Google Street View Adds A Virtual Walk Through The Ferrari Museum

Today, Google Street View has released a curated walk through the Ferrari museum in Maranello, Italy.  The collection of views allows you to walk through the famous road car and Formula One team’s museums and see many parts of the Ferrari campus as well.  For any fan of the Scuderia, this is a great edition and even if you are not a big F1 or Ferrari fan, this walk through is pretty sweet.  To find them, just search for Ferrari in the app and you’ll be taken to the new collection.

Security Update Comes to The Galaxy S7 Lineup on T-Mobile

If you are on the T-Mobile network and have a Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge, you will want to check for a small but important security update that has been released by the carrier.  The update brings a security fix to the device although the details of exactly what was fixed is not explicitly laid out in the release notes.  It isn’t the May Android Security update as that came earlier in the month so this is a separate fix from that release.  On the Galaxy S7, you are looking for build G930TUVS3APD8 while on the S7 Edge, you will want to look for build G935TUVU3APD8.

Twitter Announces Changes Coming To 140 Character Limit

While rumors have been floating for a couple of weeks, this morning Twitter made it official that big changes are coming to the 140 character limit of the micro-blogging site.  The updates, which will take effect over the course of the next several months, will make replies and attached images not count against your character limit.  That means you can attach a photo to your Tweet and it not consume upwards of 23 characters to link.  It is a huge change and while the 140 character limit which has made the service popular is still in place, it will become a lot more user friendly and flexible as these updates roll out.

Netflix Becomes Exclusive US Streaming Service For Disney, Lucasfilm and Pixar in September

If you are not a subscriber to Netflix and want to be sure you can see streaming movies from Disney, Lucasfilm and Pixar, you may want to consider signing up.  Starting in September, the streaming service will be the exclusive home here in the US for these studios.  It is a big win for Netflix who, along with this announcement, gave everyone a preview of what will be available on the service this summer.  What this deal means is that it will keep Disney, Lucasfilm and Pixar flicks off of rival services and even subscription services during the first run time frame.

SanDisk 64GB Class 10 MicroSD Now Only $17.99 on Amazon

If you have been in the market to upgrade your MicroSD card or pick up a spare, today over at Amazon there is a great sale going on with SanDisk.  Today you can pick up a 64GB MicroSD, Class 10 card for just $17.99, a savings of 70% over the regular price of $42.  The card has a 80MB/s transfer rate so it is plenty fast for any Android device and given it is a Class 10 device, it has the speed to deal with Full HD video too.  The card will come with a MicroSD adapter so you can use it in your digital camera or other devices.  The sale at Amazon on the SanDisk card isn’t just on the 64GB model, others are on sale as well at some really good prices.

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