Tech Releases

One-upping the NES Classic Edition with the Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie

Samsung’s Note 9 announcement is August 9

Amazon is turning its Fire tablets into portable Echo Shows

The $159 Nokia 3.1 comes to the US July 2

Google’s AR “Measure” app comes to all ARCore Android phones

The Oppo Find X kills the smartphone notch with a motorized pop-up camera

Google launches a Web client for Android’s SMS app

Garmin brings music, NFC payments, onboard mapping to Fenix 5 Plus watches

Vivo will actually sell a smartphone with a pop-up front camera

Garmin’s new Vivoactive 3 Music is the best competitor to the Apple Watch

Exclusive: Plume’s new “Superpod” hardware is here—and it’s fast

Google Pixel 3 XL prototype shows an all-glass back, giant display notch

Amazon’s Fire TV Cube is like a Fire TV blended with an Echo Dot

The Moto Z3 Play is official with rare, side-mounted fingerprint reader

FaceTime and Messages camera to offer new sticker packs, style transfers like a comic book filter, drawn shapes; FaceTime to support group video up to 32 users (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Apple adds a browse tab and sidebar to Apple News and is integrating a news sidebar into Stocks app (Joan E. Solsman/CNET)

Apple unveils distraction-reducing features including Do Not Disturb at Bedtime, grouped notifications, Screen Time, and new parental controls (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)

Starting with iOS 12 later this year, Apple CarPlay will let you use Google Maps, Waze, and other third-party navigation apps, not just Apple Maps (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Apple, Pixar, and Adobe back a standardized AR file format called the Universal Scene Description file, or USDZ (Andrew Tarantola/Engadget)

Apple announces a new app, Shortcuts for Siri, now lets iOS users to receive background tips from Siri and create their own shortcuts for apps (Tristan Greene/The Next Web)

Asus’ insane gaming phone has 3 USB ports, clip-on cooling fan

Apple unveils new first-party ARKit Measure app that can auto-detect dimensions of objects alongside the introduction of ARKit 2 (Jeff Benjamin/9to5Mac)

Apple unveils ARKit 2 with improved face tracking, realistic rendering, 3D object detection, persistent experiences, and shared experiences (Mitchel Broussard/MacRumors)

Qulian Technology, maker of enterprise-focused blockchain called Hyperchain, announces the completion of $234M Series B, drawing scrutiny from Chinese regulator (Wolfie Zhao/CoinDesk)

Apple partners with Adobe for AR file format, called USDZ, which will be supported by Adobe's Creative Cloud services (Richard Nieva/CNET)

Apple's App Store now sees 500M weekly visitors and is about to pass $100B paid out to developers, after crossing the $50B paid threshold in June 2016 (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

Apple unveils iOS 12 for iPhone and iPad, says it will focus on performance improvements and support all devices capable of running iOS 11 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

Coinbase opens an office in Japan, announces its aim to roll out the cryptocurrency exchange in the country (Dan Romero/The Coinbase Blog)

Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote (Apple)

Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2018 keynote in San Jose (The Verge)

Source: Twitter disbands live video unit, folds it into content partnerships team; ex-Head of News Peter Greenberger and exec Todd Swidler are leaving (Todd Spangler/Variety)

New G Suite features unveiled, including interoperability between Hangouts Meet and other video conferencing systems like select Skype, Cisco, Polycom products (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet)

PlayVS, a startup that provides an esports platform and league for high schools, raises $15M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)