To promote the new Movie Kong: Skull Island the fictional piece of land has been added to Google Maps.

Soon we will have a new reboot of a franchise, this time King Kong. In order to promote the Movie Google Maps has teamed up with Legendary and Universal pictures to add Skull Island on the Map Server. The fictional island is located near the equator and a few thousand miles west of Peru and is labeled as an „archeological site“.

Google Maps lets the user add their own phantasy reviews and pictures of skull island as a promotion. So far over 6000 people engaged and shared their thoughts, resulting in a pretty cool summary and a few very charming images. The island itself would be pretty deadly to all of us since it is inhabitated by giant animals including our favourite ape King Kong. The movie is the second in a „monserverse“ quadrology, followed by Godzilla: King of monsters in 2019 and Godzilla vs. King Kong in 2020 .

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Well apparently the UI of the Google Play Store will get a nice little tweak.

As you can see in the Image above the Google Play Store will get a nice little UI tweak to make your life easier. It appears that the Update page now lets you update individual apps with only one tap. Previously you had to either update all or get on the app’s page in order to update a single app. It’s not the biggest update but it is a small step towards making your life easier and tasks simpler.

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After the first three exclusive Google Assistant Devices, the AI now comes to a lot of Android M and N smartphones.

With the Pixel Smartphones Google announced their own personal assistant and in the beginning it was exclusive to those phones. Later with Android wear 2.0 the Google Assistant came to multiple smartwatches from different developers, and following that it came to the LG G6. Well the exclusivitiy is over since Google has startetd rolling it out to any Android M or N device in the US so far, other countries will follow. This video was posted earlier:

With this said at MWc questions rose who will get it when, this was said in this specific statement, which was published by Google.

The Google Assistant will begin rolling out this week to English users in the U.S., followed by English in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as German speakers in Germany. We’ll continue to add more languages over the coming year.

The Google Assistant will automatically come to eligible Android phones running Nougat and Marshmallow with Google Play Services.

So we just need to wait for our own personal Assistant. Since I’m based in germany it might take a while but you can be sure to check back here for a detailed look at the Google Assistant once it arrives on my V10.

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In a new update Gmail now allows you to receive files up to 50 MB , doubling the incoming Data limit.

With the latest update on the G Suite blog we have been informed that you can now receive files up to 50MB . Previously it was only 25 MB without the use of Google Drive. It comes in quite handy if you use gmail for business purposes. The downside however is that the sending limit is still at 25 MB. So the increased cap will only work if the sender uses an email service that allows larger files than that. If you’re wondering in what scenario these numbers might be needed, imagine working in an engineering or planning office needing to send out multiple plans or pdf files. As someone who had to deal with this I really appreciate the efforts made by Google to upgrade that.

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For a lot of people Pokemon Go is still a fun game to play and after the last big Update developer Niantic teased new Updates at MWC 2017.

A few Weeks ago the popular AR-game Pokemon Go got its first major update introducing a bunch of new items and 80 new Pokemon from the second generation, originally revealed with Pokemon Gold and Silver back in the day. At this years Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Developer Niantic took the stage and said that there will be three more major updates in 2017. Niantic CEO John Hanke did not reveal anything about the upcoming contents and took no questions from the audience. The only thing he did reveal were some interesting Numbers. The international Pokemon tariners caught 88 billion Pokemon since its initial release in July 2016 and was downloaded over 650 million times. All in all folks spent 44 petabytes of mobile data for the digital hunting trips. Those are quite some numbers and the rumors what the planned updates will bring us are starting to boil. I for one hope vor some PvP action or trading , preferably with players from around the world in a marketplace kinda deal , so you can get those Pokemon that are not available in your Regions.

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The new and anticipated HTC U Ultra will start pre-orders in march, but a TWRP beta port has just been made public.

Okay, first of all it needs to be explained what the hell TWRP actually is.TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) is an app that offers hardcore Android smartphone users quite a few features, including a way to flash custom ROMs, install ZIP-file-based updates, create and restore backups of ROMS and much more. It has recently been made available in the App Store.

Well however, this version is not an official one, as i mentio0ned before it’s a beta Version made bye the respected XDA developer @Captain_Throwback. With that in mind you should know that there could be some missfunctionality in the recovery options, howere it allows you to get TWRP 3.0.3-1 on your HTC Ultra U the moment you get it in your hands and the dev promised to fix the issue with the reboot recovery as soon as they can get the kernel source.

Well if you’re planning to do it be sure to check out XDA first , since they got a lot of reading material and insturctions that help you not to mess up your device. And as always, back up your stuff first.

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A few Weeks ago Android Wear 2.0 was released, a small Indie Game developer now launched an on-screen game that looks pretty cool.

With a new OS Update, new games and apps won’t stay on hold very long and now the Indie Game Developer Matthew Burton released a plyable watchface called „ChronoSpin“. At first glance ChronoSpin looks like an ordinary watchface but if you press down in the middle you get a fun little game. The watch handles turn into a small bar with balls flying around and you try to avoid them.The gameplay is inspired by the arcadegame „PipSpin“ . With each passed Level it gets harder and everytime you lose you start from the beginning. It looks like a fun thing to play on the subway or waiting in line somewhere. And here is a little Video of the App in action, by the Developer himself.

If you own an Android Wear 2.0 Watch please let me know how you like it. You can get it here (it’s free without ads or in-game purchases). Oh and a little side-note: If you’re installing it, you should make sure to put it in the app section of your watch and not the watchface section.

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Niantic announced that there will be a really big Pokemon Go Update this week, introducing new items and pokemon.

Acoording to a video posted by niantic there will be a new Update to pokemon go later this week, bringing us 80 new pokeon, new ways to e3ncounter them and some new Items to evolve your pokemon or berries to slow them down.The 80 new Pokemon that you encounter aere the next batch of the second generation after the baby pokemon have been added at the end of 2016. Will thios be enough to get you back into playing pokemon Go? I’m still doing it and i think this is a long overdue update. here is the Video posted by niantic.

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For thos of you that still play Pokemon Go , get ready for a Valentines Day Event that will bring you more Candy.

So Niantic announced that there will be a Valentine’s Day Event for Pokemon Go. After Christmas and other Events Niantic has now got a new Idea to keep people playing,m or get them back. For Valentine’s day they got the following planned:

• “Pink” Pokémon (as in, Pokémon that are at least partly pink in appearance) like Clefable, Chansey, and Porygon will spawn more often.
• “Pink” baby Pokémon are more likely to hatch from eggs picked up during the event; Niantic mentioned Cleffa, Igglybuff, and Smoochum in particular.
• Players will get 2x the normal amount of candy for walking their buddy Pokémon and when catching, transferring, or hatching.
• Lure modules will last for SIX HOURS now, instead of thirty minutes. That’s 12x as long.

We will see what will happen with those Ideas, I still play it so I am actually pretty happy about those news, so now I can get Evolutions a lot quicker.

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Facebook is working on a new AI that will be able to identify your pictures to improve the Search Engine.

Facebook is planning to integrate a new AI system that will be able to identify the images that has been posted by useres to make it easier to search for specific images. This could also help to automaticly remove unwanted content.

The AI is build upon the Lumos plattform and with it’s abilities it can also be used to write an image description for people that suffer from problems with their eyesight. All in All The new System will provide a much smoother and safer browsing of the largest Social Media page.

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