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A new video from Intel's official YouTube channel showed what seems to be an all-black version of Microsoft's Surface Book.

Microsoft only offers the Book in a silver coloration, so this could either be just a rendering or a first look at an updated model.

Intel's video is about its latest-generation chips, after all, which may well be featured inside a refreshed Surface Book.

Microsoft first launched the device in 2015, and then updated it last autumn, so a new model is expected for 2017.

The new processors from Intel are still built on the architecture of the 7th-gen Kaby Lake, but feature a claimed 40% speed improvements over their predecessors.

The Core i7, Intel's highest-end chip, has been included in the update, and considering that the Surface Book is Microsoft's most powerful computer it would make sense to release a new model with the most recent, top-of-the-line chip.

There is no indication on a precise date as of yet, but you can expect Microsoft to refresh its hardware lineup some time at a dedicated event in the coming months.

You can also watch Intel's full video down below.

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The Samsung Galaxy S8. Antonio Villas-Boas/Business Insider

The long wait is over: Samsung's virtual assistant Bixby is finally launching in more than 200 countries, including the UK.

As previously reported by The Verge, the South Korean electronics company's answer to Siri and Google Assistant is becoming available in Australia, Canada, South Africa, and hundreds of other countries — following its July launch in the US and South Korea.

Samsung managed to totally botch the launch of Bixby. It was announced ahead of the Galaxy S8, the company's flagship smartphone, and the plan was to launch it alongside the device when it went on sale in April 2017. It was advertised as an innovative new way to control your smartphone using your voice. The S8 even had a dedicated hardware button for activating Bixby!

But shortly before the phone went on sale, Samsung announced Bixby would not be available at launch — only "later this spring." Then it was delayed again, amid reports that Samsung was struggling to get it to understand English.

In July, it belatedly arrived on handsets in the US. But even then, it had issues. As Business Insider's Steve Kovach reported at the time, it was "pretty dumb," "half-baked," and not particularly helpful for answering questions — a key function of modern AI assistants on smartphones.

Bixby is now becoming available around the globe — albeit still only with US English and Korean. So if you've got a strong regional accent, you might still be out of luck.

"The expansion of Bixby’s voice capabilities is an initial step in the continued rollout of Bixby functionality," executive vice president at Samsung Electronics Injong Rhee said in a statement. "In the future, Bixby will have the learning power to offer more intelligent and personalized interactions and seamless connections across more devices."

The expansion comes ahead of another big event for Samsung. It is launching the Galaxy Note 8, its next flagship smartphone, on Wednesday. It comes after the catastrophic Note 7 in 2016, which was recalled (twice!) and then permanently discontinued over its exploding batteries.

That's one angry Drogon. HBO

In a world full of spoilers, it's unwise to deprive "Game of Thrones" fans of their favourite show for long.

But that's what happened on Monday night, when fans who use Sky's Now TV streaming service to catch up with the show were forced to install an update before watching the latest episode.

The update left them unable to see anything on-screen, but able to hear the audio. The player simply showed a blank screen. According to complaints on Twitter and Now TV's forums, it's affected people who watch Now TV through its standalone player on laptops or PCs.

When Business Insider checked at 11pm on Monday night, the issue still hadn't been fixed, with more than a hundred users complaining about it online. According to users posting this morning, the issue still hasn't been fixed, meaning there are lots of outraged fans who haven't caught up with the latest episode.

To rub salt into the wound, those who checked Now TV's official Twitter page for help found that the account was posting spoilers.

Sky has not responded to a request for comment, but a customer representative told Business Insider on Twitter that the company was aware of the issue.

And posting on Now TV's forum, a staffer wrote: "We're aware of an issue that is causing frustration for a lot of customers. We have been looking into this as a matter of urgency and hope to have a fix ready soon.

"To clarify, this mostly affects users with a certain graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 3000."

The update seems to have been causing issues for several days, but has led to more complaints in the last day as people log into Now TV to get their weekly "Game of Thrones" fix. Judging by forum posts, the issue has mostly affected Mac owners.

A number of angry users threatened to cancel their Now TV subscriptions if Sky didn't fix the problem.

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This isn't the first time the Now TV player has had technical hiccups. It stopped working on Chrome in 2015 when Google halted support for Microsoft's Silverlight streaming software.

Sky doesn't break out how many subscribers watch "Game of Thrones" on the Now TV player. According to a press release in July, around 4.7 million people watched the first episode across Sky Atlantic and Now TV, and there were 11.3 million downloads of previous episodes via Now TV alone.

Google is planning to release a new version of its own Pixel-branded Chromebook, according to a report from Android Police.

The device would be a successor to 2015's Chromebook Pixel 2, whose sales were discontinued last year.

No new Chromebooks were announced at Google's hardware event last Autumn, so this would be Google's first laptop in two years.

Back in 2016, there were rumours that Google was working on a device codenamed "Bison," which supposedly had the form factor of a slim laptop (under 10mm), but run on a heavily modified version of Android internally known as "Andromeda."

It was positioned as a probable competitor to Apple's MacBook and iPad Pro, as well as Microsoft's Surface Pro: It would start at about $799 (£620), have a 12.3-inch high-resolution display, a stylus, either 32GB or 128GB of storage, and 8GB or 16GB of RAM, and even a dedicated "tablet mode."

Back then, Android Police reported that Bison would launch some time in Q3 2017. The timing is coincidental, but it's possible the upcoming Chromebook Pixel might be a completely different device to the one originally rumoured.

One major difference is that the new Chromebook Pixel will apparently run on Chrome OS, whereas Google has never announced Andromeda.

And while the rumoured launch windows for Bison and the new Chromebook Pixel match up, Google is actually following the Pixel's own release schedule. The first Chromebook Pixel was released in 2013, and then its successor followed two years later.

In addition to that, several things have changed at Google over the past year, which might have morphed what was once envisioned as Bison into a simpler, more streamlined successor to an existing lineup of devices.

The company launched the first Pixel-branded phones, which proved rather successful, and most importantly it brought Android apps to Chrome OS, bridging the gap between the two platforms and fulfilling what apparently was Andromeda's original goal.

We also heard that a high-end device codenamed "Eve" was in the works, and that it could be the third Chromebook Pixel, but we don't know if and how that is in any way related to Bison, whose status remains uncertain.

There is no information about the new device's specs, but if the previous models are anything to go by, it will be a top-of-the-line machine. You can expect it to be unveiled some time this autumn.

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The HTC Vive. Steven Tweedie / Business Insider

Good morning! Here is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

1. Google officially unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system. Android 8.0 is called "Oreo," and it will begin rolling out to Google's own Pixel and Nexus devices in the coming days and weeks, with more devices to follow.

2. Google is reportedly planning to launch a new Pixel-branded Chromebook laptop later this year. The device should be announced alongside the new Pixel phones, as well as a new, smaller version of the Home smart speaker.

3. A group of hackers claimed to have entered Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN). The group, named "OurMine," was able to briefly overtake the company's PlayStation-related Twitter accounts, and claimed to have stolen information from PSN users.

4. Microsoft announced that its voice-recognition technology has become better than humans at transcribing conversations. The company achieved a 6.3% error rate back in September, and has now come down below 5.1% — the error rate of a group of people.

5. Tesla has become the fourth-largest automaker by value in the world. With its $58.8 billion (£45.6 billion) valuation, it sits above both General Motors and Ford in the United States, while only Toyota, Volkswagen, and Daimler are bigger internationally.

6. HTC is permanently cutting the price of its virtual reality (VR) headset, the Vive, to $599 in the US and £599 in the UK. The move is a strategic one, and comes after Facebook's decision to bring down the price of its own VR headset, the Oculus Rift, to $499 (£387).

7. Spotify executives have reportedly met with US regulators to discuss its upcoming direct listing. It's bypassing a typical IPO and the SEC is looking into the unusual plan.

8. Facebook will launch a dedicated "Safety Check" tab in its app over the coming weeks. It will show a continuous stream of bad events happening in the world — from terrorist attacks to extreme weather situations — and show whether your friends are marked as safe.

9. Intel updated its Core lineup of processors to the 8th generation. The new chips are still based on the architecture of Kaby Lake, the 7th generation, but boast a 40% speed improvement over the previous models.

10. WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out a new feature to its Snapchat-like "Status." Much like on Facebook, the new update will allow users to create status updates with text on a coloured background, choose between different fonts, and even add links.

You may have missed it while watching the solar eclipse, but Google released a new version of the Android operating system on Monday. Code-named "Oreo," the latest version replaces Android Nougat, which Google released last year. Given that there are more than 2 billion active Android devices today, the update could have a big effect on how much of the world interacts with their smartphones and tablets.

Eventually, anyway. As we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on data from Android Developers Dashboard, Android users don't tend to jump to the newest version of the operating system right away, and older versions can linger on and on. That's unlike Apple's iOS, which underlies the iPhone and iPad, where the vast majority of users are typically running the latest version.

Google has been working on a fix for this, but the blame lies mostly with smartphone makers and wireless carriers. Before users can install new versions of Android on their gadgets, the updates typically have to be approved by the device manufacturers and carriers first. And that process can drag on and on.

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A California senator is hoping to create a new law to end sexual harassment in the venture capital world. 

Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) is introducing a bill this week that would explicitly prohibit sexual harassment by venture capitalists as an amendment to a current civil rights law. 

The bill, SB 224, comes in response to accounts from women tech entrepreneurs who have described how they were sexually harassed while seeking funding from venture capitalists. 

The proposed bill would amend the Unruh Act, a civil rights law in California that protects against sexual harassment in business relationships. The current law lists doctors, landlords, teachers and others as liable for sexual harassment. This bill would amend the law to clarify that consequences exist for investors too, and provide protections for entrepreneurs who are harassed.

"If we want to see the venture capital industry change and an end to sexual harassment of women in technology, we need strong legal protections. No matter how well intentioned, decency pledges and promises are not enough." said Senator Jackson in a statement.

Jackson was referring to a public plea made by LinkedIn founder and Greylock partner, Reid Hoffman, that asked firms to sign a Decency Pledge, a promise to treat the relationship between a VC and an entrepreneur like a manager and employee.

Hoffman proposed the idea after dozens of female tech entrepreneurs came forward in recent weeks with accounts of being sexually harassed while seeking funding for their ideas and startups. Prominent investors like Dave McClure of 500 startups and Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital have resigned in the wake of such allegations.

But self regulation like a decency pledge isn't the same as ensuring VCs are covered under the Unruh Act.

"We need to be clear there are consequences for this type of behavior," said Jackson. "The idea is to take a very strong position, and make it very clear that this is the kind of intersection between power and opportunity where we are not going to tolerate sexual harassment."

So far, Jackson says the response to the bill has been overwhelmingly positive. Because the current legislation sessions ends soon, in September, she plans to move the bill forward when the legislation reconvenes in January, and expects to have a vote on it by the end of that month. 

Dan Blanchette and his son, Sam, 6, watching the final phases of a total solar eclipse in Salem, Oregon.Don Ryan/APThere's nothing like a rare astronomical event to bring Americans together.

Eclipse-chasers came out in droves on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse — when the moon crosses between the Earth and the sun and blocks out the sun's light — at gatherings across the country.

Total solar eclipses happen about every one to three years, but Monday's event was special. It was the first time since 1918 that the path of totality, where day briefly turns to night, cut diagonally across the entire US.

We rounded up the best photos of people watching the eclipse from Portland, Oregon, to Charleston, South Carolina. We will continue to update this post throughout the day.

Donald Trump did wear eclipse glasses, but couldn't resist sneaking a look with his naked eyes. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Eye doctors are going to be busy tomorrow.

If you checked out the solar eclipse and weren't wearing certified protective glasses (or even if you were), you might be wondering if your vision is okay.

Looking at the sun without adequate protection allows sunlight, including ultraviolet and near-infrared radiation, to penetrate the retina. That can burn parts of the eye and create a toxic reaction that causes damage, which can lead to a condition eye doctors refer to as photic or solar retinopathy.

If you watched the eclipse in an unsafe way, damage may not be immediately apparent, since you can't feel burns on your retina. Some people might start to notice changes to their vision within a few hours, though it's most likely that vision changes would become apparent by the next day, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO).

Symptoms of solar retinopathy include poor vision, changes to vision including blurry or discolored spots, pain, and especially a loss of vision in the center of the eye. A number of solar retinopathy patients report being unable to read because of the changes, which can be temporary or permanent.

People watch the solar eclipse on the campus of Southern Illinois University on August 21, 2017. Scott Olson/Getty

Some people Business Insider spoke with said their eyes felt strange immediately after viewing the eclipse even though they did wear protective glasses. If your glasses were properly certified and didn't let in any light that was less bright than the sun, the discomfort may just be a temporary effect. It could be caused by the rapidly changing levels of light exposure you encountered while repeatedly covering and uncovering your eyes to look at the crescent sun. The fact that your eyes felt weird after watching the eclipse doesn't necessarily mean there's any permanent damage.

People who watched the eclipse for even a brief period of time without protection, however, are susceptible to damage. President Trump briefly demonstrated what you were not supposed to do, and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk may have done the same, tweeting that he watched with "sunglasses."

Sunglasses don't provide adequate protection and could potentially increase the risk for eye damage, since the pupil opens up more widely to let light in, according to Dr. Tongalp Tezel, an expert on retinas at Columbia University Medical Center.

If you are experiencing vision changes or eye pain, even if you wore proper eye protection, call an eye doctor to schedule an appointment.

A good proportion of cases do resolve themselves over time, potentially within a day or even over a couple of weeks, according to an editorial in the journal JAMA Ophthalmology. But if vision hasn't come back within six months, it's not likely to — and there is, unfortunately, no present treatment for solar retinopathy.

A doctor can examine your eye and see changes to the retina, which can take on the appearance of the crescent-shaped sun responsible for the damage. Without medical confirmation, it's hard to know whether something is really wrong and to know whether it can be addressed.

"I always, always say if you notice something strange about your vision, see the eye doctor," Adriane Santa Croce, an ophthalmic sonographer at Scheie Eye Institute in Philadelphia, told Business Insider. She added that "the concerns about vision following the eclipse may uncover unrelated eye problems that people may not have addressed otherwise," including changes in vision related to diabetes, cataracts, macular degeneration, or glaucoma.

Interestingly, Santa Croce noted that this eclipse should provide doctors with a better understanding of how light can damage the eye, since some imaging technology used now didn't exist the last time many people watched an eclipse.

Regardless of how your eyes feel after the eclipse, the AAO recommends regular comprehensive vision exams, since a number of health conditions can be first spotted in the eye.

If for any reason — eclipse or not — you notice any pain or vision changes tomorrow, call a doctor to be safe.

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Along with new Pixel smartphones, Google is apparently cooking up a smaller Google Home smart speaker device powered by artificial intelligence (AI), according to Android Police.

Few details exist about a smaller model of the Google Home, but there's a high likelihood that it'll simply be a smaller version of the original Google Home.

It sounds like it could be similar to Amazon's $50 Echo Dot, which is also essentially a smaller and cheaper version of the original Echo, which usually costs $180 (it's going for $100 on Amazon at the time of writing). 

With that in mind, a smaller and cheaper Google Home would let you add more Google Home devices throughout your home without thinning your wallet quite as much as multiple $130 Google Homes. Alternatively, a cheaper Google Home could make a great entry device for anyone who wants to try out a smart speaker.

It's pure speculation, but the new mini Google Home could have similar abilities as the regular Google Home, which is powered by Google's own artificial intelligent assistant called Google Assistant. That means you could ask the mini Google Home for answers to basic questions, control music playback, make phone calls, manage your calendar, and control your smart home.

It's unclear if the mini Google Home will have any additional features over the regular model, like the Echo Dot has over the original Echo. For reference, Amazon's diminutive Echo Dot has a few features that the original Echo doesn't, like the ability to connect to a separate speaker via Bluetooth or auxiliary cable. Still, the mini Google Home in an unreleased, unconfirmed device, and rumors about it should be taken with a grain of salt. 

A new patent recently published by the US Patent and Trademark Office shows that Motorola may be working on a phone that features a self-repairing display, as first reported by Engadget.

The company is envisioning a device that uses a "shape memory polymer" instead of glass, which may be able to reshape itself and return to the original composition by applying heat to a scratched area.

The phone in question would generate the heat by itself, and enter a low-power mode to begin the process — which, Motorola envisions, could be manually kickstarted by the user via a built-in app.

The technology would allow the device to analyse the display's structure, spot anomalies, and slowly use heat to modify the scraped area by remolding it in a way as close as possible to the original.

The phone's self-healing process could be activated overnight when the phone works while keeping its battery running via a specially designed dock.US Patent & Trademark Office

The process could be lengthy, so the patent mentions that it could be done overnight while the phone is cradled inside a specially-designed dock. That would give the phone the necessary power for its heat-creating components to keep working without risking that the phone runs out of juice.

This doesn't mean that such a device would be able to self-repair a broken screen, but rather iron out small scratches and minor cuts that may occur when your phone is inside your pocket alongside a pair of keys, for instance.

Motorola already offers shatterproof displays with its Moto Z Force lineup of phones, which offer a much increased durability over regular front panels.

LG, too, made a foray into self-healing smartphones back in 2013, when it launched the LG G Flex in Korea. That device had a plastic coating on the back that worked very similarly to Motorola's device, although its screen was made out of traditional glass.

Swedish YouTuber PewDiePie. YouTube

PewDiePie has gone off Nazi jokes.

In his latest video, the YouTube superstar has said he won't make any more off-colour references to fascist ideology after watching footage of the white nationalist Charlottesville rally which took place in the US over the weekend.

PewDiePie, real name Felix Kjellberg, linked the rally to a controversial incident in February, when he was criticised in the press for paying two Indian men to hold up a sign saying "Death to all Jews."

"Nazi memes are not even that funny any more," he said in a video released on Wednesday. "It's sort of a dead meme."

The February episode, originally reported by the Wall Street Journal, resulted in Kjellberg losing his show on YouTube's Red subscription service, and Disney dropping him from its Maker network. Kjellberg apologised at the time, saying: "I'm sorry for the words that I used, as I know they offended people. And I admit that the joke itself went too far." But he also responded viciously to media reports which he claimed took the joke "out of context", referring to the original Wall Street Journal article as "absurd." He said subsequent coverage implying he was a fascist was "nothing but insanity."

His latest video is titled "I guess this needed to be said." It begins with a reference to this tweet by Kjellberg during the Charlottesville rally.

He said in reality he was alarmed that he "actually got grouped in with these people."

He said he was just "a guy making jokes on the internet", and added that he wanted "nothing to do with these people". He also said in February, he hadn't really believed Nazis still existed.

"I thought now would be a good time as any to just say I want nothing to do with these people," he said. "I don't think anyone that watches me thinks I'm an actual Nazi, but I know a lot of people might still have doubt."

Whatever Kjellberg's original intent in February, it gave substantial ammo to the online far-right. Neo-Nazi news site The Daily Stormer leapt on the "Death to all Jews" fallout with several favourable write-ups. It also defended Kjellberg when Disney dropped him, referring to the company by the anti-Semitic term "kikes."

The Daily Stormer is having its own problems after Charlottesville and is currently offline, but you can still see cached versions of the articles.

Here are some screenshots :

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The Daily Stormer writes that "Death to all Jews" is a statement "we can all get behind" Google

And while the "Death to all Jews" video is no longer available on YouTube, PewDiePie made several baiting follow-ups referencing Hitler after the controversy. In one video, he makes a video game character look like Hitler and narrates his fictional backstory of wanting to "kill Jews."

Kjellberg said in his latest video: "If for some reason Nazis think it's great I'm making these jokes, I don't want to give them that benefit so I'm going to stop doing it.

"It's not me censoring myself. It's more like I don't want to part of it."

Amazon is planning to open a huge new warehouse in Bristol, England, next year, creating more than 1,000 jobs in the region

The Seattle-headquartered ecommerce company announced the news on Wednesday, saying it will look to hire operations managers and engineers, as well as HR and IT staff.

The warehouse will be based at Severn Beach, which is 17 miles north west of Bristol in West England.

"We are very excited to expand our network into Bristol, which will in total create more than 1,000 new permanent roles with competitive wages and comprehensive benefits starting on day one," said Stefano Perego, Amazon's director of UK customer fulfilment, in a statement. 

Perego added: "There are several factors we consider when deciding on where to place a new fulfilment centre, and Bristol offers fantastic infrastructure and talented local people who we look forward to joining the Amazon team."

Amazon currently has 13 other warehouses in the UK located in Daventry, Doncaster, Coalville, Dunfermline, Dunstable, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley, and Swansea Bay.

The company says it has invested £6.4 billion into its UK operations since 2010, with money going towards research and development, a new head office in London, and several new warehouses.

Amazon said its UK workforce will be 24,000 by the end of this year.