The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, June 24, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to the weekend. We’ve got Galaxy Note 8 rumors, and information about an Amazon beehive -- we’ll explain. Hopefully, that's the only thing exploding. Wallet-busting Galaxy Note 8 expected to launch in September After an unfortunate end to the Galaxy Note 7 saga, Samsung is apparently ready to pick up where it left off. A rumor from VentureBeat suggests that the next Note will launch in September, and despite rocking a slightly smaller battery for obvious reasons, will be the most expensive one yet at around $900 unlocked. For that price, you should expect its trademark stylus, plus 6GB of RAM and, in a first for Samsung, a dual-lens 12MP rear camera. Making the leap from good to great. OnePlus 5 review Surprise! OnePlus is back with another phone that matches mostly high-end specs and design with an affordable price tag. The OnePlus is blazingly fast, with a good dual camera and solid battery life.  Ultimately, despite some compromises, it’s still an excellent value. Hear us out. Amazon dreams of putting a giant drone beehive in your city We don’t know if it will happen, but Amazon has patented its concept for a warehouse that services drones as well as trucks. It manages to pull double duty with a beehive-style cylindrical tower that could spit quadcopters in any direction. It’s just an idea, but remember who told you first when one is going up on top of your local Whole Foods.   Be careful. Tesla driver in fatal Autopilot crash ignored safety warnings This week the NTSB released its report on a crash involving the use of Tesla’s AutoPilot feature. While it debunked reports that the driver may have been watching a movie at the time of the accident, it indicated that he might have only had his hands on the wheel for 37 seconds of the 25-minute trip, ignoring the system’s warnings. The NTSB's next step will be to report the probable cause of the accident and make recommendations to prevent similar ones in the future. A ‘previously undisclosed covert measure.’ Report: Obama authorized a secret cyber operation against Russia Late last year the Obama Administration publicly sanctioned Russia in response to cyber attacks on the US election system. Secretly, according to a new report by the Washington Post, it also authorized a new kind of cyber operation in response, placing in critical Russian networks that could later be triggered remotely. Good to know. Scientists may have solved a key barrier to fusion power A new article published in Physical Review Letters details how to solve a dangerous issue with runaway electrons that has, until now, posed a major problem for fusion reactors. The team discovered that it's possible to decelerate electrons by injecting heavy ions, like neon or argon, into the fusion reactor. The electrons collide with these neutral atoms, resulting in energy loss and slower speeds. But wait, there's more... 1. 'Modern Warfare Remastered' heads to PS4 without the bundle 2. Good riddance to SIM cards, it's time to embrace the eSIM 3. Caltech's 'lensless' camera could make your iPhone flat 4. Sega Forever makes Genesis classics free on mobile 5. Imagination puts itself up for sale after being dumped by Apple 6. Our favorite games of E3 2017 The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: Photoshop for your voice

It's Friday, June 23, 2017. Hey, good morning!  Welcome to your Friday morning. As we prepare to phone in the rest of the day, read about how a lensless camera is possible with math, how car buyers aren’t quite sold on autonomous vehicles, and how one company’s working on a Photoshop for your voice.   Math and optical sensors instead of a lens.   Caltech's lensless camera could make our phones truly flat   While phones get thinner, there's one spot that keeps sticking out: the camera lens. Taking good pictures and being able to focus at multiple distances requires a layer of glass that's a certain size, but there's really no getting around it -- or is there? Researchers at Caltech have devised an "optical phased array" chip that uses math as a substitute for a lens. By adding a time delay -- down to a quadrillionth of a second -- to the light received at different locations on the chip, it can change focus without a lens.   ‘Final Fantasy’, ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ and more are at least half off. The latest Steam summer sale might leave you broke   The first of twelve days of discounted titles includes the Final Fantasy franchise and 70 percent off underwater indie charmer Abzu. Hyper Light Drifter has been discounted by half as well, and if you wanted to explore Mafia III's world of crime and violence, you can do so for $15. Who needs the outdoors? You're probably still better off with a Moto G5.   Motorola's new Moto E4 isn't exactly thrilling, but it's cheap   Motorola is as well known for its budget phones as it is for flagships, so no one was surprised when it revealed its fourth-generation Moto E, earlier this month. Motorola's E line always felt like a curiosity, as though the company was challenging itself to build a phone for as little as possible without turning it into a smoldering pile of garbage. Its track record speaks for itself: Motorola does fine work on the cheap, and that hasn't changed. The frills here are few, but after a little hands-on time, the Moto E4 seems to be a strong option for just $130.   Facebook’s testing a profile-picture guard in India.   It’s trying out a feature that stops profile-photo theft   In India, Facebook has begun testing new tools that prevent anyone from sniping your profile picture for who knows what purpose. If you live in the country, you might see an option to turn on "profile-picture guard" next time you visit your News Feed. When you have the guard up, other people will no longer be able to save your pic or even screenshot it with an Android device. People not in your friends list won't be able to tag anyone or themselves in your profile picture regardless of your tag settings, as well.   At least not if they’re anything like adaptive cruise control or collision-avoidance systems   Car buyers aren’t thrilled about semi-autonomous features. JD Power's latest research into the likes and dislikes of car owners has two big takeaways: People love Kia and are pretty lukewarm about self-driving technology. Or, at least those components that most drivers can gain access to right now.    Your regular Echo will also pipe a camera's audio into your room.   Amazon's Echo Show displays your smart camera's live video feed   Amazon's Echo Show is getting another new trick, err, skill. Now the gizmo will link with the cameras on your home network and display their feeds when you say something like, "Alexa, show the front door." This will work with cameras from the likes of Arlo, August, EZVIZ, IC Realtime, Nest and Vivint. If you don't have a Show, saying the command phrase will give you an audio feed on your Dot or Echo. Better yet, Amazon has released the camera-control API into the wild, so developers can get cracking on even more implementations for it.   But wait, there's more... 1. Trump's infrastructure proposal includes rural broadband expansion 2. Hackers reportedly altered and stole voting data before 2016 election 3. One company is trying to create Photoshop for your voice 4. An involuntary manslaughter case could have a big impact on how cyberbullying is addressed 5. LG's latest OLED display is flexible, transparent and gargantuan The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- June 22, 2017

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Netflix Climbs the Growth Wave as Cable TV Slides
OTA Report: Consumer Services Sites More Trustworthy Than .Gov Sites
3 WannaCry Talking Points to Win Security Buy-In
Hootsuite Adds New Social Selling Tool

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Netflix Climbs the Growth Wave as Cable TV Slides
A few short years ago, Netflix was nothing more than a mail order
Blockbuster-type video rental business. Since then, it has been growing
rapidly and changing. Believe it or not, Netflix today has more U.S.
subscribers than cable TV. That's an amazing accomplishment for Netflix
-- and a major hit to traditional cable television. Netflix and cable TV
are on opposite sides of the growth wave.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84631.html

OTA Report: Consumer Services Sites More Trustworthy Than .Gov Sites
The Online Trust Alliance on Tuesday released its 2017 Online Trust
Audit & Honor Roll. Among its findings: Consumer services sites have the
best combined security and privacy practices. FDIC 100 banks and U.S.
government sites are the least trustworthy, according to the audit. The
number of websites that qualified for the honor roll is at a nine-year
high.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84629.html

3 WannaCry Talking Points to Win Security Buy-In
By this point, most technology practitioners -- and nearly all security
practitioners -- know about WannaCry. In fact, you might be sick of
people analyzing it, rehashing it, sharing "lessons learned" about it,
and otherwise laying out suggestions -- in some cases, contradictory --
about what you might do differently in the future. The level of
unsolicited advice can border on the annoying.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84627.html

Hootsuite Adds New Social Selling Tool
Hootsuite on Monday launched Amplify for Selling, a mobile-first
solution that helps sales teams succeed on social by generating leads
and fostering revenue-driving relationships. The new tool is an
extension of Hootsuite's Amplify employee advocacy product, which is
focused on the business-to-business market. Amplify for Selling
integrates with Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84628.html

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