HMD Global took its time, but the update is finally here. Nokia 8 is now running the latest Android operating system. News came out on Twitter from the mouth (well, fingers) of chief product officer Juho Sarvikas himself. First updatees have already received it. Sadly, the update seems to lack some of the 9 Pie functions, such as Adaptive Battery or App Actions. Some of them are rumoured to be currently in testing.Nokia 8 Sirocco is reportedly ”next in line” for the update. ...
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Elon Musk have just finished the first segment of his underground LA tunnel
Elon Musk’s Boring Company has just finished the construction of the first part of a Los Angeles underground tunnel. The segment is called Hawthorne, like the city district it is build under. Its location is not accidental, as Hawthorne is where both The Boring Company and SpaceX headquarters are. The first segment of the tunnel is 1.83 kilometers long, and its construction cost was 10 million USD; not a lot, at least according to Elon Musk, who believes that the price of constructing the tunnel with standard tech would be around 1 billion USD. The opening of the segment was a whole ...
Pay up or die or jeez, Internet conmen and their ideas…
You chill in front of your PC, entering your mailbox and checking your spam; you are curious about how did the people try to scam you out of your money lately. You find a bunch of mails from Nigerian princes, some Ukrainian women ready to get married, guys who claim to have recorded you masturbate to pornography… yawn… Oh, there is an interesting one. Someone says they will kill you if you do not pay them.A new online scam is gaining popularity among the mailbox spammers. It is known as a ”hitman scam” and its goal is to make guillable idiots believe they are about ...
This new object in our solar system is pretty ”Farout”
Humanity knows its own planet pretty well, but we are as green as chives when it comes to the knowledge of space. Today, though, we have made at least a little step towards knowing more about our surroundings. A group of astronomers who have been busy looking for the hypothetical Planet X, a large space object supposedly lying on the outskirts of our solar system, have accidentally found something else. This finding, a dwarf planet with roughly 550 kilometers-long diameter, have been christened as 2018 VG18, or Farout (English play on words that can mean either ”cool, ...
HTC Desire 12s. Specs, price, availability
Device’s trailer can be watched here.– 5.7-inch display, HD+, 2.5D glass,– Snapdragon 435 CPU, Adreno 505 GPU,– 3/4GB RAM, 32/64GB storage,– 13mpx main camera, f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, 1080p videos, LED flash,– 13mpx selfie shooter, f/2.4 aperture, LED flash,– 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS + GLONASS, NFC,– 3075mAh battery,– Android 8.1 Oreo, HTC Sense UI,– 154.2 x 72.7 x 8.3 mm; 150g. Depending on the RAM variant, Desire 12s costs either NT$5990 or NT$ 6990 – $194 or $226. It is unknown when the device will be ...
Court dismissed the Apple FaceTime car crash lawsuit
Back in 2014, a five years old Moriah Modisette died in a car accident caused by one Garrett Wilhelm using FaceTime on his iPhone when driving. While most normal people would admit their guilt and promptly see themselves go to jail, Moriah Modisette’s family turned to blaming Apple for not enabling any lockout features in the device. Their point was that it was Apple’s responsibility to put a detect motion features into their phones as well as make it so that some of their functions, like FaceTime, are disabled while driving – techology which Apple have had at the time but ...
Huawei and ZTE not welcome in the Czech Republic anymore
Czech Republic cybernetic security department has released an official statement saying that hardware and software of both Huawei and ZTE companies is to be considered ”a security risk”. Czech’s basis for such harsh words is their supposed knowledge of actions and goals of the People’s Republic of China and the way they use the two aforementioned companies’ devices in espionage. Czech government is also supposedly certain that China is already committing espionage in their country.Česká republika is not the first country to not look kindly upon ZTE and Huawei. ...
Cydia Store closes down
Cydia Store was a jailbreak device for operating system customization. After years of providing said service, Cydia now closes down. Reason? It simply was making less and less money over time. A recent bug that put its users’ security at risk was probably just a straw that broke the camel’s back. Cydia Store purchases are currently disabled. News came from Saurik, who posted about Cydia Store shutting down on Reddit. A more formal message is currently in the works. Tweet Vote on ...
Huawei Nova 4 premiered. What, where and for how much
Specifications:– 6,4′ FHD+ display,– HiSilicon Kirin 970 CPU,– 8GB RAM, 128GB space,– Sony IMX586 48 mpx or 20 mpx camera, depending on the variant, 25mpx selfie shooter,– Android 9 Pie with EMUI 9.0,– USB C,– fingerprint scanner,– dimensions: 157 × 75,1 × 7,77 mm, weight: 172 gram,– 3750 mAh battery.Price and availability: depending on the camera variant either 3099 or 3399 juan. It is unknown when or if at all will the device come out outside of ...
Samsung may be working on a new Galaxy Tab A tablet
According to 91mobiles, Samsung is currently working on the next Galaxy Tab A tablet. Device carries a model number SM-P205 and, sadly, little else is known about it: it is supposed to sport a firmware version P205DXU0ARL4 and 32GB of storage memory. There are rumours that it will be available in black and grey colour variants. Device will probably be officially announced during the MWC 2019, so around February 25-28. Tweet Vote on HN ...