The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, September 30, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. After Apple and Amazon, it’s Google’s turn to reveal some new hardware next week. We have all the information you’ll need to prepare, plus some of the big stories from this past week like our SNES Classic Edition review and Twitter’s controversial change. Yes, he can do that. Travis Kalanick kicks off a power struggle at Uber Uber’s ongoing corporate drama took another strange turn late Friday night when its ex-CEO announced the addition of two new board members. Travis Kalanick is still on the company’s board despite stepping down as its leader, and as a result of an investment deal last year, has control of three seats -- Uber investor Benchmark Capital is suing to change that. Everything new. What to expect at Google's Pixel 2 event On Wednesday Google will take its turn to unveil new hardware, and we’ve collected all the rumors fit to share in one place to help you prepare. Pixel 2, Home Mini, PixelBook and more -- it’s all right here. BFR Elon Musk's Mars dream hinges on a giant new rocket Big F’ing Rocket. It’s the key to SpaceX’s plan for travel throughout our solar system and even the world, but how does it all come together? Steve Dent takes you through Elon Musk’s latest proposal, all the way from Moon Base Alpha to Mars City. Where’s the TurboGrafx-16 Mini? A mini version of the Commodore 64 is coming in 2018 Missed out on your first attempt to purchase the SNES Classic Edition? Maybe you’ll have better luck with the C64 Mini. The $70 box from Retro Games is scheduled for release early next year with 64 preinstalled games aboard including California Games, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe and Paradroid. All Amazon everything. The Engadget Podcast Ep 44 This week, we turn our attention to a small underdog of a company with a narrow, well-thought-out product line. Just kidding, we're talking about Amazon, which has enough money to roll out a wide range of products and see what sticks. We ranked the company's confusing new lineup from "sensible" to "weird," and also carved out a few minutes to rant about Twitter's new 280-character experiment. Secure the bag. Bloomberg: Google’s ‘Advanced Protection Program’ will replace two-factor authentication  In case typical two-factor authentication isn’t enough or is too complicated to set up, Bloomberg reports Google will roll out a replacement soon. Called the Advanced Protection Program, it’s intended for people with “heightened security concerns” like politicians and CEOs (John Podesta could’ve used this). According to the rumor, it will rely on two physical keys, including one that plugs in via USB, before anyone can access the user’s email or cloud storage. But wait, there's more... 1. Facebook reportedly tests using facial recognition to recover your account 2. Nintendo will close its Wii Shop Channel in 2019 3. SNES Classic Edition review: Worth it for the games alone 4. 'Star Trek: Discovery' deserves better than CBS's streaming service 5. Twitter tests a 280-character limit 6. Every new Echo Amazon announced -- and a Fire TV 7. How the eSports community cares for injured players The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: Movement towards Mars.

It's Friday, September 29, 2017. Hey, good morning! More Mars colony announcements, blood-sugar monitors that don’t need to break the surface of your skin and a GoPro that truly delivers high-quality video. The future is here this Friday morning.   Earth-to-Earth trips on BFR. SpaceX’s next rocket could take you to Mars, or London At a speech in Australia, Elon Musk provided details about SpaceX’s next rocket, the BFR (yes, you’re right, that is what it stands for). Capable of carrying 150 tons and refueling in space, it’s the key factor in Musk’s plans for human outposts throughout the solar system. Even if you don’t take a ride on its first manned Mars trip in 2024, there’s one more reason to pay attention: SpaceX plans to use these rockets for trips around Earth, carrying passengers to any city on the planet in under an hour.    The schedule is set.   SpaceX unveils Mars city plan, will fly two cargo missions by 2022   Of course, the BFR is also designed for interplanetary travel, and Musk explained his idea to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. The plan starts with two uncrewed missions filled with supplies in 2022, followed by four more rockets -- two with people aboard -- in 2024 to start building out the settlement that will become Mars City.    Finally. FDA OKs a blood-sugar monitor that doesn’t need fingerpricks   The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first continuous glucose-monitoring system for adults that doesn’t require drawing blood several times a day. Instead, the FreeStyle Libre Flash Glucose Monitoring System works by inserting a sensor wire under the skin, for up to ten days. After 12 hours, the patch is ready for the wearer to monitor blood-sugar levels by passing a mobile reader over it.   That’s a tall order.   FCC Chairman Ajit Pai insists Apple should enable FM radio chips in its iPhones   There’s just one problem: According to Apple, the iPhone 7 and 8 don’t have FM radio chips or antennas.   Facial recognition is the next frontier for the action-cam company.   The Hero 6 and GP1 are GoPro’s chance to grow again   “We’ve finally been able to make a GoPro without compromises. We haven’t had to work around somebody else’s chip design and chip limitations,” Nick Woodman, GoPro founder and CEO said. The “somebody else” in that sentence refers to Ambarella, the company that made the processor for almost every GoPro up to this point -- and the processor for most other action/drone cameras on sale right now, for that matter. Woodman is enthused about GP1 for a number of reasons, but key is that GoPro is no longer sharing technology with its rivals. James Trew talks more with the founder and explains all about GoPro’s newest camera. Giddy up.   ‘Red Dead Redemption 2’ trailer introduces a new anti-hero   Howdy there, moody protagonist.   Echo? Echo!    Amazon’s confusing new Echo lineup: There’s a method to the madness   Amazon’s overstuffed Echo event made one thing clear: It’s not afraid of doubling down on smart speakers. The company announced a smaller $100 Echo (just as we reported in July); a $150 Echo Plus with smart hub features; and an Echo-powered alarm clock called Spot. And that’s not even including the truly strange stuff: Echo Connect, which turns your Echo devices into speakerphones for landlines. Now, a wider variety of Echo devices is a good problem for Amazon. It may get tougher for consumers to figure out what they need, but it also gives the company more ways to fit Alexa into their lives.   But wait, there's more... 1. Anker crammed a projector into a soda-can-sized smart speaker 2. Twitter finds links to hundreds of Russian-backed bot accounts 3. Yes, Mario was punching Yoshi in the head 4. Changing your race in virtual reality 5. ACLU challenges DOJ request for info on 6,000 anti-Trump Facebook users The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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