Will the Samsung Galaxy S7 be unveiled in January?
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We’re heard quite a few Samsung Galaxy S7 rumours of the last few days including the fact that the new smartphone may have a form of 3D Touch and a USB Type-C port. The latest suggestion is that Samsung‘s new smartphone from its most iconic line of devices will be announced early. This would make sense given that the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ were announced in August, a month earlier than the usual September slot, which begs the question: will the Samsung Galaxy S7 be unveiled in January?
Note, that this is not anything unusual for Samsung – the Korean manufacturer has been very happy to forgo attending large conferences in preference of personalized events to show off their new devices. If Samsung were to announce the Galaxy S7 in January, this would give them a full month’s headstart before MWC 2016 which happens at the end of February – they might even have the device ready to sell at that point if all goes to plan. Of course, all of this is just conjecture at this point, but given how much Samsung is rocking the boat at the moment, we wouldn’t be surprised if this is how it all turned out.
What do you think about Samsung announcing the Galaxy S7 in January? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: ETNews via Phones Review
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LG G Vista 2 coming to AT&T with a large display, new design and more power
Looking for a budget phone to use on AT&T? The carrier has unveiled a brand new phone for those looking to have a large display on a budget. It’s the successor to the LG G Vista from 2014, and it’s simply named the LG G Vista 2. It comes with some good specs and significant improvements, though, so keep reading to learn all about it!
Let’s start with the specs, shall we? AT&T and LG don’t go too much into the details, but the main features are clear. For starters, the LG G vista 2 sports a stronger Snapdragon 615 Soc, which is definitely an upgrade over the predecessor’s Snapdragon 400.
The screen has also been upgraded to a 5.7-inch 1080p panel, as opposed to 720. Other characteristics include Android 5.0, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage, microSD support, an included stylus, a 13 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front shooter.
If there’s something I like about LG’s devices it is that even the lower-end handsets feature all the software improvements that LG has to offer. The LG G Vista 2 takes advantage of Knock On, Knock Code, QSlide , Quick Memo and more. Not to mention all the cool things you can do with that fancy stylus.
It’s also exciting to see that this phone adopts the LG G4‘s iconic design. The back has that 3D checkered effect, and it seems to be slightly curved, too. Obviously, the buttons are still in the back, which is something that won’t be changing anytime soon.
There’s no mention of when the phone will be released, nor do we know how much it will cost, but this gadget should offer good value for your cash when it does hit the market. We also have to wonder if it is ever coming to Verizon, as well. The previous iteration came to both AT&T and Big Red.
What do you guys think of the LG G Vista 2? Are you thinking about getting one?
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Will Samsung unveil the Galaxy S7 this January?
We have been hearing some rumours here and there about the new Galaxy S7. Now, there are some new ones saying Samsung might speed up the launch of the S7 to this January.
We already know that Samsung will for sure release a flat screen phone and a dual curved edge phone just like they did this year. It’s hard to say exactly when Samsung will show off these new devices to the world, but the rumours are pointing to January 19th. That would be two weeks before MWC starts, Samsung usually unveils new devices there. It’s not too far fetched to believe this date since it’s only two weeks before the normal unveil time and because the Note 5 was also pushed up two weeks compared to it’s normal release date.
The report is also saying the S7 may feature a new ePoP chip which combines all the main sensors on a single die. The first phones to use this before were the S6 and S6 Edge last year.
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Uber is running Bing mapping cars on streets for months
It looks like Uber doesn’t want to leave any stone unturned in order to improve its mapping technology, especially since it has decided to go head to head with Google and Apple in the war of self-driven cars.
The cab service provider is reported to be running a number of mapping vehicles to capture 3D images of streets – not unlike Google Street view, albeit with drivers. Now that the mapping cars bearing Uber’s branding have been capturing images of streets for months, the data is likely to be used to improve the accuracy of route suggestions as well as ETAs. For example, the improved data would warn the driver in advance before entering a street that is frequently congested, an Uber representative told BuzzFeed.
It all started in March when Uber acquired mapping startup deCarte followed by acquisition Microsoft’s mapping technology and team in June. The company already has partnerships with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona, close to which Uber has deployed a separate fleet of mapping vehicles. These vehicles use Uber’s propriety algorithm to capture images to collect data on safety needs of autonomous cars.
Uber currently uses a mixture of its home grown algorithm and Google Maps to navigate through streets and predict ETAs. But with a helping hand from acquired companies, it clearly has its eyes set on the future, which belongs to autonomous vehicles.
Source: BuzzFeed
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A preview of NYC’s underground park is now open to the public
Since underground parks aren’t exactly commonplace, non-profit group Lowline has opened an exhibit to give New Yorkers a glimpse of the future subsurface Manhattan park it’s planning to build. This open laboratory is called the Lowline Lab, situated inside a 1,000 square feet abandoned market on the Lower East Side. In order to supply light to its 3,000 or so plants, the structure has mirrors that capture sunlight on the roof, which is then funneled through tubes and distributed through a solar canopy. According to the group’s website, this experiment will help it determine which plants are most suitable for a subterranean garden. It’s still unclear when the park itself will be launched, but the Lab is now open to the public for free every Saturday and Sunday until March 2016. Even if you can’t go, you can still see what it looks like, thanks to Inhabitat touring the facility and taking photos of the indoor lab and the plants growing in it.
[Image credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images]
Via: Inhabitat
Source: Lowline
Get a daily fresh look at the Earth with NASA’s new website
NASA launched a new website Monday to remind forgetful Terrans what their planet looks like. The website will feature at least a dozen new images of the Earth’s full, sunlit face from within the past 36 hours. The EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) aboard NASA’s DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) satellite will be responsible for capturing these images from its orbit at L1, a distance of roughly one million miles. While the EPIC itself only boasts a 4 megapixel resolution, it is capable of snapping up to 10 narrowband wavelength images at a time. By combining three of these single-color images into a composite, NASA can generate 12 MP images for the site.
Via: NASA (PR)
Source: NASA (EPIC)
New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ trailer debuts during MNF
As promised, we have the latest trailer for the new Star Wars movie, which just aired during halftime of Monday Night Football. Giving us a two and a half minute look at the seventh entry in the series, it’s embedded after the break, but if you’re already sure you want to see it opening night, ticket pre-orders are open on sites like Fandango and MovieTickets.com. If you’re not having any luck there, try hitting up your local cinema directly, or just enjoy the trailer and wait for the extra show times that will inevitably be added in the next two months before its premiere December 18th.
Source: Star Wars (YouTube)
Uber starts rolling out its own mapmaking cars
This past June, Uber struck a deal with Microsoft to acquire some of Bing’s mapping tech and staff. But back then neither company was willing to disclose specific details about the agreement, with both only going as far as acknowledging it had actually happened. Now, BuzzFeed News reports that the ridesharing service has started deploying its own mapping vehicles, which are said to be the same ones Microsoft previously owned and used in its efforts to capture street data. Uber’s rebranded cars (pictured above) are similar to Google’s StreetView fleet, featuring a 3D spherical camera capable of snapping locations around it. An Uber spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the company’s hoping the image-capturing tech will help it improve in key areas for drivers and passengers, including better route information and more accurate estimated time of arrivals.
Beyond that, though, the data collected by these map-making cars could also tied to Uber’s autonomous project. After all, Uber developing a self-driving taxi is far from being a well kept secret, especially since the company has been hard at work on finding people to assist in bringing it to life.
[Image credits: Sidney Reed for Uber]
Source: BuzzFeed News
What’s on your HDTV: ‘Star Wars’ trailer, ‘Guitar Hero Live’, ‘Jurassic World’
The biggest item on our TV schedule this week is actually a trailer. Tonight we’ll see an extended peek of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at halftime of Monday Night Football, just before tickets are available for pre-order nationwide. Netflix is bringing the third (and final) season of Hemlock Grove to streaming, while Jurassic World arrives on Blu-ray. Gamers can also add Guitar Hero Live to their collection (and compare it to the latest Rock Band game), or enjoy the fifth (and final) episodes of Life is Strange and Tales from the Borderlands. Finally, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk is back on National Geographic Channel Sunday night…oh, and some movie called Back to the Future is celebrating its 30th Anniversary Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Blu-ray & Games & Streaming
- Jurassic World (3D)
- Back to the Future Trilogy (30th Anniversary Edition)
- Z for Zachariah
- Atari: Game Over
- Results (Netflix)
- Guitar Hero Live (Wii U, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One)
- Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 5 (PS4, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC)
- Life is Strange: Episode 5 (PS4, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC)
- Just Dance 2016 (PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U)
- Organ Trail Complete Edition (PS4)
- Pulse (PC)
- Overlord: Fellowship of Evil (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
- Slender: The Arrival (Wii U)
- Noct (PC)
Monday
- Giants/Eagles Monday Night Football, ESPN, 8:15PM
- The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8PM
- Gotham, Fox, 8PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, 8PM
- Life in Pieces, CBS, 8:30PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- Minority Report, Fox, 9PM
- Scorpion, CBS, 9PM
- Awkward, MTV, 9PM
- Faking It, MTV, 9:30PM
- NCIS: LA, CBS, 10PM
- Blindspot, NBC, 10PM
- Castle, ABC, 10PM
- Girl Code Live, MTV, 10PM
- Todrick, MTV, 10:30PM
Tuesday
- The Awesomes, Hulu
- The Mindy Project, Hulu
- NLCS Game 3, TBS, 8PM
- ALCS Game 4, Fox Sports 1, 8PM
- Grandfathered, Fox, 8PM
- NCIS, CBS, 8PM
- Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, NBC, 8PM
- Labor Games, TLC, 8PM
- Undrafted, NFL Network, 8PM
- Grinder, Fox, 8:30PM
- Stitchers: When Darkness Falls, ABC Family, 9PM
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., 9PM
- Scream Queens, Fox, 9PM
- iZombie, CW, 9PM
- NCIS: NO, CBS, 9PM
- Public Morals (season finale), TNT, 9 & 10PM
- Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9PM
- From Dusk Till Dawn, El Rey, 9PM
- Face Off, Syfy, 9PM
- Limitless, CBS, 10PM
- The Bazillion Dollar Club, Syfy, 10PM
- The Bastard Executioner, FX, 10PM
- Tosh.0, Comedy Central, 10PM
- A Season with Notre Dame football, Showtime, 10PM
- Drunk History, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
Wednesday
- MLB NLCS Game 4, TBS, 8PM
- MLB ALCS Game 5, fox sports 1, 8PM
- Rosewood, Fox, 8PM
- Survivor, CBS, 8PM
- The Middle, ABC, 8PM
- The Goldbergs, ABC, 8:30PM
- Criminal Minds, CBS, 9PM
- Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9PM
- Modern Family, ABC, 9PM
- Black-ish, ABC, 9:30PM
- Code Black, CBS, 10PM
- Chicago PD, NBC, 10PM
- Nashville, ABC, 10PM
- The League, FXX, 10PM
- South Park, Comedy Central, 10PM
- Are You the One?, MTV, 10PM
- Moonbeam City, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- You’re the Worst, FX, 10:30PM
- NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 11PM
Thursday
- Bones, Fox, 8PM
- Grey’s Anatomy, ABC, 8PM
- Heroes Reborn, NBC, 8PM
- WWE Smackdown, Syfy, 8PM
- The Beauty and the Beast, CW, 8PM
- NFL: Seahawks/49ers, CBS, 8:25PM
- Scandal, ABC, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Sleepy Hollow, Fox, 9PM
- The Blacklist, NBC, 9PM
- Benders, IFC, 10PM
- The Player, NBC, 10PM
- How to Get Away with Murder, ABC, 10PM
- Dominion, Syfy, 10PM
- Comedy Bang! Bang!, IFC, 10:30PM
Friday
- Hemlock Grove (S3), Netflix, 3AM
- The Amazing Race, CBS, 8PM
- Last Man Standing, ABC, 8PM
- Dr Ken, ABC, 8:30PM
- Compared to What: the Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, Showtime, 9PM
- Shark Tank, ABC, 9PM
- Hawaii Five-0, CBS, 9PM
- Blue Bloods, CBS, 10PM
- Strike Back, Cinemax, 10PM
- Z Nation, Syfy, 10PM
Saturday
- Da Vinci’s Demons (season premiere), Starz, 8PM
- Doctor Who, BBC America, 9PM
- Blunt Talk (season finale), Starz, 9PM
- Survivor’s Remorse, Starz, 9:30PM
Sunday
- 2015 MTV European Music Awards, MTV, 8PM
- Sunday Night Football: Cowboys/Saints, NBC, 8:20PM
- Madam Secretary, CBS, 8PM
- Once Upon A Time, ABC, 8PM
- The Simpsons, Fox, 8PM
- Brooklyn Nine-nine, Fox, 8:30PM
- The Walking Dead AMC, 9PM
- The Good Wife, CBS, 9PM
- The Leftovers, HBO, 9PM
- Family Guy, Fox, 9PM
- Indian Summers, PBS, 9PM
- The Last Man on Earth, Fox, 9:30PM
- Talking Dead, AMC, 10PM
- Quantico, ABC, 10PM
- CSI: Cyber, CBS, 10PM
- Project Greenlight, HBO, 10PM
- Guilty (season premiere), PBS, 10PM
- Naked & Afraid, Discovery, 10PM
- Doll & Em, HBO, 10:30PM
- Startalk: Bill Clinton (season premiere), National Geographic Channel, 11PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11PM
- Robot Chicken (season premiere), Cartoon Network, 11:59PM
Rogue federal agent to serve 6.5 years for Silk Road scandal
Former federal agent Carl Force has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in obstructing justice while investigating the online black market, Silk Road. As Reuters tells it, prosecutors were aiming for a longer sentence (87 months, or 7.25 years) but the defense was aiming for a brisk four-year sentence due to a history of mental health issues. To back up that claim, Force said he didn’t understand a lot of what he was doing. Even the movie deal? Ars Technica reports that Force will have to pay $337,000 in restitution to a CoinMKT customer and $3,000 to an arrested Silk Road employee by the name of Curtis Green. If you’ll remember, the last federal agent involved with the corruption charges, Shaun Bridges, is awaiting trial, while Silk Road’s mastermind Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht was given a life sentence for his crimes.
[Image credit: Tim Arbaev for Getty]
Source: Reuters
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