Sound overdose is one of the problems of these days’ First World. We are surrounded by sound, overwhelmed by it – cars, people, smartphones, radios and TVs, they all produce high quantities of sound that assaults our poor receptors. Bose company took notice of that issue and responded – and made some money – by producing Bose Sleepbuds.Bose Sleepbuds are pretty standard, if well made, noise stoppers. Their function is to make sure that we have a good night’s rest by insulating our ears from the ouside. This outside noise is deafened by a variety of white noise ...
Monthly Archives: June 2018
Good old new Diablo returns?
In a way! Making the long story short, here is how it happened: programmer going by the nickname GalaXyHaXz has found online a bunch of tools that allowed him to analyze old Diablo 1. Thanks to them he has reverse-engineered the game, which rewarded him with the game’s source code. With source code in hand, GalaXyHaXz went to GitHub and put there a compiling, working (as long as you have proper game data files) copy of Diablo 1 that he called Devilution. Programmer has also put the game’s source code online, which means that it can not only be downloaded now, but also modded ...
Jokes aside – paid Facebook arrives
Zuckerberg may have been telling both the Europarlament and the US Senate that Facebook will never be a paid platform, but his actions speak louder; FB is currently testing methods of monetizing the group content on its platform. Paid groups are nothing new on FB, but they have been existing in a state of a, how to put it, freestyle. Groups administration had to come up with 3rd party ways and means for the group members to pay their fees. What Zuckerberg’s platform is working on is creating a single, in-platform method for the groups administration to gather fees from their users ...
Picture and specs of Nokia 5.1 Plus
Nokia 5.1 Plus has just appeared on a Chinese TENAA website. Thanks to this we now have pictures of this phone, as well as its specification:– 5,86′ HD+ (720 x 1520 p) display,– 8-core CPU, 2,0GHz,– 3/4/6GB RAM, 32/64GB flash, microSD up to 128GB,– 8mpx selfie shooter, 13 Mpix main camera with LED flash,– 3000mAh battery,– Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS/GLONASS, modem LTE,– dual SIM, USB-C,– fingerprint scanner,– Android 8.1 Oreo.We do not know the price nor release date of the device. According to the Internet, it is supposed to ...
Picture of of what may be a Galaxy S10 prototype leaked
Samsung has promised us a next-generation S line smartphone next year, with the official word being that the device will be released on January. It looks like the production of Galaxy S10 may be well underway indeed, as one leakster Ice Universe has just released a picture of what he claims to be a prototype for the aforementioned smartphone. In his post, Ice Universe calls the smartphone ”Beyond”, which is supposed to be its development codename.The most interesting thing about the picture is the almost complete lack of bezels – talk about Infinity Display. Bottom bezel, ...
Amazon Prime and retail Moto X4 is getting upgraded to Android 8.1 Oreo
The list of changes is not massive, since the device was already sporting 8.0 Oreo; newest security update is the biggest change, a well as a bunch of UI tweaks as well as new developer APIs. Update should be available OTA (over the air). Tweet Vote on HN ...
Samsung Galaxy S9 gets Daisy Duck and Goofy AR Emojis
Superb. Following the release of The Incredibles emoji, two new Disney characters are joining Samsung’s repertoire of animated amotes; Daisy Duck and Goofy. This ups Samsung’s Disney AR emoji to seven. In order to access them, update the Mickey Mouse & Friends AR Emoji from the AR Emoji mode in the camera app.Samsung promises more Disney AR emojis in the future. Oh joy. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Apple Pay is out in Norway, supports Nordea and Santader
Cool. Get it? Because it is Norway… eh heh… nevermind. Apple Pay has just debuted in Norway. Along with this release, Nordea and Santander Consumer Finance have joined the list of banks supported by Apple Pay.Apple Pay is now out in Poland, Norway and Ukraine. This means that Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, has fulfilled his last month’s promise on releasing the feature in these three countries. Good for you, Mr. Cook. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Apple received $6.6 million fine in Australia for bricking a number of devices
Apple has to pay nine million Australian dollars, or over six and a half million US bucks. The company lost a legal case to the consumer rights group. The case was related to how the company reacted after iOS updates bricked devices that had been repaired by third party service providers. Long story short, around 275 Apple owners in Australia have been denied a free repair of their broken phones between February 2015 and 2016 because they have had their phones fixed by third parties before. Australian court has ruled that Apple’s decision was in breach of Australian consumer law and ...
iOS 12 will show our location when we call the police
Apple is bringing a new function to the iOS 12. For now it will only be available in the US. This new function will quickly and automatically deliver our location to the police every time we call 911. The heart of this function is HELO system (Hybridized Emergency Location) that Apple implemented three years ago. Its goal is to, naturally, immediately deliver our location to the law enforcement so that they can react faster (as well as allowing the police to spy on us 24/7, but shhh). Personally I think that the idea is great on paper and would love to see it spread from the US as soon as ...