The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office has criticized the draft Investigatory Powers bill, currently before parliament, warning about the risks of requiring communications service providers to weaken encryption, and also asserting that no clear case has been made for why the state should require data on all its citizens to be retained for a full year. Read More
When speaking about the phone market in general, one has to admit that – on one hand you have the Apple iPhone 6s – a device that has all the chances to become the fastest selling smartphone in the world (and if not, it most certainly will have the second or at the very worst third spots), and then, all the rest. We’re not talking about pure performance, cameras or specs here: we’re looking at things from a very practical sales volume perspective in the most profitable segment of high-end phones.
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If looking out the car window during an Uber ride is just too old school for you — and you’ve exhausted all other time-killing options on your smartphone — the company has a new way to keep you busy
On Tuesday, Uber launched a developer feature called Uber Trip Experiences, letting third-party developers give users fun or productive things to do during their trip.
See also: Uber, Lyft drivers know they will be replaced by self-driving cars
Examples include getting a playlist to last you for the duration of the trip; showing you info and offers available at your destination, or letting you turn on the heating when you’re on your way home …
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A post on AnTuTu’s Weibo page (which was subsequently removed), contained some information about the Meizu MX6. According to AnTuTu, the MX6 will be the first phone powered by MediaTek’s Helio X20 SoC and its deca-core CPU. The chip also comes with the Mali-T880 MP4 GPU. Last month, the chipset went through the Geekbench benchmark test, and broke the record for the multi-core score with a tally of 7037.
The Helio X20 features a pair of Cortex-A72 cores running at 2.5GHz, four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2GHz, and four more Cortex-A53 cores with a clock speed of 1.4GHz. This is what MediaTek … – Source
In the last few days, several Indian and Pakistanis have been changing their Facebook profile photographs to send messages of peace to their governments, urging them to continue with their newly-revived dialogue despite the recent attacks at an Indian Airforce base in Pathankot.
See also: India’s Narendra Modi makes surprise visit to Pakistan, his first as PM
The Profile for Peace campaign is being led by the Aman Ki Asha peace initiative, with its Facebook page becoming a common platform for citizens of the two countries.
Image: Anam Zakaria
Image: Facebook Beena Sarwar
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Fans at an NHL game in Los Angeles were lucky enough to witness another kind of sport on the jumbotron: tonsil hockey.
Spectators watched the ‘Kiss Cam’ capture a happy gay couple at the LA Kings vs. Toronto Maple Leafs game on Jan. 7Several same-sex kisses have been documented at other sporting events, and this one was no exception
The crowd erupted in applause as the adorable couple, Brad Parr and Andy Evans, enthusiastically smooched for the crowd.
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Woman tries to kiss python, gets bitten on the nose
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Ford has developed a new smartphone app called FordPass that allows car owners access to live support for all of their mobility needs — and the best part is you don’t have to drive a Ford.
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Seemingly wanting to confirm that “better late than never” saying, Verizon has only now decided to release the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update for its version of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
The flagship phablet from 2014 has actually been on the receiving end of this update ever since August of 2015, but that’s for internationally sold unlocked units. As always, if you buy yours from a carrier you can wait a lot more.
Case in point, here we are in January 2016, a few months after Google’s launched Android 6.0 Marshmallow, and Big Red is sending out Android 5.1.1 to the Note 4. Anyway, after applying the update you’ll be on software version LMY47X.N910VVRU2BOK3.
As this is an over-the-air rollout, it may be a few days before it reaches your phone and you get that update notification. If you’re impatient, you can manually check for the new software’s availability by using the dedicated menu inside Settings. This update adds things, but also removes others – namely, the Amazon Appstore and Amazon Widgets will be gone after the installation.
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Slack just slated a former Palantir exec for its new Chief Security Officer position and an Ex-Facebook employee, who worked on the company’s AI efforts, for its newly created role of Chief Architect.
Scott Belknap will be filling the role of Chief Security Officer at the popular office chat client. He previously worked as the Chief Information Security Officer of Palantir… Read More
A small octopus has taken a page from The Little Mermaid and decided it wants to be part of our world. And it’s determined to get there.
Found during a snorkeling trip in the waters of Perth, Australia, the diver says he reached his arm into a cave and pulled it out with a new friend attached. The octopus latches itself on and sticks with the diver for awhile, almost making it to the surface.
The diver claims that each time he’d brush it off, it would just suck onto his other arm. Just goes to show that you can’t keep a good mollusk down.
‘The Revenant’ is really just a screen adaptation of The Oregon Trail
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This stunning visualization shows major earthquakes globally from the last 15 years
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