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The official Wikipedia app for Android has been updated in a big way, bringing a completely revamped user experience to the app.  The new home page for the app, the Explore feed, provides personalize and dynamic content to you.  It will show you top news stories, trending Wikipedia articles, suggestions to read and more.  It is pretty impressive and is a big departure from the somewhat static page the app had previously.

In addition to the new Explore feed in the Wikipedia app, voice integrated search is now in the app as well.  Now you tap the microphone icon in the search box and tell the app what you want to search for in Wikipedia.  The app leverages the voice recognition engine that is already built into your Android phone and leverages the Google APIs.  That means that you are getting the same accuracy that you do when you use “OK Google” on your phone.

Today’s Deal over at Amazon is a great and inexpensive external battery pack to charge your phone.  The iXCC 3400mAH slim battery pack is designed to charge your device one full charge, fits easily into a pocket or handbag and is just $10 today on the site.  The pack is a slim design that measures 3.8″ long and weighs just 3.8 ounces so it isn’t going to take up a lot of room.  It has a single USB 2.0 charging port to charge your device and it is compatible with virtually any device.  Obviously if your battery is bigger than a 3400mAH rating you won’t get a full charge on your phone but you can get it a long way towards it when you are in that desperate mode to get charged up before your phone dies (and we have all been there at least once in our life).

Today LG has announced that their upcoming flagship device, the LG V20, will be shipping starting in September.  Specifications around the new phone are virtually unknown.  Very few leaks have come out for the V20, a rarity these days, so nobody is 100% sure what the phone will have for a processor/memory combination.  Given it is a flagship, the V20 will likely have the upper end of the Snapdragon processor lineup (8xx) and 3GB of RAM but again, just speculation on my part.  What we do know however, based on this release from LG, is that the V20 will come with Android Nougat installed.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has released their 2nd Quarter Financial Year 2016 results today and they are nothing short of impressive.  The company showed impressive growth over the same quarter last year with revenue topping out at $21.5 billion that created a $5.86 billion net income (non-GAAP).  The revenue growth is up 21% over the same quarter last year while net income was up $1.1 billion.