It’s an unfair and honestly unreasonable fact of life that not all smartphones of the same model are created equal. Depending on which market you’re on, you might have access to features or designs that aren’t available to others. Companies call it “strategic business decisions”. Consumers call it insane. Either way, Samsung isn’t bucking the trend this year with the … Continue reading
Domain names are pretty important when it comes to creating a brand identity. Imagine if your favorite brand had a weird domain name that was hard to remember, or imagine if Google wasn’t at Google.com and was at some weird and lengthy URL, wouldn’t that make you want to visit it less?
This is why cybersquatting is a problem where people register domains that they think could be valuable to someone else, and sell it back to them at a high price. Sometimes these disputes are handled in the courts, but in the case of 43-year old Sherman Hopkins Jr., he decided that he would try to hijack a domain name at gunpoint.
Last year Hopkins broke into the home of 26-year old Ethan Deyo and demanded that Deyo transfer ownership of the domain name “doitforstate.com” over to him. He held a gun to Deyo’s head and even used a stun gun on him during the entire encounter, but eventually Deyo managed to wrestle the gun away from Hopkins and shot him multiple times in the chest, to which he survived.
It is unclear as to why Hopkins wanted the domain in the first place, but regardless he has since been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Man Sent To Jail For Attempting To Hijack Domain Name At Gunpoint , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Not all emails are equal, where there are some that you’ll probably want to reply to ASAP, and others that you can probably take your time with (although you should still reply somewhat promptly). The good news is that Google has announced that they have updated its iOS app with smarter notifications.
What this means is that users can now choose to only allow notifications from emails that are deemed to be high priority. According to Google, “These notifications leverage Gmail’s machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to identify messages you may want to read first. To enable the feature, select ‘High priority only’ from the Notifications drop-down in the settings menu of your Gmail iOS app.”
Exactly how Google will determine this is unclear, but as Google states this will rely on machine learning and AI where presumably it will be based on emails that you reply more frequently, or those in which you might have initiated first. This would be much better than receiving notifications even from emails you would delete right away, such as promos.
That being said, iOS 12 is expected to address the way notifications are displayed but we suppose this is good too. The update to Gmail is now live in the iOS App Store so head on over if you haven’t updated already.
Gmail App Lets Users Limit Notifications To High Priority Emails , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Truth be told, Google’s VR and AR direction is all over the place. From Google Cardboard to Daydream and Project Tango to ARCore and, now WebXR. That last bit, however, may stand to have the biggest chance of making it big, depending on how much backing it gets from competing companies. WebXR is an up and coming web standard, like, … Continue reading
So Apple has been on a bit of a roll when it comes to obtaining original content for its video platform. However the big question many have is how will Apple launch it, and how much will it cost? According to a report from Recode (via 9to5Mac), the good news is that it could actually be cheaper than Netflix.
Netflix’s subscription prices have been steadily increasing over the years and if Apple plans on making it cheaper, there’s a good chance that it could prove to be competitive. This is according to Recode’s Peter Kafka who writes, “One TV executive who has talked to Apple tells me Apple says it intends to sell a standalone subscription to its original video shows, priced below Netflix, whose standard offering costs $11 a month in the U.S.”
Additional details in Recode’s report also include how Apple plans on distributing its content, where some industry observers believe that Apple could make some content free for Apple TV owners. They also claim that other industry watchers believe that Apple might create a huge bundle service, where it would include original video content, Apple Music, and also AppleCare.
Unfortunately there’s still no word on when Apple plans on launching this service, so take it with a grain of salt and we’ll just have to keep our eyes and ears peeled for more details.
Apple’s Video Subscription Service Could Be Cheaper Than Netflix , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
For years now we have heard the rumors that Samsung is working on a foldable phone. This phone is said to have a display that is flexible enough where it would allow the phone to be folded, although exactly by how much is anyone’s guess. However thanks to leaked photos from China, we might have an idea of what Samsung might have been planning.
The leaked photos are allegedly that of a certain SM-G929F smartphone, also known as “Project V”. This phone has apparently been cancelled from a while ago so it is possible that Samsung’s upcoming foldable phone could look nothing like this. However at the same time it is possible that it could clue us in as to what Samsung might be thinking.
Samsung Project V
SM-G929F
CANCEL pic.twitter.com/NhBLH6grZK— 萌萌的电教 (@MMDDJ_) June 16, 2018
We’re also not sure how far along Project V was in development because its design looks a tad crude and looks like two phones joined together via a hinge, suggesting that maybe the leaked photos could be that of a prototype. This is actually not the first time we’re seeing such a device as back in 2011 Kyocera actually launched something similar, and more recently in 2017 ZTE attempted a similar device with the Axom M.
In any case it’s probably best to take it with a grain of salt for now, but if the recent rumors are to be believed, Samsung’s foldable offering could cost as much as $2,000.
Leaked Photo Shows One Of Samsung’s Cancelled Foldable Phones , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
For a while we’ve known about Apple’s interest in self-driving cars and the technology behind it. We’re not sure what the company plans to do about it, but whatever the company is planning for the technology is certainly progressing thanks to a recent hire in the form of Jaime Waydo, a senior engineer who previously worked with Waymo and was also at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Speaking to The Information (paywall), Waydo’s former co-workers told the publication that she was “instrumental” at the company. To be more specific, Waydo checked the safety of Waymo’s prototypes and also helped to coach the company when they started conducting real-world road tests in Phoenix, Arizona. When at NASA, one of her accomplishments was developing one of the agency’s Mars rovers vehicle.
It is unclear what Waydo’s position will be at Apple, but given her work at Waymo, it is possible that Apple is trying to cover all their bases when it comes to safety features of self-driving cars, especially with recent incidents like the one involving Uber. Like we said it’s anyone’s guess as to what Apple plans to do with its self-driving tech.
Earlier rumors suggested that Apple could get into building cars, but it has been pointed out that this could be too big of an undertaking even for a company as big as Apple. An alternate possibility is that Apple could simply be looking to develop the technology and license it out, but either way we’ll just have to wait and see.
Apple Furthers Their Self-Driving Car Initiative With New Hires , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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For years, Samsung has been teasing how it is working towards the holy grail of mobile devices with foldable and even flexible screens. For a time, that boast was believed to be near completion with what was called Project Valley. That valley suddenly went silent and then there was news of its cancellation in favor of what would be called … Continue reading
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