Google launches Android Studio 1.4 with Nexus 5X and 6P emulators, Firebase integration, theme editor | VentureBeat | Dev | by Jordan Novet

Google launches Android Studio 1.4 with Nexus 5X and 6P emulators, Firebase integration, theme editor | VentureBeat | Dev | by Jordan Novet Google today said that it has pushed version 1.4 of its Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) into the stable release channel. This release comes with several new tools to accelerate the development of Android apps.

Rhymes with poodle hamdroyed.

Video shows MAME emulator in action on Apple's tvOS

Video shows MAME emulator in action on Apple's tvOS A video posted to the Web on Monday shows a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator running on Apple's tvOS, allowing developer Kevin Smith to play a number of old-school arcade titles with a paired Bluetooth gaming controller.

Sometimes the small things are the most exciting.

Top iOS ad blocker Crystal lets advertisers pay to bypass restrictions

Top iOS ad blocker Crystal lets advertisers pay to bypass restrictions The policy stems from a deal Crystal developer Dean Murphy forged with Adblock Pro creator Eyeo, the Wall Street Journal said. Eyeo does maintain an "acceptable ads" standard limiting intrusiveness, but over 70 companies, such as Google and Microsoft, have reportedly paid to skip past filters. Users can enable full ad blocking by disabling the "acceptable ads" option.

Extortion is now a business model! It's the modern equivalent of Knucky Thompson now appearing in your virtual neighborhood.

Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance | Ars Technica

Samsung’s 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance | Ars Technica The Samsung 950 Pro SSD—the follow up to the legendary Samsung 850 Pro SSD—has been unveiled by the company at its annual SSD summit in Seoul, Korea. The 950 Pro will be available at retail in October, with MSRPs of $199.99 (probably ~£150) for the 256GB version, and $349.99 (~£280) for the 512GB version. UK pricing is yet to be confirmed.

Music to my ears!

Apple's Tim Cook to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping during US tour

Apple's Tim Cook to meet with Chinese president Xi Jinping during US tour Apple CEO Tim Cook will be among numerous corporate leaders meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday during his first visit to the United States, amid concerns about a troubled Chinese economy and the possibility of a flashpoint over cybersecurity issues.

After all, Apple's gross revenues are greater than the GDP of many countries.

Apple created a mysterious new emoji and no one knows why | Cult of Mac

Apple created a mysterious new emoji and no one knows why | Cult of Mac A mysterious new emoji has been added by Apple to iOS 9.1 and OS X El Capitan, but unlike the other emoji supported by Apple, this weird new pictogram wasn’t created by the Unicode Authority, and no one knows why it exists.

In case you want to be apprised of the very latest emojii news. Oh, those crazy Japanese!

Vogue snaps 12MP images, 4K video at New York Fashion Week using Apple's new iPhone 6S Plus

Vogue snaps 12MP images, 4K video at New York Fashion Week using Apple's new iPhone 6S Plus

With the ability to capture 12 megapixel images and 4K video, the new iPhone 6s models greatly enhance the detail of iPhone photographs. The new phones' camera hardware is also faster.

Some clever marketing to be sure.

Not everyone is fooled, though. Like recent owners of the Panasonic GH4.

Second 'Steve Jobs' Trailer Premieres - Release Set for October 9 | MacTrast

Second 'Steve Jobs' Trailer Premieres - Release Set for October 9 | MacTrast The film – directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by noted writer Aaron Sorkin – premiered last week at the Telluride Film Festival, and will also be featured at the New York Film Festival on October 3. The film’s wide theatrical release is set for October 9th.

Ramp up to the too soon movie. An interesting biopic might be that of K&R who created C & UNIX, without which there would be no Linux, Apple etc.

[Video] ‘Steve Jobs’: Kate Winslet Discusses Making Of At TIFF 2015 | Deadline

[Video] ‘Steve Jobs’: Kate Winslet Discusses Making Of At TIFF 2015 | Deadline the secret sauce that sets Steve Jobs  apart from the Ashton Kutcher rendition of Jobs, is the Apple computer pioneer’s working relationship with his head of marketing, Joanna Hoffman, a feisty Polish Armenian woman who was unafraid to speak her mind to Jobs and keep the acerbic genius in check. Winslet caught wind of the role while sitting in the hair and makeup chair on the set of Jocelyn Moorhouse’s The Dressmaker, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Secretly saucy.

VLC media player app will be coming to the new Apple TV | iMore

VLC media player app will be coming to the new Apple TV | iMore

You can add another app that's being made for the new Apple TV set-top box. The VideoLAN team is working to develop their popular, and free, VLC media player app so it will work on tvOS.

The French, forever thumbing their noses at the MPAA. And why not.

Qualcomm Makes A Bid To Lead Drone Revolution With New Chip - Forbes

Qualcomm Makes A Bid To Lead Drone Revolution With New Chip - Forbes Now Qualcomm is searching for new devices for its silicon. One promising bet: drones. On Thursday, Qualcomm made it known just how serious it is about drones, when it introduced Snapdragon Flight — a “system-on-a-chip” built specifically for flying robots.

This will be an exciting market segment until someone flies a drone into the turbo engine of a Boeing 767.

Dell's next XPS 12 looks like a Microsoft Surface rival

Dell's next XPS 12 looks like a Microsoft Surface rival Wondering why Dell is cool with selling Microsoft's Surface Pro when it doesn't have a direct equivalent right now? This might be why. Giga claims to have leaked details of a reborn XPS 12 that would ditch the convertible laptop design in favor of the Surface's tablet-plus-keyboard combo, right down to the kickstand.

Let's get this party started. Competition is so great for consumers.

Hands-on with the iPad Pro, its keyboard, and its pencil | Ars Technica

Hands-on with the iPad Pro, its keyboard, and its pencil | Ars Technica Apple's iPad Pro is pretty much what you'd expect: an iPad Air grabbed by the corners and stretched.

The new tablet uses the same basic design cues as the iPad Mini and iPad Air before it—chamfered metal edge, thin but not exceptionally narrow bezels, volume buttons with no mute switch, Home button with TouchID. Everything is just expanded.

Did I say stretched? I meant streeeached!

How Apple Pencil stacks up against Wacom Cintiq

How Apple Pencil stacks up against Wacom Cintiq The Apple Pencil, which Apple showed the world during Wednesday’s big product showcase, has a much narrower body and tip, allowing the stylus to not obscure the drawing itself. I would also argue it provides more freedom of drawing motion.

Here you go, quoters of Steve Jobs. Steve was disparaging the Palm Pilot not the Apple Pencil.

Apple seeds first iOS 9.1 beta to developers, adds new taco, burrito & unicorn emojis

Apple seeds first iOS 9.1 beta to developers, adds new taco, burrito & unicorn emojis: "Some of the new emojis include a crab, lion, taco, burrito, unicorn, racecar, and satellite, as well as medals and prayer beads."

Nothing says news like Unicorn emojii.

Canon unveils 250-megapixel prototype DSLR camera sensor | Ars Technica

Canon unveils 250-megapixel prototype DSLR camera sensor | Ars Technica

Canon has created a 250-megapixel CMOS camera sensor. The sensor, which is APS-H size (29×20mm), packs a resolution of 19580×12600. By comparison, the highest-resolution commercial DSLR camera—the Canon 5DS and 5DS R—has an image sensor with "just" 50.6 megapixels, on a much larger full-frame (36×24mm) sensor.

For whoever said digital would never be as good as film.

Woz wowed by accuracy of new Steve Jobs movie

Woz wowed by accuracy of new Steve Jobs movie
According to Jobs’ Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the film is pretty darned accurate. In fact, Woz says that there were times watching the movie when he just about forgot he was watching actors on-screen rather than the real people involved.

Promising news from Woz.

TV Everywhere == Apple

: "That’s because an analysis of 1.49 billion TV Everywhere streams — referring to the paid streaming of shows through tablets, smartphones, computers and set-top boxes — suggests a whopping 61.9 percent is done via an Apple device."

That's my factoid of the day.

Controversial Steve Jobs documentary hits theaters today

Controversial Steve Jobs documentary hits theaters today
Titled Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, the feature-length documentary is directed by Oscar winner Alex Gibney, who has previously made docs exploring the dark side of Enron and the Church of Scientology.

Wot?

How this 14-year-old tech entrepreneur scored an hour interview with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak | Business Insider India

How this 14-year-old tech entrepreneur scored an hour interview with Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak | Business Insider India
2. The first computer-like machine he ever built was in 8th grade for a science fair. It ran a program that "makes you never lose at tic-tac-toe ... It had about 100 transistors and about 100 diodes. No one at school had ever seen a transistor, it was that advanced."

The reality.

Danny Boyle's 'Steve Jobs' to make early showing at this weekend's Telluride festival

Danny Boyle's 'Steve Jobs' to make early showing at this weekend's Telluride festival
Although its official debut isn't scheduled until October, Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic will make an early showing at this weekend's Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.

Mmmmm. The fiction.

Android Wear Arrives On iPhone, iOS App Released [Download] | Redmond Pie

Android Wear Arrives On iPhone, iOS App Released [Download] | Redmond Pie: "It’s now official. Google has just announced official support for using Android Wear smartwatches on iPhone running iOS 8.2 or later."

Groovy, baby!