Today, Google has made a lot of YouTube creators happy – it’s removing the “301+” static play count for new videos in favor of a more accurate figure.
Earlier this year, Facebook’s increased focus on video — which began with it introducing autoplay video in 2013 — began to show real results. In April, the company reported that it received more than 4 billion video views every day. If you make videos or want to sell advertising against them, this is great news: a giant platform with unparalleled reach is finally paying attention to you.
After a long wait, Ubuntu phones became a reality this year. But now Linux fans outside of Europe and China will be able to try out the newcomer OS for the very first time. Spanish smartphone maker BQ has announced that it is now shipping its Aquarius E5 Ubuntu smartphone across the world.
To the surprise of almost no one who follows Apple, the company is planning to hold a big event early in September to take the wraps off its next iPhone. According to the well-sourced John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed, that event will happen on Wednesday, September 9th. iPhones are a shoo-in, as they've been introduced in this timeframe every year since 2011, but BuzzFeed also claims we'll see some new iPads as well as the long-awaited new Apple TV. The latter was originally rumored to be introduced at WWDC this year, but it was nowhere to be found; the rumor mill made it sound like it wasn't quite ready to go.
Last month, Airbus engineers quietly received a patent for a new — and ambitious — type of a plane: a hypersonic, "ultra-rapid" jet capable of traveling at up to about 4.5 times the speed of sound, and fast enough to get from Paris to San Francisco in about three hours.
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