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Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! Here are your headlines for this week:

Google is tinkering with the idea of adding in-app purchases to Google Cardboard content. Despite the fact that people hate them, in-app purchases account for over 90% of revenue in the Play Store and Google wants to entice more developers for Cardboard. What’s holding Google back is that they want it to be as intuitive as possible so that it makes people less angry.Late last week, some new research came to light that 77% of people never use an app again 72 hours after installing it. The study found that the most successful apps were ones that users engaged in regularly as opposed to ones that had specific functions. Of course, Google apps were not included in the study since you can’t really uninstall them anymore.Supercell, developers of Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, released an ad to announce that they have over 100 million people who play their games every day. That’s quite an achievement, especially considering that Supercell only has four games and 14 games that they axed before release. The ad is pretty funny also.The Android N developer preview is live and one of the more exciting features is dual window support for apps. This includes a fun feature where you can drag and drop text between windows for easy copy and pasting. It looks like fun, but it’s a little buggy for now.Another new app-related feature of Android N will be faster app optimization. Google plans on removing that annoying app optimization box after a system update and will instead perform that process in the background after the phone boots. Apps will open a bit slower for a bit, but eventually it’ll all work as it did before.

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5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week – Android Apps Weekly

The Division review: Mistakes were made, both old and new

ECHOs are one of the game’s collectibles… and just a bit voyeuristic.

With more ways than ever for players to document and share their experiences, ridiculous bugs and absurd oversights are no longer the stuff of playground rumor. You have one chance to make a good impression, or else faceless assassins and loot caves can become the defining features of your game in the public consciousness well before early problems can be patched.

In the case of The Division, we’ll always remember the queues: a dozen or so players, stacked in orderly horizontal piles, separated only by their own collision detection as they reach for the single laptop that will unlock the rest of the game. It’s among the first of the few times The Division naturally populates its world with large groups of other players, and it’s comedy gold. From that moment forward, however, The Division reveals itself to be curiously desolate for a game that requires a constant (and, so far, rather shaky) server connection.

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That desolation makes some sense. Someone, somewhere has dosed cash in New York City (or at least the director’s cut version of Manhattan that we get) with a cocktail of smallpox, bird flu, and every other Fox News disease-of-the-year. This “dollar flu,” or “green poison,” has left the boroughs’ streets either evacuated or full of corpses. Those who remain were either too slow or unwilling to escape quarantine.

This is where your protagonist comes in. As part of a secret and heavily-armed police force, aka The Division, you’ve stayed behind to, ostensibly, collect data on the virus and keep the peace (which you do by murdering tons of people, of course).

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Nicola Sturgeon to launch new drive for Scottish independence this summer

LONDON — Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said her party would launch a new drive this summer for Scotland’s independence from the United Kingdom.

Addressing a conference of her Scottish National Party in Glasgow on Saturday, Sturgeon didn’t go into further detail on timing.

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“This summer the SNP will embark on a new initiative to build support for independence,” she said.

Her speech was met with applause from her gathered supporters, and a revival of the “Yes” and “Better together” messages online from the previous referendum in 2014. …

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge support Quick Charge 2.0 instead of Quick Charge 3.0

With the Snapdragon 820 SoC powering the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge in the U.S. and in China, those handsets could easily support Quick Charge 3.0, the latest version of the chipmaker’s quick battery charging technology. After all, Quick Charge 3.0 will be found on the LG G5 which also will be carrying the Snapdragon 820 chipset. However, all of the other models of the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge are driven by Sammy’s own Exynos 8890 SoC, which does not support Quick Charge.

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Samsung Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge support Quick Charge 2.0 instead of Quick Charge 3.0

February obliterated global heat records, NASA confirms

February was Earth’s most unusually warm month on record, blowing away the record that had been set just one month prior.

The new findings, contained in preliminary data released Saturday by NASA and backed up by information from other research groups, show that the combination of a record strong El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean and human-caused global warming drove global temperatures to levels never before seen since instrument records began in 1880.

Monthly global average surface temperatures, with Feb. 2016 indicated.

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The NASA data, which is subject to adjustment as scientists refine their analysis, shows that February had a global average surface temperature of 1.35 degrees Celsius above the 1951 to 1980 average, or 2.43 degrees Fahrenheit above average. …

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$50 million 'Smart City Challenge' finalists announced at SXSW - Roadshow

In Austin, TX, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has just unveiled the seven cities that are still in the running for $50 million in funding that could radically reinvent their streets.

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New Microsoft OneNote importer aims to draw the crowd away from Evernote

Microsoft’s Office suite hardly needs an introduction at this point. As one of the oldest and richest platforms around, it is more or less the standard when in comes to word editing and spreadsheets. However, the suite is actually quite a lot bigger than that and has more interesting software to offer, like OneNote – the free-form note taking app that, unlike Word and Excel, seems to be struggling for mass popularity.

It appears Microsoft has decided to put some extra effort in its OneNote product campaign with a new importer tool, aimed squarely at attracting existing Evernote users, by giving them a way to import all their work. The tool currently supports Windows 7 and later on PC, but once you sync everything, it will appear across all your devices, mobile too. An OS X version is also said to come shortly.

It is a pretty feasible strategy and could have even passed as a nice little time-saving gesture to prospective migrating users, were it not for the accompanying marketing campaign that openly takes a stab at Evernote’s services.

For one, Microsoft has really made sure to point out the fact that OneNote is free on any platform and in the entirety of its feature set, whereas Evernote has an optional “Plus” tier, which gives you access to things like offline access to notes on mobile and a 1GB/month data upload cap for $50 per year. While this is technically true, the points of choice within Microsoft’s comparison table is oddly favorable towards the US giant.

Truth be told, both platforms have their weaknesses and strong point. You might like OneNote’s free-form canvas approach, that allows you to write anywhere and pull and mix all sorts of content freely, but on the other hand, Evernote is arguably a lot better at saving, pulling and clipping web content and it has really been trying hard to branch out into the collaborative working area of the business market.

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New Microsoft OneNote importer aims to draw the crowd away from Evernote