BlackBerry’s resurgence at the hands of TCL continues, and though the KEYone has given physical keyboard fans something to tap at, there’s also a full-touch device in the works. That’s the phone currently known as the BlackBerry Krypton, though so far we’ve had little in the way of leaks or whispers about what it might look like. Still, that’s changed … Continue reading
The Galaxy S9 may be the first major device to benefit from a Samsung image sensor revealed in the rumor mill this week. The 3-layer image processing unit is tipped to use a method of capture not entirely unlike the 3-layer image sensor released this year by Sony. If the past is any indicator, it would not be a surprise … Continue reading
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The origin of cosmic rays has been a mystery to scientists since their detection over fifty years ago. One of the prevailing theories is that they come from the center of our galaxy. But now, a group of more than 400 scientists from eighteen differen…
First teased earlier this year, ASUS has now launched its new Chromebook in the United States. It joins the expanding list of convertible touchscreen Chromebooks that are now available for purchase. The ASUS Chromebook Flip C101 weighs just 2 lbs and has an all-metal body. You would have guessed from the word flip in its name that the notebook can be flipped into tablet mode.
The ASUS Chromebook Flip has a 10.1 inch 1280×800 pixel resolution touchscreen display. It’s powered by an OP1 (ARM Rockchip 3399) processor with 4GB of RAM and 16GB of onboard storage.
Connectivity options include Bluetooth4 .0, Wi-Fi, two USB Type-C ports, one USB 2.0 port, a microSD card reader, and a standard 3.5mm headphone jack. ASUS promises a battery life of up to nine hours on a single charge.
The ASUS Chromebook Flip C101 also comes with Android app support straight out of the box. This means that users can take advantage of Android apps on the Chromebook. This opens up a whole new world of functionality on the notebook.
There have been some concerns about the user experience with apps on Chromebooks but it’s bound to get better with time.
Customers who are interested in purchasing the ASUS Chromebook Flip C101 can pre-order it starting today from ASUS’s website for $299.
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Instagram today announced that it has added face filters to live video. Users can try on these filters when they’re sharing live video. A variety of filters are being offered that users can choose from depending on their mood. They can easily try on these filters while broadcasting live video to their friends and family on Instagram.
In order to use face filters in live video, users have to tap the face icon in the bottom right corner before or during their broadcast. They can tap on any filter to check out how it looks and play around with as many filters as they like.
The new sunglasses face filter is available exclusively in live video for the next week. It’s possible to tap to change the scenery reflected in the lenses as well.
Once the broadcast ends, users can share a replay to Stories or choose “Discard.” If that’s the option they choose their live video will disappear from the app as usual.
Instagram says that users will be able to check out face filters in live videos over the next several weeks. It’s going to be a while before all Instagram users across the globe can try out this new feature.
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We’ve all found ourselves in situations when we’re mashing Ctrl-Alt-Del on the keyboard when our Windows PC freezes. We know it by heart and it’s normally the first fix we try when something goes wrong, nevermind the fact that it’s an awkward operation that requires you to use both hands. Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates has never been a fan of Ctrl-Alt-Del and turns out, he still doesn’t like it.
Gates called this a “mistake” back in 2013. He always wanted a single button for this function but “the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t want to give us our single button,” he said back then.
For those who are unaware, Ctrl-Alt-Del is a force quit function on Windows. It’s used when the OS freezes. The function also comes in handy when you want to call up the Task Manager or just want to reboot the system.
Speaking at a Bloomberg business forum, Gates maintains that this function should have been easier. “The IBM PC hardware keyboard only had one way that it could get a guaranteed interrupt generated,” he explained when asked about the function.
“So, clearly the people involved, they should have put another key on it to make that work. A lot of machines these days do have that as a more obvious function,” he added.
It seems like if Gates was ever able to travel back in time, he would make sure that this was a single-key function. That’s not going to be possible, though, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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Flappy Bird, the frustratingly popular game that took the world by storm a couple of years ago, still exists. Many of us have since been over the game once the hype died down but if you’re one of those who continues to play this game, keep in mind that Flappy Bird cannot be played on an iOS 11-powered device. This has been confirmed by the game’s creator Dong Nguyen himself.
Flappy Bird was launched back in May 2013. The game crossed 50 million downloads by February 2014. It caused so much controversy that Nguyen decided to take the game off of the App Store later that month.
Since then, iPhone users have been able to use various methods to keep the game alive on their handsets even after updating their phones. Nguyen hasn’t supported the game since. “My responsibility of supporting this app was finished since 2014,” he said in a Facebook comment.
Nguyen has confirmed that Flappy Bird won’t be compatible with iOS 11. That’s because Flappy Bird is a 32-bit app whereas Apple’s latest iteration of iOS has switched over to 64-bit apps. Nguyen could update Flappy Bird to 64-bit if he wanted and then it would work just fine with iOS 11. He’s not going to do that, though.
Nguyen has confirmed via his Facebook page that the original Flappy Bird title can not be played on an iOS 11 device. If you’re a Flappy Bird fan using a device that can be updated to iOS 11, the only option that you have is to not update to the latest and greatest iteration of iOS.
I’m not sure that would be a wise idea, though.
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