Alibaba will sell cars with a vehicle vending machine

Chinese internet ecommerce giant Alibaba is still breaking online shopping records, but it’s begun veering into physical sales, too. That the company is reportedly planning a shopping mall is in their retail wheelhouse, but last week’s news was further afield: Alibaba will help sell Ford EVs in China. Part of that proposal included the intriguing concept of a gigantic vending machine to dole out cars — which, to be fair, has been tried out before to alleviate parking woes. But it seems that wasn’t a casual suggestion: A new video illustrates exactly how the revolving vehicle vendor will work as part of Alibaba’s test drive experience.

The process starts with Alibaba’s Taobao app, which folks use to snap photos of a car they want to take out for a spin. Then they input personal information, take a selfie and submit a deposit (which is waived if they’re an Alibaba Super Member). Then they head to a Tmall-brand car vending machine, which uses facial recognition (or a login code) to find their vehicle of choice, which it dispenses for a three-day trial run. If users want, they can buy cars straight from the app.

Not everyone can take a test drive: Only those who score over 700 in China’s Zhima Credit System can check vehicles out of the automated vending machines. To prevent abuse, users can only test a model once and are limited to five drives in the first two months of signing up.

Alibaba intends to open two of these Tmall vending locations in January, one in Shanghai and another in Nanjig, with ‘dozens’ more planned to launch across China (most in the next year).

Via: TechCrunch

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‘Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty’ debuts on smartphones

If you’re looking for a premium mobile game without in-app purchases, there’s good news: Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty has arrived on iOS, Android and NVIDIA Shield. The 2014 console game, based on Lorne Lanning’s Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee has been re-purposed for mobile with new controls for a small touchscreen, letting you swipe on the side of the screen to perform actions like “use,” and “sneak.” It also has full external controller support, and you can resize or move buttons. And did I mention there’s no in-app purchases?

The Oddworld team says that you can tweak graphic options if your smartphone isn’t up to the game, lowering resolution or turning off post-effects. They’ve also added a new tutorial complete with pop-ups, and ease you into the game’s starting area more gradually than before.

Touch Arcade notes that the 2.5D puzzle-oriented platformer already uses most of your controller’s buttons on PS4, so the mobile game’s on-screen touch controls can get a little busy. Shield users are already good there, but iOS and Android users might want to consider MFi or Android controllers. Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is now on sale on iOS, Google Play and NVIDIA’s Shield Store for $7.99

Source: Oddworld

iMac Pro Will Be Available at Apple Stores by Mid Next Week

Apple today made the iMac Pro available to order from its online store, with 8-core and 10-core models shipping in late December, but customers looking to see or purchase one at an Apple Store will have to wait a little bit longer.

MacRumors has learned from a reliable source that Apple will begin selling select iMac Pro configurations at its retail stores by mid next week.

We don’t know if all of Apple’s retail stores around the world will have in-store stock by mid next week, but it’s safe to assume that many locations will have the iMac Pro both on display and available to purchase in limited quantities. We can’t confirm when authorized resellers like Best Buy will have iMac Pro availability in stores.

Update: Apple confirmed the iMac Pro will be available at Apple Stores by mid next week at a private media briefing on Wednesday, according to iMore’s Rene Ritchie, backing up the information provided to MacRumors.

Apple stated this outright during the briefings yesterday.

— Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) December 14, 2017

iMac Pro is an expensive workstation aimed at professional users with demanding workflows, and it is also highly customizable, so many customers may prefer to order from Apple’s online store, where exact tech specs, accessories, and software add-ons like Final Cut Pro X can be selected as desired.

iMac Pro starts at $4,999 for a base 8-core model in the United States, with 10-core models available from $5,799. 14-core and 18-core models start at $6,599 and $7,399, but they aren’t estimated to ship for 6-8 weeks.

Every configuration has optional upgrades available for storage, memory, and graphics, with prices topping out at $13,199 for a maxed-out, high-end model with an 18-core Intel Xeon processor, 4TB of SSD storage, 128GB of ECC RAM, and AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics with 16GB of HBM2 memory.

First impressions of the iMac Pro have generally been very positive. YouTube reviewer Marques Brownlee, for example, said the iMac Pro is very fast and even fairly priced, although he said its lack of upgradeability is a weakness.

Fortunately, for customers who want upgradeability, Apple today confirmed that it continues to work on a modular Mac Pro that will be released alongside new Apple-branded external displays. Apple hasn’t provided a release date for any of those products, beyond noting that they won’t be available in 2017.

In the meantime, at least the iMac Pro’s RAM will be upgradable by Apple and Apple Authorized Service Providers. Still, we recommend future-proofing your iMac Pro by choosing tech specs that will meet your needs over the long term.

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Samsung Aiming to Release Smart Speaker to Compete With HomePod in First Half of 2018

Like Apple, Samsung has been working on a smart speaker that will compete with the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, and the South Korean company is aiming to release it in the first half of 2018, reports Bloomberg.

Samsung’s smart speaker sounds similar to the HomePod, with a “strong focus” on audio quality. Apple aimed to make the HomePod stand out with sound quality that beats out competitors like the Amazon Echo.

Apple’s HomePod
One prototype in testing is said to be “between the size” of the newest Echo and the HomePod. It could come in different colors, including a matte black shade, and it has no screen but offers a light-up area on the top for visual feedback like the HomePod.

Similar to other products, the Samsung smart speaker will be able to control smart home accessories, and it will be controlled via voice assistant. It will feature built-in Bixby support, Samsung’s voice-based AI solution.

Amazon’s latest Echo
Samsung confirmed its work on a smart speaker to compete with the HomePod back in August of 2017. At the time, Samsung mobile president DJ Koh said the aim was to provide a “fruitful user experience at home with Samsung devices.”

Samsung is considering a price of around $200 for the smart speaker, which would make it more affordable than Apple’s $349 HomePod. If Samsung is indeed aiming for an early 2018 release, the smart speaker could come out around the same time as the HomePod.

Apple originally planned to introduce the HomePod in December, but has since delayed its release until 2018.

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Hate needles? Pain-free injector blasts drugs into your body at Mach 0.7

Outside of body art enthusiasts who, frankly, are probably too cool to hang out with us, no one likes getting a needle stuck in them. Fortunately, a spinoff startup from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working to help squeamish people all over the world — courtesy of new smart injection technology that promises a way to inject drugs without the needles.

“Portal is developing a next-generation needle-free jet injector,” Barb Taylor, senior director of marketing for Portal Instruments, told Digital Trends. “Jet injection works by applying a high amount of force on a very fine stream of liquid, thinner than a strand of hair, which can then pierce the skin.”

The smart injection tool, called Prime, fires out the injectable solution as a jet at a pace of around Mach 0.7, the cruising speed of an average commercial airliner. Far from uncontrolled, however, the device actually monitors its injection velocity up to 1,000 times in the half second it takes to administer a 1-milliliter dose. This high level of control allows the device to expertly target specific skin depths and locations for exact drug doses.

“Our goal at Portal is to transform the experience for patients who have to regularly take life-changing drugs,” Taylor continued. “Many people are afraid of needles, or even if they are not afraid, per se, have a hesitation [about] taking an injection and have anxiety about the whole experience. Many people have to take regular injections for chronic conditions. For people who have to take self-injections on a regular basis, Portal would like to improve their experience by removing the needle and all the anxiety that accompanies [it].”

While there’s no publicly announced timetable for Portal’s smart injection tech, the startup has just announced that it is teaming up with Japanese pharmaceutical giant Takeda to further develop the technology and bring it to market.

Now if only they could work out how to combine it with other MIT research — allowing for multiple doses of a drug or vaccine to be combined into just one long-lasting jab — we’d never have to flinch at the thought of getting our winter jab again!

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Sticky Notes get stickier with a new update squashing bugs and packing bullets

The latest version of Microsoft’s Sticky Notes is now available (2.0.5.0), and with it a list of new features and fixes. It’s the virtual version of what we’ve come to know and love in the physical world for leaving quick notes on the refrigerator, on mirrors, and on the windshields of cars sitting in your designated parking space. But with Microsoft’s version, you can “stick” these notes across your desktop screen(s).

With the latest version, you can now create a bullet list on each note. This is done by merely typing an asterisk mark “*” and then a space before the start of your message. The app will automatically convert that entry into a bullet-style sentence. For customers with Fall Creators Update installed, the app also provides a new Maps view when they tap/click on an address on a note.

Here are the other changes:

• Still getting notifications to upgrade? We will now only ask you to upgrade when we think we have something super special. (Like this update.)
• If you have any long notes laying around, you might notice they’re acting a little faster. That’s on purpose!
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Microsoft’s revamped Sticky Notes made its debut on Windows 10’s Microsoft Store in May 2016. The app supports the Surface Pen via Windows Ink, enabling customers to either type their message on a note, or handwrite an entry directly on the screen.

But there is more to the app than merely sticking virtual paper all over your screen. Sticky Notes is connected to Cortana, thus when you enter a time or date on a note, it’s automatically highlighted and can be used as a Cortana reminder. It’s tied into several base Windows 10 apps too, supporting Maps (addresses), Mail (email addresses), and land/mobile numbers (Skype).

“Keep an eye on an upcoming flight or stock option by typing a flight No. or stock ticker with ‘$’ at the front. Bing then delivers the information you need to your note,” Microsoft said.

Sticky Notes originally appeared as a desktop gadget on Windows Vista. It became a stand-alone program during Windows 7’s reign and continued on in that now-classic form through the initial release of Windows 10. Sticky Notes officially became a Windows Store app based on Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform once Anniversary Update hit Windows 10. The revamped app added support for Windows Ink.

“Sticky Notes will help users realize the power of their pen and turn their handwriting into a smart digital tool without them having to think twice,” the company said in 2016.

Sticky Notes is a free app from Microsoft provided for Windows 10 devices on the Microsoft Store. You can install the latest version here.

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Edge Card is the newest smart card aiming to slim down your bulging wallet

If your wallet is bulging with credit cards, the Edge Card may be what you’ve been looking for. Edge has acquired the assets of failed smart card manufacturer Plastc, and plans to release its own card in the middle of 2018.

The Edge Card will be the same size as your other credit and debit cards. The smart card’s color touchscreen shows you what card you’re using to complete the transaction and acts as a PIN pad for purchase verification. The card supports magnetic stripe, EMV chip, and NFC purchases. It will operate for approximately two weeks between charges and comes with a wireless charging pad.

A digital wallet app called Edge brings some interesting features to the cards. The app allows you to require biometric verification (completed on your phone) for purchases. It also offers digital receipt storage and even has a feature that will help you select the best credit card to use for your purchase.  The company also plans to partner with different retailers to add special offers for Edge Card users.

At $200, the Edge Card is more expensive than past smart cards. It will initially be available online, though Edge CEO Peter Garrett told Digital Trends he hopes the card will eventually be available through retailers like Best Buy and Amazon. Unlike Plastc and other smart card manufacturers that failed to ever bring a product to market, Edge does not intend to use pre-orders to fund development of the card.

Originally announced in 2014, Plastc marketed itself as a digital solution to replace up to 20 credit cards. A lengthy pre-order campaign ensued where early adopters paid $155 to have first access to the card. After raising $9 million dollars from pre-orders, the company abruptly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2017 and failed to fulfill any orders, leaving customers high and dry. Edge plans to offer a $50 discount to people who were part of the Plastc pre-order campaign.

With Apple Pay and Android Pay available for free on many smartphones, it’s uncertain who would be willing to pay for a smart card. While smartphone payment adoption has gradually increased since its introduction, it’s still used by a small number of smartphone owners. Edge Card hopes its added safety and convenience features, as well as its ability to be accepted at almost any business, will make it an attractive feature for customers who have multiple credit and debit cards.

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How to use desktop mode on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro

If you’ve got a Huawei Mate 10 Pro smartphone, then we want to make sure you’re using every great feature, and one you really should try is its desktop mode. It’s part of EMUI 8.0, Huawei’s user interface on the smartphone, and it’s called Easy Projection. Plug your phone into an external monitor and you’re instantly given a full screen desktop experience, based on the Android operating system on your phone.

It’s simple to set up, and works very well, with control features available on your phone so there’s no need for an external keyboard or mouse. Here’s how to use desktop mode on the Huawei Mate 10 Pro.

What you need

You need a Huawei Mate 10 Pro smartphone. If you haven’t bought one yet, our Mate 10 Pro review will tell you why you really should. You also need an external monitor with at least one HDMI port, and we’ve got our picks of the best monitors you can buy here. Finally, you need a USB Type-C to HDMI cable.

The cable is the important part here. Huawei doesn’t supply or sell one, so you’ll have to turn to another source. We found difficulty locating one in computer retail stores, so we recommend finding one online. Pay attention to the length of cable. The phone is used to control desktop mode, so if the cable is too short, you may not have the freedom of movement you’ll need. We chose this Choetech cable from Amazon, which is less than $20, and is 1.8m in length. It worked perfectly for us, but there are other alternatives too.

Getting started

You’ve got your phone, cable, and monitor, so now it’s time to set up desktop mode. Here’s how easy it is. Just make sure your phone has plenty of battery power, as it’s not possible to charge and use Easy Projection mode at the same time.

Take your USB Type-C to HDMI cable and plug it into a spare HDMI port on your monitor, keeping the USB Type-C end free and easy to access. You don’t need to do anything to your phone, or the monitor at all just yet.

Plug the USB Type-C cable into your Huawei Mate 10 Pro. You should feel it vibrate. If it’s the first time using Easy Projection, then a series of screens guiding your through the way it works will show up. If you missed them, you can see them below:

Pull down the notification shade on the phone and look for the alert saying: “Touch to switch to Desktop mode”, and tap it. If you need to, change the source on your monitor. You will see either a recreation of your phone screen, or the EMUI desktop. If your phone screen shows on the monitor, tap the notification alert again on your phone. To return to the phone screen, tap the notification alert saying, “Touch to switch to Phone mode.”

Next, activate the virtual touchpad on the phone, by returning to the notification shade and tapping the alert saying: “Virtual keyboard and mouse.” This turns your phone screen into a touchpad to control the onscreen pointer. When you select an area that requires text, a keyboard will pop up on the phone screen, with a small touchpad area above it.

How to use desktop mode’s controls

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Your Huawei phone’s screen becomes a virtual keyboard and mouse. Slide a single finger around the screen to move the on-screen pointer. Tap once for a left-click on a mouse, and double tap to select text, or to shift windows around the screen. A two-fingered tap works like a right click on a mouse, and finally, sliding two fingers up and down the screen scrolls through web pages and apps.

What can you do?

How much value you get from desktop mode depends on your expectations. On the desktop there are shortcuts to Chrome, email, videos stored on your phone, and the gallery. All these are simple to use and provide native-feeling experiences. Browsing the web and looking at the photos on your phone is great.

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Look down in the bottom right of the screen to find phone connectivity status, battery percentage, and the usual Android navigation keys. On the bottom left side shortcuts to open apps will appear, alongside a menu key. Tap this to find all the apps suitable for use with desktop mode.

Look for a folder called Third-party apps. Tap it once to open. Huawei warns that some apps won’t work correctly in Easy Projection, and it’s right. If you hope to play games, you’re going to be disappointed, as there’s no easy way to use apps with touchscreen controls. We tried Reckless Racing 3 and Happy Hop, neither of which could be played in this mode.

However, Twitter works perfectly, along with messaging apps like WhatsApp and Line, plus Huawei’s own Notepad app and Microsoft Word. Take Word fullscreen and it’s just like using Word on a PC, only you type using the phone’s keyboard. If you have a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, you may be able to pair them with your phone to make them work (although we have not tested this yet).

When you finish, just unplug the cable from your phone. That’s it, have fun exploring the mate 10 Pro’s desktop mode.

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European news agencies ask Facebook, Google to pay for content

Nine of Europe’s largest press agencies are calling for internet giants like Facebook and Google to pay for news content used on its sites. The agencies, including Agence France-Presse (AFP), Germany’s Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), and Britain’s Press Association made their plea in the French daily newspaper Le Monde.

The battle is the latest between publishers and social media platforms. In its letter, the agencies stated that while companies internet giants like Facebook, Google, and Snapchat reap 60-70 percent of advertising revenues on its platforms, while neither have a newsroom.

The battle between publishers and the internet giants has grown more heated over the last few years as more users move away from computers and use mobile devices to read the news. According to a Pew report, the number of people who prefer to get their news on mobile devices has grown to 65 percent in 2017.

For the past several years, companies like Facebook and Google have created products to reduce load time for content on mobile devices. In 2015, Facebook released Instant Articles a feature that allows publishers to host mobile content on its servers. In 2016, Google followed suit and released a feature called Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) that allows users to access news articles with nearly zero load time.

While both AMP and Instant Articles can improve mobile user experiences, it comes at a huge cost for publishers. These services remove links and recommended content from the publisher and minimize ad revenue by reducing the number of ads and requiring publishers give a cut of the revenue to the internet company. The result for publishers more visibility on mobile platforms but with less revenue to fund future reporting.

The rollout for Facebook’s Instant Articles has been particularly rough. In April, a number of elite publishers including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Hearst opted out of Instant Articles after finding their own mobile-optimized stories not only resulted in higher revenues but higher subscription rates as well. In a rare concession, Facebook worked with publishers to add changes to Instant Articles, devoting more room for ad space, providing paywalls, and adding subscription buttons.

But European publishers believe these attempts only address a small portion of their complaints. They believe the companies that use their reporting should be required to pay for the work and are asking the European Union to give them “related rights” copyright to their work. While publishers believe copyright protection is essential for free and reliable news gathering to continue, European Parliament members worry that such action could be a threat to free internet.

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Here’s how tech influencers reacted to the FCC’s net neutrality repeal

After months of anticipation, the fate of the internet has been decided. On Thursday, December 14, the Federal Communications Commission voted to reverse net neutrality regulations. The Restore Internet Freedom declaratory ruling that passed in a 3-2 vote, meaning there are no regulations in place to stop service providers from blocking or slowing down access to content.

The internet didn’t break down — yet — and people, companies, and organizations have taken to social media to voice their opinions freely. Here are a collection of reactions to the FCC’s net neutrality repeal.

Jessica Rosenworcel, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission:

The @FCC voted to roll back #NetNeutality today. History will not be kind to this vote to destroy Internet openness. But this is not over. I'm not stopping here or now–and neither should you. Let's keep up the fight. Let's keep raising a ruckus. The future depends on it.

— Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) December 14, 2017

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman:

“This isn’t the outcome we wanted, but you should all be proud of the awareness you’ve created. Those who thought that they’d be able to quietly repeal net neutrality without anyone noticing or caring learned a thing or two, and we still may come out on top of this yet.”

Michael Powell, National Cable and Telecommunications Association president and CEO:

“Today’s FCC action rightly restores the light-touch approach to government regulation of the internet that has fostered the development of a vibrant, open and innovative platform. For decades, America’s internet service providers have delivered an open internet — allowing consumers to enjoy the lawful internet content and applications of their choosing. Nothing in this decision alters that commitment — ISPs have stated repeatedly that they do not and will not block, throttle or unfairly discriminate in how internet traffic is delivered.”

Ed Markey, Democratic senator from Massachusetts:

My fellow @SenateDems will fight the @FCC’s repeal of #NetNeutrality in courts and in the halls of Congress. We will not allow massive broadband corporations to throttle our democracy.https://t.co/jyhYvFDZzS

— Ed Markey (@SenMarkey) December 14, 2017

Tom Wheeler, former Chairman of the FCC:

“With this vote, the FCC walked away from over a decade of bipartisan efforts to oversee the fairness and openness of companies such as Comcast, AT&T, Charter, and Verizon. These four companies control over 75 percent of the residential internet access in America, usually through a local monopoly. Henceforth, they will be able to make their own rules, subject only to very limited after-the-fact review.”

Eric Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General:

I will sue to stop the FCC’s illegal rollback of #netneutrality. New Yorkers and all Americans deserve a free and open internet. pic.twitter.com/BNW7TDsp4z

— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) December 14, 2017

Bob Quinn, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs:

“For more than a decade, under both Republican and Democratic Administrations, AT&T has consistently made clear that we provide broadband service in an open and transparent way.  We do not block websites, nor censor online content, nor throttle or degrade traffic based on the content, nor unfairly discriminate in our treatment of internet traffic … In short, the internet will continue to work tomorrow just as it always has. Despite the existence and the enforceability of all of these commitments, we have, since 2010, also repeatedly called for a non-Title II legislative solution that would make these consumer protections permanent.”

Netflix:

We’re disappointed in the decision to gut #NetNeutrality protections that ushered in an unprecedented era of innovation, creativity & civic engagement. This is the beginning of a longer legal battle. Netflix stands w/ innovators, large & small, to oppose this misguided FCC order.

— Netflix US (@netflix) December 14, 2017

USTelecom:

“The FCC’s smart broadband protections encourage continued network investment, which is a win for rural Americans. Those winding country roads are intersecting with a vast information superhighway to improve local economies, education, and quality-of-life.”

Travis Helwig, screenwriter:

Why are we talking about #NetNeutrality like it’s about saving memes? Without access to the internet, it’s almost impossible to apply for a job or college or pay your bills. @AjitPaiFCC just made poor people poorer and rich people richer.

— Travis Helwig (@travishelwig) December 14, 2017

Michael Beckerman, Internet Association President and CEO:

“The internet industry opposes Chairman Pai’s repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order. Today’s vote represents a departure from more than a decade of broad, bipartisan consensus on the rules governing the internet. Relying on ISPs to live up to their own ‘promises’ is not net neutrality and is bad for consumers.”

Jay Inslee, Governor of Washington

Washington state will act under our own authority, our own laws and our own jurisdiction to protect #NetNeutrality for all of Washington's citizens. pic.twitter.com/K5eE1o5W6R

— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) December 13, 2017

Cinnamon Rogers, Telecommunications Industry Association senior vice president for government affairs:

“Today’s vote paves the way for a free and open internet, which everyone agrees is essential for growth, innovation and consumer opportunity. We strongly support the FCC’s new plan, which achieves this goal by relying on smart technology and technologists, rather than on restrictive regulations and lawyers.”

Professor Barbara van Schewick, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society

“Today’s vote is a stain on the FCC. For decades, the FCC prided itself on being careful, deliberate and transparent in its mission to keep the internet open for free speech, commerce, and innovation, while maintaining incentives for broadband providers to invest. This FCC has failed to live up to that standard.”

We will continue to update this article with more reactions.