Google Blobmoji are making a comeback

Blobmoji, a series of wobbly-bobbly emoji killed off by Google at the Android Oreo release, are coming back. Blobmoji are now available as sticker packs on the Google Keyboard GBoard. According to The Verge, they will also appear in the next Android Messages update. Most but not all of the original hundred Blobmoji are to make a return, alongside an unknown ...

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HOMTOM H10, or an iPhone X made in China

Cool, it has been a while since I wrote about Chinese knockoffs. Following an Apple-made (and stupid, or so I believe) trend of smartphones with notches, a Chinese company HOMTOM has decided to release its own iPhone X-lookalike. Specifications: - 5.85' display, 18,9:9 ratio, HD+ resolution, - MediaTek MT6750T CPU, 1,5 GHz, eight cores, - Mali-T860 ...

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Transformers are real

Except they are not coming to our planet from Cybertron; instead they are being made by humans in Japan. Shunji Yamanaka from the University of Tokyo and Takayuki Furuta of the Future Robotics Technology Center (fuRo) at Chiba Institute of Technology have just unveiled their latest creation; a three-wheeler autonomous assistant slash self-driving vehicle. ...

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Smartphone with 9 cameras. Wow

Dual cameras are nothing new in smartphones, and the three cameras setup is slowly creeping into the mainstream a la Huawei P20 Pro. Three cameras are nothing, though; what will you say about nine of them? Well, Light company has clearly said ”fine, lets do it”. The nine cameras smartphone project is currently under development by Light ...

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Airbag for smartphones? Why not

The history of this device has begun on the dark day when hilip Frenzel, mechatronics student on the University of Aalen, accidentally broke the display of his iPhone. Repairs did not work and a week later the display broke once more. Instead of shedding a tear over all the beers that he will not be able to afford and buying a new phone, Frenzel instead ...

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Instagram reaches 1 billion monthly users. Congrats, we are now officially married to social media

Or at least way too many of us are. While users number of Facebook and Snapchat stagnate, Instagram is seeing a radical increase in usage, passing the 800 million users recorded in September 2017, ten months ago. Snapchat's daily user grow in Q1 has only been 2.13% and Facebook's has been 3.14% - Snapchat's, un turn, reached almost 5%. Instagram's rapidly ...

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