T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer and other top stories.

• T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer

  

  T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trade restrictions between the US and Cuba last year; Verizon and Sprint both made similar arrangements in the fall. Google is also looking into expanding internet access in the country. "The historic opening of Cuba is a n..

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• The creators of Siri just showed off their next AI assistant, Viv, and it's incredible

  

  Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer created the artificial intelligence behind Siri, Apple's iconic digital assistant, and one of the first modern apps to capably handle natural language queries on a smartphone. Today the pair showed off their newest creation, Viv, a next generation AI assistant that they have been developing in stealth mode for the last four years. The goal was to create a better version of Siri, one that connected to a multitude of services, instead of routinely shuffling queries of..

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• New iPhone 7 Image Confirms Apple's Design Decision

  

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• Periscope to implement new save and search options, drone-based streaming

  

  Periscope’s rise to the top of the live-streaming video service heap had more to do with its ease of use than depth of functionality — the service lacked a way to opt out of obtrusive alerts at launch, for example, and for several months was without an Android client. But spurred on by the competition, the Twitter-owned broadcasting app is finally stepping up its feature game. On Monday, it announced search, video archiving, and integration with DJI drones. The attention to detail within search..

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• Google is experimenting with turning search results from blue to black

  

  The formatting and structure of the Google search results page may be one of the most user-tested websites in the history of the internet. So it comes as a bit of surprise that Google would tinker with its prized jewel in one small but noticeable fashion: turning the color of links black. When typing a word or phrase into Google, a majority of users see 10 links with the link name listed in blue and the URL in green. Some users, however, are seeing link names in black, as noted today by The Tel..

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• 'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam

  

  Final Fantasy XV finally launches this September, but publisher Square Enix wants you to take a look back in the vaults ahead of that. Final Fantasy X and its direct sequel X-2 got the HD remaster treatment on PlayStation 4 last year and now the double pack is headed to PCs by way of Steam. That means a remastered soundtrack, better-looking graphics and a few bits and bobs from the International Editions like a special boss fight mode for the first. No word on improved voice acting, though. How..

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• US investigates security of mobile devices

  

  WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have asked mobile phone carriers and manufacturers to explain how they release security updates amid mounting concerns over security vulnerabilities, the U.S. agencies said on Monday.The agencies have written to Apple Inc, AT&T Inc and Alphabet Inc, among others, in order "to better understand, and ultimately to improve, the security of mobile devices," the FCC said.The FCC sent letters to six mobile phone carriers o..

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• The next Moto X could have modular add-ons just like LG's G5

  

  Lenovo's next Moto phones have surfaced via leaked images over the past few days, and Venture Beat has published an interesting report hinting at some big plans — modular ones — for the upcoming devices. It seems that Lenovo will follow LG's lead in building add-ons that owners of the latest phones will be able to buy to add new functionality to the core handsets. Unlike LG's G5, where the "friend" modules slide into the bottom of the phone, the next flagship Moto devices will have modular back..

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