Apple Seeking OLED Display Price Cut From Samsung Amid Rumors Next iPhone X Will Start at $899

Apple wants to reduce the price it pays Samsung for OLED displays used in current and future iPhone X models, according to DigiTimes.

The report, citing industry sources, claims Apple is requiring Samsung to lower its price to $100 per panel, down around 9.1 percent from the $110 that research firm IHS Markit estimated the iPhone maker paid in 2017.

Rather confusingly, the report first says Apple is negotiating with Samsung about the revised price, but later says it is a requirement.

If the price cut is indeed being forced upon Samsung, then Apple likely feels confident in its ability to secure OLED displays from LG as a second supplier, and is thereby benefitting from diversifying its supply chain and making its suppliers compete against each other on price in an effort to win millions of orders.

LG is widely considered to be ramping up its OLED display production capabilities in hopes of securing orders for Apple’s next-generation iPhone lineup, but a recent report claimed mass production challenges have caused the company to fall behind schedule. It’s unclear if those issues have been resolved.

Apple is expected to purchase up to 100 million OLED displays from Samsung in 2018, to be used for the current iPhone X, in addition to a second-generation iPhone X and so-called iPhone X Plus expected to launch in 2018.

The price cut would help Apple lower its bill of materials for the iPhone X and future models with OLED displays, and the savings could potentially be passed on to customers. RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani, for example, believes the second-generation iPhone X will start at $899, down from $999.

No doubt, Apple’s own bottom line also stands to benefit from reduced production costs, so these negotiations are most likely par for the course.

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Airbus’ latest A350 aircraft to break record for longest commercial flight

Let’s face it, really long flights aren’t for everyone.

Wedged into a coach seat for 16-plus hours, the seat in front fully reclined, and your neighbors having claimed the armrests minutes after sitting down, such journeys can be brutal for both body and mind.

Well, folks, with aircraft becoming more fuel efficient, even longer flights are on the horizon.

Take Airbus. The company’s ultra-long-range A350-900 XWB can fly for a staggering 20 hours without needing to refuel. In that time, it can cover 9,700 nautical miles, 1,600 more than the current A350-900 aircraft.

The aerospace giant has just completed the first test flight of its newest A350. The plane took off from the company’s Toulouse headquarters on Monday, performing a short flight over the south of France before returning to base.

Singapore Airlines is the first customer and has ordered seven of the aircraft, which besides an enhanced fuel system also features improved aerodynamics. The carrier will deploy the new planes on routes between Singapore and the U.S., with several of them flying between Singapore and New York City. The colossal 19-hour trip will make it the longest commercial flight to date, beating the current record holder — Qatar Airways’ service between Doha and Auckland, New Zealand — by almost an hour.

Airbus says the new aircraft incorporates “the latest aerodynamic design, carbon fiber fuselage and wings, plus new fuel-efficient Rolls-Royce engines.”

The plane boasts a 25-percent reduction in fuel burn and emissions, and significantly lower maintenance costs, with an “Airspace” cabin offering “absolute well-being on board with the quietest twin-aisle cabin and new air systems.”

Combining a range of up to 9,700 nautical miles and the highest level of passenger comfort, the Ultra Long Range #A350 XWB opens the way for the world’s very longest flights, with unbeatable economics. pic.twitter.com/FiWTkuKxnj

— Airbus (@Airbus) April 23, 2018

Whichever way you look at it, 19 hours is a long time to spend in a metal tube at 36,000 feet, so it’s just as well that most of the seats on the Singapore-New York route will be business class, offering a decent amount of space and allowing travelers to keep out of each others’ faces.

The A350-900 XWB already looks like it could be a winner for Airbus. By March 2018, the company had received more than 850 orders for it from 45 customers around the world, making it one of the most successful wide-body aircraft ever — before it has welcomed a single passenger.

If you have a long-haul flight coming up and you’re looking for some ideas on how to handle it, check out Digital Trends’ suggestions for some great travel tech to make the journey a little more bearable.

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Did you know that Google Search on Android is a podcast player?

Whether you’re listening to the newest installment of a daily podcast you’re subscribed to or binging the latest true crime series, being able to pause a podcast on one device and pick it back up on another is a useful feature. And according to Pacific Content, it’s a feature that Google offers right now. If you start an episode on your Android phone, for example, you can finish it with your Google Home, and Zack Reneau-Wedeen, Google’s podcasts product manager, says this “device interoperability” will eventually expand to everything on which you use Google. We asked Google about the feature and were told that it’s “not new” but it’s unclear how long the ability has been around.

Though Apple launched its podcast app in 2012, Google still doesn’t have a dedicated app for podcasts. As of now, your only options are to find podcasts through Google Play Music, Google Search on Android, Google Assistant or a third-party app like Stitcher or Pocket Casts. When searching for podcasts through Google Search for Android, you do have the option to add a shortcut of that to your home screen, which essentially functions as an app, giving you access to your podcast subscriptions and sections like Top Podcasts, Trending Podcasts and popular options in specific categories.

Though he didn’t say that Google was working on a standalone podcast app, Reneau-Wedeen did say that a way to get to Google’s podcast feature through something like the Play Store, for example, would be a logical step.

Last year, Google bought 60dB, a short-form audio startup that offered personalization for each listener and it led some to wonder what the company’s plans were regarding its podcast efforts. Pacific Content will be reporting on some features of Google’s podcast strategy throughout the week.

Source: Pacific Content

The Morning After: Amazon’s household robot rumors

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Welcome to Tuesday! We review the best Android phone you’ll probably never get to buy, the wonderful game mash-up of Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time and Google’s podcast app — which was apparently there all along. Amazon is also looking to build a domestic robot we’ve been dreaming of. It won’t be the first.

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The best phone you’ll never buy.Huawei P20 Pro review

Huawei is dealing with its fair share of trouble in the US, but that doesn’t mean it forgot how to make a great phone. Its potent blend of style, solid software and a great camera experience makes the P20 Pro one of the year’s great Android phones.

Hyrule Castle is owned by Peach and patrolled by pink Bob-ombs.‘Super Mario 64: Ocarina of Time’ is the perfect Nintendo mashup

An unofficial and legally dubious project allows players to traverse Hyrule, the mystical kingdom found in the Zelda series, as Nintendo’s portly plumber. It’s a bizarre but perfectly playable mashup that’s been in development for five years. The modder behind it is now working on a slew of follow-up hacks inspired by PUBG and Fortnite, the romance simulator Doki Doki Literature Club and others.

They’re hopeful it will restore near-normal urinary and sexual functions.Johns Hopkins performs the first total penis and scrotum transplant

Doctors at Johns Hopkins University have successfully transplanted an entire penis and scrotum to a young serviceman who sustained injuries in Afghanistan resulting in the loss of his genitals. Nine plastic surgeons and two urological specialists at Johns Hopkins University took 14 hours to successfully transplant a deceased donor’s entire penis and scrotum (minus testicles), along with a partial abdominal wall.

‘I need your clothes, your boots and to offer you a discount on HDMI cables…’Amazon wants to build a home robot

According to Bloomberg reports, Amazon’s looking to build a home robot. Its hardware division, Lab126, is apparently working on some sort of domestic droid, codenamed Vesta. The project, it seems, has been a long time coming, but the company has now begun aggressively hiring roboticists — and things are speeding up. The first tests of Vesta, in select employees’ homes, should kick off at the end of this year.

Google’s podcast app was hiding in plain sight.Did you know that Google Search on Android is a podcast player?

A series of reports from Pacific Content this week are digging into Google’s podcast strategy, but the first big surprise is something that’s already available: a podcast app. If you use Android, you can just search for podcasts to subscribe to and listen to them in a web app that syncs across devices like your phone or home speaker with Google Assistant. Google told us the feature is “not new” but we hadn’t heard about it, and we’re guessing most of you hadn’t either

Check it out at Tribeca or Cannes, if you’re in the area.Michael Muller’s ‘Into the Now’ VR film brings terrifying sea creatures up close

Photographer Michael Muller confronted his own deep fear of sharks by “learning to dive without protection and cage-free with great white sharks,” ultimately documenting that journey in his new VR film series Into the Now.

Do not adjust your screen.Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury EV brings its own tea service

The Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury (yes, that’s the name) is a four-wheel drive EV with an emphasis on passenger comfort, which comes with its own tea service. The pot, cups and wooden tray are in a center console, which retracts with a push of the button.

But wait, there’s more…

• Atlanta spends more than $2 million to recover from ransomware attack
• Google Assistant’s routines are an easy way to automate your home
• What’s on TV: ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘3%,’ ‘Archer’ and ‘Taskmaster’
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• The best lightweight gaming laptops

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Apple recruits Samsung VP to kickstart growth in South Korea

Apple is way behind Samsung in the Korean brand’s home country, so it has decided to recruit someone who knows the market and its staunchest rival very well. According to Bloomberg, Cupertino has hired Samsung VP Brandon Yoon to lead its business in South Korea. Yoon’s LinkedIn profile says he was a VP at Samsung from September 2015 to as recently as March 2018 and was also a Microsoft exec before he joined the conglomerate.

The former Samsung VP must love a challenge. As Bloomberg noted, authorities raided Apple’s offices in Seoul before iPhone X’s launch last year to ask questions about its business practices. The tech giant could also face sanctions in the country for requiring local carriers to foot its advertising bills. While Apple is having a tough time in Samsung’s home turf, Yoon didn’t jump into a sinking ship. Apple’s sales in the country went up by 3.3 percent in the last quarter of 2017 (while Samsung’s went down) compared to the year before. It recently opened its first official store in Seoul’s swanky Gangnam area, as well.

Source: Bloomberg

Apple Watch Series 3 With LTE to Launch in Denmark, Sweden, and India Next Month

Apple is launching the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE in at least three more countries next month. The company plans to launch the cellular version of the smartwatch in Denmark, Sweden, and India on May 11, with pre-orders starting on May 4.

Network operator “3” is currently the sole cellular provider option at the point of sale on Apple’s Danish and Swedish websites, while regional operators Reliance Jio and Airtel appear to have exclusive rights to sell Apple Watch LTE models and provide cellular connectivity for customers in India.

As part of its LTE deal, Jio is offering a new JioEverywhereConnect service, which allows customers to use the same Jio number on both their iPhone and Apple Watch at no extra cost. Airtel is also offering a special introductory cellular trial. Customers can pre-order from either company in-store or online from May 4.

Apple Watch Series 3 models with LTE launched September 22 in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, and the UK, with more countries to follow this year.

(Thanks Jonas and Martin!)

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Facebook publishes its community standards playbook

Facebook has had community standards for awhile now, but it hasn’t always been clear on what is or isn’t allowed on its platform. This has occasionally led to some serious confusion. Last year, ProPublica unearthed a Facebook internal training document that appears to prioritize “white men” over “black children,” and later discovered that community moderators were often wildly inconsistent on what they considered hate speech. It’s since apologized for these errors, and today, Facebook is hoping to clear up things even further: It’s publishing its internal community enforcement guidelines for the very first time.

To be clear, the community standards themselves have not changed. Instead, what Facebook is doing is updating them with more detail as to how they’re enforced. According to the company, the guidelines published today are exactly the same as the ones used by the company’s 7,500 or so moderators around the world. It’s apparently another a part of the company’s renewed effort to be more transparent with its users.

“We want to give people clarity,” said Monica Bickert, Facebook’s VP of Global Policy Management. “We think people should know exactly how we apply these policies. If they have content removed for hate speech, they should be able to look at their speech and figure out why it fell under that definition.”

“The other reason we’re publishing this is to get feedback on these policies,” she continued. “[Getting] real world examples or examples on how an issue manifests itself in the community is helpful.”

To go along with this announcement, Facebook is also expanding its appeals process. Until now, if you’ve had a specific post or photo removed for violating community guidelines, you didn’t have the option to appeal that decision. But now, you do. You’ll be given the option to “Request Review,” and Facebook’s Community Operations team will look at the request within 24 hours. If a mistake has indeed been made, Facebook promises to restore the post or photo.

“We’re going to offer appeals for posts and photos not only if we remove the post and photo, but also if you report a photo and post and we don’t remove it,” said Bickert. “You’ll have the opportunity to say hey, ‘Take another look at this.’”

The community standards document is a fairly lengthy one, but it essentially covers six distinct categories: Violence and criminal behavior, safety, objectionable content, integrity and authenticity, respecting intellectual property and content-related requests. Some of the guidelines seem fairly straightforward; for example, a threat of credible violence could result in a takedown, and even a report to the authorities. Masquerading as someone else is clearly defined as wrong, as are posts involving child nudity and trafficking in illegal goods.

But other guidelines, like the ones around hate speech, are a lot more nuanced. Facebook states that it doesn’t allow hate speech on its platform, and defines it as a “direct attack on people based on what we call protected characteristics — race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity and serious disability or disease.” It also offers some protection for immigrants, and defines an attack as “violent or dehumanizing speech, statements of inferiority, or calls for exclusion or segregation.” Examples include violent speech (which would be a Tier 1 offense), expressions of disgust (a Tier 2 offense) or a call to exclude (a Tier 3 offense).

That might sound pretty clear, but the reality is that it’s a lot more granular than that. For example, Facebook says that while you can’t attack a person, you can still criticize an organization, a country, and even a religion. So for example, you can’t say “Scientologists are evil,” but you can say “Scientology is evil.” If that sounds a little like splitting hairs, well, even Facebook would agree that it sometimes runs into these tricky definitions.

Additionally, while Facebook’s hate speech policies cover the above protected characteristics, it doesn’t always cover subsets. In a New York Times quiz last year, the paper posited that “Female sports reporters need to be hit in the head with hockey pucks” would not be considered hate speech under Facebook’s policies, because while gender is a protected category, occupation is not. Facebook did tell the Times that the statement would likely still be flagged for the violent threat (which is under a different policy), but it’s troubling that simply targeting female sports reporters doesn’t count.

Still, Facebook took pains to say that these policies are not static. According to Facebook, the content policy team meets every two weeks with various other teams within the company like engineering or operations. Depending on the issue, they would also meet with teams from legal, public policy, diversity, child and women’s safety, government relations and external stakeholders like academics, researchers, counterterrorism experts and hate organization experts. With the issue of abortion, for example, they might meet with both pro-choice and pro-life groups to get a fuller understanding of the topic.

In a recent blog post, Facebook also says that it attempts to protect against human bias with extensive training as part of the on-boarding process. “Our reviewers are not working in an empty room; there are quality control mechanisms in place, and management on site, that reviewers can look to for guidance,” it states. Facebook also conducts weekly audits to check on the decisions. But even then, mistakes are made. “Even if you have a 99.9 percent accuracy rate, you’ll still have made many mistakes every day,” said Bickert.” To help counter this, Facebook hopes to beef up its safety and security team to 20,000 people this year — up from 7,500.

One of the biggest issues with Facebook’s community standards remains. It’s one set of guidelines for the whole world, which doesn’t always apply to local laws. For example, Germany has much stricter laws around hate speech, so a post that would be legal elsewhere in the world would have to be made unavailable in Germany. “Our standards are global,” said Bickert. “But there are times when we have to be very local in our application.”

“We do think cultural context is important,” she continued. “When we are hiring reviewers to cover certain languages, we have native Portugese speakers from Brazil and from Portugal, because of the different ways language is used.”

This cultural context is all the more important as Facebook growis in popularity in the developing world, where it’s often used as a tool of misinformation and false rumors can sometimes result in violent riots. Facebook says it’s catching up and attempting rectify the situation, but it’s understandably hard to be patient when lives are at stake.

To that end, the company will be holding several public summits around the world in the coming months. The first three forums will be in England, Paris and Berlin and will be held in mid May. There’ll also be subsequent summits in India, Singapore and the US. “They’re going to be very interactive,” said Bickert. “We want to get their feedback and incorporate them, and make sure the team is taking them into account in policy development and updates to community standards.”

“There will always be people who will try to post abusive content or engage in abusive behavior,” said Bickert. “[Revealing our guidelines] is our way of saying, ‘These things are not tolerated.’”

YouTube removed 8M videos in 3 months, with machines doing most of the work

YouTube has been having a torrid time of late with a number of high-profile brands pulling their ads from the streaming service after discovering some were being run alongside extreme content.

To reassure advertisers and deter the interest of regulators, YouTube recently decided to begin posting a quarterly Community Guidelines Enforcement Report highlighting its efforts to purge the site of content that breaches its terms of service.

The first of these reports, posted on Monday, reveals that the Google-owned company wiped 8.3 million videos from its servers between October and December, 2017. YouTube said the majority of the videos were spam or contained sexual content. Others featured abusive, violent, or terrorist-related material.

The data, which doesn’t include content deleted for copyright or legal reasons, shows that YouTube’s automated tools are now doing most of the work, deleting the majority of the unsuitable videos. Interestingly, YouTube noted that of the 6.7 million videos pulled up by its machine-based technology, 76 percent were removed before they received a single view.

The report also highlighted how its technology is helping to speed up identification and removal of unsuitable content: “At the beginning of 2017, 8 percent of the videos flagged and removed for violent extremism were taken down with fewer than 10 views. We introduced machine-learning flagging in June 2017. Now more than half of the videos we remove for violent extremism have fewer than 10 views.”

Humans still play a role in keeping the service free of objectionable content. Just over a million of the deleted videos were flagged by a “trusted individual,” while “YouTube users” flagged another 0.4 million. A small number of videos were flagged by non-governmental organizations and government agencies. Flagged videos are not automatically deleted — some will be deemed OK by YouTube’s review system, while others will be slapped with an age-restriction notice.

YouTube also employs its own human reviewers who look at suspect content passed on by its machine-based system. The company is working to create a team of 10,000 reviewers by the end of 2018, and is also hiring full-time specialists with expertise in violent extremism, counterterrorism, and human rights. Regional expert teams are also being expanded, the company said.

The number of videos removed by YouTube in just three months may surprise some, though it’s also worth considering that the site has more than 400 hours of content uploaded each and every minute.

YouTube clearly still faces many challenges in cleaning up its service, but it insists it’s committed to ensuring it “remains a vibrant community with strong systems to remove violative content,” adding that future reports should demonstrate ongoing improvements regarding its procedures and technology for getting rid of unsuitable material.

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Huawei P20 Pro and P20 Lite launch in India: Everything you need to know

The Huawei P20 Pro aims to take on the Galaxy S9+ and Pixel 2 XL in the high-end segment.

Huawei is expanding aggressively in global markets, but the company relies on its subsidiary Honor to drive a bulk of its sales in India. Newer models in the Mate series never made their way to India, which is a shame as the battery-focused models would’ve been ideal for the subcontinent, where a large battery is a table stakes feature at this point.

There really isn’t a whole lot of choice if you’re in the market for a high-end phone — you’ll either have to go with the Galaxy S9+ or the Pixel 2 XL, but Huawei is looking to change that with its latest flagship. The P20 Pro and P20 Lite will be going on sale in the country early next month, and there’s a lot to like with either device. Here’s what you need to know about Huawei’s latest phones.

Huawei P20 Lite and P20 Pro: Hardware

Let’s start off with the P20 Pro, as the device is one of the most exciting phones of the year. The phone has three cameras at the back, totaling 68MP across the sensors. There’s a 40MP primary camera, a 20MP monochrome module, and an 8MP camera that offers 3x lossless zoom. This is the third year of Huawei’s partnership with Leica, and it’s safe to say that the P20 Pro has one of the best cameras on any phone today.

The design is pretty great too — particularly on the Twilight variant, which has a gradient effect at the back that shifts color based on the light reflecting off the surface. However, that particular model won’t be making its way to India, but Huawei is making the black and blue options available in the country.

The P20 Pro is powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 970 chipset, which is notable for its Neural Processing Unit. The engine facilitates AI-assisted shooting modes: it automatically picks out the ideal settings based on the object in focus as well as the lighting conditions.

The P20 Pro marries an outstanding camera with a gorgeous chassis.

There’s also a 24MP imaging sensor at the front that has an LED light, and you get a face unlock feature that works in the dark. Rounding out the features, the P20 Pro has a 4000mAh battery that’s touted for 22 hours of 1080p video playback. The device is also IP67 certified for dust and water resistance.

You get stereo sound, and while there’s no 3.5mm jack on the P20 Pro, it offers LDAC and AptX HD for high-fidelity wireless streaming.

The P20 Lite, meanwhile, is targeted at the budget category, and comes with the Kirin 659 along with 4GB of RAM, dual 16MP + 2MP cameras around the back, and a 3000mAh battery. And like the P20 Pro, the Lite variant has Face Unlock as well.

Oh, and both phones have a notch. It’s not as noticeable as that on other Android phones we’ve seen in recent months, but it’s there nonetheless.

I understand that the notch is the defining trend for Android phones in 2018, but it’s not immediately evident as to why Huawei implemented it on the P20 Pro — considering the bottom bar houses the home button and is fairly chunky.

Huawei P20 Lite and P20 Pro: Specs

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The P20 Pro offers some of the best hardware available today combined with a gorgeous chassis, but what does it feel like to use the phone on a daily basis? In his extensive review of the P20 and P20 Pro, Alex Dobie called the devices a “milestone” for Huawei:

For me personally, the Huawei P20 Pro will be my daily driver for the foreseeable future. (Or at least until the next big thing I’m reviewing comes along.) That’s a little surprising even to me, and it’s a result of the additional software polish as much as the epic battery life or impressive camera features.

I think we might eventually look back on the P20 series — and the P20 Pro in particular — as a milestone device for Huawei. It’s not free from imperfections by any means, but this is one hell of a phone.

Huawei P20 + P20 Pro review

Pricing and availability

The Huawei P20 Pro is set to go on sale in India for ₹64,999 ($995), which is the same as that of the Galaxy S9+ in the subcontinent.

Meanwhile, the P20 Lite will be available in the country for ₹19,999 ($305). Both phones will be up for sale starting May 3, and will be exclusive to Amazon India. We’ll know more about launch-day offers on May 3.

Your turn

What are your thoughts on Huawei’s latest phones? Will you be picking up a P20 Pro in India? Let me know in the comments below.

YouTube removed 8.3 million videos in the last quarter of 2017

YouTube removed 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017, according to the platform’s first ever community guidelines enforcement report. The Google-owned video-sharing website found itself the target of criticism after reports came out last year that it hosts disturbing videos masquerading as kid-friendly content. YouTube said it has decided to release a quarterly enforcement report to “show the progress [it’s] making in removing violative content from [its] platform.” It’s probably the website’s way of saying “hey, we’re not sitting on our hands here,” since a lot of people are still questioning whether it’s actually doing something to address the issue, considering Wired came across child-exploiting videos as recently as March.

The report has also revealed that 6.7 million of the 8.3 million videos were first flagged for review by machines and were never even viewed. YouTube explained that its use of machine learning to police its content isn’t a bad thing (despite reports saying that its AI is far from perfect) and leads to “more people reviewing content, not fewer.” While its algorithms can delete some content on their own — like say, spam videos — it mostly forwards anything it suspects is in violation of YouTube’s guidelines to human reviewers. Those reviewers are the ones who’ll be in charge of deciding whether to pull the video or to put it behind an age gate, restricting it to logged-in users above 18 years old.

Back in December, the platform said it’s recruiting 10,000 people across Google to review flagged videos. Its algorithms sending flagging entries for human review won’t make a difference if there’s nobody to look at them, after all. YouTube said it has already “staffed the majority of additional roles needed to reach [its] contribution to meeting that goal,” though it’ll likely take some time before it can say that it has 10,000 reviewers at its disposal.

Source: YouTube (1), (2)