"Based on recent speculation and rumors, Apple is widely expected to introduce a new iPhone 7 line, which may eliminate the 3.5 mm headphone jack and include a dual camera system in the higher-end model."
Today, and over the next several weeks, the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One) will get an over the air software update** to Android 7.0 Nougat. Any devices enrolled in the Android Beta Program will also receive this final version.
The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but Pinterest has confirmed that it has also bought out the majority stake seed-stage VC firm Betaworks has held in Instapaper since 2013, and now owns the entire company. Instapaper will remain a separate app, and Pinterest will invest in the app’s further development. The majority of the Instapaper team is relocating to San Francisco from New York, including CEO Brian Donohue and community manager Rodion Gusev.
"Although the majority of pages now have text and content on the page that is readable without zooming, we’ve recently seen many examples where these pages show intrusive interstitials to users. While the underlying content is present on the page and available to be indexed by Google, content may be visually obscured by an interstitial. This can frustrate users because they are unable to easily access the content that they were expecting when they tapped on the search result."
McDonald’s Canada is slowly rolling out new self-service kiosks to various locations in Winnipeg. The kiosk features a large touch screen menu where customers can personalize and pay for their order. Customers who use the self-serve kiosk will have an option to have their order delivered directly to their table. Take out orders will have an order number that gets announced at a pick-up station at the front counter.
Alpha version prebuilt packages of the open source version are available for CentOS, Ubuntu, and OS X, in addition, of course, to Windows. Additional platforms are promised in the future.
he Hugo Award is one of the major awards for speculative fiction novels, shorter stories, magazines, editors, and other works. Unlike the Nebula Awards, which are voted upon by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), the Hugo Awards are selected by members of the convention.
"The more pressing innovation issue is to address the abuse of intellectual property rights that may inhibit companies from innovating or discourage Canadians from taking advantage of the digital market."
Martin O'Leary open sourced some Javascript that generates fantasy maps, just like you see at the back of your favourite old fantasy paperbacks. More interestingly, he also describees in detail what the code is doing to make al those squiggly coastlines, cracked river paths, etc. If you're a roleplaying game fan, you might be interested in the @unchartedatlas twitter account, where he has this code posting randomly-generated maps regularly.
Available for pledging as of this post over on Kickstarter. I've certainly blown $80 ($100 CDN) on things that look like less fun. Although with two daughters, I'm sure I will feel guilty eating hundreds of toast hearts and cats.