Google set to unveil Android P name ‘soon’

Google is still keeping us all in the dark about what the company is calling Android P. But a new blog post from the company claims they are going to unveil the official name soon. How soon? We can’t say. The final version of the operating system is expected to drop this fall so we should hear about it in the coming weeks.

Speaking of final version, there will be an Android P Beta 4 update coming, which the company calls “a release candidate build with final system behaviors.” This is going to be the closest to the final version as it gets. Now, we just have to sit and wait. Any predictions on what the official name of Android P is going to be?

Source: CNET

Google Drive set to reach one billion user mark at the end of this week

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If you rely heavily on Google Drive, you would assume everyone is on the service, too. Not quite. But the cloud storage service is set to hit a major milestone before the week ends. Google announced at its Google Cloud Next conference that the service will be crossing its billion-user threshold before the end of the week. It’ll be the eighth Google product to do so (after Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, the Play Store, Search, and YouTube). But it must be noted though that not all of these users are paying subscribers. Drive offers 15GB if free storage for Gmail and Drive. It’s also taken a bit of time to reach this number. At Google I/O 2017, Drive was said to have 800 million users and had then been storage for over two trillion files.

Source: Android Police 

Canadian innovators smartARM win big at Microsoft's 2018 Imagine Cup

Microsoft recently hosted the 2018 Imagine Cup finals in Seattle, the competition that inspired 40,000 students from over 190 countries to innovate for a chance to compete on a global stage.

This year, Canada triumphed after taking the Gold at the Canadian finals in May, team smartARM from Toronto reigned supreme at the worldwide finals as well! As the winners of this year’s program, the team will receive $85,000 USD in cash, $50,000 USD in Azure grants and a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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Galaxy Note 9's improved battery life teased in new Samsung advert

Samsung is gearing up the launch of the Galaxy Note 9 and one of the foreshadowed feature upgrades is an improved battery. The ad shows how battery life on flagship smartphones can be challenging specially with apps and services hogging Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and other features.

Will Samsung ship the device with the rumured 4,000 mAh battery? Do they have improved software that can optimize battery life? We will know more on August 9 when Samsung unveils its premium phablet.