Google will announce the final name of Android N "in a few weeks"

While an Android N Developer Preview has been publicly available since March, Google has yet to decide on the final name that this new iteration of its OS will have. Fret not, though, as Google today said that the name will be finally unveiled “in a few weeks.”

Not long ago, Google put up a web page asking for Android users – or anybody, really – to submit Android N name ideas. We’re not sure if Google will choose a name that’s been suggested by users, or one that the folks in charge of Android have already thought about. In any case, the wait should be over sometime … – Source

Google will announce the final name of Android N "in a few weeks"

HTC has finally found a new CFO

It is hardly a secret that HTC is losing money and has been doing so for quite some time. In light of this, there is probably no job at the Taiwanese manufacturer currently more important and vital for its survival than CFO. However, as you can imagine, finding someone to undertake such looking for a whopping two years.

Today, the search is officially over and Peter Shen is now the Chief Financial Officer and Company Spokesperson. He has former experience at Taiwan-based Inotera Memories and HP, which will hopefully prove enough training change HTC’s trajectory.

As for his…

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HTC has finally found a new CFO

Oppo F1 Plus goes on sale on Amazon France

16MP selfies from France incoming – Oppo just tweeted that the Oppo F1 Plus is now available on Amazon.fr.

The asking price is €389 (including VAT) and shipping is free. Note that the phone is currently listed as out of stock, I’m guessing someone hasn’t flipped the switch yet.

With the Oppo F1 Plus, you’re in for a 5.5″ AMOLED screen (1080p), MediaTek Helio P10 chipset with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage (with a microSD slot) and a 2,850mAh battery.

The camera on the back is a 13MP shooter. Yes, the selfie camera is better than the back camera, even the aperture is brighter – f/2.0…

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Oppo F1 Plus goes on sale on Amazon France

After SD823-powered ZenFone 3 Deluxe rumors, new leak reveals SD821 variant

While it has already been made official, the Asus ZenFone 3 Deluxe is still keeping the rumor mill spinning. Just last week, there were rumors that the Taiwanese company will soon launch a Snapdragon 823 variant of the device, and now, a new leak has revealed the existence of an SD821-powered model of the phone.

There’s currently no confirmation on whether or not both variants will see the light the day, although rumors say the SD823 variant could arrive a bit later. In fact, word on the street is that flagships arriving in H2 2016 will instead be powered by SD821. This is, however, in…

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After SD823-powered ZenFone 3 Deluxe rumors, new leak reveals SD821 variant

WhatsApp getting GIF support soon

GIFs are quickly becoming the best way to have a conversation on the internet. Emoji are inscrutable. Voice is for suckers. Plain text is just boring. But, GIFs convey everything. WhatsApp apparently knows this, so there is an update in the works that will automatically display and play GIFs that you paste into a conversation.
The new feature was outed by @WABetaInfo, a Twitter account that keeps tracks of changes in the WhatsApp beta updates. According to the account, version 2.16.7.1 of the WhatsApp will embed GIFs from links into conversations and autoplay them as well. … – Source

WhatsApp getting GIF support soon

How to properly ghost from a group text

There is no species on earth so invasive, or so insidious, as the group text.

The texts start off slowly, innocuously, symptom-free. At first, you may not even notice their presence — perhaps a pleasant ding now and again, a few uninspired memes, an incomprehensible string of emoji. Most resemble nothing more than a standard text with a few extra friends attached—and a simple lowercase “lol” response works just perfectly

SEE ALSO: 16 of the most useless emoji and how to make them useful

But everyone once in a while, the texts metastasize into something larger, monstrous. A casual message about dinner plans rapidly transforms into a violent orgy of yelp links. Any sense of narrative is soon lost to a flood of Taylor Swift GIFs, emoticon chains and passive-aggressive polemics about Beyonce’s Lemonade. …

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We don’t update our biases, even after they lead us astray

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In adapting to our environment, we’d ideally use the results of previous actions to inform future choices, updating our expectations and decisions to reflect knowledge gained from earlier experiences. However, sometimes we ignore the past’s feedback when we really should pay attention it, leaving us trapped in a series of bad decisions. A study published in PNAS demonstrates that this “bad choice persistence” occurs when changing our decisions would go against our existing biases. This means that our beliefs can trap us in a difficult-to-break bad-decision feedback loop.

To examine this phenomenon, researchers looked at how subjects integrated new experiences with their past history when completing a sensory stimulus task. The participants were asked to predict whether a visual stimulus would appear on the left side or the right side of a screen based on where the stimulus appeared in previous trials.

In the first set of experimental trials, the location of the stimulus was randomized. These trials assessed the subjects’ baseline biases towards choosing one side of the screen or the other. After establishing these biases, the participants began a second set of experimental trials. In these experiments, the stimulus’ location was determined by a probabilistic model that set the odds of its location using both the participants’ previous choice history and the item’s previous locations.

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We don’t update our biases, even after they lead us astray

Latest Pebble Time update brings weather app, more accurate health tracking, and fire emoji

Today Pebble has announced the latest software update for its existing smartwatches. Version 3.13 brings with it a dedicated weather app, improvements to Pebble Health, and the fire emoji.

While that last one is self-explanatory, let’s dive into the others a bit. The new weather app is powered by The Weather Channel and it shows you the current temperature and conditions, highs and lows for the day, as well as the next day’s forecast. Its settings are managed through the Apps tab of the Pebble mobile app for Android or iOS.

Pebble watches should now be better at counting your steps…

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Latest Pebble Time update brings weather app, more accurate health tracking, and fire emoji