Chinese smartphone producer Meizu is going through hard times. The company has already fired 30% of its employees, and will let go more in the near future – the marketing division is rumoured to go next. Meizu has also closed many of its stores; the exact number is unknown but is rumoured to be the grand majority of company’s overall shops in China. If that was not enough, Li Nan, one of the founding fathers of Meizu, has recently left the firm in search of greener pastures. Ouch…Meizu was never a large company, and the smartphone market nowadays belongs mostly to the big ...

The Australian Commonwealth Bank has recently announced that every train, light rail or ferry passenger paying with credit card, debit card or mobile phone will have access to the same travel caps, transfer discounts and travel rewards as Opal card users. This means that non-Opal that heavily rely on public transport will now pay less, since they cannot be charged more than $16.10 – after reaching this threshold you are basically traveling for free. The change is active across the NSW transport network starting today. It will be extended over Sydney bus network ”in the coming ...

When entering Apple Accessories online page, one will notice a new banner at the bottom of the page. Said banner informs that Apple Music is now offering only a month of free trial instead of the three months that it used to. There is no official word about whether this is a mistake or a sudden change in Apple Music policy – there were no rumours concerning such a change. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Asus’ gaming smartphone is now available for pre-ordering in China, which means that its price has finally become officially known. ROG Phone 2’s price in the land of great walls and soulless regimes is 3,499 yuan for the 8GB RAM + 128GB ROM variant and 5,999 yuan for the 12GB RAM + 128GB ROM one. This is the price of the Tencent-affiliated model, the one that will probably be released globally; China-exclusive variants are more costly (5999 and 7,999 yuan). When translated into western currency, Tencent version of the device will cost between 509 and 873 dollars. Sadly, we do ...

The update has been released alongside the MIUI 10.4.1.0 one. It weights 1.6 gigabyte, so better make sure your smartphone is powered up before you download it. If the update isn’t available on your smartphone yet, do not worry: it should reach your country any moment now. Tweet Vote on HN ...

In a case of real flashback, a spiritual successor of famous Another World adventure platformer, Flashback, is getting a mobile remake. This old gem has you play Conrad, a man with no memory who must navigate futuristic setting of human colony in Titan in order to solve a mystery of alien’s plan to conquer Earth. Challenging gameplay requires the player to use both their wits and their trigger finger in order to complete the campaign, which offers an immersive narrative the kind of which is hard to find anymore in video games.Remake has been made by a somewhat untested studio called ...

Google Pay has expanded yet again, its long list of partners now made even longer by the addition of thirteen various US banks and credit unions. Newest institutions that support Google Pay are: Educational Community Alliance Credit Union (OH), Exchange Bank (GA), First Bank Hampton (NW), Incommons Bank (TX), Legends Bank (MO), Members Choice of Central Texas Federal Credit Union, MidAmerica National Bank (IL), Park Community Credit Union (KY), Priority Bank (AR), Republic Bank (PA), Republic Bank of Chicago (IL), State Bank of Waterloo (IL) and The Citizens-Farmers Bank of Cole Camp (MO). ...

Sky, originally billed as an Apple TV exclusive video game, is now available on more platforms. That is not all, though: the game is said to come out for even more platforms soon, namely Android, Mac and PC. Cool.Sky: Children of the Light is an adventure game with simple but beautiful graphics, much of which is spent in the air as our character flies across the beautiful world. The game can be played alone or with friends in a co-op mode. It can be downloaded for free from App Store, and contains microtransactions that cost 0.99$ or ...

In his Sunday TV appearance, Peter Thiel said that he believes Google needs to be investigated by both FBI and CIA due to the company’s treasonous, as he put it, decision to work not with the US government but with the Chinese military instead. As is often the case in such, err, cases, Thiel has no evidence of Google’s wrongdoing: nevertheless, billionaire investor implied that not only the company is working for China, but that it has also been infiltrated by Chinese spies. The only real backing for Thiel’s opinion – at least only real backing that is known to the ...

Many people have problems with Apple blockade called Find my iPhone (iCloud). Find My iPhone is a special security option available for all Apple products. The owner of the device creates a special login and password for his/her device. The information is not stored on any servers or websites so there is no way even for Apple company to know your password. If for any reason you lost or forgot your password you can contact Apple company to reset your account, but you won’t receive the password itself. To reset your login information you need to access the e-mail connected to the given ...