Apple’s release notes for the app note that there is a section to watch live streamed sessions on iOS and tvOS, stream or download WWDC videos from 2017 and previous years after they are made available, browse details on various events and sessions, mark favorites, get news updates, use indoor location to navigate the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, and provide feedback on content and speakers. New to version 6.0.0 is the ability to watch curated video playlists, view venue and street maps, and use the app without signing in with a developer’s ID.Un-named sessions are pun-laden, with two labeled ”This session name hasn’t been engaged yet,” with an icon of a ring associated with the events. ”To bee determined” utilizes the bee emoji, and ”Nobody nose what to call this yet” uses what’s expected for a graphic.

After months of Twitter teases and hype, Android founder Andy Rubin has finally unveiled his latest project to the world. And as expected, the vaunted Essential Phone is yet another Android phone.But it’s also much more than that. While the specs bear out a real-deal flagship competitor, it’s clear that Rubin’s Essential Phone is part of a new ecosystem designed to offer an alternative to Google’s Android, with a focus on design, performance, and versatility.Why this matters: Andy Rubin is the godfather of Android, so any move he makes is important. However, while the Essential Phone certainly looks great in renders, it remains to be seen whether it can compete against Samsung, LG, and even Google itself in the increasingly competitive phone market.

The first meeting between Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected president of France, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was bound to be a little awkward, given that Macron’s aides had all but publicly blamed Russia for a massive cyber attack on his campaign on the eve of the election.Asked about those suspicions on Monday, at a joint news conference with the Russian president in Versailles, Macron said that the subject had not come up during their working lunch — because he had already raised it when Putin called to congratulate him on his victory. “When I say things once, I don’t usually repeat myself,” Macron added.Moments later, however, the French president left little doubt that he was convinced that the Russian government had tried to prevent his election, by spreading false rumors about him through two state-owned news networks, Russia Today and Sputnik.

Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] said on Tuesday it fired the former head of its self-driving unit, Anthony Levandowski, as he failed to comply with the ride-hailing company’s internal probe into a dispute with Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo unit.Levandowski is at the heart of a lawsuit filed against Uber by Alphabet’s Waymo self-driving division, in whoch he is accused of stealing trade secrets.Levandowski, who stepped aside from some of his duties last month, will exit with immediate effect.Uber last month named Eric Meyhofer to replace Levandowski as head of its Advanced Technologies Group.Meyhofer will continue to lead the team, an Uber spokeswoman said via email.

Once, Instagram was little more than a feed of pretty much every photo taken by your friends. These days, people’s expectations have changed. It’s not enough to post a well-composed picture of your life: to keep up with the Joneses you have to have a well-composed life, too.In the early days of Instagram, you could post your breakfast. Then, standards slowly raised, and you could only post your breakfast if you put some effort into it. Not just bacon and eggs, but refried beans and chorizo, or a porridge bowl with an edible flower on top of the perfectly drizzled confiture. Now, it’s reached the stage where if you’re not eating breakfast at a Mochelin-starred hotel in the Caribbean, your picture may as well not be on the site at all.

Ran Bar-Zik, a web developer at AOL, has discovered and reported a bug in Google Chrome that allows websites to record audio and video without showing a visual indicator.The bug is not as bad as it sounds, as the malicious website still needs to get the user’s permission to access audio and video components, but there are various ways in whoch this issue could be weaponized to record audio or video without the user’s knowledge.The bug’s central element is a ”red circle and dot” icon that Chrome usually shows when recording audio or video streams.In a private conversation, Bar-Zik told Bleeping Computer he discovered the bug at work while dealing with a website that ran WebRTC code.WebRTC is a protocol for streaming audio and video content over the Internet in real time. In order to stream audio or video content, a user must first grant a website permission to access his audio and video components.