iPhone X was and still is a very popular smartphone, so it is no surprise that soon after its release Apple released its close successor, iPhone XS. What is a surprise is that Apple did not fix the one feature of the older phone that many people have complained about, namely its notch. What is even more of a surprise is that Apple not only kept the notch but then also decided to hide it in the smartphone’s advertisement video. Take a look at the video, then at the graphic above. Notice anything odd? Apple must have counted on people not noticing, and it may have been correct… ...
Monthly Archives: December 2018
Oh dear, they have made a game with Jesus and Hitler, oy wey, so much controversy
Jesus Strikes Back: Judgement Day is a 3rd person shooter made by an anoymous developer team. It will tell the story of the near future world where the so-called New Regime took over, and where mythical and historical figures such as Jesus Christ, Mussolini or Napoleon came back to defeat the evil Regime. One of the enemy factions will be the LGBT; this, in addition to the main characters, blood and violence, has ”controversion” written all over the game. Jesus Strikes Back will be out sometime next month; the game will be released for free, with bitcoin donations for the ...
Google ”punished” by Russia for lack of censorship
Oh no, Google is ruined. The company has to pay an extra… funny amount of 7530 dollars of fine for not dancing along to the Russian tune. The government of Russia, i.e. Putin, has a beef with Google since the company did not remove websites that the tzar have found inappropriate. Sadly, we do not know which websites exacly are these. The fine itself is rather funny when compared to, say, 4.34 billion euro that Google has to pay up to the European Commission – so small, in fact, that money cannot be the point of it. What is, then? I do not ...
Australian Commonwealth Bank will support Apple Pay starting next month
Sorry for the late announcement, but better late than never. On December 13th, the Australian Commonwealth Bank has announced that, starting in January, it will support Apple Pay. CBA has finally wrapped up its years long dispute with Apple over fees and access the NFC chip in and will now be the second large Australian bank to do so, ANZ being the first one back in 2016. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Type ”idiot” into Google and Donald Trump will come up
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, is currently being heared by the American Senate board. Chief of Google is answering multiple questions, ranging from information gathering and Chinese browsers to… why is it that Donald Trump comes up so often when you browse the word ”idiot”. The last question was asked by a representative of the Democrats, to which Pichai has assured her that no, Google does not influence browsing results, which are only the results of millions of users’ activities. I doubt that Trump supporters will believe this and besides, who knows? Perhaps Google ...
Printed head versus facial recognition. Most of the phones have lost, except for…
One Blackface company from Birmingham, U.K, has managed to deceive the facial recognition security measures of five different smartphones: Samsung S9, iPhone X, LG G7 Linq, Samsung Note 8 and OnePlus 6. The company has achieved this by printing out a perfect copy of the phone’s owner’s face with the 3D printer. Such a dummy has turned out to be enough to fool all the phones’ facial seacurity measures except for, check this out, iPhone X. Creators of other, fooled devices, when they heard about it, naturally started to defend themselves by saying things such as ...
iOS 12.1.1 updated with an expanded e-SIM support
Latest update to Apple’s operating system expands its e-SIM support to additional carriers. The update also contains other features, such as introducing Live Photo capture to FaceTime calls or real-time text during the Wi-Fi calls on iPad and iPod touch. Apple also threw in a bunch of bug fixes, because why not. Tweet Vote on HN ...
Latest Messenger Lite update brings in new options
For something that is supposed to be a light version of a communicator, Messenger Lite has quite a few functions as of now. It is so largely thanks to its latest update, which brought two new features to the app: GIF support and chat colour change. Sounds silly? Yeah, it kind of does. On the other hand, for something with Lite in its name, Messenger allows to do more and more with its features. Until now, every gif sent via M Lite was static; now they are animated, just as god intended them to be. As for chat colours, you can change your chat clouds’ flush into any of the colours ...
Benchmark of Samsung SM-A505F leaked
Device, which may be released as Samsung Galaxy A50, will seemingly have a pretty flagship-like specs. Exynos 9610 SoC is a new chipset that has yet to be installed in any of Samsung’s devices; it is doubtful that it will be accompanied with anything less than 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64 or 128 gigabytes of ROM. As for Android 9 Pie, only a few Samsung flagships have received it so far. While we know nothing about Galaxy A50’s other specs or details, it is presumed that it will be released soon-ish after the Galaxy S10 model.Want to know more? Stay ...
Meng Wanzhou, vice-president of Huawei, is under arrest
The woman has been arrested in Canada under the accusation of encroaching on the US sanctions against Iran. This is a very general information, but no further info has been released to the public so far. United States of America want Wanzhou’s extradition into the US, while the Chinese government has issued a formal protest against her imprisonment. The arrest had an immediate influence on the stock market, too, namely the immediate drop in price of industrial metal such as iron or copper. The first court case, so far only on the possible caution for Wanzhou, will begin this ...