Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini to hit shelves mid-July, source says
Just few weeks ago, we showed you a bunch of leaked pictures of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, courtesy of SAMMobile. Now thanks to one of their sources, they are reporting that Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini will go up for sale in markets worldwide in mid-July.
Obviously nothing is set on stone right now but last year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 Mini in mid-July as well. However, about the specs of the Galaxy S5 Mini, we know that it will feature a 4.5-inch 720p display, a 1.4GHz Samsung Exynos 3 Quad (Exynos 3470) , 1.5GB of RAM, 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2.1-megapixel front-facing camera, and LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, IR Blaster, NFC, and GPS. Galaxy S5 Mini will feature Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Samsung’s latest TouchWiz UX, and despite being the ‘Mini’ version of the Galaxy S5, it will come with all the software goodies such as Ultra Power Saving Mode, Private Mode, and Kids Mode.
Are you looking forward to Samsung’s new addition to the Galaxy family?
Source: SAMMobile
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First sighting of Sony Xperia Z3, Z3 Compact
It seems that Sony is getting ready to release their upcoming smartphones, which will be known as the Sony Xperia Z3 and the Xperia Z3 Compact. If the image shown below is accurate, then it is confirmed that Sony is going with the Omni-Balance design for their upcoming flagships as well.
No more information about the devices are known right now, but we can expect Sony to release it during the IFA event which will take place in Berlin during September.
This is all what we know right now. Do you think that Sony should release their future devices with Omni-Balance design language?
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Apple to Announce Q3 2014 Earnings on July 22
Apple updated its investor relations page today to note that it will announce its earnings for the third fiscal quarter (second calendar quarter) of 2014 on Tuesday, July 22. The earnings release typically occurs just after 4:30 PM Eastern Time following the close of regular stock trading, and the conference call is scheduled to follow at 5:00 PM Eastern / 2:00 PM Pacific.
MacRumors will provide running coverage of the earnings release and conference call.
The release will provide a look at sales of the iPad Air and the Retina iPad mini during their third quarter of availability, as well as iPhone 5s and 5c sales through the first half of 2014. Apple reported iPhone sales of 37.4 million during the second quarter of 2014, along with 19.5 million iPads and just under four million Macs.
Apple is said to have many projects on the horizon, including the iWatch, the iPhone 6, a revamped Apple TV and a 12-inch Retina MacBook Air, but the new products are unlikely to be discussed during the call.
In its fiscal second-quarter earnings call, Apple guided expected revenue of $33.5 to $35.5 billion and gross margin between 36 and 37 percent.
What’s on your HDTV this week: World Cup, Drunk History, Under the Dome
The USA has survived Group Play and now it’s knockout time at the World Cup in Brazil. A record number of people were streaming during the USMNT’s last game, and we’ll be watching to see if that number is broken tomorrow afternoon as the squad takes on Belgium. CBS is bringing back Under the Dome tonight, (which means Amazon will in a few days), while Comedy Central is introducing a new season of its oddly-educational Drunk History. On streaming, Netflix is ready with its first original anime series, Knights of Sidonia, and on Blu-ray there’s Kindergarten Cop. Check after the break for a list of what’s new this week plus a few trailers, and drop a note in the comments if you see any highlights we’ve missed.
[Image credit: speedpix / Alamy]
Blu-ray, Streaming movies & Games
- Kindergarten Cop
- Bring It On
- Cry-Baby
- Helix (S1)
- The Little Rascals
- The Unknown Known
- Sniper Elite III (Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One, PS3)
Monday
- Harry Potter: The Making of Diagon Alley, NBC, 8PM
- Switched at Birth, ABC Family,8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- 24: Live Another Day, Fox, 9PM
- 112 Weddings, HBO, 9PM
- Beauty and the Beast, CW, 9PM
- The Fosters, ABC Family, 9PM
- Major Crimes, TNT, 9PM
- Under the Dome (season premiere), CBS, 10PM
- Murder in the First, TNT, 10PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 10PM
- Longmire, A&E, 10PM
- Mistresses, ABC, 10PM
- Cee Lo Green’s The Good Life, TBS, 10:30PM
Tuesday
- FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Argentina vs. Switzerland, ESPN, 11:30AM
- FIFA World Cup Round of 16: Belgium vs. United States, ESPN, 3PM
- 30 for 30: White, Blue and White, ESPN, 8PM
- America’s Got Talent, NBC, 8PM
- Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family, 8PM
- Time Scanners (series premiere), PBS, 8PM
- History Detectives Special Investigations (series premiere), PBS, 9PM
- Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM
- Chasing Life, ABC Family, 9PM
- Royal Pains , USA, 9PM
- Deadliest Catch, Discovery, 9PM
- Top Gear (US), History, 9PM
- The Wil Wheaton Project, Syfy, 9PM
- Drunk History (season premiere), Comedy Central, 10PM
- Heroes of Cosplay (season finale), Syfy, 10PM
- Secret Lives of the Super Rich (season finale), CNBC, 10PM
- Perception, TNT, 10PM
- The Night Shift, NBC, 10PM
- Tyrant, FX, 10PM
- Covert Affairs, USA, 10PM
- Nathan for You (season premiere), Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Sullivan & Son, TBS, 10 & 10:30PM
- Freakshow, AMC, 10:30PM
- The Listener (season finale), ION, 11 & 11:59PM
Wednesday
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Rogue, DirecTV 101, 8 & 9PM
- Young & Hungry, ABC Family, 8PM
- So You Think You Can Dance, Fox, 8PM
- Mystery Girls, ABC Family, 8PM
- 60 Minutes Sports, Showtime, 9PM
- Suits, USA, 9PM
- Dual Survival, Discovery, 9PM
- Wilfred, FXX, 10PM
- Taxi Brooklyn, NBC, 10PM
- Motive, ABC, 10PM
- Catfish, MTV, 10PM
- The Ultimate Fighter, Fox Sports 1, 10PM
Thursday
- Black Box, ABC, 8PM
- Defiance, Syfy, 8PM
- Rectify, Sundance TV, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Rookie Blue, ABC, 9PM
- Dominion, Syfy, 9PM
- The Sixties, CNN, 9PM
- Undateable (season finale), NBC, 8:30, 9 & 9:30PM
- Gang Related, Fox, 9PM
- Anger Management, FX, 9:30PM
- NY Med, ABC, 10PM
- Last Comic Standing, NBC, 10PM
- Maron, IFC, 10PM
- Comedy Bang! Bang!, IFC, 10:30PM
Friday
- Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular, NBC, 8PM
- WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
Saturday
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ Daytona, TNT, 7:30PM
- Bad Teacher, CBS, 8PM
- Killing Daddy, Lifetime, 8PM
- Bet On Your Baby, ABC, 8PM
- Power, Starz, 9PM
- The Assets, ABC, 9PM
- Almost Royal , BBC America, 10PM
Sunday
- F1 British GP, CNBC, 7:30AM
- IndyCar Series 500 @ Pocono, NBC Sports, 1PM
- Wipeout, ABC, 8PM
- Rays/Tigers, ESPN, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Last Tango in Halifax, PBS, 8PM
- Talking Dead Season 5 Preview Special, AMC, 9PM
- Miley Cyrus: Bangerz Tour, NBC, 9PM
- Reckless, CBS, 9PM
- Endeavour, PBS, 9PM
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN, 9PM
- True Blood, HBO, 9PM
- The Last Ship, TNT, 9PM
- The Musketeers, BBC America, 9PM
- Rising Star, ABC, 9PM
- Catching Hell, Weather Channel, 9PM
- The Ultimate Fighter (season finale), Fox Sports 1, 9PM
- The Leftovers, HBO, 10PM
- Falling Skies, TNT, 10PM
- The Hunt, History, 10PM
- Halt and Catch Fire, AMC, 10PM
- Unforgettable, CBS, 10PM
- Vicious, PBS, 10:30PM
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Windows 9 will morph to fit the device it’s running on
Still holding onto your trusty copy of Windows 7 with a steely kung-fu grip? Well partner, it looks like Microsoft’s next operating system, codenamed “Threshold,” or, Windows 9 in the common tongue, is aimed right at you. The OS will apparently ship in three different flavors (desktop, tablet and mobile) and recognize the hardware its running on and adjust the experience accordingly, as ZDNet‘s Windows-leak queen Mary Jo Foley writes. Meaning, if you’re on a traditional desktop or laptop using a mouse and keyboard, Threshold will boot directly into the Windows desktop you know and love. The Live-tiled Start screen may return for people using touch-based machines like tablets and convertible laptops, although there will supposedly be an option to switch between the two environments if Threshold detects an attached keyboard. What’s more, Foley’s sources also say that if you’re itching to get your hands on the new OS ahead of its reported launch next spring, there’ll be a public preview version this autumn.
[Image credit: Associated Press]
Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Mobile, Microsoft
Source: ZDNet
NASA’s next satellite wants to know where all our carbon dioxide is going
Scientists have a pretty good idea what man-made greenhouse gasses are doing in our upper atmosphere, but not all of humanity’s emissions stay up there. A good deal of that gas floats back down to Earth, seeping into the world’s oceans and being absorbed by soil and plants on land. We’re all familiar with this process, but NASA is looking for specifics: where on Earth, exactly, is this gas going, and why haven’t we seen an increase in forestation to keep pace with our increased carbon emissions? That’s what NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory hopes to find out. Tomorrow, it’s launching Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 — a satellite built specifically to keep an eye on how carbon dioxide is distributed across the globe.
The satellite mission tasks it with surveying specific spots on Earth every 16 days by recording the type of sunlight that reflects off of the atmosphere. Scientists can measure CO2 by evaluating the color and intensity of these reflections, and will compare this data to carbon measuring devices on the ground to map out where our emissions are going. NASA hopes to use this data to create better predictions for future atmospheric carbon increases. It’s not as exciting as one of SpaceX’s launches, but missions like this are the stuff that could help keep Earth clean in the long run. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory is scheduled to launch in the early hours of July 1st. Check out the source links below for full details.
[Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
Filed under: Misc
‘Community’ revived for a sixth season on Yahoo Screen
Six seasons and a movie. That’s what fans of Community want, and they’re very close to getting it. NBC cancelled Dan Harmon’s comedy after its fifth season on the network — one that may have already owed its existence to streaming services — but now Yahoo has announced it’s commissioning a new 13-episode season. There had been rumors/wishes that Community would return on an online network like Hulu, Crackle or Netflix, but The Wrap reports the cast’s contracts were due to expire on Monday, so Sony Pictures needed to make a deal and Yahoo is looking for content (Firefly fans, update your mailing lists). With the exception of the previously departed Troy (Donald Glover) and Pierce Hawthorne (Chevy Chase), the main cast is onboard all the way down to Jim Rash as Dean Pelton. The season will be exclusive to Yahoo, but details like how much it will cost to watch (if anything) or how the episodes will be released are still unclear. The one problem we hope Yahoo can solve right away? Where to put October 19th.
[Image credit: Associated Press]
See you in the fall. #CommunityLivesOn pic.twitter.com/HSIzD0StT9
– Yahoo Screen (@YahooScreen) June 30, 2014
It’s been so long since I’ve seen the young maiden. My love is stronger than my fear of death. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie
– Dan Harmon (@danharmon) June 30, 2014
– Gillian Jacobs (@GillianJacobs) June 30, 2014
Sixth season. #CommunitySixthSeason
– Joel McHale (@joelmchale) June 30, 2014
So excited to welcome Community to @YahooScreen http://t.co/qGFHO5zjr7
– Kathy Savitt (@ksavitt) June 30, 2014
Season 6 of “Community” is coming to Yahoo – yahoo: By Kathy Savitt, CMO And the crowd goes wild… the… http://t.co/2ffvBgrzM1
– marissamayer (@marissamayer) June 30, 2014
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
Source: Yahoo (Tumblr), Yahoo PR
Spying malware leaves countries’ energy grids open to attack
Cyberwarfare campaigns against Western energy grids aren’t just the stuff of action movies these days — they’re very, very real. Symantec has discovered a likely state-sponsored hacking group, nicknamed Dragonfly, that has been using phishing sites and trojans to compromise energy suppliers in the US and several other countries. Unlike targeted, destruction-focused malware like Stuxnet, this appears to be a broader spying effort bent on collecting information about national infrastructure. However, it still creates a back door that leaves companies vulnerable to full-fledged attacks if they don’t spot the intrusions; it wouldn’t take much to create real problems.
Symantec hasn’t tracked down those behind Dragonfly, but it has plenty of evidence that they’re professionals. Most of the attacks occur on weekdays between 9AM and 6PM Eastern European time, and they’re primarily hitting Western European targets. They “think strategically,” too. They first focused on aviation and defense agencies around 2011, and switched to power-related companies in early 2013; also, the suppliers under attack are smaller and less secure than the energy providers they’re serving. If there’s any consolation, it’s that companies can shut down individual attacks, and that Symantec has already let affected companies and security response centers know what’s happening. Let’s just hope that the revelations get firms to tighten their security before there’s some major damage.
[Image credit: Bjorn Kindler/Getty]
Filed under: Internet
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Symantec
Apple Expanding Two-Step Verification to iCloud.com
Apple appears to be testing its two-factor authentication system on some iCloud.com accounts, asking for a verification code before allowing users with two-factor verification enabled to access various iCloud.com apps.
First noticed by AppleInsider, the two-factor verification system for iCloud.com requires users to enter a verification code sent via SMS or to a trusted iOS device before the iCloud.com versions of Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Pages, Numbers, and Keynote can be used.
Previously, accessing these apps only required an Apple ID password, but now “Find My iPhone” is the only app that remains accessible without a two-factor verification code.
Originally implemented back in March of 2013, two-factor verification is an opt-in system designed to increase Apple ID account security by requiring identity verification before allowing users to make account changes or purchase content on new devices. It replaces standard security questions with a security code delivered to a “trusted” device.
At this time, it is unknown if Apple is simply testing the feature with some users or working on a wider rollout for all iCloud.com users with two-factor verification enabled.
Your Google Play Movies & TV purchases now appear in YouTube App
Over the years Google has been slowly working to unify the Android user experience. Whether it be pulling out system apps and putting them to the play store so they can better keep them updated or integrating current apps with one another to make life easier. One the more recent additions from the land of […]
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