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Anil Sabharwal, Vice President of Google Photos:

A year ago, we introduced Google Photos with one mission: To be a home for all your photos and videos, organized and brought to life, so that you can share and save what matters.

Now 200 million of you are using Google Photos each month. We’ve delivered more than 1.6 billion animations, collages and movies, among other things. You’ve collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of storage on your devices—it would take 424 years to swipe through that many photos! We’ve also applied 2 trillion labels, and 24 billion of those have been for … selfies.

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Jordan Novet at VentureBeat:

Apple is working on its answer to Amazon’s Echo, the voice-activated assistant packaged inside a speaker, but it may come in the form of a refreshed Apple TV, rather than a new hardware product, VentureBeat has learned.

The company will build on its enhancements to the Apple TV announced last year, which brought the Siri virtual assistant to the set-top box. A new version of the Apple TV will solve problems with the existing box and remote control, a source familiar with the matter claims.

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If these photos weren’t enough for you, here are a whole lot more. Do with them as you wish!

As a bonus, here are some of the wallpapers that came with these machines.

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BEAM — the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module — is an expandable module that’s in testing at the International Space Station. As opposed to being built out of rigid material like other components on the Station, BEAM is designed to “inflate” once installed.

The upsides of this tech are huge. Currently, the size of any one structure in space is limited to what can be carried to orbit on the top of a rocket. In flight, BEAM was much smaller than it’s size will be once it’s fully expanded in space.

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We’re introducing a new show today on Relay FM, hosted by Jeffrey Veen:

The Presentable Podcast focuses on how we design and build the products that are shaping our digital future. We’ll track the tools, trends, and methods being used by teams from the biggest companies and latest startups. In each episode, Jeff will bring over two decades of experience as a designer, developer, entrepreneur, and investor as he chats with guests about the how design is changing the world.

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I joined Clockwise this week to talk about Siri API integrations, no Overwatch on Mac, Apple missing the AI wave and the MacBook Pro’s rumored OLED touchbar. It was a good time.

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Today on everyone’s favorite fortnightly space podcast:

Jason and Stephen catch up some news, talk about some weird ways stars end and are then joined by Loren Grush, science reporter at The Verge to talk about commercial crew, inflatable space hotels and more.

It was really great to talk with Loren. She does killer reporting at The Verge. My thanks to our sponsors for this episode:

• CuriosityStream: The world’s first, ad- free non fiction streaming service. Use promo code RELAYFM to get two months free.
• Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!

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This week Federico takes Myke on a tour of his experience with Android.

My thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Casper: Because everyone deserves a great night sleep. Get $50 off with the code ‘CONNECTED’

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MacRumors’ Husain Sumra, quoting KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo:

While long overlooked, the MacBook line is the brightest spot for Apple’s 2016 rollouts. This is particularly true of the two new MacBook Pro models, to be introduced in 4Q16, as they will have a thinner and lighter form factor, Touch ID, use OLED display touch bar (to replace physical function keys, located above the keyboard) and adopt USB-C / Thunderbolt 3.

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Something useful this week:

Learn more about TCP and UDP ports used by Apple products like OS X, OS X Server, Apple Remote Desktop, and iCloud. Many of these are referred to as “well known” industry standard ports.

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The iMac G3’s design earned praise from many in the industry, with two companies so impressed they attempted to copy it with their own products.

Daewoo and Future Power announced a computer called the ePower. The blue, rounded, all-in-one design would look familiar, as this image shows:

In 1999, eMachines joined the race and released the eOne, a machine that attempted to copy the success of Apple’s iMac by using as much blue plastic as they could find:

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Last time, we looked at the original iMac introduction that took place in 1998.

Just a year later, Apple discontinued the Bondi Blue iMac and replaced it with something far more colorful.

The 1999 iMacs came in five flavors:

• Lime
• Grape
• Blueberry
• Strawberry
• Tangerine

(Blueberry is very similar to the Bondi before it, but was a little richer and slightly less teal. It’s hard to tell them apart unless you have them next to each other.)

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