Aug 25
Twitter Wits Go Bonkers Over ‘Trump Gibberish’ That ‘Media Is Destroying The Free Press’
Posted in: Today's Chili“The president is destroying the presidency,” one critic snaps back.
Aug 25
Anthony Scaramucci Turns Up At Hamptons Charity Event Featuring … Joe Biden
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Mooch says he’s still a Republican, and searching for a GOP candidate to challenge Trump, who has “lost his mind.”
Aug 25
Wall Street Journal To ‘Chairman’ Trump: ‘This Isn’t The People’s Republic of America’
Posted in: Today's ChiliEditorial slams Trump’s order to U.S. businesses, “blowing a gasket” and tanking stocks in no-win trade war with China.
Aug 25
Aug 25
One of the differences between Apple Music and Spotify would be its free trial period. Apple Music offers a 3 month free trial, while Spotify offers just one. However, this is kind of understandable because Spotify has a free and ad-supported listening tier, meaning that in theory, users will be able to “try” Spotify for as long as they like before they make the switch to Spotify Premium.
That being said, there is some good news for would-be Spotify Premium subscribers, because in an announcement made by Spotify, the company has revealed that they will be extending its free trial period from one month to three months, matching other services like Apple Music. According to Spotify, “Beginning August 22, eligible users will receive the first three months on us for free when they sign up for Spotify Premium. You’ll unlock a world of on-demand access to millions of hours of audio content—no matter when you sign up.”
For those who are unfamiliar with the difference between the free version of Spotify and Spotify Premium, one of the main differences would be that Premium has no ads. This means that it will offer up an uninterrupted listening experience. It will also offer on-demand music, where users will be able to choose their songs and skip tracks as often as they wish.
There will also the ability to download music and podcasts where users will be able to listen to them offline in the event that they have no internet.
Spotify Extends Its Free Trial Period To 3 Months , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 25
Moment’s New 37mm Filters Helps You Take Cinematic Shots With Your Smartphone
Posted in: Today's ChiliOur smartphone cameras have evolved in a huge way ever since cameras were introduced to phones. They are on par with compact cameras, thus negating the need to bring around a separate camera, or at least in some cases. If you’re looking to step up your mobile photography game, then you might want to check out Moment’s latest offering.
The company has recently taken the wraps off their new 37mm Cinematic Filter for smartphones that will be compatible with both iPhones and Android devices. These filters include a circular polarizer filter which is typically used to help reduce glare from the sun and reflections in photographs, and also an ND filter that will help lower the exposure of the camera so that users will be able to take long-exposure photos without overexposing their images.
These are 37mm filters which means that they will work with 37mm threaded lenses. However, if you’d rather not spend more money on an external lens for your smartphone, not to worry because Moment has also included a filter mount where you’ll be able to attach the filters to your smartphone’s default lens (you will still need the Moment case).
If this sounds like something you might be interested in, you can head on over to Moment’s website where you’ll be able to pick up individual filters or you can grab the entire bundle.
Moment’s New 37mm Filters Helps You Take Cinematic Shots With Your Smartphone , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 25
If you’re thinking about buying a new iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, or MacBook, you might want to hold off for the next month or so. This is because according to a recent sighting at the Eurasian Economic Commission, it seems that Apple has filed for a bunch of new products, suggesting that product refreshes could be coming soon.
Starting with the MacBook, there were 11 filings made for “portable personal computers”. If you recall, Apple had previously registered some models with the EEC, but the new sighting reveals at least four new models which are A1466, A1932, A1989 and A1990. This brings the total number of registered MacBooks to 11, although it doesn’t mean that there will be 11 different MacBook models, but rather these are the different configurations for the MacBooks.
There were also filings made for the Apple Watch, which presumably are for the Series 5 models which include A1858, A1859, A1975, A1976, A1977, A1978, A2007, A2008, A2092, A2093, A2156 and A2157. There also appears to be hints that the iPod Touch which was refreshed earlier this year, and also for the iPhones and iPads.
There is no word on when all these products are expected to be launched, but the iPhones have been rumored to be launching in September so we probably won’t have to wait much longer, although we expect that any MacBook or iPad refreshes will probably take place towards the end of the year.
Database Reveals That Apple Has Registered A Bunch Of New Products , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 25
How do platforms like YouTube and Netflix recommend videos to watch? This is largely based on algorithms in which it looks at the videos you’ve watched in the past and tries to recommend other videos and movies that it thinks are in a similar vein. How accurate are these recommendations? Sometimes they can be pretty spot-on, but are they necessarily the best way to go about it?
Maybe not, because it looks like Netflix has decided to start testing out human-curated content in a feature called “Collections”. In a way, this will be similar to the current recommendation system where it recommends users new shows to watch. However, the videos are grouped into different categories such as “Let’s Keep It Light” or “Dark & Devious TV Shows” or “Prizewinning Movie Picks”.
This sounds similar to other recommendation systems used by other platforms like Spotify, where instead of being genre-based, it is mood/category based. Netflix has confirmed that they are testing out the feature, although the company stopped short of saying if it will become a permanent thing.
In a statement made to TechCrunch, a spokesperson said, “We’re always looking for new ways to connect our fans with titles we think they’ll love, so we’re testing out a new way to curate Netflix titles into collections on the Netflix iOS app. Our tests generally vary in how long they run for and in which countries they run in, and they may or may not become permanent features on our service.”
Netflix To Start Testing Human-Curated ‘Collections’ , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 25
Apple is slowly making the transition to USB-C across its devices. All of its MacBooks have seemingly ditched legacy ports like USB 3.0 and the DisplayPort in favor of Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C. However, this in turn created a problem because it meant that iPhone and iPad users could no longer connect or charge their devices via their MacBooks without an adapter.
The company sort of addressed that with their 2018 iPad Pros that made the switch to USB-C, and it seems that the company will be slowly making those changes to its iPhones as well. This is according to a tweet by ChargerLAB who alleges that this year’s iPhones might come with a USB-C charger.
However, we should point out that only the charger is USB-C, and that the iPhones are still expected to continue using a Lightning port. What this means is that the inclusion of the USB-C charger means that Apple will most likely bundle it with a USB-C to Lightning cable, thus allowing iPhone users to connect their devices to their MacBooks without the need for an adapter or dongle.
There have been rumors suggesting that Apple could eventually drop Lightning in favor of USB-C. After all, they already did it with the iPad, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to imagine that they would eventually do it with the iPhone, but maybe not this year.
2019’s iPhones Might Ship With A USB-C Charger , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Aug 25
We’re sure some of you have come across certain websites while using Google Chrome where you are prompted if you want the site to send you notifications. These notifications are usually used by sites to let you know if there are any updates to it. However, the notification request prompt can be rather annoying and intrusive, but that could change soon.
According to a report from XDA Developers, it appears that Google is working on introducing some changes to Chrome on both Android and desktop that will make these prompts less intrusive. For example, on Chrome for Android, the new flag reads, “Enables quieter permission prompts for notification permission requests. When a site wishes to show notifications, the usual modal dialog is replaced with a quieter version.”
However, for Chrome for desktop, it seems that Google could be looking to block these prompts entirely. The flag reads, “Notifications are currently blocked for all sites except for sites you individually allow.” It also seems that Chrome could eventually learn about what you prefer, where it seems that if you keep blocking notification requests a few times, it will block all of them automatically based on your past habits. However, note that these changes aren’t actually live yet so there is no guarantee that it will become an actual feature.
Chrome Will Soon Make Those Notification Request Prompts Less Annoying , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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