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WhatsApp rolls out group video calls at last

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by on July 31, 2018 at 4:54 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


WhatsApp has updated its messaging service with support for group video calls, allowing you to chat with up to three more people simultaneously on its iOS and Android apps. To use the new feature, you’ll need to first start a one-on-one voice or video call with a contact, and then tap the ‘add participant’ button at the top right of your screen. WhatsApp says that its calls are encrypted end-to-end just like its standard messages. It sure took its own sweet time adding this functionality, seeing as how support for one-on-one video calls was introduced nearly two years ago. Its…

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Uber is killing off its self-driving truck division

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by on July 31, 2018 at 4:17 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Cars


Reuters reports that Uber is shuttering its autonomous freight truck division after some two years in the space. The company got started with self-driving trucks back in 2016, when it acquired Otto – a startup focused on developing aftermarket kits to allow trucks to cover long distances on freeways autonomously – for $680 million. The purchase netted Uber the talent of Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, the engineer who built Google’s very first self-driving car. But along with that came trouble: in February 2017, Alphabet’s Waymo – the self-driving vehicle firm spun off from Google – sued Uber for stealing trade…

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Logitech acquires Blue Microphones to boost its audio hardware business

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by on July 31, 2018 at 3:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


Logitech is growing its list of hardware brands with the acquisition of California-based Blue Microphones for $117 million in an all-cash deal. That’s huge for Blue, which was founded in 1995 and has become a household name in audio equipment, thanks to its popular Yeti and Snowball microphones for studio recording, podcasting, and streaming. The company also makes some pretty good headphones; I also had a chance to review its Raspberry mobile mic, and came away impressed. I’ve found most of Blue’s products to offer stellar performance and distinctive design. Logitech believes that the audio market is set to grow,…

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NASA just made thousands of hours of Apollo 11 tapes public for the first time

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by on July 30, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Space


When Apollo 11 descended from the heavens, touching down on the moon on July 20, 1969, three brave men became immortals, the types of men forever remembered for a single act that defined their storied careers. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins might be the names we associate with that first mission to the moon, but it was a team of engineers, analysts, supervisors, and experts who ultimately got them there. Today, for the first time ever, NASA has released over 19,000 hours worth of audio from this historical mission. Included are digitized versions every conversation, from the mundane…

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