The Oppo R9s is not exactly a secret – aside from the leaks, there’s already been a TV commercial running in China. The logical next step has followed and the company has sent out invites for the launch event, scheduled to be held on October 19. Oppo event invites and IMX 398 sensor That’s not all, however. Apparently, the smartphone’s camera will be based on a new Sony-made IMX398 sensor. On top of the obvious (and also largely meaningless) fact that it’s 98 more than the IMX300 imager Sony uses in its own high-end Xperias, the source states that the…
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Too Good to Go is a social enterprise that offers a win-win – combating food wastage by connecting hungry consumers to restaurants willing to sell leftover food cheaply. The mobile app lets consumers in British cities buy food from more than 170 restaurants, cafes or bakeries. for just £2 ($1.29) to £3.80 ($4.90). The catch is that the buyer can only collect the food in the hour before the restaurant’s closing time. “We’re trying to highlight that food waste is not actually waste at all … and place a value on food as something that should be eaten and not…
YouTube Music is still more of a side perk to a Google Play Music subscription. But the app has slowly been adding in more features to make it a better companion for discovering and sharing music. It’s that latter feature that gets the focus in the version 1.46 update. Now you can share music that’s in your queued up list, so if there’s a song that you recognize and want to send to a friend you don’t have to wait until it’s reached a turn to play. Android Police Sharing a favorite song or video is now much easier with…
The emergency alerts that get pushed to cellphones are about to get a lot more interactive. What arrived in 2012 as the occasional text message about imminent weather issues has emerged as the key means of alerting Americans about all manner of emergencies, including Amber Alerts on missing children. With changes approved by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, wireless carriers are being directed to add support for web and phone number links, as well as longer text messages. More from Recode: Exploding robots may already be in your house Why Uber has to be first to market with self-driving…
Verizon may be getting cold feet with its acquisition of Yahoo. Reportedly, it’s asking for a $1 billion discount on the original $4.8 billion deal for the Internet company. Recent news about Yahoo’s massive data breach and its alleged secret email scanning program has diminished the company’s value in the eyes of Verizon, according to aThursday report by the New York Post. Tim Armstrong, the head of AOL, which Verizon acquired in 2015, reportedly has met with Yahoo executives about reducing the acquisition price. “He’s pretty upset about the lack of disclosure and he’s saying can we get out of…
On the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) released a report stating that there is a need to recruit millions of teachers in order to provide quality universal primary and secondary education by 2030, which is the deadline of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The UNESCO Institute for Statistics launched its ‘Valuing Teachers, Improving Their Status’ report to mark the occasion. Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) demands inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. The SDG 4 includes a specific call for more qualified teachers, and more support…
The result of Staff Selection Commission (SSC) CGL Combined Graduate Level (Tier I) online exam will be announced today on October 7. All those candidates who had appeared for the same are required to keep a check at the official website, www.ssc.nic.in. The exam was conducted from August 27 to September 11 for filling up 4874 (tentative) posts in various departments and ministries of the central government. The answer key for the same was released on September 21, enabling the candidates to tally the paper. All those who will qualify in the tier 1 exam will then be required to…
October has arrived. Monster month is here. And there’s no shortage of horrific movies to stream, to celebrate, and to scare away unwanted spirits. To start, we have one of the scariest vampire movies ever made—despite its being nearly a century old—as well as one of the spookiest and most underrated ghost movies of recent years. We have a monster movie from the early 1980s, a restored, creepy-crawly classic from the mid-1980s, a 1990s effort by an acclaimed horror author, and then a trilogy devoted to horror films watched on videocassettes during that time period. For those looking for lighter-hearted…
Windows has a feature it doesn’t like to talk about. While the OS lets you scrawl notes with a stylus, log in with you face (or secure the Web) via Windows Hello, and even order Cortana to set a reminder, what it’s not so eager for you to do, apparently, is use its speech recognition engine to issue commands or take voice dictation. The reason for its silence may go back 10 years, to when Microsoft product manager Shanen Boettcher demonstrated voice dictation inside Windows Vista—and flubbed it. The technology kept a low profile after that, and today, few users know you can dictate a document within…
There was a rumor going around last month saying that, despite technically being the first phone to ship with Android Nougat on board, the LG V20 would only manage that feat in a few places, and definitely not in the US. Well, guess what? It turns out that’s exactly what’s happening. Google’s Pixels will start shipping around October 20, and obviously those run Nougat too – Android 7.1, even. And T-Mobile is now officially announcing that the LG V20 will be available starting on October 28, so around a week after the Pixel and Pixel XL. This, despite the fact…