Verizon first started pushing out the Android 6.0 update to the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 earlier last month, but the roll-out was halted shortly thereafter (update details were pulled from their website) due to unknown reasons.

The good news is that the software update page is live again on Verizon’s website, and the carrier now says the update will start hitting the Turbo 2 units on its network today – March 1.

The update will be rolled out in two parts, with the first one bumping the software version to 23.31.24, and the second part – which actually brings Marshmallow – arriving as 24.14.10. In case you don’t already know, the update was already being soak tested for the past few days.

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One of the Google’s self-driving cars met with a minor accident earlier this month when it hit the side of a bus. It’s not like the company’s autonomous vehicles haven’t been involved in accidents before, but what makes this particular incident important is the fact that this was the first time a Google car actually ’caused’ the crash.

The crash took place in Mountain View on the Valentine’s Day. Google says the accident happened when one of its self-driving Lexus RX450h – which the company claims was traveling at less than 2 miles per hour – tried to get around some sandbags in a wide lane.

“We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn’t moved, there wouldn’t have been a collision. That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.” The bus was said to be moving at about 15 miles per hour.

Google said it has made “refinements” to their software following the incident. “From now on, our cars will more deeply understand that buses (and other large vehicles) are less likely to yield to us than other types of vehicles, and we hope to handle situations like this more gracefully in the…

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Snapchat has revealed that it was the target of a phishing attack that saw the ephemeral messaging company revealing payroll information about its employees. The company, however, said that none of its servers were breached and user data was also unaffected.

“The bad news is that a number of our employees have now had their identity compromised. And for that, we’re just impossibly sorry,” Snapchat said in a blog post, where-in it also detailed the entire incident (head to the Source link below).

Snapchat said the incident was immediately reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the affected employees have already been offered two years of free identity-theft insurance and monitoring by the…

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Looks like Verizon will begin taking pre-orders for the BlackBerry Priv this week. Replying to a user query on Twitter, Jeffrey Nelson – who is the VP of Communications for Verizon’s consumer and enterprise businesses – effectively confirmed that pre-orders will go live on March 3.

@tvnzs @BlackBerry @VerizonNews fingers crossed!— Jeffrey Nelson (@JNels) February 29, 2016

This comes less than a couple of months after Nelson revealed that Verizon will start carrying the Android-powered handset “by the end of March (if not sooner).” The Verizon variant was certified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in December.

Reports say the carrier will start selling the device on March 11, which is the same day when Samsung’s newest flagships – the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge – will be released worldwide.

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Google strangely hasn’t been selling its own Google Cardboard even after more than a year of giving them away at Google I/O 2014. Well that’s all changed now that Google is offering a Google Cardboard right from its own online store.

Google is offering each Cardboard for $15 or 2 for $25. The Cardboard is compatible with all Android and iOS smartphones from 4 to 6 inch screens.

The Google Store will also begin selling the Mattel View-Master VR Starter Pack as well as another Cardboard alternative without all the cardboard.

The Tech C1-Glass VR Viewer is available from the Google Store for the same price of $15 while offering a more compact and portable VR viewer while the Mattel View-Master VR is $30. The Tech C1-Glass is compatible with the same devices as the standard Google Cardboard.

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Android Police reports that it was able to get a hold of some Android N screenshots way ahead of Google I/O when the developer previews should be released. Since the screenshots were not allowed to be reposted, there were a few mockups which roughly describe the alleged changes in for Android.

Starting off with the notification toggles, there will be a new paged interface while also making the customization process of the toggles easier for the user.

Along with different looking app notifications in the main notification shade, there is a row of quick toggles just under the status bar which reminds us of the Ice Cream Sandwich days.

These mockups are reportedly based on early Android N screenshots and could vary by the time the developer previews are available for all to download.

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As T-Mobile does all the time, it ships phones early to customers who pre-ordered them. T-Mobile has been delivering phones early for pre-orders as far back as the Galaxy Note 4 with many customers already receiving shipping confirmations for their new pre-ordered Galaxy phones.

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XDA member: altimax98 was among the very first to take delivery of a T-Mobile Snapdragon-powered S7 edge unit and has generously shared screen shots throughout the new TouchWiz/Marshmallow interface. The UI is not far off from the updated Marshmallow UIs that have been rolling out to newer Galaxy phones within the past month or so.

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Google has expanded its online hardware store in the US today, by adding a brand new category: VR. This isn’t very surprising given how popular VR headsets are becoming (or, rather, how much their makers would like them to be popular).

You can of course purchase Google’s own Cardboard viewer, which is literally made out of cardboard, for $15 (or $25 for a two-pack). But the search giant has also added two third party VR headsets to its roster.

The Mattel View-Master is basically a plastic version of the Cardboard design, which means it should be more durable. It’s priced at $29.99 and it comes with a preview reel of special content.

Finally, the Goggle Tech C1-Glass looks like an odd pair of, well, goggles. It’s highly portable, apparently. On the flip side, it doesn’t block the light around you, so overall it’s less immersive than the others. You can pick one up for $14.99.

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If you’re interested in Microsoft’s top of the line Lumia 950 or Lumia 950 XL but don’t want to pay the full price, there’s always the option of grabbing one with an operator contract in the UK. And if you choose O2 as your network and black as the color of the phone, there’s an interesting deal to be had over at Amazon.

Pick a plan starting at £27.50 per month and you can get either the Lumia 950 or the Lumia 950 XL for free. Furthermore, you’ll receive a £75 Amazon gift card for no additional cost. The gift card can be yours even if you opt for a more expensive contract, which you might want to do since the cheapest option only has 1GB of data (along with unlimited minutes and texts). You can go up to £39 per month and receive 10GB of data. The plans are identical for both handsets, rather intriguingly.

There’s no telling how long this offer will last (as per Amazon’s terms and conditions it shouldn’t even be available anymore, but it is), so make sure you act quick if it seems like a good deal.

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A new rumor out of China today claims that Lenovo’s sub-brand ZUK is busy working on a ‘mini’ smartphone of its own. This will apparently come with a 4.7-inch 720p touchscreen, thus appealing primarily to people who consider most of today’s handsets too big to handle properly.

The small ZUK device will be offered in two hardware options, with either 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage, or 3GB of RAM and 32GB of space.

It’s said to employ MediaTek’s Helio P10 chipset, which comes with an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU that can be clocked at up to 2 GHz, and the Mali-T860MP2 GPU.

The phone will have a fingerprint scanner, though its placement is unclear for now. Also not known at this point is whether Lenovo will choose to simply shrink the Z1’s design (shown in the image above) for this ‘mini’ handset, or go with something new.

Other details haven’t been leaked yet unfortunately, so it’s impossible to tell if the international version will run Cyanogen OS (like is the case with the Z1). And pricing is still a mystery too. Hopefully this wasn’t just a baseless rumor and more information about the ‘mini’ ZUK phone will emerge…

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