Selasa, 02 Juli 2019

Sketchy report says Apple to launch iPhone without Face ID, may feature under-screen Touch ID instead - 9to5Mac

In a sketchy report published on several Chinese media sites yesterday, including Mashdigi, Apple is purportedly considering to make a new iPhone model for the Chinese market, as it faces stiff price competition from domestic manufacturers like Oppo and Huawei.

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Interestingly, the report pinpoints the Face ID sensor as a key area for cost-cutting. Instead, Apple would supposedly add back Touch ID to its flagship iPhone lines, either on the back of the phone or as an under-screen sensor.

Apple has made special accommodations for the Chinese market before, but never to this extent. For example, with iPhone XS and iPhone XR, Apple sells a physical dual-SIM card model whereas the rest of the world can only use dual SIM with the combination of eSIM and one physical SIM card.

We are treating this report as pretty sketchy. Whilst the idea of a Touch ID-under-screen device was flourishing in the rumor mill ahead of the radical 2017 redesign, Apple quashed the possibility by going all in on Face ID with iPhone X, and we haven’t really heard anything about Apple’s experimentation with Touch ID since.

If the purpose of removing Face ID is to lower the end-user sale price of the iPhone, it also seems a bit counterintuitive that the replacement would be an advanced form of under-screen fingerprint recognition, which is surely also an expensive component.

Assuming it can be effective, it would also be weird to limit this Touch ID new iPhone to China exclusively. Such a diversion in hardware would represent a big investment of Apple’s resources and the company would want to sell the model in more regions to maximise return on investment and profitability.

Finally, if you still want to believe this, there is almost no chance that this iPhone model is launching this year. Ming-Chi Kuo and other analysts have repeatedly stated that the 2019 iPhone lineup will consist of iterative updates to iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR.

The 2019 iPhones will retain the Face ID sensor and accompanying notch. The big upgrades for this year are camera-focused changes; the iPhone 11 will feature a new triple-camera system sporting an ultrawide lens and a polarizing camera bump design.

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https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/02/iphone-no-face-id-china/

2019-07-02 10:02:00Z
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Russia's hypersonic weapon is reportedly running short on carbon fiber - Engadget

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Russia's plans to build a hypersonic weapon system that can travel at more than 20 times the speed of sound, and also evade US missile defenses, has predictably rattled the world. Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that the Avangard weapons system would be ready by 2019. But some obstacles lie ahead that could impact production, CNBC reported. Specifically, the Kremlin needs to find another source of carbon fiber material to build the Avanguard hypersonic glide vehicles.

Russia's current supply of carbon fiber material is unable to withstand the extreme temperatures of hypersonic flight. According to a US intelligence report reviewed by CNBC, Russia is hunting for an alternative source of carbon fiber, but so far has had no luck. "It's expected that they will make no more than 60 of these hypersonic weapons because it's just proving to be too expensive to develop," an anonymous official told CNBC.

But one nuclear weapons expert told Engadget that 60 units is a pretty significant number. "To me the most surprising part was that someone would say that 60 units is 'a few'. I would say that 60 is rather quite a few. My take on Avangard has always been that it's a niche capability without a clear mission. I was expecting that Russia will stop after deploying maybe a dozen of them," said Pavel Podvig, a senior research fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

As it stands, the current plan is to reach initial operational capacity of the Avangard by 2020, according to Russian news reports. The current goal is to build 12 weapons by 2027, so it will be a long time until Russia is able to reach 60 weapons. Meanwhile, the US Army plans to field a battery of its own hypersonic missiles by 2023.

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/01/russias-hypersonic-weapon-avangard-faces-challenges/

2019-07-02 03:12:18Z
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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch confirmed - with big camera tease - TechRadar

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 release date is nearly with us, as the official launch of the new powerful handset from the South Korean brand has been confirmed for August 7 in New York.

The invite, which teases new intriguing selfie camera capabilities, shows the S Pen (Samsung's in-built stylus for the Note range) circling around a new sensor - and the link to the invite says that the launch will 'take the Galaxy's connected ecosystem to the next level'.

On Wednesday August 7, the new Galaxy Note 10 will appear on stage in Brooklyn at the Barclays Center (the same as the Note 9 launch).

This launch event will be later in the day locally for New York: 4pm EDT (1pm PDT, 9pm BST, 6am AEST).

This is hardly an unexpected leak, given we've been seeing rumors of a similar launch date for a few weeks now - and the Samsung CEO himself name-checked the phone to TechRadar at a recent media briefing. 

Image credit: Samsung

Image credit: Samsung

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What are we expecting from the Note 10 launch?

The Galaxy Note 10 is about to get some of the bezel-less Samsung Galaxy S10 treatment along with a punch-hole display, according to the latest Note 10 leaks.

However, the front-facing camera that fills that punch-hole is poised to be center-aligned, and there appears to be only one camera peering out of the display. The Galaxy 10 Plus has two front cameras in a wide oval-shaped hole and the S10 5G has three front cameras.

The rear cameras also appear to be shifted to the left side for a vertical triple-lens camera setup – the extra camera is likely for a depth-sensing "Time of Flight" camera.

And, of course, the S Pen is due to get more tricks in the 2019 model. We might see the RAM max out at 12GB in certain versions, and we're expecting the chipset to get a Snapdragon 855 in the regular and rumored 'Pro'/'Plus' higher-specced version.

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The new Samsung SmartThings set. Image credit: Samsung.

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What about that 'connected ecosystem'? Well, there's been a lot of chatter around Bixby being given ever-greater powers, as well as Samsung SmartThings smart home play getting a big upgrade - so it might not be just the new Note that lands at the event in August.

Samsung needs to go a long way to improve both Bixby (the voice assistant which launched to muted interest) and the smart home play, where it's already far behind the likes of Google and Amazon. 

That said, the South Korean brand has a lot of users that it can leverage (in a similar way to Apple and its walled-garden ecosystem) - so perhaps the future will have another player in the connected home space.

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https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-10-launch

2019-07-02 07:02:00Z
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Russia's hypersonic weapon is reportedly running short on carbon fiber - Engadget

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Russia's plans to build a hypersonic weapon system that can travel at more than 20 times the speed of sound, and also evade US missile defenses, has predictably rattled the world. Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted that the Avangard weapons system would be ready by 2019. But some obstacles lie ahead that could impact production, CNBC reported. Specifically, the Kremlin needs to find another source of carbon fiber material to build the Avanguard hypersonic glide vehicles.

Russia's current supply of carbon fiber material is unable to withstand the extreme temperatures of hypersonic flight. According to a US intelligence report reviewed by CNBC, Russia is hunting for an alternative source of carbon fiber, but so far has had no luck. "It's expected that they will make no more than 60 of these hypersonic weapons because it's just proving to be too expensive to develop," an anonymous official told CNBC.

But one nuclear weapons expert told Engadget that 60 units is a pretty significant number. "To me the most surprising part was that someone would say that 60 units is 'a few'. I would say that 60 is rather quite a few. My take on Avangard has always been that it's a niche capability without a clear mission. I was expecting that Russia will stop after deploying maybe a dozen of them," said Pavel Podvig, a senior research fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

As it stands, the current plan is to reach initial operational capacity of the Avangard by 2020, according to Russian news reports. The current goal is to build 12 weapons by 2027, so it will be a long time until Russia is able to reach 60 weapons. Meanwhile, the US Army plans to field a battery of its own hypersonic missiles by 2023.

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/01/russias-hypersonic-weapon-avangard-faces-challenges/

2019-07-02 02:59:30Z
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Senin, 01 Juli 2019

7 paid iPhone apps on sale for free on July 1st - BGR

We finished off June with a fantastic roundup of paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time. Our work isn’t done though, and now we’re starting off July with an even better roundup. You’ll find seven different premium apps on sale in the list below, and they’re the best freebies out of the hundreds of discounted apps we sifted through on Monday morning. These deals could be done at any moment though, so definitely get in on the action and download them for free while you still can.

This post covers paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. BGR is not affiliated with any app developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word “get,” it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app anyway, you will be charged by Apple. Some apps may have additional in-app purchases. Subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified as soon as these posts are published and you’ll avoid missing the sales we cover.

Crypto Push – Price Tracker

Normally $0.99.

Crypto Push is a cryptocurrency tracker with price updates on the app icon badge for quick viewing. Updates the price on the icon badge every 5-7 minutes.

Prices on the badge are rounded to the nearest whole number and prices lower than 1 are not displayed.

Sort the list of currencies by price, percentage changed over 1 hour, percentage changed over 24 hours, and percentage changed over 7 days. Swipe on the cryptocurrency item to share its information.

Cryptocurrencies supported:
– Bitcoin
– Ethereum
– Ripple
– Litecoin
– Dash
– IOTA
– Monero
– NEO
– Bitcoin Cash
– Zcash
– Ethereum Classic
– NEM

If you have a cryptocurrency you would like to see on there, shoot us an email at grassybananas@gmail.com

Currency conversion options:
– USD
– AUD
– CAD
– CNY
– EUR
– GBP
– HKD
– INR
– JPY
– RUB
– SGD

Download Crypto Push – Price Tracker

Depth Blur Bokeh and Portrait

Normally $1.99.

[Depth Blur] is true depth aware blur (aka bokeh and portrait photo) tool for your photo.

Unlike other apps which just support simple masking and blur, [Depth Blur] enables you to add depth(distance) to your photo and create really natural depth blur effect on your photo.

Turn any photo into bokeh and portrait photo with this amazing tool!

– True depth aware blur(bokeh) effect
– Add multiple depth masks
– Add background depth (rectangular, diagonal and radial)
– Finest mask creation
– Adopts iOS11 latest image processing

• Add depth to your photo with multiple masks
• Create mask with precision
– Change brush and soft edge size
– Undoable
– Quick selection with single tap
• Apply depth to background
– Choose Rectangular or radial background
– Choose background distance
• Adjust aperture to change blur intensity
• change focus
• Supports project
– Resue your artwork
– Retouch your artwork
• Supports extension from Photos app

Download Depth Blur Bokeh and Portrait

Whirlpost

Normally $4.99.

Whirlpost, a classy and simple diary to capture your daily thoughts on your iPhone or iPad.

From scribbling ideas and keeping lists, poetry, and daily journaling, when inspiration strikes, it goes on Whirlpost first. Write down every angle. Stay focused. Just write. Whirlpost is today’s stories and where creators create.

Feature highlights:

• Password Protection
• Time your sessions
• Fully encrypted if the device is protected with a passcode key
• Choose between different font styles and sizes.

Notebooks
– Create notebooks for Goal Tracking, Journaling, Dream Diaries, and lists of favorite restaurants, music, and books
– Organize your notes with custom sizing, highlighting, and formats
– Reread, update, or add to notebooks in your library

Whirlpost In Everyday Life
– Journal daily as a mindfulness and self-care practice for better wellness
– Have a notebook always in your back pocket for when you think of an idea or story
– Keep lists, reminders, and schedules organized, and have important information such as passwords kept secure, protected, and on hand

Whirlpost In School
– Write notes during class so you don’t have to carry around a heavy backpack
– Jot down quotes and ideas from articles and books for research
– Keep your schedule or planner so you have a digital backup

Whirlpost In Business
– Write daily to do list to stay on track for your goals
– Keep ideas handy for reference, and do long-form writing on the go

Download Whirlpost

C.H.A.D.

Normally $0.99.

Pool season never ends when you’re rockin’ the C.H.A.D. (Chillin’ Hottubbin’ and Drinkin’) animated sticker pack! This totally righteous pack includes 40 animated stickers that will add shock to your messages—but not your pool!

Animated Sticker Pack includes:

BONUS 4TH OF JULY
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• Beer hugger: USA
• Sunnies: USA
• America mix
• Pinwheel: USA
• Popsicle: Rocket
• USA float

WAVE 1
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• Beer hugger: Aqua
• Pool lights: Aqua
• Pool lights: Flamingo
• Pool lights: Algae
• Poolside mix
• Popsicle: tropical
• Sun’s out
• Shaka: White
• Shaka: Brown
• Shaka: Black
• Sunnies: Aqua
• Sunnies: Flamingo
• Sunnies: Chlorine
• Sunnies: Algae
• Sunnies: Purple Haze
• Sunnies: Black Algae
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “OK”
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “Sick Brah!”
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “Dude”
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “Epic!”
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “Beer :30!”
• C.H.A.D. bubble: “Woah.”

WAVE 2
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• Beer hugger: Flamingo
• Pool float: Donut
• Pool float: Pineapple
• Pool ball
• Tan lotion
• Pool pistol
• Pinwheel: Summer Daze
• Popsicle: Apple, Berry, Grape
• Watermelon
• Cheeseburger
• Hot Dog
• Pool DJ

Download C.H.A.D.

Coyn

Normally $1.99.

Coyn — Simple, Secure, and Stylish way to manage your cash balance. Introducing the new feature: Coyn Share.
• Manage your money like it’s no one else’s business.
• A brand new experience to manage your daily expenses.
• Be the only one who tracks your cash expenditures and earnings.
• Traveling a lot? No problem! use Coyn to track all your cash expenditures and focus on your adventures!
• Never lose track of where and how you spent your cash
• Improve your financial wellness by defining budget and meeting the goals
– Use “Coyn Pin” feature to pin categories that are important to you and have them on you main screen to help you stay on budget
– Premium users to have Unlimited Accounts to manage their cash balance
– 3D Touch feature allowing users to add expense/earning quickly and also see the balance instantly
– Secure your Coyn using your fingerprint

Use Coyn Share to:
– Manage expenses from your road trip with friends
– Report your business expenditures to your boss
– Pay your electricity/rent to your roommate
– Split bills at the restaurant
– or simply pay your friend for that cold beer!

-“Keep your cash and your Coyn in your pocket.”

Simplicity:
Coyn is all about efficiency. We spent days and nights testing the usability of Coyn so that you can experience the unique user-interface and enjoy managing your cash. Simply swipe up to add expenses and swipe down to add income!

Privacy:
Coyn respects your privacy and will never allow your data to be posted to any websites, bank accounts, or cloud services. We don’t require you to log in or add your bank accounts. With Coyn you can focus on saving money and being on top of your cash expenditures and earnings and stop worrying about privacy and accounts FOREVER!

Personalize:
Coyn is the most powerful tool for anyone who uses cash for daily expenses or even has cash incomes (gift cards, pocket money, etc.). It helps you to track your cash activities and keep the records only to yourself.
If you travel with cash or want to track business and personal expenses Coyn would be your best friend!

In our newest version we introduced “Coyn Shop”. Everyday we hand pick best products from Amazon (more stores and resources coming soon) tailored to our users’ taste using our smart builtin Ai. Tap on Coyn Shop inside your Coyn app and discover amazing deals every day.

Emojis are here and are taking over Coyn’s categories! Now it’s time to personalize your cash expenditures’ categories using your favorite emojis and personal touch to them

Download Coyn

Rapto

Normally $0.99.

Ever wished that you could turn your normal day into a rap song?
I’m guessing probably not.
But hey, this is the kind of thing you don’t know that you want in your life until you try it out!

Rapto lets you create music using artificial intelligence & your camera.

Simply point the camera towards any object around you and Rapto will use it’s inbuilt neural network to “understand” the object & create rap music!

*Note – Rapto does not send images to any remote servers to do the image processing. You don’t even need an internet connection actually, so feel free to bring up Rapto next time you want to pass time in an aeroplane!

Download Rapto

AR Runner

Normally $0.99.

Run through checkpoints and set new records! Compete against other players worldwide! Play indoors or outside! AR Runner is a one-of-a-kind competitive augmented reality game.

“Gets you moving, no matter where you are”
– The Washington Post

“It’s short, fast, active fun, and an inventive use of ARKit”
– Macworld

“Beat a world record without ever leaving your hometown”
– CNET

“A blast with friends”
– Wareable

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4 GAME MODES

• Normal:
Activate the spots in a certain order

• 30 Sec Rush:
Activate the most number of spots in 30 seconds

• Enemies:
Activate the most number of spots while avoiding enemies

• Wall Punch:
Activate the most number of circles by moving your device through them

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4 FIELD SIZES, 6 FIELD SHAPES

• Choose between different field sizes and shapes to match your environment and skills

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CHALLENGES

• Put your skills to the test by completing 60 handcrafted challenges

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OTHER FEATURES

• 36 LEADERBOARDS: See how you rank against other players

• PHOTO MODE: Take a photo of your score using the in-game camera

• Sync your progress using iCloud

• Minimalist design

• Universal app for iPhone and iPad

• Immersive digital environments

• No ads

Download AR Runner

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https://bgr.com/2019/07/01/best-free-iphone-apps-july-1-ipad-ios/

2019-07-01 17:10:00Z
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Apple MacBook Pro Deals: Save Over $800 on 2018 Touchbar MacBook Pros, Plus Save on iPad - IGN

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It's a new month and already we've got a great set of new deals in these refurbished MacBook Pros. Amazon Prime Day is two weeks away, and there are already some live deals, but these ones exist outside the realm of Prime Day. These are just some good old fashioned Amazon Deals of the Day.

These MacBook Pro deals feature last year's model, but the real jewel in this deals-crown is the discrete AMD Radeon graphics card inside of all of them. You get the Intel HD 630 integrated graphics offered by the CPU, but then you get the more powerful graphics capabilities offered by the GPU.

512GB MacBook Pro w/TouchBar $820 Off

This "renewed" 2018 MacBook Pro has 512GB of PCIe SSD storage, as well as 16GB of RAM and an Intel i7. On top of that, it has an AMD Radeon dedicated graphics card inside. All that for 29% off.

Save $820 on 512GB MacBook Pro

256GB MacBook Pro w/TouchBar $520 Off

You can get the same MacBook Pro outfitted with a smaller capacity SSD and save an additional $100. This has everything the 512GB model has: 220dpi Retina display, TouchBar, and discrete graphics, but with less storage.

Save $520 on 256GB MacBook Pro

Apple iPad Deals

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If you don't want to commit to an entire computer, the iPad is pretty much the perfect solution for web browsing, movie-watching, comics-reading and even drawing (if you have an Apple Pencil compatible model). Great news: Walmart has a ton of different models on sale right now.

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https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/07/01/apple-macbook-pro-deals-save-over-800-on-2018-touchbar-macbook-pros-plus-save-on-ipad

2019-07-01 13:30:13Z
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Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace in the US, here is how it works - Phone Arena

Samsung is not giving up on Bixby, on the contrary, the South Korean giant is spending more resources to make it more user-friendly and customizable. Many of Samsung's smartphones launched recently come with a dedicated Bixby key, which will now come in handy for those living in the United States.

The Bixby Marketplace has just opened its virtual doors for users in the US and South Korea, an event meant to offer Bixby users rich customization options. Samsung's digital assistant has been designed to learn your habits while using your phone, and then suggest various actions and tasks that, in theory, will help you get things done faster.

The newly revealed Bixby Marketplace offers users access to a plethora of capsules that will help them customize their mobile experience. Among these so-called capsules, Samsung mentions Google Maps, Spotify, iHeartRatio, NPR, and Yelp, but there are more listed in the marketplace.

Now, if you have a Samsung smartphone with a Bixby dedicated key, click it to access Bixby Marketplace. Once the main page is launched, you can swipe left to get to the Bixby Marketplace and find whatever you're looking for.

These capsules are organized by categories like Business and Finance, Productivity, Shopping, Sports and so on, but you can search by name, developer or keyword. Simply tap on the capsule to add it to your phone and start using it. If you have more than one capsules installed for similar tasks, you can set a “preferred capsule” for certain types of requests.

Moreover, if you have a preferred service provider, you can set it as favorite and the capsule will only offer you options from your preferred service provider without you having to mention the capsule name.

Samsung is trying to compete with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, and Bixby Marketplace lays the foundation for a new ecosystem that the South Korean company plans to continue to expand in the coming months with the help of developers and users alike.

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https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Bixby-Marketplace-launch_id117189

2019-07-01 13:56:31Z
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