In today’s Bulldog wrapup of technology and life science news:

  • Google releases app to digitize boxes of old photo prints
  • Boeing to cut some jobs, move others, in efficiency effort
  • Cholesterol drug shows promise to help reverse heart disease
  • Google plans to expand London HQ, creating up to 3,000 jobs
  • Tinder update allows gender options beyond ‘man,’ ‘woman’

The details:

  • Google releases app to digitize boxes of old photo prints

Google wants to make digitizing your old photo prints as easy as opening an app.

The PhotoScan app for iPhones and Android phones will use the phone’s camera to capture an old photo in four sections and stitch them together, much like a panorama shot. Google says this approach helps eliminate glare that can mar attempts to digitize a print by simply photographing the whole photo.

The app will make minor adjustments to restore color in faded photos and to aligned corners when the photo print is bent.

Julia Winn, a product manager for the new app, says scanning photos with traditional scanners takes time, while third-party digitizing services cost money and require you to part with your photos temporarily, risking loss and damage.

The free app came out Tuesday.

  • Boeing to cut some jobs, move others, in efficiency effort

Boeing Co. plans to move about 2,500 positions to other sites, cut 500 jobs, and close two facilities by the end of 2020 as part of an effort to operate its Defense, Space & Security business more efficiently, the company said Tuesday.

The company said it also will align Boeing Defence Australia, Boeing Defense Saudi Arabia, and Boeing Defence United Kingdom into a new global operations group.

  • Cholesterol drug shows promise to help reverse heart disease

For the first time, a new drug given along with a cholesterol-lowering statin medicine has proved able to shrink plaque that is clogging arteries, potentially giving a way to undo some of the damage of heart disease.

The difference was very small but doctors hope it will grow with longer treatment, and any reversal or stabilization of disease would be a win for patients and a long-sought goal.

The drug, Amgen Inc.’s Repatha, also drove LDL, or bad cholesterol, down to levels rarely if ever seen in people before. Heart patients are told to aim for below 70, but some study participants got as low as 15.

  • Google plans to expand London HQ, creating up to 3,000 jobs

Google says it plans to expand its base in Britain, creating up to 3,000 jobs — good news for the government as the prospect of leaving the European Union breeds economic uncertainty.

The tech firm currently has about 4,000 staff in Britain.

Chief executive Sundar Pichai says Google will build a 650,000 sq. foot (60,000 sq. meter) complex alongside its new facility in the King’s Cross area of London.

  • Tinder update allows gender options beyond ‘man,’ ‘woman’

Tinder has started giving users the option to select a gender other than man or woman.

The online dating app has announced that its latest update allows users to type a word that describes their gender identity. The company said in a blog post Tuesday that users also can choose to be shown in searches that best reflect that identity.

Tinder says it didn’t have “the right tools to serve our diverse community in the past, but that changes today.” It says people who believe they were wrongfully removed over their gender selection are invited back to the platform.