Rest of the Day: Barnes & Noble Closes the Nook App Store
Did you know Nook has its own app store? It’s too late, it’s not like that anymore. And the latest preview build of Windows 10 adds more languages to Cortana as well as a few useful features.
- The latest build of Windows 10 Insider Preview adds Spanish, Portuguese, and French to Cortana, and also merges the lock and login screens. Like a phone! And now you can ask Cortana to remind you of something without specifying a specific time. [Microsoft]
- Barnes & Noble is closing the Nook app store . But don’t worry if you’re a Nook user – you can still download books to your Nook from a variety of online bookstores, and the Google Play Store will still work for future in-app transactions. [Digital reader via The Verge ]
- Uber has simply made travel expenses easier if you use the service for work . They have partnered with a number of service providers like Concur to automatically send receipts if you enable this feature in your business profile. Your life sounds more beautiful than mine. [Uber]
- What is Facebook at work? Gizmodo pays attention to something that nobody asked for: a professional version of your most / least favorite website. It is a collaboration and communication platform that will likely launch later this year. [Gizmodo]
- AMD wants to standardize external GPUs . Personally, I think this is great because I never plan on buying a computer thicker than a MacBook Air again. [Ars Technica]