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We know that many are without a doubt looking forward to the release of the final season of Game of Thrones. Unfortunately it seems that we will have to wait until 2019 because that’s when the final season is expected to be released, but the question is when exactly in 2019 will it be released?

According to HBO programming president Casey Bloys, he has confirmed that the season is expected to debut in the first half of the year. Bloys was quoted as saying, “I don’t think we’ve announced the date, so sometime in ’19. I’m not gonna tell you what to expect, but it’s pretty great.” When pressed further for specifics, Bloys admitted that it would be in the first half, but beyond that nothing else.

This shouldn’t be surprising because previous Game of Thrones seasons have been released in the first half of the year, so we doubt that season eight should break from tradition. However as you might recall, Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams seemed to have confirmed that the final season will debut in April 2019, so it’s strange that Bloys would not at the very least confirm that.

In any case only time will tell as we expect HBO will confirm a more specific date at a later point in time. In the meantime while it will be saddening to see the series end, HBO is said to have ordered a pilot episode for a Game of Thrones prequel which means that we can expect to see more Game of Thrones-related content in the future.

Game Of Thrones Season 8 Confirmed For First Half Of 2019 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

Hey, good morning! Welcome to Thursday! We’re talking about Samsung’s ‘unbreakable’ phone screen, how Facebook is making money no matter how much bad news comes its way, and those bloody, non-meat burgers from Impossible? They’re safe for consumption…

When you think of digital assistants, admittedly Siri might not be the first name that comes to mind. This is due to the fact that despite Siri sort of being the first digital assistant to be launched on modern day smartphones, it isn’t quite as accurate or as fast or as comprehensive compared to the competition.

Apple definitely knows this and is no doubt working on making improvements, and those improvements show. According to a recent test conducted by Loup Ventures (via 9to5Mac), it seems that Siri is now capable of answering more questions accurately compared to a year ago. To be more specific, the test found that Siri has a 78.5% accuracy, a huge improvement over last year’s 66%.

However it seems that despite being able to answer more questions accurately, the somewhat disturbing finding was that Siri actually understood most of the questions, but only managed to answer 78.5% of them. According to Loup Ventures, out of the 800 questions asked, Siri apparently understood 99% of them.

As for the competition, Loup Ventures found that Google Assistant understood 100% of the questions, and managed to answer 85% of them. That being said, while this is an improvement there is no doubt that Siri could stand to be further improved upon. Last we heard Apple was apparently considering giving Siri an overhaul, but whether or not that happens remains to be seen.

Test Finds That Apple Has Made Improvements To Siri Since 2017 , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

If there is a “problem” with many a smartphone these days is that most of them are starting to feature batteries that cannot be swapped out or replaced easily. This means that if your phone’s battery is depleted, you can’t just swap in a fresh one. However Panasonic has decided to keep that feature around with its new Android Toughbooks.

Coming in the form of the Toughbook T1 and the Toughbook L1 (the former is a 5-inch smartphone and the latter a 7-inch tablet), one of the key features of either device is the fact that its batteries are “warm swappable”. This means that users will be able to swap out the batteries on either device without having to reboot it.

Note that this is different from hot swappable where you can swap out components, like a keyboard on a computer, while the computer is still active. Warm swappable usually requires the computer being in some kind of idle or suspended mode. That being said, apart from their warm swappable batteries, both smartphone and tablet come with features aimed at business and enterprise users.

For example they have been designed to be rugged for daily use in all kinds of conditions with MIL-STD-810G specifications and IP66/68 ratings, and will also come with barcode readers so that they can be used to process products like in a factory. They both also promise long-lasting battery life. Unfortunately neither device will come cheap as they are priced starting at $1,500.

Panasonic’s Android Toughbooks’ Batteries Can Be Swapped On The Fly , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.

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