Taylor Swift’s ‘reputation’ to land on streaming services tonight

Already available in countries like Australia and the Philippines, the new Taylor Swift album reputation is dropping on major streaming services as the superstar shared on Instagram. According to The Verge, it is coming to Spotify at midnight, which keeps it in line with the releases in the aforementioned countries. Swift originally withheld the release of her album on streaming services and it was being reported that she was going to do it for one week. But the popstar extended that to three weeks after it dropped on November 10^th. So, for you Swifties who opted out of digitally downloading the album, your wait is almost over.

Essential brings Portrait Mode to PH-1

When the Essential PH-1 launched, its camera’s Portrait Mode wasn’t enabled yet. Thankfully that’s changed now and the startup just updated the device to reflect that. Aside from having Portrait Mode, the update brings reduced JPEG compression for better image quality and exposure compensation for regular camera modes. The update also introduces the usual stability fixes. You can get the Camera app from this link. On the Android Oreo front, according to a recent Reddit AMA with the company, Android Oreo Beta for the PH-1 will be coming out next week.

Source: GSMArena

Google launches app the helps you monitor and stop data use of other apps

For longtime Android users, the feature of the new Google app isn’t news for you. But if you want a simpler way to manage your data, Google officially launched Datally. It’s designed to help you see where your data is going and help you cut down where you need to. It can show you things like which apps use the most data and at what time the data is being used up. It can recommend ways on how you can cut down your data usage based on your activity.

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Andy Rubin takes leave from Essential for ‘personal reasons’ as investigation over ‘inappropriate’ Google relationship surfaces

The latest sexual harassment/misconduct to allegations hits a prominent name in the tech scene. Essential founder and CEO Andy Rubin is subject to a new report from The Information that claims Rubin left Google shortly after an internal investigation found he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman who worked under him in the Android division. While relationships are allowed within Google, they needed to disclose their relationship so one of them can be transferred out to another division or department. It isn’t clear what the relationship was like but during the duration of it the unidentified woman filed a complaint with Google’s human resources department. And shortly after this, Rubin left the company.

Rubin’s official spokesperson Mike Sitrick refutes The Information’s story saying, “Any relationship that Mr. Rubin had while at Google was consensual. Mr. Rubin was never told by Google that he engaged in any misconduct while at Google and he did not, either while at Google or since.” However, after this story broke, it’s been announced that Essential’s founder and CEO is taking a leave of absence for “personal reasons” and Essential’s President Niccolo de Masi will be in charge.

Source: The Verge + Android Central