Mike and Jim’s Week in Tech: Google’s New Version of Android

Farhad Manjoo is off this week, so Mike Isaac joins deputy tech editor Jim Kerstetter to discuss Google’s plan to fold its two operating systems into the Android brand.











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Monclarity Raises $5M And Launches Its Brain-Training App Brainwell

 Startup Monclarity announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding from Access Industries. And it recently unveiled Brainwell, a brain-training app available on iOS, Android, Kindle and the web. Now, there’s been a lot of skepticism around brain-training games like Lumosity, particularly after a recent study of the existing research found that these games may improve… Read More

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13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

 This week, we watched an NBA game in virtual reality, a number of tech companies reported earnings, and we went hands-on with the OnePlus X Android phone. These are our best stories. Read More

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This Feature Film Is Billing an Android as One of Its Stars

Most robots don’t have IMDb pages. Geminoid F isn’t most robots.

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Amazon Prime Music Adds Support For Android Wear, Offline Playback From SD Cards

 Amazon today rolled out a small, but useful benefit for Amazon Prime members who use the company’s Prime Music streaming service. Though the service already offered the ability to download songs for offline playback, it’s finally addressing one of users’ top requests: you can now download songs directly to your phone’s SD card, in order to free up internal storage… Read More

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All I Need Is This Android Wear N64 Emulator and Ocarina of Time On My Wrist

The Nintendo 64 might not have had the massive library of games like the PlayStation did, but it made up for it with quality over quantity. Do you ever really need anything more than GoldenEye and Ocarina of Time? No. And with this N64 emulator on your smartwatch, those games will always be in easy reach.

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Guy in Charge of Chrome Says Google Isn't Killing Chrome OS After All

Google’s top talent says its Chrome OS isn’t going anywhere.

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Apple's Beats Pill+ App Is Its Second-Ever Piece of Android Software

Google’s Lack Of Product Isolation Would Support A Chrome OS And Android Merge

 Chrome OS, the “cloud” operating system that Google introduced for laptops and Android, the operating system on phones and tablets may become one, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The “folding” could happen as early as next year…could be introduced at Google I/O…or not. I’ve personally spoken to sources over the past few years about… Read More

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Bits Blog: Alphabet Edges Toward Settling the Android or Chrome Question

The company now known as Alphabet has for years supported two operating systems. But Chrome, the lesser-known of the two, will soon lose one of its few exclusive domains.











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