Jan 31
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Says Trump Hasn’t Read Secret Memo He Wants Released
Posted in: Today's ChiliJustice Department officials have issued warnings on the potential dangers of making the classified information public.
Jan 31
Lego bricks (or, if you’re not a pedant, Legos) are highly precise and highly consistent plastic objects. Anywhere you go in the world the Lego is the same. That means that scientists at MIT can use these little sole stabbers to create very precise scientific systems. Their first tests involves creating a microfluid pump and sorter using basic Lego parts. Because they can trust Lego… Read More
Jan 31
How do I see the Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse today? That’s the question the entirety of the United States seems to be asking right this minute. By the time this article is released, it might already be in the sky for you! Have a peek at the timeline below to see when and where this extremely rare occurrence is … Continue reading
Jan 31
Artificial intelligence is already everywhere, so it’s inevitable that it would invade the arts. Yahama showed a new kind of AI tech that translated the movements of renowned dancer Kaiji Moriyama into musical notes on a piano, “a form of expression…
Jan 31
Uber’s piloting a new service in San Francisco alongside dockless bike-sharing startup Jump. Uber Bike will let users rent one of Jump’s 250 bikes, charging $2 for the first 30 minutes and an additional per-minute fee thereafter. Jump was granted a p…
Jan 31
What would happen if Alexa lost her voice? According to Amazon’s Super Bowl commercial for 2018, the company would bring in famous people to fill in the gaps. The new Alexa spot features Jeff Bezos hesitantly approving a plan to substitute in celebri…
Jan 31
Nokia has been playing on our nostalgia with recent phones like the 3310 3G. Apparently, it’s been working well for them because the company is now introducing a 4G version of the phone in China. According to CNET the device will be available in Febr…
Jan 31
Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. Users can make their own playlists in the app and can also access recommended playlists based on their listening preferences. However, it seems that Spotify wants to see if users will be interested in a streaming app which lets them listen to playlists only. It’s testing a new app called Stations which is just for listening to playlists.
The Spotify Stations app is available for download from the Google Play Store but the listing page mentions that it’s not compatible with handsets in the United States and many other markets. It only appears to be available in Australia.
Spotify says that the app is “the easiest way to listen to the music you love. Totally free,” but it’s also quick to point out that this isn’t a new product, at least not now. The company describes Stations as an “experiment,” so it depends on this test whether or not the app will be released for everyone.
Stations starts playing music as soon as the app is launched which reduces the steps that users have to take to get to their music. All playlists are displayed in a large font and users can switch between them easily just by scrolling. No typing or searching necessary. The service is ad-supported and no one gets the ability to skip tracks, not even Premium members.
It even includes Spotify’s popular personalized playlists like Discover Weekly and Release Radar. Users can’t create new playlists within Stations but they can customize which ones appear in the main menu.
The app is only available for Android devices right now and it’s unclear if Spotify will expand the experiment to iOS devices as well.
Spotify’s New App Is For Listening To Playlists Only , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jan 31
It was reported this week that Samsung has started developing chips for bitcoin mining. The company isn’t selling them to the public, though, it was reportedly supplying them to a China-based bitcoin mining equipment manufacturer. Samsung has now confirmed the report and acknowledged that it’s indeed producing ASIC chips that are used to mine bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
“Samsung’s foundry business is currently engaged in the manufacturing of cryptocurrency mining chips,” a spokesperson for the company confirmed to TechCrunch, adding that the company is unable to disclose further information about its customers at this time.
So while it’s confirming that it’s producing these chips, Samsung isn’t saying who it’s supplying these ASIC chips to. It declined to provide more details about this when asked by the scribe.
The report that came out earlier this week claimed that Samsung has made this move in partnership with a distribution partner in China. The company already produces high-capacity memory chips for GPUs which are also used for mining cryptocurrencies.
This appears to be the first proper move that Samsung has made to establish itself in the hardware market specifically for mining rigs. The company only showed off an experiment earlier which involved several dozen Galaxy S5s combined together to develop a unique bitcoin mining rig.
Samsung Confirms It’s Manufacturing Chips For Bitcoin Mining , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Jan 31
You may have heard about the batterygate controversy by now. Apple acknowledged recently that it slows down old iPhones with chemically degraded batteries to prevent unexpected shutdowns. Given that it didn’t communicate this properly when this functionality was pushed out via an iOS update, many felt that the company was simply slowing down old iPhones because it wants customers to upgrade. It was reported yesterday that the DOJ and SEC are now investigating the matter and Apple has confirmed that it’s responding to some “government agencies.”
Apple has since apologized for batterygate and now offers battery replacements for out of warranty devices for $29 instead of the $79 it used to charge previously. The company has also said that it will allow users to opt out of this functionality with the next iOS update.
The company has now confirmed that government officials have questioned it about the software update that allowed it to slow down old iPhones. “We have received questions from some government agencies and we are responding to them,” Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller confirmed to The Washington Post.
The statement doesn’t refer to any specific agency but the report yesterday claimed that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission are now looking into the matter. They’re apparently trying to ascertain if Apple may have violated securities laws.
“As we told our customers in December, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades,” Apple reiterated in its statement.
Apple In Touch With ‘Government Agencies’ Over iPhone Batterygate , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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