Rabu, 13 November 2019
Best laptop gifts you can buy for 2019 - Engadget
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2019-11-13 11:00:02Z
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16-inch MacBook Pro Has Improved Speakers, Noise-Cancelling Microphones, and '4% Larger' Screen Than... - MacRumors
Following yesterday's report on Apple's new 16-inch MacBook Pro which could be announced as soon as Wednesday, Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman this morning shared some additional details about the upcoming machine via Twitter.
Otherwise, Gurman reiterates Apple's focus on providing users with a more reliable keyboard that uses a new scissor switch mechanism, which is "similar to the iMac external Magic Keyboard."
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/11/13/16-inch-macbook-pro-improved-speakers-mics/
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According to Gurman, the display on the new MacBook Pro is less than four percent larger than the current 15.4-inch MacBook Pro, suggesting to him that "it's really going to be about the higher resolution" rather than a significant material increase in screen real estate.
Gurman offers no clues as to the exact resolution, but reliable IHS Markit analyst Jeff Lin claimed in June that the 16-inch MacBook Pro would feature an LCD panel with a resolution of 3,072×1,920 pixels supplied by LG Display. For comparison, the 15-inch MacBook Pro has a resolution of 2,880×1,800 pixels.
In addition, Gurman says the new 16-inch MacBook Pro will have "impressive speakers" and "noise cancelling microphones," which sounds like a reference to an improved ambient noise reduction feature enabling users to capture less background noise when using the built-in microphones, thereby improving dictation and FaceTime calls.
The screen on the new MacBook Pro is less than 4% larger than the current 15.4 inch. So it’s really going to be about the higher resolution, impressive speakers, noise cancelling microphones and of course the all new keyboard (similar to the iMac external Magic Keyboard).
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) November 13, 2019
Otherwise, Gurman reiterates Apple's focus on providing users with a more reliable keyboard that uses a new scissor switch mechanism, which is "similar to the iMac external Magic Keyboard."
The new 16-inch machine, which will be the largest laptop Apple has offered for sale since the 17-inch MacBook Pro was discontinued, will replace the current 15-inch model and "cost about the same," Gurman revealed on Tuesday. The 15-inch MacBook Pro starts at $2,399.
Apple is said to have been holding private press briefings at its luxury loft mansion in New York City this week, likely providing media sites with review units for first impressions. Apple will surely announce the new 16-inch MacBook Pro via press release, as there are no more Apple events expected this year.
https://www.macrumors.com/2019/11/13/16-inch-macbook-pro-improved-speakers-mics/
2019-11-13 10:13:00Z
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Conceived PS5 SSD Storage Cartridge 3D Renders Suggest That Sony’s Next-Gen Console Might Work With Expandable SSD Memory - Wccftech
Conceived 3D renders of PS5 SSD storage cartridges have surfaced online, which suggest that Sony’s next-gen console might work with expandable SSD storage units.
Last week we covered a new patent that Sony Interactive Entertainment recently registered for a PlayStation Cartridge. The patent was picked up by Dutch tech site Let’s Go Digital, and following their article from last week, the tech site has now updated its article with some 3D renders.
As pointed out to me by the site’s author, Mark Peters, Let’s Go Digital managed to create some 3D renders of the cartridge patent that Sony filed. According to the Dutch tech site, we might very well be looking at 3D renders of expandable SSD storage cartridges for Sony’s PlayStation 5.
As we already mentioned last week, the PS5 won’t be using cartridges as a medium for games as Sony has already confirmed that its next-gen console will sport a Blu-Ray drive.
As noted by Let’s Go Digital, the use of expandable SSD memory cartridges might be more logical as it allows Sony to cut on the price of base PS5 by offering different storage modules.
As noted by Let’s Go Digital, the use of expandable SSD storage cartridges through a plug-in module might be more logical as it would allow Sony to cut on the price of the base PS5. Let’s Go Digital has created several 3D renders of the speculated SSD storage cartridges. While it might sound far-fetched for some, Sony’s patent does mention that the PlayStation Cartridge is intended for a “CONFIGURATION APPLIED TO / IN DEVICE DATA RECORDING AND STORAGE”.
At this point this is all speculation so please take the information above with a fair pinch of salt for now.
Sony’s lead architect on the PlayStation 5, Mark Cerny, has already confirmed that the upcoming console will be equipped with a ‘specialized’ SSD that offers extremely fast loading times. Back in June of this year, a Sony spokesperson revealed some additional details about this special drive.
“An ultra-high-speed SSD is the key to our next generation”, the spokesperson told the official PlayStation Magazine. “Our vision is to make loading screens a thing of the past, enabling creators to build new and unique gameplay experiences.”
What do you make of these 3D renders? Could it be possible that the PS5 will make use of these expandable SSD storage cartridges? Hit the comments below.
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https://wccftech.com/ps5-ssd-memory-cartridge/
2019-11-13 08:52:29Z
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The Facebook app is secretly accessing people's camera as they read the news feed - The Independent
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- The Facebook app is secretly accessing people's camera as they read the news feed The Independent
- Facebook ‘Inadvertently Introduced’ Bug That Accesses iPhone Camera While User Scrolls Through Feed KTLA Los Angeles
- A Facebook Bug Secretly Turns Your iPhone Camera On HYPEBEAST
- Facebook is fixing a bug that turned on phone cameras Engadget
- Facebook bug accesses iPhone's camera while user scrolls through News Feed CNN
- View full coverage on Google News
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-app-recording-camera-iphone-ios-news-feed-bug-update-fix-workaround-a9200696.html
2019-11-13 10:04:00Z
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Selasa, 12 November 2019
Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil - TechCrunch
Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok. Instagram Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, with the potential to go viral on a new Top Reels section of Explore. Just like TikTok, users can soundtrack their Reels with a huge catalog of music, or borrow the audio from anyone’s else video to create a remix of their meme or joke.
Reels is launching today on iOS and Android but limited to just Brazil where it’s called Cenas. Reels leverages all of Instagram’s most popular features to frankenstein together a remarkably coherent competitor to TikTok’s rich features and community of 1.5 billion monthly users including 122 million in the US according to Sensor Tower. Instead of trying to start from scratch like Facebook’s Lasso, Instagram could cross-promote Reels heavily to its own billion users.
But Instagram’s challenge will be retraining its populace to make premeditated, storyboarded social entertainment instead of just spontaneous, autobiographical social media like with Stories and feed posts.
“I think Musically before TikTok, and TikTok deserve a ton of credit for popularizing this format” admits Instagram director of product management Robby Stein. That’s nearly verbatim what Instagram founder Kevin Systrom told me about Snapchat when Instagram launched Stories. “They deserve all the credit”, he said before copying Snapchat so ruthlessly that it stopped growing for three years.
Chinese startups were always criticized for copying American companies, but Reels’ launch signals the grand shift to cloning in the opposite direction.
Yet Stein insists “No two products are exactly the same, and at the end of the day sharing video with music is a pretty univeral idea we think everyone might be interested in using. The focus has been on how to make this a unique format for us.” The key to that divergence? “Your friends are already all on Instagram. I think thats only true of Instagram.”
Throwing Instagram’s Weight Around
Starting in Brazil before potentially rolling out elsewhere could help Instagram nail down its customization and onboarding strategy. Luckily, Brazil has a big Instagram population, a deeply musical culture, and a thriving creator community, says Stein.
It also isn’t completely obsessed with TikTok yet like fellow developing market India. As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said about trying to grow Lasso, “We’re trying to first see if we can get it to work in countries where TikTok is not already big.” Instagram used this internationalization strategy to make Stories a hit where Snapchat hadn’t expanded yet, and it worked surprisingly well.
Instagram also has the US government on its side for a change. While its parent company Facebook is being investigated for anti-trust and privacy violations, TikTok is also under scrutiny.
Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s $1 billion 2017 acquisition of Musical.ly, another Chinese app similar to TikTok but with traction in the US, is under review by the Committee For Foreign Investment In The United States. ByteDance turned Musical.ly into TikTok, but it could have to unwind the acquisitions or make other concessions to US regulators to protect the country’s national security. Several Senators have also railed against TikTok injecting Chinese social values via censorship into the American discourse.
Perhaps Instagram’s best shot at differentiation is through its social graph. While TikTok is primarily a feed broadcasting app, Instagram can work Reels into its Close Friends and Direct messaging features potentially opening a new class of creators — shy one who only want to share with people they trust not to make fun of them. A lot of this lipsyncing / dancing / humor skit content can be kinda cringey when people don’t get it just right.
How Instagram Reels Works
Users will find it in the Instagram Stories shutter modes tray next to Boomerang and Super-Zoom. They can either record with silence, borrow the audio of another video they find through hashtag search or Explore, or search a popular or trending song. Some audio snippets will even get their own pages showing off top videos made with them. Teaching users to poach audio for their remixes will be essential to getting Reels off the ground.
Facebook’s enormous music collection secured from all the major labels and many indie publishers powers Reels. Users pick the chunk to the song they want, and can then record or upload multiple video clips to fill out their Reel. Instagram has been building towards this moment since June 2018 when it first launched its Music stickers.
Instagram is adding some much-needed editing tools for Reels like timed captions so words appear in certain scenes, and a ghost overlay option for lining up transitions so they look fluid. Still, Reels lacks some of the video filters and special effects that TikTok has purposefully built to power certain gags and cuts between scenes. Stein says those are coming though.
Once users are satisfied with their editing job, they can post their Reel to Stories, Close Friends, or message it to people. If shared publicly, it will also be eligible to appear in the Top Reels section of the Explore tab. Most cleverly, Instagram works around its own ephemerality by letting users add their Reels to their profile’s non-disappearing Highlights for a shot to show up on Explore even after their 24-hour story expires.
Instead of having to monetize later somehow, Instagram can immediately start making money from Reels since it already shows ads in Stories and the Explore tab. The feature is sure to get plenty of exposure since 500 million of Instagram’s users already open Stories and Explore each month. Still, Reels’ composer and feed will be buried a few extra taps away from the homescreen compared to TikTok.
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Cloning TikTok isn’t just about the features, though Reels does a good job of copying the core ones. Creating scripted content is totally new for most Instagram users, and could feel too showy or goofy for an app known for its seriousness.
TikTok is 100% about acting ridiculous just to make people smile, your personal image be damned. That’s the opposite of the carefully manicured image of glamor and glory most Instagram users try to project. It could feel counterintuitively more awkward to perform comedy in front of your real friends and fans than it does on a dedicated world stage.
Instagram, and Instagrammers, may have to lose their artful, cool aesthetic to embrace the silliness of tomorrow’s social entertainment. But if Reels can change Instagram’s culture to one where we’re comfortable looking stupid, it could beat TikTok’s talent competition by opening a million private karaoke rooms for goofing off just with friends.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/instagram-reels/
2019-11-12 11:01:03Z
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Snapchat’s New Spectacles 3 Are Amazing For Influencers. Not So Much For The Influenced. - BuzzFeed News
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Snapchat’s Spectacles are like GoPros for your face. The stylish sunglasses’ two embedded cameras immediately capture photos and short 10-second videos when one of the discreet buttons on the temple is pressed. Released today, Spectacles 3 is Snapchat’s newest version, which can now produce three-dimensional photos and videos with animated augmented reality effects.
For the past week, I’ve been testing out the company’s new, quite pricey $380 face camera, which is now available in limited quantities on Snapchat’s website. It seems to be the ultimate ~influencer~ wearable, designed specifically to create eye-popping imagery that will stand out in a social media feed.
For normals, the first-person footage captured by the Spectacles is wonderfully — and surprisingly — personal. But the new animated AR video filters don’t add much and, in fact, distract from scenes.
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The new Spectacles are unquestionably hip. They have steel, rounded frames like the kind that Natalie Portman wears in Léon: The Professional, and that usually only people with angular, Portmanesque faces can pull off.
The sunglasses snap elegantly into their case, which is also their charger. The Spectacles can capture up to 70 separate 10-second videos on a single charge.
Unless a passerby looks closely, or the LED light is blinking, they wouldn’t notice that the glasses had two cameras onboard, which is largely the point.
Previous versions of Spectacles had one embedded camera on the right and an LED light on the left to indicate recording. The Spectacles 3 has two embedded cameras on each side with an LED ring around the lens that lights up when you capture photos and videos. Snapchat’s software uses footage from the two cameras to sense the scene’s depth and project 3D effects, which are applied to videos using the Snapchat app.
While you need the Snapchat app to import photos and videos from the Spectacles, sharing isn’t limited to Snapchat. The default capture is a round video, but it can be exported in a variety of orientations and sizes, including a portrait (for Instagram stories), square, or 16:9 ratio.
I added one of Snapchat’s new AR filters to a video of my husband, Will, performatively biking across the Golden Gate Bridge. The filter is supposed to add neon arcs over what it detects as a road. The software did a good job of applying swirling lasers in the right places — but I genuinely can’t imagine ever adding these effects in earnest. They remind me of the heavy-handed Hipstamatic filters people used to make low-res smartphone pictures look good in 2010.
And I love a good snap filter. They give you long eyelashes and make your skin look amazing! They make presidential debates more fun! But these new Snapchat AR effects, which include confetti that drops from the sky, a very energetic bird that follows you around, and big blobs that float in space, don’t feel as interactive or clever as those face-focused options (though perhaps that’s because I’m a selfie-obsessed millennial). A Snapchat representative said new effects will be delivered regularly.
Snapchat had professionals — actual video directors and photographers — shoot with the new glasses (videos embedded below). The AR effects looked so artistic and clean in those pro videos that I couldn’t believe we were using the same devices. When I added the filters, the animations often appeared shaky and pixelated, like in this slightly overexposed scene of Will hanging laundry.
The 3D pictures, however, are a different story. They’re very cool. In the Snapchat app, you can wiggle your phone back and forth to get a sense of the depth. The exported version of the photo is a video that moves the image on loop, like a GIF.
Snapchat’s pro examples obviously look way better than mine. Again, this is a device that’s seemingly ideal for influencers, professional creators, and the like.
Normals will find the new Spectacles’ 3D wizardry less compelling.
The Spectacles can only capture video in 10-second spurts, which is fitting for a social media browser's short attention span, but unsatisfying for those reliving intimate memories. Another downside is that the video quality is good, but not as good as my iPhone’s, especially when it comes to camera stabilization (or lack thereof). Unless you keep your head very, very still, Spectacles videos look shaky.
Yet another limitation is Spectacles’ nice weather–only form factor. I took the sunglasses out for a morning bike ride. A dense fog layer had rolled in overnight (as is typically the case in San Francisco) and — while it was neat to capture parts of the ride I would never be able to with my phone — the dark, tinted lens made it difficult to see. I ended up stashing the Spectacles in my back pocket for most of the ride.
Snapchat’s headquarters are in Santa Monica, a sunny beachfront city about 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles. So it’s no surprise that the Spectacles are sunglasses and work best in bright, well-lit conditions. (As I write this, on a mid-November morning, it is 81 degrees and sunny in LA.)
I also hesitated to wear the Spectacles in public, aware that people might think that a discreet wearable camera could film them at any time and invade their privacy. In 2014, a woman was attacked for wearing Google Glass, which were lensless glasses with a camera onboard. A few months later, another Google Glass wearer had theirs smashed to the ground by a stranger.
But for private moments with close family members and friends, the Spectacles were delightful.
I was surprised at how personal the footage is. It’s all shot from a first-person perspective and, because the recordings are nearly identical to how you experienced and remembered them, they feel incredibly intimate.
Because the capture is hands-free, you can record many things you wouldn’t be able to with your phone: hiking, playing with kids, drawing, cooking, or virtually anything that requires working with your hands. Sure, you can strap a GoPro to your chest or forehead, but that requires a lot more gear and effort. With the Spectacles, you just put on the sunglasses and tap a button. I liked that you could capture moments without having to look at a screen.
Best of all: You don’t need the latest Spectacles to do that. The Spectacles 2 (much cheaper at $150) can do the same, plus they’re water-resistant, which the Spectacles 3 aren’t.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/snapchat-spectacles-3-review
2019-11-12 10:00:00Z
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Senin, 11 November 2019
Samsung Galaxy S11 display sizes revealed, tipped to launch in February - Android Authority
By this time of the year, smartphone launches usually fizzle out and the rumor cycle for next year’s flagships picks up pace. So naturally, we’ve started hearing things about the Samsung flagship for the first half of 2020. We’re now hearing much more than mere murmurs about the upcoming Galaxy S11 lineup of phones.
According to famous tipster and Venture Beat reporter, Evan Blass, the Samsung Galaxy S11 lineup will once again feature three phones, but with much larger display sizes. At this point, we’re presuming they will be called the Galaxy S11e, Galaxy S11 and Galaxy S11 Plus.
In a recent tweet, Blass revealed that the Galaxy S11 will come in 6.4-inch, 6.7-inch, and 6.9-inch display sizes. Although he writes that the smallest Galaxy S11 phone will feature a 6.4-inch display, he also says that his information is conflicting. What he knows for now is that the smallest Galaxy S11 could either have a 6.2-inch or a 6.4-inch display.
Evan Blass The tipster further reveals that the two smaller phones will both come with 5G and LTE variants. The largest 6.9-inch phone will only get a 5G version. This takes the total number of variants in the upcoming Galaxy S11 series to five.
As far as the launch of the so called Galaxy S11 series is concerned, Blass reports a predictable mid-to-late February timeline.
Galaxy S series: Bigger than ever
If Blass’ information is to be believed, Samsung seems to have significantly upped the display size of its S series phones compared to the S10 devices. Ranging from the S10e to the S10 Plus, the S10 lineup features 5.8-inch, 6.1-inch and 6.4-inch display variants. The Galaxy S10 5G had the largest 6.7-inch display in the series. Looks like Samsung will further close the gap between its S and Note lineup of flagships in 2020.
Blass also notes that all five variants in the Galaxy S11 series will have curved-edge displays, i.e., no more S10e-style flat panels.
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We’re not really sure how Samsung wants to play out its device strategy in the coming year. A 6.9-inch Galaxy S11 Plus might as well be called a Note device. It’s even bigger than the 6.8-inch Galaxy Note 10 Plus!
To recall, Blass had previously reported a rumor that Samsung might be looking to merge its S and Note series under a new brand name called “Galaxy One”. It’s possible that’s what’s behind these increasing screen sizes.
What do you think Samsung should do? Do you think it’s time the company merges its S and Note lineup? Let us know in the comments section below.
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https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-s11-1052566/
2019-11-11 08:37:30Z
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