Samsung launching gorgeous ‘blue coral’ Galaxy S7 edge in the U.S. for the holidays
A mid-cycle color refresh for the phone taking over the Note 7’s sales.
If you lusted after the bright blue-and-pink “blue coral” Note 7 back when it was on sale, you’re in luck: the color is being reintroduced on the Galaxy S7 edge in the U.S. later this year. Blue coral was originally a Note 7-exclusive color, but will now sit alongside black, gold and silver as color options for the GS7 edge a “major wireless providers” in the States.
For those who wanted to stand out a bit the blue coral Note 7 was certainly enticing, with its amazingly flashy blue body being accented by a light pink metal trim that looked like no other phone on the market. The Galaxy S7 edge stands to be just as stunning in the color, even set next to the gold and silver options.
Though people with a Galaxy S7 edge aren’t going to be swapping out their current phone for the new color, at the very least the blue color option will help it stand out a bit on store shelves for holiday phone buyers. Together with pricing incentives in the final quarter of the year, Samsung is hoping that the Galaxy S7 edge (in all colors) will pick up some of the sales slack created by the Note 7’s recall.
The new color will go on sale starting November 1, with specific availability by region announced when it becomes available in each area.
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Apple’s upcoming iOS 10.2 update will bring new emoji, wallpapers
Apple has rolled out the first beta of an upcoming iOS 10 update to developers, and when that update finally lands for consumers, it’ll bring a few new features, including new emoji and wallpapers.
One week after releasing the iOS 10.1 update and more than a month after launching the iOS 10 operating system, Apple has seeded iOS 10.2 to developers. Apart from new emoji and wallpapers, it brings bug fixes, performance improvements, new camera settings, and more. Registered developers can download the iOS 10.2 beta from the Apple Developer Center or over-the-air with the right configuration profile installed.
While the last update, iOS 10.1, introduced a new Portrait photography mode for the iPhone 7 Plus’ dual-lens camera system, the new features in iOS 10.2 aren’t as major. But they’re still noteworthy nonetheless. Unicode 9 emoji are included in iOS 10.2, which means you’ll get emoji for shrugging, clown face, drooling face, selfie, fox face, owl, shark, gorilla, butterfly, avocado, and pancakes.
- Go here for the full list of new Unicode 9 emoji
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There are also new wallpapers in iOS 10.2. They use the same graphics found in the iPhone 7’s marketing materials. There’s even a new option for saving your last-used camera settings, meaning you can preserve the last Camera Mode, Photo Filter, or Live Photo setting. The Preserve Settings option can be located in the Settings app under Photos & Camera.
Other features include a new widget available for the Videos app (you can access this widget on the widgets panel; it displays movies and TV shows in the Videos app) and an emergency contacts feature that will automatically notify your emergency contacts when you use the Emergency SOS.
Check out Pocket-lint’s iOS 10 tips and tricks round-up to see what else you can already to with Apple’s mobile operating system.
Secure your media library with Shoebox Cloud Backup (83 per cent off)
You’ll never get all those photos back after a system crash–unless you’re protected by Shoebox Cloud Backup.
With this cloud backup service, you can take a load off your hard drive’s back by uploading your entire media library to the cloud. For a limited time, Pocket-lint readers can get a lifetime subscription to Shoebox’s Pro plan for only £8.21 ($10 USD).
With a pro subscription, you’ll get an unlimited amount of secure cloud backup for all your photos and up to 10 hours of backup for your videos. That way, your media files will always be safe even if your computer keels over.
Shoebox Cloud Backup holds your security paramount. Boasting tough-as-nails encryption technology, Shoebox’s servers keep your personal photos and videos out of the hands of prying hackers. What’s more, you can access your files no matter where you are. Whether you’re browsing on your desktop or mobile device, you can manage your storage wherever you’re online.
With Shoebox Cloud Backup, you can free up some hard drive space while making sure your precious media files stick around even when disaster hits. Plus, you’ll enjoy peace of mind knowing your files are kept under lock and key thanks to Shoebox’s top-tier encryption technology.
A year of Shoebox Cloud Backup Pro would normally run you £49.24, but Pocket-lint readers can save big and get it for just £8.21 ($10 USD).
Streamline your projects with Pagico 8 Task Manager (60 per cent off)
Staying on top of your to to-dos can be a challenge. Fortunately, Pagico 8 Task Manager is here to help you stay focused.
This app is a one-stop resource that turns all your projects, tasks, and notes into streamlined flowcharts. For a limited time, Pocket-lint readers can get Pagico 8 Task Manager on sale for only £15.64 ($19 USD).
Using Pagico 8 Task Manager, you can easily browse, sort, and label all your projects within a single interface. You can filter through notes using tags and track how you’re doing by looking at the completion progress bar. Plus, once you’re done with a task, you can easily archive old notes and assignments to cut down on clutter.
This app also lets you create customized templates for your projects. With just a few clicks, you can clone an existing project, and use its layout to speed up future assignments. Combine this with Pagico’s Link Helper, and you can link and assign tasks at rapid speeds.
To help you stay on top of your work, Pagico sends you custom notifications even when you’re not connected to your calendar app. What’s more, Pagico lets you access your essential data anywhere, so you can stay in the know no matter where you’re going.
Pagico 8 Task Manager normally retails for £41.17, but you can save over 60 per cent off and get it on sale for just £15.64 ($19 USD).
What’s on TV: ‘The Crown,’ ‘Atlanta’ season finale and ‘Call of Duty’
While the World Series wraps up this week, we’re waiting to check out Netflix’s next big-ticket original series: The Crown. Also arriving to all on Friday is the new Call of Duty, although it’s hard to tell if people are more excited for Infinite Warfare or the remastered edition of Modern Warfare that’s packed in. FX’s excellent new series Atlanta brings its season finale this week as TBS kicks off Wyatt Cenac’s People of Earth, and Star Trek Beyond ships on Blu-ray. 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
- Star Trek Beyond (4K,3D)
- Outlander (S2)
- Bad Moms
- Nine Lives
- The Walking Dead (S6)
- Not Another Teen Movie
- Hell on Wheels: The Complete Series
- Ronin (PS4)
- Super Dungeon Bros (PC, PS4, Xbox One)
- BlazBlue: Central Fiction (PS3, PS4)
- Seraph (PS4)
- Destroy All Humans! (PS4)
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PC, PS4, Xbox One – 11/4)
- O! My Genesis VR (PS4)
Monday
- Chewing Gum (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- Monday Night Football: Vikings vs. Broncos, ESPN, 8:15PM
- Supergirl , CW, 8PM
- Kevin Can Wait, CBS, 8PM
- Gotham, Fox, 8PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Dancing With the Stars, ABC, 8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- X Factor UK, Axs, 8PM
- Man with a Plan, CBS, 8:30PM
- People of Earth (series premiere), TBS, 9 & 9:30PM
- Jane the Virgin, CW, 9PM
- 2 Broke Girls, CBS, 9PM
- Lucifer, Fox, 9PM
- Street Outlaws, Discovery, 9PM
- The Odd Couple, CBS, 9:30PM
- Scorpion, CBS, 10PM
- Timeless, NBC, 10PM
- All Access Nashville: Celebrating the CMA Awards, ABC, 10PM
- Mary + Jane, MTV, 10PM
- Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, TBS, 10:30PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
Tuesday
- MLB World Series Game 6: Cleveland vs. Cubs, Fox, 7:30PM
- The Mindy Project, Hulu, 3AM
- 30 for 30: Hit it Hard, ESPN, 8PM
- The Flash, CW, 8PM
- Brooklyn Nine-nine , Fox, 8PM
- Ben & Lauren, Freeform, 8PM
- The Middle, ABC, 8PM
- 16 for ’16: Bush/Obama (season finale), PBS, 8PM
- NCIS, CBS, 8PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- WWE Smackdown, USA, 8PM
- Undrafted (season finale), NFL Network, 8PM
- New Girl, Fox, 8:30PM
- American Housewife, ABC, 8:30PM
- True Life, MTV, 9PM
- Channel Zero: Candle Cove, Syfy, 9PM
- Bull, CBS, 9PM
- The Letter, Freeform, 9PM
- Fresh Off the Boat, ABC, 9PM
- This is Us, NBC, 9PM
- No Tomorrow, CW, 9PM
- Inside the NFL, Showtime 9PM
- Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove, Discovery, 9PM
- From Dusk till Dawn, El Rey, 9PM
- Forged in Fire, History, 9PM
- The Gary Owen Show, BET, 9:30PM
- The Real O’neals, ABC, 9:30PM
- Chicago Fire, NBC, 10PM
- Atlanta (season finale), FX, 10PM
- Aftermath, Syfy, 10PM
- Black Market, Viceland, 10PM
- A Season with Florida State Football, Showtime, 10PM
- Adam Ruins Everything, TruTV, 10PM
- Drunk History, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Cyberwar, Viceland, 10:30PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
- The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Comedy Central, 12AM
Wednesday
- Chance, Hulu, 3AM
- Triumph’s Election Watch 2016, Hulu, 3AM
- The 50th Annual CMA Awards, ABC, 8PM
- Arrow, CW, 8PM
- Blindspot, NBC, 8PM
- Lethal Weapon, Fox, 8PM
- The Story of Cats, PBS, 8PM
- Survivor, CBS, 8PM
- Lucha Underground, El Rey, 8PM
- Unsung: Hill Harper, TV One, 8PM
- Speechless, CBS, 8:30PM
- Lip Sync Battle, Spike TV, 9 & 9:30PM
- Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9PM
- Criminal Minds, CBS, 9PM
- NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 9PM
- Frequency, CW, 9PM
- Stan Against Evil (series premiere), IFC, 10PM
- The Real World, MTV, 10PM
- That Awkward Game Show, Spike TV, 10PM
- Chicago PD, NBC, 10PM
- Code Black, CBS, 10PM
- You’re the Worst, FXX, 10PM
- American Horror Story FX, 10PM
- Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, Viceland, 10PM
- Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons, HBO, 10PM
- Rectify, Sundance, 10PM
- Impastor, TV Land, 10:30PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
Thursday
- Falcons/Buccaneers football, CBS, 8:25PM
- DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, CW, 8PM
- Grey’s Anatomy, ABC, 8PM
- The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8PM
- Superstore, NBC, 8PM
- Rosewood, Fox, 8PM
- The Great Indoors, CBS, 8:30PM
- The Good Place (fall finale), NBC, 8:30PM
- Mom, CBS, 9PM
- Supernatural, CW, 9PM
- Chicago Med, NBC, 9PM
- Notorious, ABC, 9PM
- Life in Pieces, CBS, 9:30PM
- Pure Genius, CBS, 10PM
- Falling Water, USA, 10PM
- Almost Impossible Game Show, MTV, 10PM
- Balls Deep, Viceland, 10PM
- The Blacklist, NBC, 10PM
- How to Get Away With Murder, ABC, 10PM
- Better Things, FX, 10PM
- Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
- Wonderland, MTV, 11PM
- This is Not Happening, Comedy Central, 12:30AM
Friday
- The Crown (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- Dana Carvey: Straight White Male, Netflix, 3AM
- The Ivory Game, Netflix, 3AM
- World of Winx (S1), Netflix, 3AM
- Thunderbirds Are Go (S2), Amazon Prime, 3AM
- Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park: Europe, Netflix, 3AM
- Macgyver, CBS, 8PM
- The Vampire Diaries, CW, 8PM
- Last Man Standing, ABC, 8PM
- Dr. Ken, ABC, 8:30PM
- One & Done, Showtime, 9PM
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, 9PM
- Hawaii Five-0, CBS, 9PM
- The Exorcist, Fox, 9PM
- Hawaii Five-0, CBS, 9PM
- Shark Tank, ABC, 9PM
- Z Nation, Syfy, 9PM
- Van Helsing, Syfy, 10PM
- Blue Bloods, CBS, 10PM
- Tracey Ullman’s Show, HBO, 11PM
- Comedy Bang! Bang!, IFC, 11 & 11:30PM
Saturday
- Who Killed Jon Benet?, Lifetime, 8PM
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, BBC America, 9PM
- Zero Days, Showtime, 9PM
- Saturday Night Live, NBC, 11:30PM
Sunday
- Broncos/Raiders Sunday Night Football, NBC, 8:20PM
- 60 Minutes, CBS, 7:30PM
- Bob’s Burgers, Fox, 7:30PM
- The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, Showtime, 8PM
- 2016 MTV EMAs, MTV, 8PM
- Durrells in Corfu, PBS, 8PM
- Ash vs. Evil Dead, Starz, 8PM
- Once Upon a Time, ABC, 8PM
- NCIS: Los Angeles, CBS, 8:30PM
- Son of Zorn, Fox, 8:30PM
- Blunt Talk, Starz, 8:30PM
- The Walking Dead, AMC, 9PM
- Westworld, HBO, 9PM
- Alaska: The Last Frontier, Discovery, 9PM
- Poldark, PBS, 9PM
- Secrets and Lies, ABC, 9PM
- Shameless, Showtime, 9PM
- Berlin Station, Epix, 9PM
- The Last Man on Earth, Fox, 9:30PM
- Madam Secretary, CBS, 9:30PM
- Edge of Alaska, Discovery, 10PM
- Eyewitness, USA, 10PM
- Graves, Epix, 10PM
- Divorce, HBO, 10PM
- Masters of Sex, Showtime, 10PM
- Talking Dead, AMC, 10PM
- Elementary, CBS, 10PM
- Insecure, HBO, 10:30PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11:15PM
- Kevin Hart: Hart of the City, Comedy Central, 11:30PM
Your Facebook check-in won’t help North Dakota protestors
There’s a new viral message making its way through your Facebook friends’ status updates today. The copy-paste chain letter message claims that police in Morton County, North Dakota are using Facebook check-ins to target demonstrators and disrupt protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline, while also calling on everyone to check in at the location “to overwhelm and confuse” law enforcement officials. Unfortunately for everyone at home, the rumor is false and status-update-based activism will do little to actually support the protestors’ cause.
If it hasn’t yet popped up on your Facebook feed, the bulk of the message goes like this:
“The Morton County Sheriff’s Department has been using Facebook check-ins to find out who is at Standing Rock in order to target them in attempts to disrupt the prayer camps. SO Water Protectors are calling on EVERYONE to check-in at Standing Rock, ND to overwhelm and confuse them. This is concrete action that can protect people putting their bodies and well-beings on the line that we can do without leaving our homes. Will you join me in Standing Rock?”
The rest of the message instructs supporters to publicly check in at Standing Rock, then make a separate, private post visible only to friends in order to clarify what they are doing. As Snopes points out, however, the core of that statement is simply not true. Not only is the Morton County Sheriff’s Department not monitoring Facebook check-ins, but even if they were, the remote check-ins “would not confuse or overwhelm them.” On a technical level, trying to throw off law enforcement with a remote check-in is pointless. The Sheriff’s Department re-iterated their position in a Facebook post stating “This claim/rumor is absolutely false.”
In its own Facebook message response, the Sacred Stone Camp clarified that the Facebook message “did not originate from the Sacred Stone Camp FB page.” The group claims “there is no doubt” that law enforcement monitors social media activity, but the check-ins help their cause only by bringing a bit of viral awareness. Although the group says they appreciate the show of solidarity, it would do much more to help their cause if all of those thousands of people “take physical action” in the form of a contribution to the group’s legal defense fund, by joining up on their solidarity page or by actually coming down to protest in person – not just through a meaningless online check-in.
Curiously, TechCrunch points out that “Standing Rock” is still not a trending topic on Facebook, despite all the chatter. So, for all the well-meaning misinformation, the protest still has much less awareness — or is less important in the eyes of Facebook’s algorithms — than fake news or Kylie Jenner and Tyga’s Halloween costumes.
Source: Snopes, Morton County Sheriff’s Department/Facebook, Sacred Stone Camp/Facebook
Chrome boosts page load speeds with clever bits of code
Google’s main selling point for Chrome has always been simple: speed. With the browser’s latest update, 64-bit Chrome 53 and 32-bit Chrome 54 on Windows, the internet juggernaut is upping performance again. By using Microsoft’s Profile Guided Optimization — a part of Visual Studio, as noted by TechCrunch — the browser has boosted new tab page loads by 14.8 percent and page loads by 5.9 percent. In terms of firing the browser up for the first time (people actually close it?), that’s seen the most improvement of all, with Google claiming 16.8 percent faster startup time.
It’s all calculated by looking at which functions are used most often and optimizing them over less-used functions, Sébastien Marchand writes on the Chromium blog. More speed is always appreciated, sure, but decreasing the browser’s impact on battery life would be awesome too. There’s always December’s version for that, though.
Via: TechCrunch
Source: Chromium blog
The next president gets Obama’s 11 million Twitter followers
For the nation’s first social media president, the peaceful transfer of power includes a little more than turning over the nuclear launch codes to the next Commander in Chief — it also includes handing over access to the official @POTUS Twitter account. According to the White House, on January 20th, 2017, that handle and all of its 11 million followers will go to the nation’s 45th president, while all of President Obama’s tweets will be moved over to his new, official Former President account at @POTUS44.
So, @POTUS will start with a clean timeline on our next president’s first day in office, but we can still relive all the fun memories and Obama’s summer jams over at @POTUS44. Same goes for Michelle Obama’s @FLOTUS account, which will move to @FLOTUS44 along with other White House staff accounts to be archived by the NARA. (Although, if Clinton wins, someone in Washington is going to have to ask nicely for the @FGOTUS account, which appears to be claimed by a current Hillary supporter.)
The new president will take over Obama’s followers on the official White House Facebook and Instagram accounts as well, but will also start with a clean timeline on their first day in office. All of the content from the Obama administration will go to Facebook.com/ObamaWhiteHouse and Instagram.com/ObamaWhiteHouse respectively, and Obama’s WhiteHouse.gov material will move to ObamaWhiteHouse.gov, similar to how the government handled the Clinton and Bush websites in the past. The NARA will take the same approach with President Obama’s YouTube interviews, Snapchats, Medium posts and other social media content too — anything with a “WhiteHouse” username will go to the new president, while Obama’s material will be archived under a new username on the same platform and placed in the national archives.
As for the We the People petition site, the White House says the page has been open-sourced and they’ll archive the Obama administration’s petitions and responses before handing over the site to the next administration, although it will be up to #45 to decide whether to use it or not. Finally, the NARA is also providing all of the data, tweets, photos and other content to the American public and inviting everyone “to come up with creative ways to archive this content and make it both useful and available for years to come” in the form of art projects, Twitter bots and more.
Source: WhiteHouse.gov
Pirates swamp online stores with counterfeit music CDs
It can be easy to forget that CDs still represent a significant chunk of the music industry’s revenue in the streaming era, but pirates certainly haven’t forgotten. The Wall Street Journal has learned that counterfeit CDs are a serious problem at Amazon and other online stores. Bootleggers (frequently from China) produce discs that are increasingly similar to the real deal and sell them for slightly less than legitimate copies, making them look like bargains instead of obvious frauds. And they aren’t always coming from obscure suppliers, either. In an RIAA investigation, Amazon fulfilled 18 out of 44 CD orders identified as counterfeit.
In some cases, pirates get away with the act by exploiting how stores like Amazon manage inventory. They’ll let third parties lump their stock in with those of official partners (right down to similar barcodes), making it relatively easy to slip bogus products through the cracks.
The RIAA says Amazon was eager to help tackle pirated material after learning of the findings, and Amazon itself says it’s “working closely” with both distributors and labels to clamp down on counterfeiters. There’s certainly some urgency to improve anti-piracy efforts. Although downloads and streaming thrive in North America, CDs make up just shy of 40 percent of worldwide music industry revenue. Publishers can’t count on digital sources to pick up all the financial slack, especially in regions where CDs are either relatively popular (such as Europe) or the only realistic way to listen. Until broadband is both ubiquitous and genuinely affordable for a large chunk of the world, CD piracy is bound to be tempting.
Source: Wall Street Journal
What’s New in iOS 10.2 Beta 1: Unicode 9 Emoji, Preserve Settings for Camera, Videos Widget, Wallpapers and More
Apple seeded the first beta of iOS 10.2 to developers this afternoon, marking the second major update to the iOS 10 operating system. While iOS 10.2 doesn’t include a single main feature like the Portrait mode that was introduced in iOS 10.1, it does include several smaller features.
There are a bunch of new emoji that were first introduced in Unicode 9, plus there’s a new video widget and handy new settings for preserving your camera preferences when taking a photo. For a full overview of the new features, make sure to check out our video.
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Emoji – Unicode 9 emoji are included in iOS 10.2. Some of the new emoji include clown face, drooling face, selfie, fox face, owl, shark, butterfly, avocado, pancakes, croissant, and more. There are more than a hundred new emoji, including several profession emoji available in both male and female genders, such as firefighter, mechanic, lawyer, doctor, scientist, and more. Many existing emoji have also seen significant redesigns.
Wallpapers – There are new wallpapers in iOS 10.2, which use the same graphics that were shown off in iPhone 7 marketing materials.
Screen Effects – There’s a new “Celebrate” Screen Effect available, accessible when adding an effect to a message.
Camera settings – There’s a new option for saving your last known camera settings. This will let you preserve the last Camera Mode, Photo Filter, or Live Photo setting. “Preserve Settings” is available in the Settings App under “Photos & Camera.”
Videos widget – There’s a new widget available for the Videos app, accessible on the widgets panel by swiping to the right on the Home screen of an iPhone or iPad. The Videos widget displays movies and TV shows in the Videos app, and a tap will cause content to play automatically.
Emergency contacts – There’s a new feature that will automatically notify your emergency contacts when you use the Emergency SOS feature on iPhone or Apple Watch. A popup notification shows up when you open the Health app after installing iOS 10.2.
Apple Music – There’s a new option to sort playlists in Apple Music by type, title, and recently added. There are also new options for sorting songs and albums by title or artist.
iOS 10.2 is currently only available for registered developers, but Apple will likely make a beta available for public beta testers in the near future.
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