As usually, a TENAA certificate means that the release of the device is near. Other than that, sadly, this particular certificate does not give us any new info on the device: all that we know about its specs is what we have already learned:– 6.4′ AMOLED display, Full HD+,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU,– 6GB RAM, 128GB ROM, no microSD slot,– Sony IMX586 main camera, 48 mpx + 12 mpx, LED flash,– Sony IMX576 24.8 mpx selfie camera,– Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/GLONASS, NFC, modem LTE X24, dual SIM, USB C,– 3500 mAh battery,– ...

According to Elon Musk, who continues to spearhead his ”space tourism” SpaceX program, soon it will not cost you that much to pack up and move to Mars. The man of the future (or at least of weird ideas) has done the math and believes that, using his Falcon9 rocket, the price of moving to the Red Planet would be something around 500 thousand dollars; not a lot, considering that it will cost him 47 million dollars to launch the Falcon9. So yeah, sell your house, pack your bags, grab your kids and critters and head to Mars. A bright future awaits! ...

The LetsGoDigital website have just released two renders of the upcoming foldable device by Xiaomi. The renders do not depict how the device will look, but what it might look like. The basis for the renders is videofrom a few weeks back, published online by Bin Lin, co-founder of Xiaomi. Renders do a good job at showing the main feature of the device, its foldability, as well as what might be its greatest weaknesses, namely its weight as well as size when folded into smartphone. Whether the pros of this feature will outweight its cons remains to be ...

British startup Hectare has recently released Tudder, an app that we need but we do not deserve. Tudder gives farmers a mobile online tool to help them either easily find a cattle they need to breed their own stock, buy new animals or sell their own. Every Tudder profile contains sufficient information about cattle presented, such as a picture, age, weight, localisation and its owner’s contact data.The first Tudder users are, reportedly, quite happy with the app. I wonder if anyone has already found their bovine soulmate ...

Spotify wants you to watch ads. It needs you to watch ads. In order to make sure that you -will- watch those adds, Spotify is turning to a rather brutal measures – it will ban the accounts of its users if these will be detected using advertisement blocking apps. It is unknown if there will be any kind of appeal will be possible to made after being banned. The new rule will be brought in life on march 2019; Spotify hopes that it will make more people sign up for its ad-free Premium ...

And not only because you will be running in them. Not even only because they will probably cost so much that you will not have much money left for food. Verily, subsidiary of Google Alphabet, has reportedly just finished working on prototype smart shoes. These boots are reported to have special functions implemented for the sake of their user’s health (you know that the old days are over when a person wearing shoes is a ”shoe user”). We know very little about these functions: at least some of them are informational, letting you know that you have gained weight or that you ...

MyScript Calculator 2 is, well, a calculator. Why is it so cool? Mostly because of its single, but pretty great, gimmick, namely the fact that it can read longhand writing. Check out this app’s gifs online, it can read even the most crooked writing. It is also very handy and intuitive – for example, if you make a mistake in calculation, you do not have to start everything all over; you can simply remove the mistake and put the correct value in its place. Results can be literally put aside for further use later by sweeping the calculation away on the screen. MyScript Calculator 2 ...

This new vulnerability has been detected in Androids 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1 and 9. It allows the 3rd party to take control of smartphone simply by having its user open a .png file (a picture). Google has pointed out three vulnerability packs in the Framework subsystem: two of them can be found in every of the abovementioned Android systems and one is only in the Android 9. Proper patches have already been released or will be released soon. Tweet Vote on HN ...

American scientists have discovered that there are rapid changes in the magnetic field of our planet. Reportedly, it is moving much faster than usually, going from 15 to 55 kilometers per hour in only twenty years. These changes influence devices based on a magnetic compass, like planes or smartphones – for example your compass app might not be working correctly if you are close to one of our planet’s poles. At least the changes do not influence GPS apps such as Google Maps.If it scares you, all I can say is that we, humans, have nothing to do with these changes. They are ...

”Band of Bastards”, newest addition to the highly praised cRPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance is out now. The game tells the story of Henry, the main protagonist of the original game, and his adventures with a band of rather merry mercenaries. For more information go to the game’s Steam page or watch this trailer. Better yet, do not talk about it and just buy it; the DLC is pretty cheap, and if it allows you to spend more time in the fascinating world of Kingdom Come… what is not to ...