Free new downloadable content for ‘Star Wars: Battlefront’ provides not only the game’s best map yet, but a bit of foreshadowing of events in ‘The Force Awakens,’ says Forbes contributor Todd Kenreck.
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Today Google has brought two more of its apps to the Play Store for Android. Contacts and Phone are part of Google’s version of Android, the one it ships on the Nexus line for example. But up until now, in order to issue updates to these apps, the company had to make them part of a new Android software rollout.
That’s no longer the case, now that both Contacts and Phone are to be found in the Play Store, with updates handled in this much more convenient way. And, as a matter of fact, the two apps’ debut in the Play Store coincides with them receiving some new features.
For example, Phone has added call blocking, as well as a slightly enhanced in-call UI. Also, the dialer will display the nickname instead of the name for any contact you have given a nickname to in Google Now. And if your carrier supports Google’s visual voicemail iteration, you’ll get a voicemail count from now on.
The Contacts app comes with “streamlined editing”, which should make changing contact information easier than before.
The Phone and Contacts apps by Google only work with Android 6.0 Marshmallow. For now, devices that have them preinstalled can update them, but it’s unclear whether you can install either of them on a non-Nexus…
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Microsoft Lumia 950 is the firstborn of the new Lumia series, following the company’s strategy shift. It’s a precisely designed smartphone with clear ideas for its future, sharp hardware choices and groundbreaking software innovations. It’s an epic device based on Nokia’s legacy and reborn under Microsoft’s custody.
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After a long transition period, Songza has announced that it will be shutting down on January 31, 2016, as it completes its merger with Google Play Music. Google purchased Songza in July 2014 and said that no immediate changes were planned for the service. Since that time, Songza’s features have slowly been added to Google Play Music until complete parity of features was reached in June 2015.
Now that all of Songza’s services have been rolled into Google Play Music, the service will shut down for cohesiveness. Songza’s founders are urging users to make the switch and they’ve spoken about the work that they put into getting the transition just right, making sure that no features were lost in the switch.
As of today, Songza is notifying users of the shutdown by email and notifications within the app and website. If you head to the app, you’ll be prompted to migrate your Songza account to Google Play Music, which will save your favorite playlists, recent stations and thumbs-upped songs, making it a seamless transition.
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Hace unas horas hemos visto y conocido como el marketplace de Azure ya ofrece la posibilidad de crear un entorno de desarrollo basado en Debian para el banco de pruebas. Esto representa una novedad pero que concuerda con la intención de Microsoft de hacer que Azure sea compatible con todo y tenga un sinfín de posibilidades.
Es más, actualmente se pueden encontrar dos versiones de Debian actuales y funcionales. Esto ha sido gracias a Credativ que junto al equipo de Microsoft ha logrado llevar la versión 7 de Debian y Debian Jessie, para que sus usuarios escojan que versión utilizar.
Una vez seleccionado la versión de Debian que queremos instalar, Microsoft Azure se encargará de bajar las imágenes correspondientes y crear la máquina virtual necesaria para hacerlo funcionar. Así Debian se une a un amplio abanico de distribuciones y herramientas que tiene ya Azure. Para aquellos que no conozcáis Microsoft Azure, lógico si trabajáis con Gnu/Linux, es un entorno de desarrollo parecido a Ubuntu Make, pero con más herramientas y más funcionalidades que Ubuntu Make, al menos por el momento.
Tanto Microsoft como Credativ han advertido en sus respectivas publicaciones que seguirán trabajando juntos para ir añadiendo actualizaciones y versiones nuevas de Debian o lo que es lo mismo, Debian seguirá estando como abanderado de Gnu/Linux en el mundo de Microsoft. Al menos por el momento.
Personalmente veo con buenos ojos que intenten llevar distribuciones y Software Libre a Microsoft, pero si quieren facilitar el desarrollo a desarrolladores, lo mejor es que sus programas intenten cumplir con los estándares libres y no intentar lo contrario. Aunque si somos justos, hemos de decir que Microsoft últimamente está haciendo esto y por eso algunos no nos soprende la inclusión de Debian ¿o tal vez si?
El artículo Debian ya está disponible en Microsoft Azure ha sido originalmente publicado en Linux Adictos.
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Uber’s new car-rental program for drivers doesn’t actually make much financial sense
Uber is testing a new program that will allow drivers in Denver to rent cars for a discounted rate to drive on Uber’s platform. While it matches Uber’s mission to give drivers access to cars, the $210 per week pricetag isn’t cheap.
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In January 2016, curated-playlist service Songza will shut down. But it’s already a big part of Google Play Music, and Songza users can port their jams.
The post Songza Is Dead, But It Lives On Within Google Play Music appeared first on WIRED.
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El Q-carbon es una sustancia que brilla más que los diamantes pero es usado con fines médicos; tiene un brillo aún mayor, y resplandece incluso en la luz más tenue.
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After a long battle with regulators and domestic smartphone companies, things begin to look up for Qualcomm in China. On Wednesday, the company announced that it reached an agreement with Xiaomi whereby Qualcomm will give Xiaomi a royalty-based license to develop, manufacture, and sell 3G (WCDMA and CDMA2000) and 4G,
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There’s more trouble for VTech, as at least one of its tablets is deemed easy to hack and it is failing to answer questions on whether it even has a security team.
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