The Morning After: Making Google Home Mini sound bigger

It's Monday, December 11, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to your Monday morning news missive. A Street Fighter game that crams in 12 (vaguely) different titles, a hacked way of cranking up the sound quality on your cheap Google Home Mini and Welcome To Night Vale gets its own TV show. It’s a good start. The 30th Anniversary Collection arrives in May.   ‘Street Fighter’ anthology brings online play to classic brawlers   Street Fighter turned 30 this year, and Capcom is marking it in -- belated -- style. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection arrives May 2018 and not only includes a bunch of pre-3D titles but also adds online multiplayer. It'll be available on the PS4, Switch, Windows PCs and the Xbox One. No Street Fighter: The Movie, the game, though. Sad. Pump up the digital-assistant volume.   Mod gives Google’s Home Mini speaker its ‘missing’ line-out jack   Google’s Home Mini speaker has one key disadvantage over Amazon’s Echo Dot: no line-out jack. If you want more powerful sound without buying a higher-priced model, you have to stream to a Chromecast-equipped speaker system. However, that didn’t deter SnekTek -- the site added an aux audio port to the Mini through a clever homebrew mod. To say this required some delicate surgery would be an understatement, however.   Its research has come a long way in a short time.   Apple AI chief reveals more progress on self-driving car tech   Apple is now more than eager to share how much progress it’s making on self-driving car technology. AI research director Ruslan Salakhutdinov made a presentation this week that revealed more of what the company’s autonomous-driving team has been up to. While some of the talk was familiar, there were new examples of how far the fledgling project had come. To start, Apple has crafted a system that uses onboard cameras to identify objects even in tricky situations, such as when raindrops cover the lens. It can estimate the position of a pedestrian even if they’re hidden by a parked car. Other additions include giving cars direction through simultaneous localization and mapping, creating detailed 3D maps using car sensors and decision-making in urgent situations.  The bigger mystery of the project is how Apple will commercialize its self-driving know-how. At the moment, its next goal is to produce driverless employee shuttles. The company isn’t currently expected to sell its own cars, but licensing its work to others would be unusual when Apple typically prefers to develop everything in-house.   But wait, there's more... 1. Recommended Reading: making a shed a top-rated destination on TripAdvisor 2. FX will turn podcast hit 'Welcome to Night Vale' into a TV show 3. New 'Ready Player One' trailer reveals more of the real-world 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: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, December 09, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. We have some relatively normal Apple news to discuss, the most powerful GPU ever and a movie trailer that anime fans just can’t miss. Congratulations on making it a week without any emergency patches. Your regularly-scheduled Apple news On Friday Apple said that “with the completion of Apple Park,” famed designer Jony Ive is again directly leading its design managers and teams -- duties he gave up in 2015.  Finally, there’s a rumor from TechCrunch that a deal to buy Shazam could be announced as soon as Monday. That price. NVIDIA's 'most powerful GPU’ ever. Meet the Titan V. Powered by NVIDIA’s Volta tech, the company said is the “the world’s most powerful GPU for the PC.” With 110 teraflops of power (9x more than the previous Titan), this $3,000 card isn’t built for gamers. Instead, it’s aimed at scientists and researchers working on “AI, deep learning and high performance computing.” Really? Sony’s plans for VR include ‘Wipeout’ and ‘The Last Guardian’ At last night’s PlayStation Presentation Sony had several announcements (MediEvil is coming back), but we’re focusing on its VR news. Early next year the Wipeout Omega Collection will get an update for PlayStation VR, while a free VR demo for The Last Guardian is due to arrive on December 12th. There’s also a 4v4 squad shooter for VR called Firewall Zero Hour. Uncanny. James Cameron's 'Alita: Battle Angel' stars CG anime eyes We’re betting there’s something you’ll notice in the trailer for Alita: Battle Angel. After years of development, this Robert Rodriguez-directed anime adaptation starring Rose Salazar and Christoph Waltz will debut next year. You don’t always want to yell ‘pause’ to pick up a phone call. Google re-enables touch controls for audio playback on the Home Mini A creepy glitch caused Google to disable the top button on its Home Mini speaker, but now touch playback controls are back. With a software update, owners can long-press the side buttons to play or pause audio. How do you think he sees you when you’re sleeping? Bad Password: All the cool gifts are made for spying on you Columnist Violet Blue explains how 1984 might be hiding inside your next present. That’s one way to handle it. Bungie feeds ‘Destiny 2’ trolls a ridiculously overpowered gun The randomly-dropped Prometheus Lens weapon has a glitch that’s unbalancing Destiny 2 PvP. Bungie’s quick answer? Make it available to everyone this weekend via its exotic weapons sales-alien Xur. But wait, there's more... 1. 'Always connected' Windows 10 PCs with 20-hour batteries are here from HP and Asus 2. How many people are really watching Snapchat's shows? 3. Patreon's fee change punishes supporters who make small pledges 4. Destroying net neutrality will hurt artists and small businesses the most 5. Google pauses Android accessibility crackdown that could hurt apps like LastPass and Tasker 6. My $200,000 bitcoin odyssey or How not to store your bitcoins 7. The Big Picture: LiDAR strips landscapes down to their bare glory 8. NASA wakes up Voyager's slumbering thrusters 37 years later 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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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- December 8, 2017

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Bitcoin Surges Past $16K: Will the Bubble Burst?
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Machines Could Become Driving Force Behind CX

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Bitcoin Surges Past $16K: Will the Bubble Burst?
Cryptocurrency bitcoin soared to $16,777 on Thursday, reaching a market
capitalization of $274 billion, according to Bloomberg's composite of
exchanges. That was up from just $10,000 last week, and up some 1,500
percent from the beginning of 2017. The latest price increases have come
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GoGo's In-Flight WiFi Goes in Fits and Starts
Why is it that in-flight WiFi is almost always problematic? Every time I
take a commercial flight, I sign up for the GoGo WiFi service -- and
every time I am disappointed by something. My experience last week
flying on Delta was no exception. After takeoff, I struggled to connect
my iPhone. After spending quite a long time making unsuccessful
attempts, I gave up in frustration.
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Machines Could Become Driving Force Behind CX
Customer experience improvements have become an important part of
companies' digital transformations, according to survey results Mitel
released Tuesday. More than 2,500 senior IT decision makers across North
America, the UK, France, Germany and Australia responded to the survey.
The participants represented businesses ranging from 250 to 10,000-plus
employees in a wide range of industries.
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