First Click: I like the Olympics better without announcers

Probably like you, I've been watching quite a lot of the Olympics. Possibly unlike you, I've been watching very little on my TV. Why would I, when an app from NHK — Japan's public broadcaster — is giving me such a better experience?

What the NHK app, and other regional equivalents, do is untie themselves from the leash of traditional TV restrictions and offer video coverage of pretty much everything going on in Rio. This is usually just the raw footage provided to all official broadcasters around the world to do with what they see fit; NHK doesn't have the budget nor the viewer interest to give each sport the full production treatment with commentary and on-site reporting, so most of these events are only able to be streamed unadorned...

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LG's V20 will sound great... with wired headphones

Some portions of the technology industry would like you to think that smartphones without headphone jacks are the future. LG feels differently, and has teamed up with high-end audio firm ESS to bake in a 32-bit HiFi Quad Digital-To-Analog converter into the forthcoming V20. Unlike standard DACs, this model is promised to cut ambient noise in half and make your tunes sound as if you're listening on some high-end separates. The bit that's worth noting, however, is that this new-fangled audio prowess will only work if you're rocking a set of cabled headphones.

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Three's Feel at Home roaming will soon cover most of Europe

Three's Feel at Home perk lets subscribers use their regular minute, text and data allowances abroad at no extra cost. The inclusive roaming feature even covers several far-flung destinations including the USA, Australia and Hong Kong, but after adding Spain and New Zealand to the roster early last year, the list of 18 regions hasn't grown any longer. From this September, however, Three is expanding Feel at Home to an additional 24 countries across Europe (for a new total of 42).

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LG V20 will be first smartphone with 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC

With its past few flagship smartphone launches, LG has trickled out details of its new device in the weeks ahead of its official launch. The LG V20 is no different. 

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Google Docs finally adds multitasking tools for iPads

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides' most recent iOS updates make them play a whole lot nicer with multitasking on iPads. The patch feels a little overdue at this point, but hey, we'll take support for iOS 9's tablet features like Split View and Slide Over whenever we can get 'em. Supported models include the iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 4 and both sizes of iPad Pro, and if the update hasn't hit your device yet, that's what the source links below are for.

Via: Apple Insider, The Verge

Source: iTunes (1), (2), (3)

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ASUS ZenWatch 3 FCC filing hints at round display

After launching two square-faced Android Wear smartwatches, ASUS may be prepping a round watch.

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Google Docs finally works properly on the iPad Pro

Only yesterday I was sat in a cafe with my iPad Pro editing an article that a colleague had shared with me in Google Docs, thinking to myself "man, if only this app would get updated so I wouldn't have to pop into Slack every couple of minutes to see what's up, my life would be better right now." Although Google Docs did get an iPad Pro update back in March, it was half-baked — things ran at the right resolution but there was no support for Split View, meaning there was no true simultaneous multitasking.

Well, Google plugged that hole today. The Docs, Sheets, and Slides apps have all been updated with Split View support, meaning you can run them on one side of the iPad's screen at the same time as a browser, Twitter, Slack, or anything...

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