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Nike today announced that it is completely rebranding its popular Nike+ Running app. The app is now the “Nike+ Run Club” app, while today’s update also brings a host of performance, feature, visual, and stability improvements. Alongside the rebrand, the app has been completely redesigned visually. Users now have quicker access to information like run time, distance, and location. Additionally, there are more personal post-run sharing options with friends, which likely will help increase the motivation of people to workout in the first place....

A recent Nintendo Switch VR patent filing appears to indicate the company’s continued interest in virtual reality technology, but at first glance, consumers would be forgiven for thinking that the patent is actually a bad joke that’s been circulated to catch fans off-guard. Nintendo recently made the leap into the VR market earlier this year with the release of the Labo VR Kit for Switch, which reviewed strongly among children and parents looking to harness their children’s creativity but fell well short of expectations for any serious VR technology....

Sometimes it is important to apply just the slightest bit of logic and understanding of Apple and its ecosystem when taking stories from foreign publications and re-blogging them like brain-dead drones. Thanks to either a bad translation, or simply a quote taken out of context, the latest Apple rumor floating around is that the next iPhone will include a flexible display. The rumor originated from The Korea Times, which quoted Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun....

If you’ve ever been on a hike, out of the country, or at a crowded concert with no service, goTenna is aiming to be your connectivity solution. The hardware accessory combined with an application for both iOS and Android says it will allow you to create a local network that works reliably. The network is based on a group of people each having a goTenna stick connected to the iPhone. The video from the company, below, explains it well:...

HMD Global had a product launch event in London, UK and unveiled Nokia 7.1 mid-range smartphone. The phone comes with all glass and sleek design at an affordable price tag. Nokia 7.1 comes with a 5.84-inch display that supports 1080 x 2280 pixel of resolution and offers 19:9 aspect ration. The screen of the phone protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and there is a notch design on the top of the display....

Judging by the comments, many of our readers are actually liking the N9, Nokia’s inaugural smartphone running MeeGo software. Some even deemed it the worthiest iPhone wannabe to date (and a killer Android apps phone), even if it borrows slavishly from Apple. An eight-megapixel back camera with Carl Zeiss lens and autofocus is one of the N9’s selling points so Nokia took it upon themselves to tell the world in a blog post that it’s also one of the fastest smartphone cameras around (see the below chart)....

Xiaomi Mi 8 (codename: dipper) was launched in the year May 2018. The phone came out of the box with Android 8.1 Oreo. Recently this device has received the official TWRP recovery support. So, on this page, we will guide you to install the TWRP Recovery on Xiaomi Mi 8. This guide contains both the written instruction and video tutorial to help you install it quickly. Make sure to download the files required and then jump straight into instructions on how to install TWRP Recovery and Root your Xiaomi Mi 8....

The promotion is for a limited time, and mainly aimed at iPhone users. However, it also covers Android and Windows Phone users. If you already use OneDrive for your camera roll on Windows Phone or Android, you will see your storage go up to 30 GB. Back up Camera Roll to OneDrive on all Mobile Devices If you’re not sure how to set OneDrive as your default backup location, including all of your photos and videos, make sure to read our article: Automatically Back Up Your Photos and Videos to OneDrive from any Mobile Device....

Nomad is out today with its refreshed cable lineup that features Kevlar both inside and out to make the new products highly durable and rugged. The new cables include USB-C to Lightning, Lightning to USB-A, USB-C to USB-C, and the company’s universal variants. Read on for all the details about these new Nomad cables that are up for preorder. Like many of its products, Nomad’s new Kevlar cable lineup features a clean black aesthetic....

Android Go has been around since Android Oreo in December 2017, offering a lightweight version of Android for entry-level devices with 2GB or less of RAM. The 200 million user base is small compared to the three billion Android users worldwide, but it is nonetheless a significant number. This release of Go is based on the recently released Android 12 and promises to launch apps 30% faster with smoother animations....

Healthcare facilities use clinical algorithms to help decide how medical care is doled out to patients, and many hospitals use a process called “race norming” – also known as race adjustment. It has been proven to negatively impact the care Black and Latino residents of the city receive. The announcement includes examples of real-world situations impacting the city’s residents, including an “adjustment” factor for Black patients in reference to kidney function....

Samsung India launched the Galaxy A2 Core — a successor to its first-gen Android Go phone aka the Galaxy J2 Core. The device came out of the box with Android 9.0 Pie. If you’re using the latest Samsung Galaxy A2 Core model and want to know when will your device model get Android 10 update, follow this post. Here we will share with you details of Samsung Galaxy A2 Core Android 10 release date and features....

One-Punch Man delights in parodying and referencing other anime series and stereotypical genre tropes, and here are the most notable examples. Bursting onto screens in 2015, One-Punch Man was touted as a refreshing take on the battle anime genre, mixing genuine high-octane action with hilarious gags and riffs on other popular franchises. As Saitama’s story has progressed, the more serious elements have arguably become more pronounced, but ONE and Yusuke Murata’s manga and the resulting anime adaptation still make time to rib their contemporaries....

Ever since Microsoft bought Nokia’s services and devices divisions, there has been a number of talk points where it was believed that the Finnish giant will reboot its effort in smartphone manufacturing business. But until now Nokia kept denying any such possibility, and also it was contractually obligated from manufacturing or using its brand name on any phone until the end of 2016. But then Nokia partnered with Foxconn last year to sell a tablet called the N1, which runs Android, giving slightest of indication of its return to the game....

So, naturally, this has upset those users who were hoping for a not so heavy modified Android version and something closer to the clean, Vanilla version. While this could happen in the future with another device, if you own a Nokia X, X+ or XL and you want to run on clean Android, an ingenious developer has released Vanilla Android 4.1.2 for the Nokia X which is already available for download....

If you can not only capture Pokémon but also artistic photographs of them, Niantic is inviting you to submit your photos in a competition held on Instagram … The prizes aren’t exactly overwhelming, so this one is mostly for fun. It’s a global competition, so the full set of rules is about as lengthy as an international arms treaty, but some key exclusions include taking the photo on private property without permission, showing an identifiable person or including third-party branding....

[Update: we do have confirmation from Niantic this game is currently in development.] Niantic is now famous for one of the highest grossing mobile games of all time with Pokémon GO. But what is next for the developer? Niantic seems to have set its sights on yet another enormous fan base with plans for a Harry Potter mobile augmented reality game. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is the full title of this new augmented reality being co-developed by Warner Bros....

Following the launch of FitBit’s Bluetooth 4.0-powered wrist device, Andru Edwards at GearLive claims to have a series of details about Nike’s next-generation Nike+ Fuel Band. Some of the notable rumored additions: Heart rate/pulse monitor More responsive, faster data display Bluetooth 4.0 for improved battery life, syncing Accelerometer data for developers via a more robust API GearLive claims the new device is being actively tested in the wild, but details about a release timeframe are currently uncertain....

Nuance just dropped a new Dragon dictation product in the Mac App Store called Dragon Express ($49 introductory price), a scaled-back, less expensive version of their Dragon Dictate software. This new version will reside in Lion’s menubar, allowing you to activate the dictate window with a keyboard shortcut or mouse click, and begin converting your speech to text immediately. From there you’ll be able to quickly email it, run a web search with the text, copy it, or share to the usual social networking suspects....

“I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate…” http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7166514&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Re-he-he-heaaaly. Did he just let the cat out of the bag? Did he accidentally forget the encyclopedia-sized pile of confidentiality agreements that Apple made him sign? He seems extremely matter of fact about the “impending Apple Slate” and doesn’t clarify the statement as being some sort of forward looking statement....