Weekly poll: Best new phone of the week

This week saw a surge in phone announcements. The newcomers span a wide range of sizes, capabilities and price tags. You can get more familiar with them in our New phones of the weeks article.

We picked out the eight most interesting phones and we’re curious to see what you think of them. Which one is ‘best’?

Clearly we don’t mean the best specs, pricier phones tend to have an advantage there. Then again, the ZUK Z2 offers a great deal on a Snapdragon 820 chipset, a great battery and an ISOCELL camera.

LG and Sony focused on more affordable devices this week. The LG X Power has…

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Weekly poll: Best new phone of the week

Week 22 in review: Asus Zenfone 3 and OnePlus 3 rumors

The past few days were pretty busy – we were bombarded with announcements. Asus definitely managed to stand out, thanks to its new ZenFone3 lineup – the new family already has a basic, Delux and Ultra model on offer. Naturally, in traditional Asus fashion, we expect a lot more Zenfone 3 variants and modifications down the road and word is already out of a possible Snapdragon 823 powered Delux model, said to hit Asia in August.

Continuing down the list of announced handsets, we find the ZUK Z2. An ISOCELL camera, Snapdragon 820 SoC and 4GB of RAM sound almost too good to be true for…

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Week 22 in review: Asus Zenfone 3 and OnePlus 3 rumors

Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after “sexual mistreatment” allegations

Jacob Appelbaum, as seen in this 2013 photo. (credit: Tobias Klenze)

Tor Project officials say that one of their most public-facing developers and a member of the “Core Team,” Jacob Appelbaum, left the organization on May 25 after “public allegations of sexual mistreatment.”

In a statement published Saturday on the Tor Project’s website, the organization wrote:

These types of allegations were not entirely new to everybody at Tor; they were consistent with rumors some of us had been hearing for some time. That said, the most recent allegations are much more serious and concrete than anything we had heard previously.

We are deeply troubled by these accounts.

We do not know exactly what happened here. We don’t have all the facts, and we are undertaking several actions to determine them as best as possible. We’re also not an investigatory body, and we are uncomfortable making judgments about people’s private behaviors.

The statement continued, saying that Tor is “working with a legal firm” specializing in sexual misconduct. The statement added:

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Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum quits after “sexual mistreatment” allegations

Websites hosted on Amazon Web Services go down across Australia

Australians were left without their typical means of entertainment during a gloomy evening on the east coast thanks to an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

A number of Australian websites, including streaming platforms and news outlets, went offline Sunday afternoon local time after the cloud services platform faced connectivity issues in Sydney.

SEE ALSO: Photos of Australia’s east coast after weekend of wild weather and flooding

The Sydney region is currently being lashed with severe storms causing flooding and power outages, but it is unclear whether that has played a roll.

Sydney is one of AWS’ key infrastructure regions in the Asia Pacific, along with Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. …

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Photos of Australia's east coast after weekend of wild weather and flooding

Strong winds and torrential rains lashed the state of New South Wales, Australia over the weekend, leaving many without power and causing some regions to be evacuated.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued a severe weather warning Friday, advising people to prepare for destructive winds, heavy rain, abnormally high tides and heavy surf over the weekend.

SEE ALSO: The flooding in Paris is so severe, people are swimming down streets

A surfer wipes out on a wave at Shark Beach, Vaucluse on June 5, 2016 in Sydney, Australia. Located inside Sydney harbour, the rarely surfed waves at Shark beach have been whipped up by the wild weather hitting the East Coast.

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These anonymous family photos are like secret works of art

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Innovations in 3D printing

Ten miles north of Barcelona lies a centuries-old hotbed for ink technology. Founded in the 9th century, the Monastery of Sant Cugat ushered in Spain’s era of ink and scrolls. Nearby, a 21st century HP facility perfected the art through bus-sized printers capable of precisely depositing a picoliter of ink as massive reams of paper whizz by. Read More

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This Week's Top Downloads

Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.

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VIDEO: Inventor shows off 'two-minute' hoverboard

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VIDEO: Inventor shows off 'two-minute' hoverboard

Highlight Your Impact, Not Your Tasks, For a Better Resume

You have one page to prove to a potential employer that you’re worth hiring. Don’t waste time transcribing every task you ever carried out. Highlight how much impact those tasks had for the company.

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Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is

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Calling a game “hard” would seem to be a matter of personal judgement. Not so, according to an international team of computer scientists. For the past several years, the scientists have been analyzing Super Mario Bros. as if it were a math problem and beating a particular level is the solution. Now, they’ve extended their analysis to cover any possible arbitrary level, and they’ve shown that Super Mario Bros. belongs to a class of problems called PSPACE-complete.

The team’s work benefits from how much we already know about how Super Mario Bros. operates. For example, every time the game needs a random number, its number generator isn’t actually random. Mario’s number generator starts with a fixed seed that’s updated deterministically each time a scene is calculated. It’s only when a player helps create a particular scene that the scene becomes effectively random—something that’s not at issue when a computer is solving a level.

There are also well-described cases in which, as the authors put it, “the implementation

of Super Mario Bros. is counter to the intuitive Mario physics with which most players are familiar.” These include the ability to pop Mario through a wall or to jump through a brick ceiling, provided there’s a monster on top. And, while the game tracks objects that move slightly offscreen, the game forgets about bad guys who wander too far off the edges.

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Computer scientists quantify just how hard Super Mario Bros. is