Google is making things a little better for Project Fi users who often travel abroad by adding a network in some European and Asian countries. Whether you’re hunting for deals on this hallowed Amazon Prime Day or hunting for Pokemon, better cell service is always good news.
- Google is adding the Three network to Project Fi. You likely haven’t heard of Three but it’s good news for international travelers; Three provides coverage in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Austria Denmark, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. [Android Blog]
- You’ll soon be able to order from Pizza Hut through Facebook Messenger and Twitter. They’re working with a tech company that specializes in “conversational commerce” to develop a variety of new ways to order pizza. It’s not just a PR gimmick, says chief digital officer Baron Concors. Rather, it’s one of many new ways that you’ll be able to order a pie. Chatbots and platforms like Alexa are making shopping as frictionless a possible, and Pizza Hut wants to materialize garlic bread at your front door with minimal effort. [Eater]
- Speaking of ordering food online, Seamless and Grubhub are making restaurant reviews more detailed and relevant to takeout orders. Now when you review an order, you can rate the restaurant on how accurate the delivery time estimate was, how accurate the food was, and, of course, how good it was. [PRNewswire]
- Twitter has lined up another partnership to stream live video on the social network. They’re working with Bloomberg to stream three daily news shows, presumably aside a cascading timeline of relevant tweets. Yesterday, Twitter announced that they’ll be streaming coverage of the Democratic and Republican National conventions in partnership with CBS. [Recode]
- You can now upload GIFs up to 15MB to Twitter. That’s up from 5MB, which was fairly restrictive considering how inefficient the GIF format actually is for video. Twitter then transcodes the animations into much more efficiently compressed MP4s, which aren’t technically GIFs, but hey, it works. [The Verge]
Source: LifeHacker
