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A couple of months ago, Apple confirmed that out-of-warranty repairs for the iPhone X’s screen will cost customers close to $300. This means that investing in a protective case or a screen protector might be a cheaper investment. Naturally many companies have since launched accessories of their own, including Belkin.

Unfortunately for customers who might have bought the company’s InvisGlass Ultra screen protector for the iPhone X, it looks like the company has temporarily halted the sales of the accessory following customer complaints. One customer wrote on Belkin’s website, “I loved the glass feel and everything was fine until a couple days ago when I lightly tapped on the top portion of the screen with my pen and it cracked! There are 3 crack lines coming from the initial crack point. I am very disappointed in the durability of this product to say the least.”

Belkin had initially denied any issues with the screen protector, but they have since changed their tune. In a statement provided to MacRumors, “We have been constantly testing this product since we released the first generation of it timed to iPhone X availability and things have evolved since you and I last spoke. We identified some improvements to be made in the next generation of this product.”

It is not known if Belkin has plans to refund existing customers, or allow them to swap their screen protectors for the newer and “improved” model, but hopefully they will.

Belkin Halts Sales Of iPhone X Screen Protector Following Complaints , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Self-driving cars come equipped with a variety of sensors and cameras, all of which have been designed to help it navigate roads, make turns, identify people or obstacles in its way, and so on. However according to Autoblog, it seems that Apple might have a potentially more efficient way of teaching self-driving cars how to navigate roads.

In a recently discovered patent dubbed “Autonomous Navigation System,” it describes a system in which the self-driving car will be able to navigate roads based on past driving experiences driven by a human. Basically after a route has been driven enough times based on its “confidence indicator”, the car will then be capable of driving that route itself. If you’ve ever played Mario Kart before and tried those timed laps with “ghosts”, you could think of this patent in a similar way, except with self-driving cars.

Of course the car won’t just drive and follow the route blindly and according to the patent, “can adapt to changes in a route independently of preexisting route characterizations, ‘maps,’ etc., including independently of data received from a remote service, system, etc., thereby reducing the amount of time required to enable autonomous navigation of the changed route.”

That being said, the patent was filed in 2015 and it is unclear if Apple might have adopted it into its current self-driving system, or if it was merely an idea that they toyed with but never implemented.

Apple Patent Hints At Navigation System For Autonomous Vehicles , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

The last time we saw a G.I. Joe movie was back in 2013, which means that it has been about 4 years since. However if you’re looking forward to a third G.I. Joe movie, you’re going to have to wait a couple more years, but the good news is that at least it has been confirmed, according to a report from Deadline.

According to the report, Paramount has announced a handful of new movies that will be released in 2020 and 2021, with a G.I. Joe movie confirmed for 2020 which means that fans will have a couple of years left to wait before it is released. Not much is known about the movie for now, including the casting, so we’ll have to wait and see.

What’s interesting is that Paramount’s announcement seems to be forming the basis of a potential Hasbro Cinematic Universe. G.I. Joe is under the Hasbro umbrella, along with Micronauts which is also scheduled for 2020. Paramount also announced a new Dungeons & Dragons film for 2021 (D&D is under Wizards of the Coast, which in turn is also under Hasbro), followed by a fourth unnamed Hasbro film that is also scheduled for the later part of 2021.

Given that Hasbro has many well-known toys and franchises under their name, no doubt that these movies are something that fans are probably looking forward to in the next few years.

New G.I. Joe Movie Confirmed For 2020 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Google is a company with many products and services under its umbrella, with some products being focused on more than others. An example would be Android, in which unsurprisingly Google is giving it a lot of attention given how we are so reliant on our mobile phones these days, and also how Android is the most dominant smartphone OS.

However Google also has other products such as Android TV, which only at this year’s Google I/O did the company announce their plans for a major redesign of the platform (finally). To that end, it seems that Google will be phasing out legacy recommendations on Android TV, which is basically part of the home screen ever since its inception.

According to Google, “Over the next year, we will phase out the automatic generation of channels. Instead of generating multiple channels, one for each app’s legacy recommendations, we will insert one channel for all legacy recommendations. This channel will appear at the bottom of the channel list. Users can move or remove it. When a user upgrades to Android O, the previous recommendation row from Android N (and below) becomes a channel at the bottom of the home screen.”

That being said, we have to wonder with these changes could it hint at Google’s plan for more Android TV devices in the future?

Google Phases Out Legacy Recommendations On Android TV , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

While Fujifilm’s cameras have been highly-regarded when it comes to still photos, the company isn’t exactly known for their video. Instead it seems that what many videographers and vloggers seem to prefer is either Sony or the Panasonic Lumix GH5, at least in more recent times. However Fujifilm might want to change that perception.

A report from FujiAddict from a couple of weeks ago revealed the existence of an upcoming Fujifilm camera called the X-H1, which is apparently a camera aimed at videographers, at least based on the alleged specs. This includes IBIS (in-body image stabilization), 4K video at 30fps, HD video at 120fps, a sub monochrome LCD monitor, a deeper hand grip, and it is said to be dust and weather resistant.

A follow-up report from PhotoRumors has added more details about the alleged device, such as how its design is said to resemble the Fuji GFX, but will be smaller like the X-T2. It is also rumored to cost between $1,900 to $2,000, but it is unclear if this is the body-only price or the price that comes with a kit lens.

Given that this is supposed to be an X-series camera, presumably it should play nicely with Fujifilm’s lineup of XF lenses, but we’ll have to wait and see. No word on a launch date but it has been pegged for a 2018 launch, but until we get the official word do take it with a grain of salt.

Alleged Fujifilm X-H1 Specs Revealed, Aimed At Videographers , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.