Monday 30 October 2017

The Morning After: Apple fires employee after daughter's iPhone X video

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It's Monday, October 30, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

This Monday, you’re waking up to Nintendo’s hit console on track to outsell its predecessor’s lifetime sales in a single year, rigid region-based search from Google and Kinect’s weird experimental life.

It’s a reminder of the secrecy tech companies enforce on employees.

Apple fires employee after daughter’s iPhone X video goes viral

Just because a tech company has announced a product doesn’t mean employees are free to share or talk about it. Unfortunately, one Apple engineer learned that the hard way. Apple has reportedly fired a iPhone team member after his daughter Brooke posted a hands-on video showing off his iPhone X before launch. Brooke took down the video as soon as Apple requested it, but the takedown came too late to prevent the clip from going viral, leading to seemingly endless reposts and commentary.

Saathi pads improve women’s well-being and keep millions of tons of waste out of landfills.

Banana fiber sanitary pads can solve big problems in India

With its sanitary pads for the Indian market, startup company Saathi solves two problems at once. Just 16 percent of women in India use sanitary protection due to poverty and other reasons, which causes health and social issues. At the same time, manufacturing them wastes millions of gallons of water, and two million tons of pads end up in landfills every year. To help with all that, Saathi’s pads are affordable, made from discarded banana tree fibers.

We take sanitary napkin usage for granted in North America and Europe, but it’s a huge issue in India and other developing nations. “In India, out of 100, only 16 women use sanitary pads,” Tarun Bothra told Engadget. “It varies from region to region as to why. In some places they’re not affordable, and in others, there are religious taboos.”

From Nine Inch Nails concerts to touchscreen bathtubs, Kinect did it all.

Kinect: Seven years of strange experiments

Kinect is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years, at least since Microsoft de-bundled the motion-tracking system from the Xbox One in 2014, knocking $100 off the price tag and making the system more competitive with the PlayStation 4.

The Kinect debuted in 2010 with the Xbox 360, and it had a good run, overall: Microsoft sold roughly 35 million devices in total. However, the Kinect never quite found its market -- the one application that would turn the hardware into an essential piece of home technology. The Kinect was a product out of time, but that’s not to say it didn’t contribute to some truly wild experiences over the years.

But wait, there's more...

1. The Academy awards its first Oscar for virtual reality

2. Neural network gives your phone 'DSLR-quality' photos

3. LG V30 review: LG's latest flagship needs more polish

4. Google auto-detects your whereabouts to get local search results

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Saturday 28 October 2017

The Morning After: Weekend Edition

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It's Saturday, October 28, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to the weekend. We’ll recap this week’s news highlights, like Amazon’s latest service: a security camera and smart lock combo that will let its delivery people inside your house.

How do you feel about living in a cave?

Getting to and living on Mars will be hell on your body

To learn more about what it will take for humans to live on Mars, Engadget spoke with NASA scientist Laura Kerber and Spaceworks COO John Bradford at the Hello Tomorrow symposium in Paris. It’s time to find out what a “torpor” is and why you’ll want to be in one to make the trip.

Alexa still reigns as the queen of assistants.

Amazon Echo review (2017)

First, the good news: Amazon’s latest Echo is plugged into the ever-evolving Alexa AI that currently leads the pack of “smart” assistants, and at $99 it’s cheaper than last year’s model. The bad news? Despite some attractive, interchangeable shells, this smaller Echo puts out subpar audio compared to other smart speakers on the market.

The first qualifying event is in November -- it’s time to train.

FIFA and EA will put on the first-ever 'eWorld Cup' next year

FIFA and Electronic Arts are taking their partnership to the logical conclusion point: the pair will put on the first-ever eWorld Cup next August. Competition starts next month on November 3rd.

Think it over.

WhatsApp lets you delete your embarrassing texts, if you're quick

Have you ever accidentally sent a message on WhatsApp that you wish you hadn't? Well, starting today, you can delete it -- as long as you catch it within the first seven minutes. If you do, however, your recipient will instead see a "This message was deleted" alert.

Good luck.

iPhone X pre-orders are open

Now the expected wait time has stretched to 5 - 6 weeks.

What could possibly go wrong?

Bad Password: Great, now there's 'responsible encryption'

Trump's Department of Justice is trying to get a do-over with its campaign to get backdoors onto iPhones and into secure messaging services. The policy rebrand even has its own made-up buzzword. They're calling it "responsible encryption."

But wait, there's more...

1. Which 4K OLED sets are worth buying?

2. Amazon Key opens your home for indoor deliveries

3. Now T-Mobile is working with Project Loon in Puerto Rico

4. Microsoft ceases production of the Kinect

5. Amazon vs. Roku: Which $70 4K streaming device is best?

6. The real consequences of Patreon's adult content crackdown

7. 'Stranger Things 2' basically gives everyone a cellphone

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Friday 27 October 2017

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Friday -- October 27, 2017

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Noon Home Debuts New Way to Light Up Your Life
AWS Offers Aurora Cloud DB Service Compatible With PostgreSQL
Apple May Have Fudged iPhone X's Face ID
Screen Burn-In, Piercing Sounds Beset Google's Pixel 2s

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Noon Home Debuts New Way to Light Up Your Life

Noon Home officially launched on Thursday and simultaneously unveiled
its Noon Smart Lighting System, after two years of raising funds and
developing products in stealth mode. The Noon Smart Lighting System
blends ambient, task and accent lights to layer lighting, improve the
way a room looks. It consists of a Room Director switch and companion
Extension Switches, which communicate via Bluetooth.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84913.html

AWS Offers Aurora Cloud DB Service Compatible With PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced the general availability of
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility. The service is now fully
compatible with both MySQL and PostgreSQL, the company said. AWS also
announced that customers migrating to Amazon Aurora from another
database can use the AWS Database Migration Service free of charge for
the next six months.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84914.html

Apple May Have Fudged iPhone X's Face ID

Apple reportedly has reduced the accuracy of the iPhone X Face ID
feature to speed up production. It's not clear how much the new specs
will reduce Face ID's efficacy, but if the reporting is accurate, there
could be problems recognizing changes in facial hair, glasses and other
ancillary features, suggested Gerrit Schneemann, senior analyst at IHS
Markit. "That would be a real problem."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84910.html

Screen Burn-In, Piercing Sounds Beset Google's Pixel 2s

Complaints have been mounting over display and audio issues with
Google's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Consumers have reported a screen burn-
in problem with the Pixel 2 XL, which refers to embedded functions
leaving a ghost-like image on the display. In addition, there have been
numerous reports of high-pitched noises and strange clicking sounds
occurring during calls on the Pixel 2.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84908.html

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