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Now, adding more fuel to the rumors surrounding iPhone SE 2, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via MacRumors) has shared some more information on the upcoming iPhone. According to Kuo, the iPhone SE 2 will come with Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) antenna design, which is expected to offer improved network connectivity. LCP is a low-cost, flexible organic component that has low thermal expansion and minimum frequency loss, which makes it a favorable component for wireless antennas....

According to the CIA World Facebook, this figure is greater than Sri Lanka’s 2016 gross domestic product, but lesser than Denmark’s. If it were a country, Apple would be the 13th richest nation in the world. Apple posted record iPhone sales in the quarter ending December 2016 according to SEC filing on Tuesday night. This record sale figure comes after three consecutive quarters of decline in iPhone sales. The company’s stock jumped more than 3 percent in after-hours trading as more than 6....

Also, the display would not be a part of the upgrade line-up, so the one that’s currently available on the iPhone 6s will be offered on the next models, probably with small changes. “The display of iPhone 7, however, will not feature a significant breakthrough. This also signifies that LTPS LCD has reached its peak in development and is unlikely to make another big technological leap in the future,” the analysts estimate....

According to a new support document released by Apple on iPhone X states that the users may experience slight shifts in color and hue as well as burn-in with the new Super Retina OLED display on the iPhone X. While Apple claims that iPhone X has the best OLED display in the industry, the screen burn-in situation may arise when an image gets stuck on the display for a long time....

In total, you will be getting four features, with all of them listed below: In addition to being able to connect to Bluetooth low energy sensors, the Arduino Primo acts as a TCP / IP Internet client and server over Wi-Fi; uses the nRF52832 SoC’s integrated Near Field Communication (NFC) for secure authentication and ‘Touch-to-Pair’. For all but the most advanced projects, programming will be done via the established Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) programming interface, which is designed to make electronics design easy for everyone regardless of experience....

The software was able to came up with the same verdict as its human counterparts in almost 80% (584 cases) of the cases that focused on torture and degrading treatment, fair trials and privacy. The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically examine case text using a machine learning algorithm. The study behind it was published in PeerJ Computer Science. “We don’t see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they’d find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes....

Ubisoft is celebrating its 30th birthday in the video gaming field this year. The French multinational video game publisher is offering PC gamers seven digital games (from June to December) free of charge on Uplay, their own PC gaming platform. Yesterday, the big publisher made another classic Assassin’s Creed III available to its fans as the last gift to finish the year. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was the first free game back in June, followed up by Splinter Cell in July, Rayman Origins in August, The Crew in September, Beyond Good & Evil in October, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in November....

Designed for mobile gaming, the ROG Phone features a 6-inch full HD+ (1080 x 2160 pixels) and comes with an 18:9 aspect ratio. Its AMOLED display blends a 90Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time. The display on the ROG Phone is also certified for HDR and has the DCI-P3 color gamut. ASUS has added the world’s fastest 2.96GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC coupled with a Qualcomm Adreno 630 GPU to the device....

To fulfill the demands of this rapidly growing industry mainstream smartphone manufacturers are offering powerful smartphones accompanied by unique accessories. In this article, I have compared the two recently launched feature-packed gaming smartphones namely Asus ROG Phone 3 and Lenovo Legion Phone Duel. This article will help you to make a purchasing decision based on your requirements. Asus ROG Phone 3 VS Lenovo Legion Phone Duel: Design And Display With dimensions, 171 x 78 x 9....

If you are a customer of AT&T’s GigaPower fiber-optic Internet access service and you don’t want to see personalized ads based on your browsing history, searched terms and clicked links, you’ll have to shell the extra $29 over and above the services that users opt out for. AT & T’s Giga Power fiber optic Internet access service has been made available to Kansas City, Missouri, residents since the Wednesday. This internet service was available to Austin and Texas residents since past 2 years....

An employee of Russian blogging platform Habrahabr recently discovered that the ATMs operated by the state-owned bank Sberbank running Windows XP has inherent security vulnerabilities that can be easily exploited by hackers. According to the user, a full screen lock that prevents access to various components of an ATM operating system could be bypassed by turning on the Sticky Keys when special keys like SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, and WINDOWS were pressed 5 times....

According to a recall advisory posted by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were eight reports of the Beats Pill XL malfunctioning speakers due to overheating. These included instances of a customer’s finger getting burned and another involved damage to a desk. In the voluntary recall of the Beats Pill XL speakers made by Apple on Wednesday would involve recalling of more than 200,000 speakers in total. Apple asked people to stop using Beats Pill XL speakers....

Introduced in 2013, the new contact lens is a more advanced model of a prototype, which is 1.55 millimetres thick and features a very thin, reflective telescope that enables the user to zoom in and out in factually a wink. The telescopic contacts are made with stiff lens known as a scleral lens, which are bigger in diameter than the more acquainted soft contacts, but useful for special cases, such as for people with unevenly shaped corneas....

“Goodbye meme triangle, hello $9k+ targets. Some people were screaming triple top when the more obvious conclusion is retest after retest of resistance will finally lead to a break to the upside. Bitcoin could cool off, run sideways but IMO will continue to move up over $9k,” said Crypto trader Josh Rager who is expecting more gains with BTC pushing past $9k. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $8,737....

“The very same New Shepard booster that flew above the Karman line and then landed vertically at its launch site last November has now flown and landed again, demonstrating reuse,” Bezos wrote in his blogpost. The Karman Line is the widely recognized border between Earth and space, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface. Now Blue Origin is the first to relaunch a used sub-orbital rocket. According to the release, the New Shepard rocket flew to the edge of space at 333,582 feet (63....

Last year BMW announced their ‘Light and Charge’ project; however they showcased the first prototype of this new technology last week during an annual Low Carbon Oxford Week that was held in UK. During the event, BMW Mini team presented the prototype of their smart street light which are equipped with sockets which can directly charge an electric car. Light and Charge smart street lights: Basically these the ‘Light and Charge’ street light comprises of a combined effect of Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and BMW’s ChargeNow recharging stations which can be connected to the city’s main electric supply....

It is a surprisingly small portable system equipped with a two kilowatt laser, which can be transported in a few medium-sized boxes, and two techs can set it up in minutes. When set up, it looks to be about the size of a large microwave oven perched sideways on a heavy-duty tripod. The device directs at a silent, invisible laser target and tracks it as it moves and sets a drone aflame, which takes about 15 seconds to burn a in a UAV or a quadcopter....

Another option for the FBI will be to go to extreme measures, which in other words mean that they could just use a corpse’s fingerprint or some old prints on file to bypass the Lock screen. Could they actually pull it off though? It is possible, and according to Marina Medvin, lawyer and owner of Medvin Law, she states that after you have expired, you do not possess a legal standing to assert a 4th Amendment privacy violation....

To be sure, online sites like Craigslist advertise helpful services–car washers, dog walkers, or landscapers. But even when used for practical purposes, these sites have their flaws. Other than the buyer’s own discretion, traditional online marketplaces have a difficult time screening genuine postings from fake ones. Those that want to hire a helper can be duped by someone with a made up profile. Additionally, centralized marketplaces like Fiverr, Etsy, and Upwork take huge cuts of the profits via transaction and shipping fees (often as much as 20%)....

Officially, China has always maintained that it does not sponsor or support any form of hacking. These denials however came to naught when a latest update in top security military document mentions the existence of such cyber warfare units in China. The updated The Science of Military Strategy which is a top level military document and an authoritative analysis of China’s military thinking, includes references to China’s cyber-warfare units. The Science of Military Strategy which was first published in Chinese in 2001 and translated into English in 2007 has been giving meaningful insights into the workings of the largest army in the world....