Opera rolls out power-saving mode, claims battery life can be extended 50% and other top stories.

• Opera rolls out power-saving mode, claims battery life can be extended 50%

  

  Opera, which seems determined to pack generations worth of improvements into a few short months, boasts yet another reason for you to switch browsers: a “low-power mode” that the company promises will extend your laptop’s battery life by up to 50 percent. Like other, recent releases, the new feature will first appear as part of a developer edition of the Opera 39 browser for both Mac and Windows PCs.  This follows a native ad blocker that Opera first featured as part of a developer editio..

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• 11 ways to get the most out of Google Keep on Android

  

  I really need to upgrade my brain's internal storage. I'm only partially kidding: Just like a hard drive, I'm pretty sure my mind reached maximum capacity at some point in the past decade. The only way I can remember anything these days is by making and maintaining a million notes, both physical and digital. (My wife can confirm this. "I told you that a week ago" is an all-too-common phrase around these parts.) I'm still waiting for Western Digital to start selling SSD implants for the n..

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• Microsoft gives its Sunrise Calendar app a sunset date

  

  The Sunrise Calendar app will be sunsetting on Aug. 31, the team behind it announced in a blog post Wednesday. In the next few days, the app will no longer be available from the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. Users will have a few months to keep using it without support, before the company switches off the service at the end of August. This is happening because Microsoft acquired the company behind Sunrise last year and put its team to work on improving Outlook instead. According t..

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• Civilization 6 revealed, brings major changes

  

  The great cities of history were centers of culture, science, and industry. They housed artists. They fostered inventions. They raised factories to build machines of war. In Civilization VI, cites are more nuanced than ever and, if developer Firaxis has its way, the key to making playthroughs different, each and every time.Created by the lead designers of Civilization V's major expansions (Gods and Kings and Brave New World), Civ VI marks a drastic departure from how we think about city placemen..

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• YouTube built a messaging feature into its mobile app

  

  While YouTube comments have long been the chaotic and unheeding scourge of the internet, the company still appears confident its users can have civil conversations about online video. Starting today, a new chat feature called native sharing is available for a small subset of YouTube users, according to a report from Wired. It lets you converse with others via text, photos, and links inside the YouTube mobile app. You can even share a video with friends and chat about it directly. Those who have..

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• Great Barrier Reef: devastating images tell story of coral colonies' destruction

  

  Devastating images showing the complete destruction of coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef have been obtained by Guardian Australia and illustrate what is happening to coral there that would fill an area the size of Scotland. They reveal the rapid death of coral impacting much of the Great Barrier Reef, with estimates that as much as half of the coral in the northern third of the 2000km reef had this fate. Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were..

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• Does Culling Actually Encourage Poaching Of Endangered Species?

  

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• Instagram's big redesign goes live with a colorful new icon, black-and-white app and more

  

  Instagram’s new icon is pink. Well, it’s pink and purple and yellow and orange. It’s definitely different. And that’s not all the company has changed today. Instagram this morning is rolling out a radical redesign of its mobile application, which not only includes this new, brightly colored app icon but also a revamped user interface that does away with color in favor of a black-and-white look and feel. You may remember that screenshots of this redesign leaked last month, prompting ma..

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• Oculus highlights over 1 million Gear VR users with new content

  

  "Oculus' mission is to help people experience anything, anywhere," Max Cohen, Oculus' head of mobile, told a roomful of journalists this Tuesday. There's the high-end experience of the Rift, of course, but there's also the portable easy-to-use version of the Gear VR. "The secret [with VR] is it can't just be slightly better than other experiences that you've had," said Cohen. "It has to be even better." Part of the reason why the million mark is so exciting, then, is because it'll hopefully pu..

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