The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, February 24, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. We’re hours away from Samsung’s big Galaxy S9 event, so catch up on this week’s news and get ready for the liveblog starting at noon ET on Sunday. Rumors, leaks and hopefully no lies. Samsung Galaxy S9: What to expect from Unpacked 2018 Samsung is primed to unveil its latest flagship. Fortunately for anyone desperate to hear what's coming on February 25th, there's been no shortage of leaks and renders before the big day. Take a look at everything we know going into tomorrow’s big reveal. And now Google Lens can spot different dog breeds. Android's official augmented reality toolkit is available to the public Google just released ARCore 1.0, letting anyone publish Android apps that take advantage of the toolkit to meld virtual objects with the real world. The 13 devices that support ARCore right now are common devices like Google's Pixel phones, Samsung's Galaxy S7/S8/Note 8 lines, LG's V30, ASUS' Zenfone AR and the OnePlus 5. Also, The AR-based Lens discovery feature will soon roll out to anyone using Google Photos in English, whether you're using Android or iOS.  Remember this? Apple's AirPower wireless charging mat could launch in March Rumors indicate that Apple’s souped-up wireless charging mat could go on sale in March, about six months after it was announced. Small, but big. The Big Picture: A trapped atom is visible to the naked eye This photo, Single Atom in an Ion Trap, just won the grand prize in the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) science photo and imaging contest. Not so boring this time. Elon Musk gets Hyperloop digging permit in Washington, DC It's preliminary, but this time he has it in writing. But wait, there's more... 1. Android Go phones will be available soon 2. Boston Dynamics' SpotMini robot won't be held back by puny humans 3. All the new from New York Toy Fair 2018 4. If NBC can't improve its VR Olympics coverage, it should just stop 5. MWC 2018 preview: What to expect from the world's biggest phone show 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.

Editor's Pick: FCC's Final Rule on Net Neutrality Sparks Legal Challenges

FCC's Final Rule on Net Neutrality Sparks Legal Challenges

David Jones Feb 23, 2018 11:18 AM PT
	The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday officially published its Net neutrality rollback order in the Federal Register, triggering a flurry of legal actions and Capitol Hill scrambling to stop it before it takes hold. The order, which goes into effect on April 23, reverses an Obama era rule requiring that broadband access be regarded as a utility. [More...]

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'Different Strokes' Approach Can Damage a Brand One fundamental element of building a brand relationship with customers is consistency. Widely franchised companies like Starbucks compromise consistency, however. They employ several different business models instead of sticking to one. This approach confuses customers and hurts the master brand, since customers never really know what to expect. [More...]

Keeping It Simple Disruptive innovations expose longstanding needs and signal that there's a solution at hand -- one that usually is less expensive than the status quo. The lower-cost aspect makes adoption inevitable and disruptive. Document management is like that. Decades ago, many enterprises found that the cost of capturing documents as electronic images vastly improved on costly file cabinet systems. [More...]

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Uber's New Express Pool: Walk and Wait Uber has launched a new service that lowers ride-sharing costs for customers who are willing to walk to and from designated locations. Express Pool became available this week in several participating cities. Passengers must walk a short distance to a pickup intersection. They are then dropped off at another designated spot, close to their final destination. [More...]

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The Morning After: Mobile World Congress preview

It's Friday, February 23, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Before you wrap this week up, check out our Mobile World Congress preview, so you don’t miss any of the new phones we’re expecting to see(set a reminder for Samsung’s Galaxy S9 event on Sunday.) Also, the FCC is in for a fight over its plan to repeal net neutrality and Blizzard is celebrating a patch for a 15-year-old game. Ready for MWC 2018? What to expect from the world’s biggest phone show Team Engadget is en route to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, and while the show officially starts on Monday, you'll start to see some of this year's key news and announcements this weekend. We don't want you going into things blind, though, so here's a primer on what to expect from the world's biggest and best phone-makers once MWC 2018 gets off the ground. Indie game studio Snowman returns to a very different mobile marketplace. 'Alto's Odyssey' took three years to make, and that's all right It's been three years since Alto's Adventure debuted on mobile devices, which means it's been about three years since players started asking Snowman about a sequel. This week, they got their wish as Alto's Odyssey landed in the App Store for $4.99. Rather than being confined to the slopes of snow-capped mountains, Odyssey puts players in an array of desert biomes with dangerous new obstacles to conquer in gorgeous, sand-drenched settings. The fight is on. 23 attorneys general refile challenge to FCC net neutrality repeal The FCC's order to overturn net neutrality protections was officially published in the Federal Register Thursday, and soon thereafter, the attorneys general of 22 states and Washington DC filed a lawsuit challenging it. It’s one of several efforts to block the repeal, which could go through as soon as April 23rd. The first of many. SpaceX successfully launches Falcon 9 carrying internet satellites SpaceX successfully launched another Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Spain's radar imaging Paz satellite as well as two of its own satellites, Microsat-2a and -2b. The two experimental satellites will be used to test SpaceX's plan to deliver internet to people around the globe through thousands of low-orbit satellites. Take two. Samsung resumes Android O update for Galaxy S8 After pausing its Android Oreo rollout on Galaxy S8s over a reboot glitch, Samsung has restarted the process in Europe. Students are driving the formation of a serious gaming scene. College esports is set to explode Universities are attempting to organize and embrace a new generation of student-athletes, even as questions about the nature of esports remain unanswered. It has "sports" in the name, but the jury is still out on whether competitive gaming is an actual athletic activity -- and that matters to groups like the NCAA. Not as dorky as it sounds. HTC's Vive Focus makes a strong case for in-flight VR entertainment Does the Vive Focus make a good travel companion? Richard Lai is already hooked. But wait, there's more... 1. Amazon may open up to six more automated 'Go' stores this year 2. Blizzard will host a tournament to celebrate its new patch for 'Warcraft III' 3. 'Super Mario Odyssey' gets its Balloon World minigame update 4. China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants 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.