May 23
Congress Not Convinced Sports Officials Trying To Prevent Predators Like Nassar
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe heads of several sports organizations engulfed in sexual abuse scandals faced grilling from a House committee.
May 23
The president’s Twitter feed is a “public forum,” the judge found.
May 23
“The callousness that our country has for life is very disturbing,” GOP candidate Wendy Rogers said.
May 23
This week the folks at Twitch responsible for non-gaming content announced they’re bringing Doctor Who into the mix. They’ll be pushing over 500 original Doctor Who episodes to the streaming video platform, all from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. That’s the beginning of the show in 1963 through the 1980s, all broadcast on Twitch over a seven-week period. For those … Continue reading
May 23
It’s not only the notchless display that sets the new HTC U12+ apart from its Android rivals this year, with the phone-maker doubling down on its pressure-sensing sides. Dubbed Edge Sense 2, it’s an upgraded and expanded control system that takes into account not only how you’re squeezing the phone, but how you’re holding it too. Back when HTC debuted … Continue reading
May 23
In a small effort to increase visibility and transparency in the upcoming US midterm elections, Twitter will add labels to political candidates. Only those running for state Governor, the US Senate or House of Representatives will get the added info:…
May 23
It wouldn’t be an Acer launch event without high-powered gaming PCs in the mix, and this year is no exception. The company is kicking things off with the Predator Helios 500, a 17.3-inch brute of a laptop with up to an overclockable Core i9 chip (wi…
May 23
While the PlayStation Vita didn’t exactly set the world alight, there still might be a future in portable gaming for Sony. Gaming division head John Kodera said, according to Bloomberg, that Sony is testing mobile gaming efforts, which he believes sh…
May 23
After one of Uber’s autonomous cars in Arizona collided with and killed a pedestrian back in March, the state’s governor temporarily suspended the program pending investigation. But now the company is shutting down operations in Arizona entirely. An…
May 23
If you tend to read a lot of ebooks or long-form articles on your smartphone then you might be aware of that slight moment of panic that you have when the handset’s screen dims as a sign that the phone will put itself to sleep in 30 seconds or a minute maximum as the display times out due to inactivity. You can keep it from sleeping by tapping on the display but Android P will bring an easier way to ensuring that the device doesn’t put itself to sleep. It will use the fingerprint sensor which is increasingly being relocated to the back of smartphones by OEMs.
As more and more manufacturers opt for tall, bezel-less displays, the obvious concession they have to make is to relocate the fingerprint sensor to the back. This puts the sensor in a position that’s easily reachable when you’re holding the device as you normally would for this Android P improvement to make sense.
AndroidPolice reports that on Android P, you can touch the fingerprint sensor once the display has dimmed and the timeout will be reset. The device won’t vibrate as confirmation but the display will light up and that’s confirmation enough.
This means that you no longer have to change your location in the text that you’re reading or unnecessarily scroll the screen to prevent the device from putting itself to sleep. The scribe mentions that this doesn’t work on the first preview build of Android P on the first generation Pixel but does work with the second-generation Pixel on Android P DP2.
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