporting.</div></figcaption></figure></div><div class="block-paragraph"><div class="rich-text"><p>Flourish is just one of a series of tools and resources in our News Lab data journalism toolkit. Other tools include <a href="https://pitchinteractiveinc.github.io/tilegrams/">Tilegrams</a>, <a href="https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/">Data Gif Maker</a> and the <a href="https://datajournalismhandbook.org/">Data Journalism Handbook</a>. Look for more this year as we work to make it easier for data journalists to investigate, process, visualize and surface their data across the news industry.</p></div></div></body></html><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~4/QoVAwguE8C0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0000The Official Google BlogWe’ve moved! Find us at the new Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2015/04/13/announcing-the-2015-project-spartan-web-summit-may-5th-and-6th-in-mountain-view-ca/
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