While the “Sherlock” Victorian special “The Abominable Bride” gets closer to its January 2016 air date, we present the facts, another trailer and a stockpile of photos to decipher any hints.
BEIRUT — Airstrikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens more on Sunday in a northern Syrian town held by insurgents, Syrian opposition media reported.
Some reports said more than 40 were killed
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the airstrikes struck the town of Ariha, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens more. The Local Coordination Committees, an activist collective, said the airstrikes struck a busy market, inflicting heavy casualties.
The Observatory, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, said the airstrike destroyed three buildings in the center of Ariha. …
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In this edition of our weekly Top 10 trending phones chart, we finally witness the Samsung Galaxy J7 get dethroned. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 enters the chart this week, and storms straight to number one mere days after its announcement.
Long-time champ Galaxy J7 needs to settle for silver this week, still closely followed by the J5 in third.
Ushered in by the Redmi Note 3, the previous-gen Xiaomi phablet joins the trending list in fourth, comfortably ahead of the Galaxy J2 – another regular. Next comes the Galaxy Grand Prime in sixth, showing no particular sings of loosing user interest week after week.
The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Note5 have swapped places since last week, and the former is now in seventh, while the S-Pen-packing phablet is now in eighth. The Sony Xperia Z5 had the weakest week-on-week performance, losing a total of 6 places, now in ninth. In a bit of surprising development, the Samsung Galaxy A5 enters in tenth, keeping the iPhone 6s out by a few hundred hits.
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The Apple iPad Pro didn’t have it easy all week, taking hits from the majority of our readers. It’s been a while since a “Hot or not” poll of ours turned out not in favor.
The iPad Pro gathered a total of 37% of upvotes – less than 2 out of 5 people hit the thumbs up. Apparently, the productivity benefits of the large screen failed to entice most of you. There’s also the matter of the Pencil that needs to be recharged every now and then, and the Smart Keyboard that can only stay in this one position.
And that’s before getting to the less than affordable price tag, which certainly helped steer you to the downvote side. The additional $270 that the accessories will set you back aren’t particularly hot either, even if their currently limited availability might lead you to believe otherwise.
In all fairness the 12.9-inch Apple tablet is not exactly a mainstream device, so a widespread appeal was never part of its game plan. And certainly 37% of people aren’t designers and on-the-go video editors, so the iPad Pro still manages to speak outside of its target…
With the holiday shopping season now in full swing, you may have missed some of this week’s best new apps.
See also: Instagram is testing support for multiple accounts on Android
Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week’s list includes a retro take on a classic game, an update to Giphy’s GIF creation app and a social collage app.
Check out the gallery below to see our top picks. If you’re looking for more, take a look at our last roundup of can’t-miss apps.
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments. …
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At midnight tonight, something different will happen when you make a call. The NSA won’t be collecting information about it as part of the bulk telephone records it was receiving from carriers. The information that the NSA will no longer automatically see, includes metadata like phone numbers and the length of calls.
From now on, carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint will hold on to that data, releasing it to the NSA only when the agency receives permission from a special court. The court will give out that permission on a case-by-case basis. And the government will have to … – Source
If you purchased a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL from Microsoft, you might have already received notification that the free Display Dock you’ve ordered is on the way. The dock allows users to engage the Continuum feature that turns their Microsoft Lumia 950 XL into a computer. Using the Display Dock, users connect a mouse, a physical keyboard, an external hard drive and a computer monitor to their phone.
To snag the Display Dock, which is free for a limited time from Microsoft, you need to open the Lumia Offers app that is pre-installed on your Lumia 950 XL. Make sure it is updated to the latest … – Source
Project Fi is the Google-owned hybrid MVNO that offers consumers low-priced wireless talk, text and data service using both Wi-Fi Hotspots, and cellular networks belonging to Sprint and T-Mobile. The service is priced at $20 a month for unlimited talk and text, with data priced at $10 for each GB desired. Users get refunded for each GB of data paid for, but not used during the month. Those interested in the service have had to request an invitation.
Right now, Project Fi users are limited to using the Nexus 6, Nexus 6P or the Nexus 5X with the service. While in reach of a Wi-Fi Hotspot, … – Source
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Heading into the holiday shopping season, there was a question about how the Apple Watch would fare during this time of the year. While Apple doesn’t breakout sales of its smartwatch, researcher IDC had Apple shipping 3.6 million units of the timepiece during the second quarter. That trailed only fitness tracker Fitbit’s delivery of 4.4 million units during the same three month period.
Despite those figures, not too many analysts would go ahead and say that the watch had the same degree of success that the Apple iPhone and Apple iPad enjoyed when both were originally unveiled. But something … – Source
The security problem — and, just as important, the security risks that consumers perceive in internet-connected devices — represents a real threat to the hundreds of millions of dollars companies are pouring into connected devices of all stripes. Read More
