Nike is the new apparel maker for the NBA and tonight it officially rolled out updated jerseys for the teams. They’re specially constructed to keep players cool and allow for freedom of movement, but there’s a new feature for fans too. They’ll debut…
In less than three weeks, the NFL defensive end’s crowdfunding campaign grew beyond $37 million.
“We should welcome all those who are willing and able to serve our country.”
Violet Mosse-Brown, aka Aunt V, said her secrets to long life were hard work and faith.
Despite being a retail exclusive at Sprint, the Essential PH-1 has arrived as an unlocked device. However, as mobile fans are unfortunately familiar with, certification with one particular network is always tricky. Tonight Essential announced that it…
With the launch of the new iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus handsets, Apple introduced a new chipset in the form of the A11 Bionic. This chipset represents a first for Apple in the sense that it is the first A-series chipset to sport six cores, but it is also the first A-series chipset to feature a dedicated neural engine (for use with Face ID).
In a recent interview with Mashable, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller and SVP of Hardware Technology Johny Srouji revealed that the A11 Bionic was a chipset that was three years in the making. It seems that work was being done on the chipset when the iPhone 6 was shipping out, which was back in 2014, and this was well before was speaking publicly about AI or machine learning. According to Srouji, “The neural engine embed, it’s a bet we made three years ahead.”
In fact it seems that Apple’s work has paid off, as there have been some Geekbench sightings in which it has been suggested that the A11 Bionic chipset performs on par with some of Apple’s MacBook Pros, although to be fair last year’s A10 Fusion was also reported to have performed just as well.
Unsurprisingly when asked if Apple was already looking towards the future as far as their next-gen of silicon solutions are concerned, Srouji was quoted as saying, “We’re thinking ahead, I’ll tell you that, and I don’t think we’ll be limited. It’s getting harder.”
Apple’s A11 Bionic Chipset Was 3 Years In The Making , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Before the iPhone X was announced, early rumors about the phone suggested that Apple could be looking to embed the fingerprint scanner into the display of the phone, but apparently this plan was later scrapped as Apple could not get the feature to work in time, and ultimately chose to use Face ID as a replacement feature.
As it turns out that might not have been the case, at least according to a post on Daring Fireball by John Gruber, a well-known and well-connected Apple insider. According to Gruber, it seems that Apple had decided at least a year ago that the iPhone X would feature Face ID as its main security feature.
The report claims that Apple did try to embed a Touch ID sensor into the display, but apparently that was actually Plan B. It seems that Apple was convinced pretty early on that Face ID was the way to go. This was apparently “confirmed” by several sources at Apple, including engineers who worked on the iPhone X.
Some of the rumors were right in the sense that Apple never got Touch ID to work on the iPhone X, but it was because they did not pursue it and abandoned the idea early on, as opposed to technological hurdles. In any case take it with a grain of salt, but it is clear that Face ID is the way of the future for Apple products. Whether or not it will work as intended remains to be seen, but we’ll have to wait until November to find out for ourselves.
Face ID Replacing Touch ID On The iPhone X Was Not A Last Minute Decision , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
There are many burning questions that many have about the new Face ID security feature found on Apple’s new iPhone X. Many of these questions will most likely be answered when the phone is released and people have had more time to play around with it, but there is one question that some are asking and that is how do we prevent our faces from being scanned?
This is an interesting question because if you were to be mugged, the robber could hold your face up to the phone and have it unlock even if you were unwilling, or the cops could do the same as well. However in a recent interview with TechCrunch, Apple’s Craig Federighi revealed that users could quickly disable Face ID in such situations.
According to Federighi, “On older phones the sequence was to click 5 times [on the power button], but on newer phones like iPhone 8 and iPhone X, if you grip the side buttons on either side and hold them a little while — we’ll take you to the power down [screen]. But that also has the effect of disabling Face ID. So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone — you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID.”
Now exactly how fast this will work remains to be seen, but it seems that the uncertainty of the feature has led to some unscrupulous sellers online who are selling full face masks that they claim will protect users from identity theft from Face ID.
Apple Says Face ID Can Be Disabled In Emergency Situations , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
One of the new features of Safari that users can expect in iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra is called “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, with the main idea being that if you use Safari to browse the web, it will block cookies from tracking you across multiple websites, thus preventing those very targeted and personal ads that you see from time to time.
Clearly this is great news for users, but advertisers weren’t too happy about it and various advertising groups penned an open letter to Apple about the feature. Apple has since responded to those criticisms in a statement provided to The Loop, in which the company doesn’t seem to appear to be too concerned about it.
The statement reads in part, “Apple believes that people have a right to privacy – Safari was the first browser to block third party cookies by default and Intelligent Tracking Prevention is a more advanced method for protecting user privacy.” Apple goes on to add, “The feature does not block ads or interfere with legitimate tracking on the sites that people actually click on and visit. Cookies for sites that you interact with function as designed, and ads placed by web publishers will appear normally.”
So if privacy is something that you really value when you browse the web, then perhaps you might want to consider using Safari for your browsing needs (if you are using an iOS device or a Mac computer), although we wouldn’t be surprised if other browsers were to offer up similar features in the future as well.
Apple Responds To Advertisers Over Safari Cooking Blocking Criticism , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
If you’re looking to experience what it’s like to fly a drone in a first-person perspective, then you might be interested to learn that Parrot has taken the wraps off its latest drone, the Parrot Mambo FPV which will allow drone owners to fly the drone from a first-person view, thanks to the use of a headset.
The headset, dubbed the Parrot Cockpitglasses 2, will allow users to insert a smartphone up to 6-inches in size. From there and when paired with the smartphone app, will let users fly the drone and see what it sees from an aerial point of view. This will offer up a more immersive experience compared to if you were just trying to control the drone via a smartphone or tablet, although we guess this could also be quite nauseating for those who get motion sickness easily.
As for the drone itself, Parrot is marketing the Mambo as being the perfect drone for beginner pilots. This is because the drone will come with varying levels of difficulty when using it, meaning that users can choose to enable Easy mode where they can control every aspect of it, to more difficult/advanced modes like Drift mode where horizontal stabilization is disabled, or Racing mode where autopilot is removed and everything is done manually.
The Parrot Mambo FPS is priced at $180 which will include the drone, obviously, along with an FPV HD camera, the headset, and a flypad to control the drone with. It will be available for purchase this month, so keep an eye out for it if this sounds like something you might be interested in.
Parrot’s Mambo FPV Drone Let’s You Fly It First-Person Style , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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