Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns from Apple's board

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Just months before their companies launch rival streaming services, Disney CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board. According to an Apple filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Iger resigned on September 10th. The date, coincidentally or not, is the day Apple revealed the launch date and price of its Apple TV+ service. 

Iger said in a statement released to The Hollywood Reporter, "I have the utmost respect for Tim Cook, his team at Apple and for my fellow board members. Apple is one of the world's most admired companies, known for the quality and integrity of its products and its people, and I am forever grateful to have served as a member of the company's board."

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'Five Nights At Freddy's' will get an augmented reality game

In case the virtual reality spin-off of Five Nights At Freddy's wasn't enough for you, here's a more intense version. Five Nights At Freddy's will be available as an augmented reality mobile game called Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery. And based on the trailer, we can see the series' creepy animatronics chase the player around their house. Yup, that's not scary at all. Illumix is developing the game, and it's coming to Android and iOS this fall.

Google Assistant on Chromebook is coming next week to 15 countries first

We have been waiting for nearly a year now for Google Assistant to come to Chromebooks. It should be arriving in the coming week alongside Chrome OS 77 update. There are caveats, though. One is it'll be available in 15 countries. Another is that G Suite accounts won't have access to the feature yet. Developers are working on the best way for enterprise users to control access to Google Assistant.

As we mentioned, there are a limited number of countries the feature will roll out initially. There's also a limitation which chosen languages it'll be available in. For Canada, English and French will be supported. The other countries getting support for Google Assistant include Australia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands (Dutch), New Zealand, Norway (Nynorsk & Bokmål), Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Source: 9to5Google

Google Play Store might get dark mode treatment soon

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Google has been aiming for a system-wide dark mode for Android 10, with its first-party apps getting the option. A couple of apps seem to be particularly time-consuming to adapt to dark mode: Gmail and Google Play Store. We've seen this feature show up on Gmail recently. And now it looks like Google Play Store has followed suit, with some Google Pixel smartphones getting dark mode. But this seems to be limited to Android 10 for now, so if you're using a device running on Android Pie or older, this might not make its way to you yet.

Source: Tech Radar