Jul 18
And don’t expect it to change anytime soon.
Jul 18
This Robot Was Made To Guard An Office Building. Instead, It Fell In A Fountain.
Posted in: Today's Chili“Security robot, yes. Submarine robot, no. Got it.”
Jul 18
Most App Store users don’t leave negative ratings to be jerks — rather, they may have just had trouble figuring out an app or felt it was missing a key feature. If the developers spot the issue and can deal with it, they can turn a bad user score in…
Jul 18
It is no secret that China is a very heavily censored country, where posts that criticize the government are taken down swiftly. It has also made doing business in the country challenging as foreign companies who might be used to operating with more freedom will have to find ways to comply with the country’s laws.
In a recent report from The Wall Street Journal, it seems that China’s censors are growing more powerful by the day, to the point where images that are being sent can actually be intercepted and deleted mid-transmission, meaning that they will never arrive for the intended recipient, as discovered by activists and a new research report.
An example was when a friend of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo wanted to send a photo of Liu to his group of friends using WeChat. However given that Liu is considered by the Chinese government to be a dissident and has been jailed as a result, it looks like the country’s censors did not want Liu’s photos to be circulated as the friend later discovered that his friends had never received the images.
This move by the country’s censors is in response to internet users finding a way around the censorship. In the past censors would use software to scan for keywords, thus leading to users creating images instead of text, but it looks like even images are no longer safe from the censors. According to Wu Yangwei, the friend of Liu, “Sometimes you can get around censors by rotating the photo. But that doesn’t always work.”
China’s Censors Can Apparently Delete Photos Mid-Transmission , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 18
In life sometimes there are uncomfortable moments in which we do not want to deal with them, so instead we ignore them, which is usually not the best idea. In fact in recent times when it comes to dating and relationships, a term called “ghosting” has actually been coined which pretty much refers to what we talked about above.
According to the Urban Dictionary, “ghosting” is defined as, “the act of suddenly ceasing all communication with someone the subject is dating, but no longer wishes to date.” However it seems that over in Taiwan, the courts do not look on the practice too fondly in which they decided to grant a woman a divorce after her husband had “ghosted” her by ignoring her text messages.
The husband had apparently been ignoring his wife’s text messages over the course of six months despite reading them, and the court concluded that based on this evidence that it was grounds for divorce. “The defendant did not inquire about the plaintiff, and the information sent by the plaintiff was read but not replied to. The couple’s marriage is beyond repair.”
This is actually an interesting ruling, although not the first of its kind. A couple of months ago, the Delhi High Court in India ruled that the blue ticks on WhatsApp (indicating that a message was read) can act as a proof of receipt for legal documents.
Court Grants Woman Divorce After Being ‘Ghosted’ By Husband , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 18
We’re sure many are wondering what Samsung plans to do with the millions of Galaxy Note 7 handsets that were recalled. We’ve seen Samsung relaunch the phone as the Note 7 Fan Edition which is basically a refurbished version of the handset minus the faulty battery, but given that its availability is limited to the South Korean market, what about the rest of the phones?
For those who are worried that it might end up in some landfill, you can rest assured that Samsung will be doing what they can to reduce the environmental impact, and that is by recovering rare metals from the phone. As you probably know, a lot of rare metals is used during the manufacturing of our electronics, and Samsung plans to try and recover as much of them as possible, along with components that could be used as replacement parts for devices that are sent in for servicing or repairs.
This includes camera modules, chips, and displays, along with the rare metals used such as cobalt, copper, gold, and silver. Environmental activists Greenpeace have called on Samsung to try and recover the materials used, and it looks like they’ll be getting their wish, and we guess it makes sense too since discarding them would be a massive waste considering how many units were produced.
Samsung Will Recover Rare Metals From Recalled Note 7s , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 18
Qualcomm and Apple are currently involved in a pretty ugly legal battle, to the point where Qualcomm trying to get the iPhones banned from being imported into the US. It seems like things are only just getting started, but it looks like Qualcomm is hoping that it won’t drag out as the company’s CEO recently expressed his wish for an out of court settlement.
Speaking to Fortune (via MacRumors), Qualcomm’s CEO Steve Mollenkopf said that an out of court settlement is not out of the question. He was quoted as saying, “There’s not really anything new going on. Those things tend to get to resolved out of court and there’s no reason why I wouldn’t expect that to be the case here.”
Note that this does not mean that Qualcomm and Apple are working on resolving their issues, but rather it seems that Qualcomm isn’t closed to the idea of getting this issue resolved quickly. That being said whether or not it will actually happen remains to be seen. In the past we have seen how Apple and Samsung have tried to bury the hatchet in settlement talks as well, but for the most part they have never really been successful, but who knows, maybe this time it could be different?
Qualcomm Hoping To Settle With Apple Out Of Court , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 18
The Samsung Galaxy S8 is barely half a year old and the Galaxy Note 8 has yet to be announced, but it seems that the rumor mill isn’t taking a break because it looks like some information regarding the 2018 Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy Note 9 has been revealed, with the information being about their display sizes.
In a report from The Investor, there have been claims made by unnamed industry sources who say that for the Galaxy S9 next year, Samsung will be retaining the same display sizes as this year’s models. This means that the Galaxy S9 will sport a 5.77-inch display, while the Galaxy S9 Plus will feature a larger 6.22-inch display.
The report goes on to claim that this will be the same for the Note 9 in which it will keep the same display size as the Note 8, which at the moment is rumored to be 6.32-inches. Given that the Note 8 has yet to be officially announced (we’re hearing end August), we’re not even sure if those rumors are true to begin with.
Take it with a grain of salt for now, but we suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised if Samsung were to retain the same display sizes. After all phones these days are already pretty huge and it’s not often that OEMs go beyond 6-inches these days, so it’s not as if we expect next year’s models to make that jump.
2018’s Galaxy S9 And Note 9 Rumored To Retain The Same Display Sizes , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jul 18
Hellooo, Stephen.
Jul 18
Sadiq Khan reiterated his opposition this week to the president’s impending state visit to the country.
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