Samsung to answer Apple iPhone SE with 4.6-inch Galaxy S7 mini featuring SD-820 or Exynos 8890 SoC?

According to a new rumor out of Taiwan, Samsung is planning on taking on the 4-inch Apple iPhone SE with the Samsung Galaxy S7 mini. Now that doesn’t seem terribly shocking since Samsung has produced mini versions of the Samsung Galaxy S from the beginning, only failing to produce a Samsung Galaxy S6 mini (despite images that suggest the manufacturer was working on it). But returning the mini version of Samsung’s flagship model to the manufacturer’s lineup could be inspired by the interest garnered by the yet-to-be-announced iPhone SE, especially when you consider the rumored specs.

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Samsung to answer Apple iPhone SE with 4.6-inch Galaxy S7 mini featuring SD-820 or Exynos 8890 SoC?

Mozilla Releases Firefox for Android Beta v46 With The Ability To Display Cached Webpages While Offline And Other Refinements

Much like Chrome releases, Mozilla’s updates for Firefox are rarely mindblowing. Instead, we get a constant stream of smaller changes that slowly but surely upgrade all aspects of the user experience. The latest beta release for Firefox, v46, falls right in line with this pattern. The highlight of the update is that the browser will display recently visited webpages even when you are offline, using data stored in cache.

You don’t need to do anything in particular to get the offline webpage feature going; if Firefox has it cached, it will display instead of the typical error messages you get when trying to browse offline.

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Galaxy S7 launch, Android N preview and Apple's 'Loop' event: Weekly news roundup

Last week saw the official release of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge by Samsung, and carriers were running over themselves to offer last-minute gifts and incentives, but there were plenty of other things that vouched for our attention, too.
First off, if Google wanted to shake thing up a bit and take everyone by surprise, the sudden release of the next Android version certainly did the trick. While it might not spook the mobile industry to the core, it is certainly intriguing that the new 7.0 version, codenamed “N,” is hitting Nexus handsets while the phones running Android 6.0 Marshmallow … – Source

Galaxy S7 launch, Android N preview and Apple's 'Loop' event: Weekly news roundup

Top restaurant Noma auctions off its last tables in Sydney for charity

Sydneysiders and those willing to get on a plane for the opportunity to dine at Noma — now is your last chance.

The restaurant, considered to be one of the top venues in the world, relocated to Sydney from Copenhagen in 2016 for a 10 week pop-up with a focus on Australian produce. Starting in January, reservations were swiftly booked out.

For its last night on April 2, however, the company is doing something out of the ordinary. It will be auctioning off its last tables on eBay to benefit charities OzHarvest and MAD, Good Food reported.

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How to disable iOS 9 system animations without jailbreaking your iPhone/iPad

When readers ask us how to improve the performance of their Android device, one of the tricks that come to mind is to disable the system animations. Although this doesn’t actually improve the raw performance of the device, the trick does make the UI of the OS appear to run smoother in certain circumstances.
While Android users can disable the system animation without rooting their smartphone or tablet, iPhone and iPad users previously had to jailbreak their device to achieve the same task. However, it has been recently uncovered that an iOS 9 glitch allows … – Source

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Glyph: Hands on with the headphones for your eyes

AUSTIN, TEXAS – A chief complaint about virtual reality is that total immersion totally cuts you off from the outside world. It’s one of the reasons augmented reality solutions that let you blend the real and virtual worlds, like Microsoft’s HoloLens, could gain a foothold. Avegant, though, sees things a different way

The company’s new Glyph headset, finally shipping after a two-year-long development and Kickstarter cycle, rides the narrow line between virtual reality and personal viewing experience. It looks like a pair of Beats headphones — and can function just fine as a purely audio device — but if you flip the headgear forward so the headband covers your eyes, it converts into a display device. …

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Cast of HBO’s Silicon Valley discuss the real tech region at SWSW

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AUSTIN, Texas—During the first season of HBO’s Silicon Valley, the megalomaniac CEO of the search giant Hooli offers protagonist Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) $10 million for his still-nascent startup, Pied Piper.

The initial script called for a much bigger offer, but show creator Mike Judge thought that was over the top.

Judge said, “that’s too much, no one is going to buy that it’s $100 million,” Middleditch said at a South By Southwest panel on Saturday featuring Judge, writer and producer Alec Berg, and several of the show’s stars. “So we turned it down to $10 million, and then during season one the news came out about Snapchat turning down that offer of five or six billion, so, egg on our face, I guess.” (The offer from Facebook was actually $3 billion.)

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Google Research Suggests It's Working On Faster, More Accurate Voice Recognition That Doesn't Need An Internet Connection

When you make a voice search or any other voice input on Android, there’s a complex process that goes on behind the scenes. Your voice is recorded, transmitted to Google’s servers, analyzed and converted into a text string, then either passed on to the relevant web service (like Google Search) or sent back to your device. It’s usually almost instantaneous if you have a decent Internet connection, but therein lies its one weakness: you do have to have that connection in order for it to work.

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Google Research Suggests It's Working On Faster, More Accurate Voice Recognition That Doesn't Need An Internet Connection