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For those unaware, back in 2018, LG and Samsung had agreed to sell their own smartphones in their existing stores to avoid competing with smaller phone distributors and give them an opportunity to earn money. When LG decided to sell iPhones, this decision was met with resistance from local phone distributors over the plan, who accused the company of violating the 2018 agreement that prevented anti-competitive behavior from LG and Samsung....

LG Innotek, a subsidiary owned by the Korean tech giant states that it’s developed a 15 watt wireless charging module, making it three times faster than the current five-watt wireless solutions. According to LG Innotek, the product follows the standards set forth by the World Wireless Power Consortium and AirFuel Alliance, which is simple words means that it will be compatible with all smartphones that feature an in-built wireless charging module....

One of the biggest changes in Linux 4.6 is support for a more ARM based mobile chipsets, which no doubt includes the 14nm FinFET and might we add extremely powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. Additionally, IBM’s POWER9 finds its first support, even though the chip is not going to arrive until late 2016. Since rc7, there’s been small noise all over, with driver fixes being the bulk of it, but there is minor noise all over (perf tooling, networking, filesystems, documentation, some small arch fixes....

Literary essay writers have a big responsibility on their shoulders. They should be focused on their work because they are presenting a unique piece of art to people and it would be unfair if the original idea is misinterpreted or mis-presented. Given below in this article are some of the basic tips and tricks that a beginner literary essay writer could use to come up with a good analytical piece of literature....

So what are data recorders? Any passenger ship that weighs in excess of 150 tons must have a data recorder present on it since it collects a wealth of data concerning the ship’s systems as well as audio from the bridge of the ship, radio communications, radar, and navigation data. Data recorders also help to uncover the mysteries of a ship in case the vessel has suffered a severe accident of any kind....

Given this huge influx of wearable devices (and the profit from them), many companies are entering the market with new products — so how do companies differentiate themselves? Take a look at Lucyd, a Singapore-based company that is changing the wearables market by bringing amazing technology into high profile smartglasses. Their frames combine fashion with user-friendly, hands-on technology that seamlessly integrates into everyday situations. Imagine listening to music, taking calls, and using voice commands through your glasses....

It is also reiterated that YIFY, the movie release group, and YTS.to, the website from where the group operated, are officially dead, as we previously reported here. YIFY/YTS’s closure was sealed when the American movie maker’s association, MPAA managed to zero in on YTS leader, a young man living in suburban Auckland, in New Zealand. Once his identity was confirmed, MPAA sued for damages after which the two parties reached an out of court agreement....

Bypassing the Firewall Microsoft has announced that a group going by the name of Platinum has made use of Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) to bypass Window’s firewall completely. The tool is available on machines running Intel’s vPro line of processors and chipsets. The group has its own file transfer tool which utilizes – for its communication services – Serial-over-LAN (SOL) channel from within the AMT. This channel has been designed to operate independently of the Operating System running on the machine and therefore, the tool is able to bypass Window’s firewall thus making it ” invisible to firewall and network monitoring applications running on the host device....

George Takei, Facebook’s resident sharer of stuff that makes us laugh, posted a video credited to the video feed Jukin Media in which an unnamed user is seen trying out an Oculus headset inside a Microsoft store. However, sometime later, while climbing up a virtual mountain, the man has an unexpected fall not only in-game but also in real life. The video has been viewed 8.5 million times. On checking the video, one can see that the man is playing a game in which he is climbing some virtual cliff or mountain....

Skeye has come up with a NANO drone of just the size which can easily fit into your pocket. With dimensions measuring less than 2-inches at 1.57″ x 1.57″ x 0.87″, the Skeye Nano Drone is the world’s smallest precision-controlled quadcopter which is perfect for airborne stunts like figure 8s, banking turns, flips, etc, both indoors and out. Skeye is listed on StackSocial and weighs just 11.9 grams and has responsive controls which give it good stability and maneuverability....

Sergey Brin, Page’s co-founder of Google, will become President of Alphabet and Eric Schmidt will be its Executive Chairman. Meanwhile, Sundar Pichai, Google’s former Senior Vice President of products will now become the CEO of Google under Alphabet. Even as it’s reorganized into Alphabet, Google will retain its core businesses like Search, Maps, Android, YouTube and Google’s cash cow, the ad business. Making way for the new corporation, Google will be reduced down slightly in areas mainly to do with new advancements that are recognizably different from the company’s internet-based offerings....

Szymon Waliczek is from the Ubuntu Touch Manager project, a graphical software that allowed users of Ubuntu Phone to take screenshots of the Ubuntu Touch’s Unity user interface, as well as send and receive files from their devices. The developer has posted a 20-second long video along with a few pictures of the comparison on his Google+ page to show the comparison between the Android and Ubuntu Touch-powered devices running the popular Fish Tank test in the default web browser software of each device....

According to the provisions of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, government authorities and law enforcement agencies like intelligence and security services, police and the armed forces would be free to hack into devices belonging to Britons and visitors to United Kingdom to obtain data, such as communications, when they have a warrant to do so. The draft bill has been pilloried by netizens on social network however, the government argues that the hacking provisions – part of the wider internet surveillance legislation – are needed so that law enforcement can intercept the communications of criminals even when they are encrypted....

For those unaware, the EdgeDeflector app parses the microsoft-edge:// links and redirects them to regular https:// links that it tells Windows to open in your default web browser. The user needs to simply to install the free EdgeDeflector app and choose it as the default for microsoft-edge:// links instead of Microsoft Edge. However, Microsoft has now made it difficult to hijack the protocol between Windows 11 Insider builds 22483 and 22494....

Recently, the software giant announced the release of Quantum Katas, an open source project on GitHub for those who wish to learn about quantum programming and how to program in the Q# language. Quantum Katas is a “series of self-paced tutorials aimed at teaching you elements of quantum computing and Q# programming at the same time.” It is a series of programming exercises that provide immediate feedback as you progress....

For those unaware, the messaging platform WhatsApp has updated its Privacy Policy wherein the service will now be sharing user data with other Facebook companies starting February 8th. WhatsApp has garnered sharp criticism over the change in its privacy policy, as the new policy is completely in contrast to what Facebook had initially promised at the time of acquisition in 2014. Back then, WhatsApp had assured that its goal is to know “as little as possible....

For those unaware, Project Natick is an initiative by Microsoft to test the feasibility of an energy-efficient, low-latency cloud computing facility on the ocean floor and to bring cloud computing infrastructure closer to big cities near large water bodies. Microsoft’s vision is to see self-contained data centers placed hundreds of feet below sea level removing the biggest cost of running these operations on land — Air Conditioning. In July 2014, Microsoft kicked off the first phase of Project Natick but it was formally unveiled to the public only in February 2016....

Unbeknownst to us there is lot of churning happening in the browser market. Yesteryear king, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the new baby, Edge are slowly and steadily losing ground in the desktop browser space. According to a new study for the month April, 2016 by web analytics company StatCounter, this is the first time Mozilla Firefox has more usage share than the two other browsers combined. The king, Google Chrome continues to reign supreme....

The Math Solver tool driven by the Bing search engine is a boon for students and professionals who are looking for quick solutions to solve complicated mathematical formulas on their browser in a matter of seconds. A new toggle called the “Show Math Solver button” was discovered by a Reddit user, Leopeva64-2 over at r/Edge, and can be found in the Settings > Appearance section for Edge Canary. When enabled, the browser will add a dedicated button on the toolbar....

Spotted first by Twitter user Rafael Rivera on Twitter, the website lists the advantages of developing apps with WinUI, including native performance and future-proofing apps. WinUI allows developers to access and use Fluent Design for Windows and native WinUI controls in Win32 apps. It can also be used in any Windows 10 UWP XAML app via NuGet packages, or in a Xamarin or Uno Platform. Recently, Microsoft had expanded the reach of WinUI by releasing WinUI 3....