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Assuming you happen to be in possession of a smartphone from Samsung, and have yet to make the move to install the most recent security update. What are you to do, then? Well, Samsung has a bright idea – by tempting you with free pizza. For instance, a Reddit user claimed to have received a digital coupon for a 20% discount off Domino’s Pizza on his Samsung Galaxy J7 in the My Galaxy app, and this coupon is claimed after you have obtained the latest software update for your device.

This particular update is touted to be able to be installed within a Samsung Experience Store, or through Wi-Fi, depending on your preference. Within 9 days of updating your phone, the coupon will then make its way to your My Galaxy app, now how about that? It really does not differentiate between installing a new build of Android or having the monthly security update up and running, Samsung simply wants to ensure that your device has the latest software on it, which is not a bad thing if there is no bloatware involved, and you get to gain 20% off your next pizza at Domino’s. The thing is, this is happening only in India right now. Do you see it as an incentive or a bribe?

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While we have heard rumors of the Surface Phone specifications leaked just yesterday, it seems that there is even more hype surrounding it one day later. One ought to take this bit of information with a rather healthy dose of salt, however, as it looks like there is a leaked image of the alleged Surface Phone that have, for the want of a better word, surfaced.

Supposedly having not one or two, but three alleged Surface Phone models, all of them are said to run on Qualcomm’s unreleased Snapdragon 830 chipset, boasting of plenty of RAM to play with alongside copious amounts of internal memory. Needless to say, if it were ever to be a reality, then one should expect to fork out quite a fortune.

It is but a render that you can see above, where it has been caught with a keyboard case in tow that is not too far removed from the slim and long discontinued Surface Touch Cover, while sporting an USB Type-C port that is located on the bottom, alongside a headphone jack on top, as well as a familiar-looking camera module that boasts of a dual-LED flash. All in all, we should just let the passage of time confirm or debunk the nature of this rumor.

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It’s a story as old as the 1933 classic film King Kong. Humans take a gorilla out of his natural habitat, then imprison and display him to masses, and ultimately execute him.

On Sunday a three year old boy at the Cincinnati Zoo was able to breach the perimeter and fall inside the “Gorilla World” exhibit. Witnesses and video show a male gorilla named Harambe apparently trying to protect the boy, but he does drag the kid through the water of a moat, moving the boy away from the hysteria of the screaming onlookers. After about 10 minutes, zoo personnel felt they had no choice but to shoot and kill Harambe, the day after his 17th birthday. Zoo Director Thane Maynard stated ” . . . they made a tough choice and they made the right choice . . . ”

So let’s assume that the zoo had no choice but to shoot and kill the blameless gorilla. Do they bear any responsibility for their prior choices that led up to this slaughter of the innocent?

I question the wisdom and morality of imprisoning animals in circuses, amusement parks, or zoos for entertainment and “educational” purposes. The zoo keepers always tout how their business teaches the public, particularly children, all about these captive creatures so that folks will learn to care for and respect these other inhabitants of our planet. I find this to be a bit self-serving and fallacious. An animal advocate I know once told me that kids have never seen dinosaurs, yet most children seem to adore them.

I think the lesson of zoos and other such venues is less noble. They teach children that animals are props put on earth to be owned, dominated, exhibited, and treated as disposable chattels. I am friends with a couple who have a 12 year old son who likes to draw. He went to a zoo only one time, where he attempted to sketch the animals. He expressed to me that he found the whole experience to be depressing. Astutely, he noticed that the eyes of the animals looked what he described as “lifeless,” specifically commenting on the gorillas and the elephants. He said he would never return to any zoo.

Another questionable choice is the manner in which the great apes at the Cincinnati Zoo were protected from kids and vice-versa in “Gorilla World.” Nearly everything in our environment is “child-proof,” but apparently not the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo.

Still another issue is the responsibility of the child’s parent or parents in this fiasco. How did they loose control of their son? Generally speaking, I think it is a bad idea to allow your child to be able to get into a gorilla exhibit– all leading to the death of the only innocent character in this tragedy, the gorilla named Harambe.

In fact, only Harambe was deprived of the freedom of choice. The zoo keepers decide where the animals should live, how they should live, what and when they are fed, and how they are treated. Even those with the best intentions are benevolent wardens in an animal prison farm.

According to one witness, “All of a sudden you heard this BAM . . . and you knew they shot the gorilla, and you heard the other gorillas just go crazy.”

Yes, I suppose they did, not unlike humans might react to the killing of one of their family members or friends, executed in their presence.

Gorillas have DNA very similar to humans. According to a National Geographic, “Staring face to face with a gorilla, it’s hard not to find them eerily similar to humans–and now the first published gorilla genome supports that, according to a new study.”

Charles Darwin stated “There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Harambe will feel no more of any of it.

Footnote: Yesterday PETA released a statement from primatologist Julia Gallucci in response to Harambe’s death:

“Yet again, captivity has taken an animal’s life. The gorilla enclosure should have been surrounded by a secondary barrier between the humans and the animals to prevent exactly this type of incident. Gorillas have shown that they can be protective of smaller living beings and react the same way any human would to a child in danger. Consider Binti Jua, the gorilla who carried a child to a zookeeper’s gate. Even under the ‘best’ circumstances, captivity is never acceptable for gorillas or other primates, and in cases like this, it’s even deadly. This tragedy is exactly why PETA urges families to stay away from any facility that displays animals as sideshows for humans to gawk at.”

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Back in March, Apple reached a deal with Dubset to make sure sampled artists in remixes and DJ mixes on its music service were properly compensated. Last week, Spotify did the same, inking an agreement to leverage Dubset’s MixBANK distribution platfo…

When it comes to camera technology, Full HD resolution recordings simply won’t cut the mustard anymore in this day and age. In fact, 4k video recording capability seems to be gaining the upper hand, and with that in mind, we are led to what 360fly as a company has on offer – a 4k camera with a difference. Why do we say so? For starters, this is no ordinary 4k camera, as it is a single-lens camera that captures stitchless 360-degree video with interactive and mobile virtual reality viewing capabilities.

Hence, with much fanfare surrounding the spanking new 360fly 4K camera, this particular product will roll hot off the manufacturing lines of its factory, arriving at retail locations and will continue to roll out through the month of June. Originally shown off at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this year, the 360fly 4K camera will sport a higher resolution compared to its predecessor, boasts of intuitive filming and editing advancements, as well as live mobile streaming capabilities via the LIVIT mobile app.

The 360fly 4K camera will boast of a powerful new image sensor that nearly quadruples the resolution of the original 360fly HD camera, resulting in 2880×2880-pixel, 360-degree 4K video. Not only that, the 360fly 4K camera will come with upgraded and advanced features such as LIVIT Live Streaming, a front-facing cam, a Time-Lapse Video Mode, telemetry support, 64GB of internal memory, and OnePush Button Color-Coding.

The asking price stands at $499 apop, and one ought to take note that the 360fly 4K camera will be made available online at 360fly.com and in-store at U.S. retailers, where among them include the likes of Best Buy, Target, REI, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart and other specialty retailers. It is also nice to know that the 360fly 4K camera will not be limited to a US-only launch, as it is also set to be launched across internationally in regions in the vein of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Latin America, Canada, South Africa and China.

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