The Nintendo Switch’s detachable Joy-con controllers already have decent battery life, but if you’re looking to game for even longer sessions, Nintendo has you covered. Today the company announced the Joy-Con AA battery pack, a pair of detachable gri…
You might think you’re a good driver. But you’ve got nothing on a nameless 8-year-old hero from Ohio. This past weekend he and his 4-year-old sister waited for their parents to fall asleep, stole their car, and then drove to McDonald’s to chow down on some McMeats.
A lot has been said and written about LeEco’s ongoing problems. The company is believed to be in financial troubles which may have also caused it to abandon its planned acquisition of Vizio. LeEco did confirm officially yesterday that it was giving up on this idea but blamed it on “regulatory headwinds.” According to a new report, LeEco continues to struggle and may end up laying off a third of its entire workforce in the United States.
It hasn’t really been long since LeEco established a presence in the U.S. market. It arrived Stateside with much pomp and circumstance in October last year and launched devices such as 4K TVs, a couple of new smartphones, and more.
Bloomberg reports that LeEco generated less than $15 million in revenue from the United States after launching here in October. The company wanted to bring in $100 million during the same time frame. It is because of not having met its targets, the scribe claims that LeEco is going to lay off nearly 175 of its 475 employees in the country.
LeEco hasn’t confirmed or denied the report but with the overall future of the company on the line due to ongoing financial issues, it may have to take some very tough decisions like these to give itself a slim chance of surviving in this competitive market.
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Fans of the Star Wars: Battlefront game have no doubt been waiting for more information about the sequel to arrive but a lot hasn’t been shared as yet. They will be happy to find out that a Star Wars: Battlefront 2 trailer has been leaked online. This trailer was actually meant to be shown for the first time at the Star Wars Celebration which takes place later this week. The leaked Star Wars: Battlefront 2 trailer gives us a good glimpse of the upcoming title.
The leaked Star Wars: Battlefront 2 trailer shows us what multiplayer battles are going to look like in different terrains including but not limited to land and space.
We get to check out clips of in-engine footage that show TIE Fighters tearing through lakes and X-Wings trying to dodge fire coming in from the capital ship.
All of the action is going to take place throughout all Star Wars eras and the game is going to feature appearances by characters like Darth Maul and Yoda to Rey and Kylo Ren.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is going to have a single-player campaign as well but not much is known about it right now. We can expect EA to come out with more information about the game in the near future.
It’s unclear as yet when Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is going to be released but given that the previous game arrived in November 2015, it’s likely that the sequel will be released weeks before Star Wars: Episode 8 hits the big screen.
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It has been rumored time and again that Apple is going to do away with the physical home button in the iPhone 8 that’s due later this year. This raises the question about where the company plans on putting the fingerprint sensor. Some reports suggest that the iPhone 8 is going to have an optical fingerprint sensor that’s going to be embedded in the display itself. We’re now hearing that this remains the “biggest bottleneck” that the company is yet to solve.
Analyst Timothy Arcuri of Cowen and Company sent a note to investors today which shares information he has obtained from his own supply chain field work that Apple is facing yield issues with its next flagship smartphone.
“For the 5.8-inch OLED version, the biggest bottleneck remains integrating an under-glass fingerprint sensor into the display,” he writes, adding that the current yield rate of Apple’s own AuthenTec solution is low and that the company is unwilling to use an under-glass fingerprint sensor made by a third-party.
If it’s unable to resolve these issues, the company might pull a Samsung and relocate the fingerprint sensor to the back of the device. Or it might announce the handset in the fall as previously planned but delay production so that it has additional time to sort out the issues before it puts out the product that it really wants.
Whether or not that’s going to happen remains to be seen. Apple hasn’t confirmed anything about the next iPhone so far and it’s unlikely that the company will say anything about it before the actual announcement.
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What do you do now if you have some place to be and don’t have a car? Well, you can take a normal cab, use any number of public transportation options, and you can also use services like Uber and Lyft to request a car to pick you up. What if you have a car but don’t want to drive it? Car company Lincoln has come up with a solution to that dilemma.
It has today announced the launch of a new service called Lincoln Chauffeur. Available only for those who own Lincoln cars, the company is going to provide users with drivers that can take them around in their own cars.
So basically instead of calling an Uber, you’re calling a driver. The driver will arrive at your door and then proceed to drive you around town in your very own car.
When you reach your destination, the driver can take your car back to your place straight away or they can pick up groceries or get gas on the way. When you want to go back, you can use the service to get another driver to pick up the car from your place and drive you back.
Lincoln points out that all of the drivers are going to be employed by the company itself which is different than the model used by services like Uber which rely on ad-hoc contractors that aren’t considered employees of the company.
Lincoln Chauffeur is only being tested in Miami right now but will be rolled out in San Diego soon. The service is open for all Lincoln owners and those who purchase a new Lincoln will get 8 hours of Chauffeur for free. Normally, it’s going to cost $30 an hour.
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When the Genesis brand debuted last year, it had two large sedans to offer to its potential luxury customers – but a notable lack of SUVs in a market where big cars are being gradually replaced by their more practical counterparts. Genesis addressed that gap in its line-up at the New York Auto Show with the GV80 Concept, a large … Continue reading
The anticipated ‘iPhone 8‘ with an OLED display has one big thing getting in its way, and that’s the Touch ID fingerprint sensor — at least according to an analyst whose research note recently became public. According to that note, the 5.8-inch iPhone, which is currently being referred to as the ‘iPhone 8,’ will have an edge-to-edge OLED panel, and … Continue reading
President Donald Trump has reversed himself on at least six major issues this week, pulling back on long-held promises supported by his base.
Four of these reversals alone came in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Wednesday:
Trump said the Chinese are “not currency manipulators.” Just last week, he said they were “world champions” of currency manipulation, and he pledged throughout his campaign to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office. He tweeted in 2012 that President Barack Obama’s failure to call China a currency manipulator “helped China steal even more jobs and money from us.”
Trump said, “I do like a low interest-rate policy.” During his campaign, he excoriated the Federal Reserve for keeping rates low, and said in 2011 that the policy would lead to hyperinflation.
Trump said he was open to the idea of reappointing Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve. On the campaign trail, he said he would “most likely” replace her. “I like her, I respect her,” Trump told the Journal at the time.
Trump said he supported the Export-Import Bank, noting that small companies are “really helped” by the institution. During the campaign, he said the bank was unnecessary.
On each of these issues, Trump’s turnabout puts him in lockstep with the Washington economic policy consensus. And in each case, Trump is walking away ― at least for now ― from the heterodox views he expressed during the campaign. This week’s reversals follow his shift on Syria last week, when Trump fired cruise missiles at an airbase after repeatedly saying he opposed U.S. involvement in the country’s civil war.
Also on Wednesday, Trump reversed his position on NATO, telling reporters, “They made a change and now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.”
It is rare for Trump to admit he is changing positions. During the campaign, for example, he insisted he had opposed the Iraq War before the 2003 U.S. invasion, even though he supported it during a radio interview at the time.
In an interview with Fox Business Network that was taped on Tuesday, Trump blasted Obama for not striking Syria in 2013 ― even though Trump repeatedly tweeted at the time that Obama should not do so.
In The Wall Street Journal interview, Trump also waded back into the debate over the relative value of the U.S. dollar, saying, “I think our dollar is getting too strong, and partially that’s my fault because people have confidence in me. But that’s hurting—that will hurt ultimately.”
Trump said the dollar was too strong in January, prompting it to fall.
Before Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned for his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the campaign, Trump called Flynn at 3 A.M. to ask whether a strong dollar or weak dollar is better for the U.S. economy. (The answer is, it depends: A strong dollar hurts domestic manufacturers that Trump says he wants to champion and helps consumers; a weak dollar generally has the opposite effect.)
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WASHINGTON ― After years condemning U.S. interventionism in the Middle East, President Donald Trump stunned the world last week by escalating American involvement in Syria’s six-year civil war. But Trump has also been quietly preparing to boost the U.S. role in a war on the other side of the troubled region ― specifically in Yemen, an impoverished nation where 17 million people do not know where their next meal will come from and where all sides of a two-year civil war are implicated in alleged war crimes.
The Trump administration is slowly ramping up support to a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed militants, according to government sources, advocates and analysts. In the weeks ahead, they believe, Trump will approve a major transfer of bombs to Saudi Arabia, and may greenlight a coalition assault on Hodeidah, an essential port for food imports. Such a move would worsen the humanitarian crisis and damage United Nations efforts to negotiate a political solution.
“A week and a day ago, it looked inevitable and imminent,” Scott Paul, a senior humanitarian policy adviser at Oxfam America, said Tuesday of the move on the port. “It seems as if the combination of humanitarian concerns and more recently airstrikes in Syria seems to have at least diverted attention in the administration, but there is going to come a time when the eye goes back to Yemen.”
Katherine Zimmerman, an expert at the Republican-leaning American Enterprise Institute think tank, said coalition representatives went to recent meetings like a summit between Trump and the Saudi defense minister with arguments tailored toward Trump’s stated goal of weakening Iranian influence.
They brought clear requests for tactical support, including lifting the Obama-era hold on the weapons transfer, providing more intelligence and logistical help, and increasing the U.S. involvement in the seas around Yemen, where the Iran-linked militia, the Houthis, has targeted American, Saudi and Emirati vessels. “They came with a very good engagement strategy and understood that the U.S. was open to suggestions,” Zimmerman said.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly wants to provide some help to the Saudis and their close ally in the coalition, the United Arab Emirates, in their effort to take Hodeidah, though he has stopped short of recommending a deployment of American Special Operations forces. Coalition forces have been advancing on the city in recent days, apparently in the hopes of reaching its outskirts before the holy Muslim month of Ramadan begins in early June, and then attacking after Ramadan, Zimmerman said.
Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump declined to answer an emailed question about potential Defense Department involvement in planning for Hodeidah, citing force protection concerns. He also refused to comment on whether the U.S. would begin targeting the Houthi militia.
Stump said the current deployment of American support is still where it was under the Obama administration, which approved major assistance to the Saudi-led coalition in terms of aerial refueling that enabled the coalition’s bloody bombing campaign and other logistical aid.
“Four U.S. Air Force personnel, who have long been assigned to Saudi Arabia as part of an air defense liaison team, continue a narrow range of functions related to the Yemen conflict to include coordinating refueling, facilitating checks of a no-strike list, and sharing intelligence related to defense of the Saudi-Yemen border,” Stump told HuffPost. “The U.S. military’s support remains in a non-combat advisory and coordinating role.”
And a source in Congress, which must receive a notification of Trump’s approval of the weapons transfer to the Saudis, told HuffPost that notification had not arrived yet, despite a blessing for the move from the State Department last month.
But the stasis in Washington doesn’t prevent the U.S.-backed coalition and others from moving forward in ways that could limit Trump’s ability to shape events ― and threaten both the United States’ long-term goals in Yemen and the country’s desperate civilian population.
The Saudis, for instance, feel more certain of American support than they have since the beginning of the war.
“The intent is there and the meeting of minds is there,” said Ali Shihabi, the executive director of a new D.C. think tank called the Arabia Foundation, which is considered close to Saudi thinking. “It boils down to the details and what exactly America can do more than it has done previously… The fundamental problem which has already been solved was the overall attitude.”
The Saudi view of Hodeidah, which the U.N. has repeatedly asked warring parties to keep safe, seems set.
“Saudi Arabia has said… that port needs to be either taken over, or if you’re saying taking it over is a huge humanitarian problem, then let the U.N. go in and supervise it. The U.N. sort of is shrinking away,” Shihabi said, citing coalition worries about Iranian weapon shipments through the port and the Houthis’ manipulation of food supplies received there to deprive civilians living outside of their areas.
Stump, the Pentagon spokesman, made clear that Iran’s role is central to U.S. thinking. “If Iran continues its destabilizing and malign activities, then the United States will work with its partners to respond,” he said.
It seems unlikely that the weapons transfer is really in question either. While some lawmakers are pushing for greater transparency about alleged war crimes by the Saudi-led coalition before they approve the transfer, action against Iran is a popular goal on Capitol Hill, and the Saudis successfully secured a Senate vote on a tank transfer last year despite vocal criticism of their approach and low enthusiasm for the war in the White House. U.S. support in other forms ― like greater intelligence-sharing and coordination to benefit the coalition as part of regular American counter-terror activities in Yemen ― can grow regardless of congressional squabbles.
“In addition to degrading the [al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] threat to the United States, recent U.S. military counterterrorism operations against [al Qaeda] in Yemen supported the Yemeni government and partner nation forces,” Stump wrote. The Saudi-backed faction in Yemen comprises the internationally recognized government.
With a friend in the Oval Office, the Saudi-led coalition can push ahead. But U.S. experts believe Washington should be wary.
“The US must not out-source its Yemen policy to Saudi Arabia or the UAE,” Zimmerman wrote at AEI’s Critical Threats blog in February. “Neither will act to secure US interests in full in Yemen and their divergence on key questions may prolong instability.”
The coalition’s strategy of pummeling its opponents, in the hope that that will weaken them and force them to negotiate, has remained largely the same since the conflict began in 2015 and has failed to provide results, she told HuffPost.
“The biggest contribution the United States can make to this fight is leadership to start to extricate our partners from Yemen,” Zimmerman said. She believes the administration should urge a political settlement as soon as possible, because that would force the pro-Iran group to recognize its internal fissures and start to splinter ― helping assuage Saudi concerns about an Iranian proxy on the border. (The Saudi-backed side is clearer in its long-term goals, she argued.)
A continuation of the war in its present form seems unlikely to have strategic benefits, even with high-profile efforts like the attack on the port. And meanwhile, Yemen will continue to bleed.
“All sides of the conflict are acting inappropriately, demonstrating a clear disregard for the lives of civilians, not fulfilling their obligations under international human rights law,” Paul said. “One task would have been to convince the coalition that taking the port is impractical and doesn’t lead to a political solution.”
“That would have been the correct course,” he went on. “Instead what’s happening is, we’re moving further and further down the road towards an invasion of Hodeidah every day where there isn’t a public opening for a realistic and flexible approach to the peace process.”
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