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Asus Zenfone 5 and 5z have smaller notches than the "Fruit Phone X"
After introducing the entry-level Zenfone 5 Lite, Asus got to the main event of its MWC press conference. That is, of course, the Zenfone 5. But wait, there's a higher-end Zenfone 5z too. These models are almost identical, save for the chipset used, and the amount of RAM and storage you can get them with. They feature a metal frame and 2.5D curved glass on the front as well as the back. They are both filled to the brims with AI: AI Boost (for more power when gaming), AI Photography (with scene detection, photo learning, portrait mode and beautification), AI Display (stays on while you're...
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Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ to launch in India on March 6
Samsung will be launching the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ smartphones in India on March 6 at an event in New Delhi. The company has started sending out invitations to the media for the same. The Galaxy S9 and S9+ are already up for pre-ordering on Samsung's website. Both devices are available in a choice of 64GB or 256GB in either Lilac Purple, Midnight Black or Coral Blue. Samsung is currently accepting INR 2000 as booking amount and the rest will have to be paid when the devices launch next week. Earlier today, we saw the Indian prices of both the models and its variants leak. If...
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Asus Zenfone 5 Lite packs four cameras, two of them wide-angle
At its press conference at MWC today, Asus unveiled three new smartphones, the first being the Zenfone 5 Lite. This is going to be the entry-level model in the Zenfone 5 family. Asus Zenfone 5 Lite It packs four cameras, two of them with a 120-degree wide-angle field-of-view, one on each side. The main rear camera is a 16 MP f/2.2 unit with phase detection autofocus and 80-degree field-of-view, while the main selfie snapper is a 20 MP f/2.0 part using the Sony IMX376 sensor and boasting an 85.5-degree field-of-view. Asus Zenfone 5 Lite The phone has a 6-inch...
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It's Pokemon Day - Go celebrates, Alexa and Google Home talk Pikachu
Today is the Pokemon Day - it's the date the original Pokemon game was released back in 1996. And there are different happenings right now to celebrate the birth of the worldwide phenomenon. Niantic is celebrating the day by adding a Pikachu with a party hat just for today. This is not the first occurrence of the party creature, but the ones caught today will come with a special new Present move. Triple stardust will come with each Pikachu you capture on this day, too. Niantic has also partnered with Snapchat for special Pokemon lenses made of the starter creatures, and Bulbasaur...
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The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ can measure your blood pressure
When we read Samsung's patent about measuring blood pressure with an optical sensor, we imagined it will be used on smartwatches in the future. So imagine our surprise to find out that the Galaxy S9 and S9+ have just such a sensor. Besides blood pressure, the phone can measure your stress levels as well. Samsung also plans to expand Bixbi's skills to allow it to judge the calories of a meal just by looking at it through the camera. This tech was co-developed with the University of California San Francisco in a collaboration dubbed My BP Lab. Users can opt into a three-week UCFS...
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Recently announced Nokia 1, Nokia 6 and Nokia 7 may come to the US in Q2
HMD Global's CEO, Florian Seiche, may have confirmed that the new batch of products isn't headed stateside. "It's not a core focus for this year, but certainly it is on our roadmap", but a new report suggests that the Nokia 1, Nokia 6(2018) and Nokia 7 Plus may be heading to the US in Q2 after all - unlocked. While not available through any US carriers, it's possible to buy selected Nokia phones through retailers. Amazon, for example, currently list the Nokia 2, Nokia 6 (old model) and the 3310 3G among others. This is likely to continue with sources suggesting that the Nokia 1 and the...
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Sony details how the Xperia XZ2's Dynamic Vibration System works
The new Sony Xperia XZ2 features a Dynamic Vibration System - a more powerful, more advanced haptic feedback system that enhances music, movies and games. The first step, is a much larger vibration motor - check out the size difference, this is the reason the smaller XZ2 Compact lacks this feature. Next up is software magic - it analyzes sound and activates the vibration in sync. It doesn't just track the base, it also listens to the higher frequencies to determine when vibration will enhance the experience. Sony's new Dynamic Vibration System is larger and more capable than a...
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Check out our Nokia 8 Sirocco video hands-on from MWC 2018
Nokia gave new life to the Sirocco brand with the latest version of the Nokia 8, announced at MWC 2018. It comes with P-OLED screen and 6 GB RAM while keeping the mighty power-efficient Snapdragon 835 chipset. The Nokia 8 Sirocco also looks amazing with a new glossy back and a fingerprint scanner on the back, right below the dual cam setup that is now a wide-angle + telephoto lens combo. So what are our first impressions of the phone and how is it more special than the regular Nokia 8? Check out in our video below. We already posted camera samples from Barcelona along with initial...
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Samsung Galaxy S9+ vs. Apple iPhone X camera comparison
Samsung announced the highly anticipated Galaxy S9+ on Sunday with dual cameras - the first having a variable aperture for different scenes, the other being the well-known telephoto shooter from the Galaxy Note8. While in Barcelona, we decided to put the Samsung flagship against the most powerful Apple phone - the iPhone X. From a technical standpoint, the primary cam can go either f/1.5 or f/2.4 and nowhere in between. It is 12 MP with a 1/2.55" sensor size and with the already familiar DualPixel technology for bright and vivid images. The second one has the same amount of megapixels but...
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Cat S61 hands-on: the multitool smartphone
Smartphones have revolutionized software, but when they need to interact with the real world, they usually rely on external accessories. The Cat S61 is unique in that it's a venerable toolbox that can be used in a variety of professions. Going in, we had no idea just how many uses this phone has. The Cat S61 is the toughest, most-capable phone The thermal camera is the key draw. It can be used by handymen working on the insulation on your house or for checking for hidden leaks. Or it could be used by vets, e.g. it can be used to spot the extra heat of an infected area or the lack of...
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Watch the Asus MWC event livestream here at 19:30 CET
The MWC 2018 official proceeding are not over quite yet! Asus has its even scheduled for 7:30PM CET today and, naturally, we'll be on location, to keep you up to date with all the announcements. If you want to tune in and watch, the below embed should have you covered, or just hit up the source link. As a quick refresh, Asus is expected to unveil the Zenfone 5 - maybe even three of them, Zenfone 5, Zenfone 5 Lite and 5 Max. Hence, the "#BACKTO05" slogan. Going through various leaks and the press materials for the event, we also found Qualcomm's logo, as well as quite a few...
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This might be the OnePlus 6 and it has a notch in the screen
The OnePlus 5 (unveiled June last year) brought a dual camera, the OnePlus 5T (November) moved to an 18:9 screen. So, what will the OnePlus 6 be like? If these photos are to be believed, it will be part iPhone X, part Galaxy S9+. The front shows a notch in the screen, big enough to hold the earpiece and selfie camera. Note the Android version (8.1) and OxygenOS version (5.1), they are ahead of what's currently available for the 5T. The back is a different story - a vertically-oriented dual camera with rectangular fingerprint reader below it. When OnePlus moved the fingerprint reader to...
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WatchKit is a buggy, "baby" UI framework that does not unlock the true potential of third-party apps on the Apple Watch and needs to be discontinued or replaced (Marco Arment/Marco.org)
WatchKit is a buggy, “baby” UI framework that does not unlock the true potential of third-party apps on the Apple Watch and needs to be discontinued or replaced — In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet.
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US-Israeli firm CyberX, which develops security products for IoT and industrial systems, raises $18M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners (Tova Cohen/Reuters)
US-Israeli firm CyberX, which develops security products for IoT and industrial systems, raises $18M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners — TEL AVIV (Reuters) - CyberX, a provider of technology to secure the Internet of Things and industrial control systems, said on Tuesday it raised $18 million …
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Ashwin Ram, who served as senior manager and lead for Alexa AI at Amazon, joins Google Cloud as Technical Director of AI (Dave Gershgorn/Quartz)
Ashwin Ram, who served as senior manager and lead for Alexa AI at Amazon, joins Google Cloud as Technical Director of AI — The researcher tasked with dreaming up new capabilities for Amazon's Alexa is taking his talents to Google. — Ashwin Ram, former senior manager and lead for Alexa AI at Amazon …
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UK-based Kindred Capital, a VC firm that shares 20% of the fund's profits with the founders of startups it invests in, closes its first fund at $112M (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
UK-based Kindred Capital, a VC firm that shares 20% of the fund's profits with the founders of startups it invests in, closes its first fund at $112M — What do you do if you're a venture capital (VC) firm looking to make a name for yourself in a crowded space?
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India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI — Chinese internet giant Tencent is continuing to put its money in India and in music streaming services after it agreed to lead a $115 million investment in India's Gaana.
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Princeton researchers show some analytics firms are still accidentally collecting user passwords, including Mixpanel, which issued fixes after earlier findings (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Princeton researchers show some analytics firms are still accidentally collecting user passwords, including Mixpanel, which issued fixes after earlier findings — LATEST VIDEOS — Go Inside The Dome That Could Give Robots Super Senses — MOST RECENT — How to Build a Space Communication System Out of Lasers
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US House votes 388-25 on a bill that aims to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking (Tom Jackman/Washington Post)
US House votes 388-25 on a bill that aims to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking — The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that gives prosecutors, state attorneys general and sex trafficking victims a clearer route …
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Square says that in December 7M customers used the Cash app and that Cash customers spent more than $90M using virtual and physical Cash cards (Jason Del Rey/Recode)
Square says that in December 7M customers used the Cash app and that Cash customers spent more than $90M using virtual and physical Cash cards — That's... pretty big? — Since Square's founding in 2009, CEO Jack Dorsey has been determined to build a consumer hit that complements the company's core payment-processing business.
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Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June (Vlad Savov/The Verge)
Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June — 'Some people will say it's copying Apple, but we cannot get away from what users want' — Ahead of today's Zenfone 5 launch …
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Etsy quarterly gross merchandising sales hit $1B for the first time, up 17.8% YoY, and Q4 revenue was $136.3M, vs. $132.5M estimated; stock up 13%+ after hours (Michelle Castillo/CNBC)
Etsy quarterly gross merchandising sales hit $1B for the first time, up 17.8% YoY, and Q4 revenue was $136.3M, vs. $132.5M estimated; stock up 13%+ after hours — - Earnings per share: 15 cents vs. 9 cents estimated according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate
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Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps (Marek Majkowski/Cloudflare Blog)
Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps — Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.
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Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch)
Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 — Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million …
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Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center (Johana Bhuiyan/Recode)
Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including pilot with Postmates and Domino's, and is setting up fleet-management center — The company is testing its cars in a delivery service, mapping out the streets for a driverless ride-hail service and setting up a fleet-management center.
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State of the Art: The Sublime and Scary Future of Cameras With A.I. Brains
A new generation of cameras like Google’s new Clips device can understand what they see, creating intriguing and sometimes eerie possibilities.
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Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports (John Shinal/CNBC)
Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports — - Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth shared a tweet showing that President Trump paid more than Hillary Clinton did to reach users on the platform.
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Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+ (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put the price tag at $1B+ — Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Ring, the Santa Monica, Calif.-based maker of video cameras, doorbells and other smart home technologies, GeekWire has learned.
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DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE CONNECTED CAR: How cars are transforming into digital platforms and opening an entirely new channel for service providers
Media consumption is at a saturation point. After rising for much of the last decade, total digital time spent has been nearly static since the start of 2015. As a result, it's increasingly difficult for content producers to win over minutes of consumers' time.
One platform, though, is poised to move the needle and provide a new avenue to boost digital time spent: the connected car. Consumers will spend more time in cars that offer a range of connectivity options, giving them the chance to use the services they know and love in the car.
The key question for service providers is how to take advantage of the connected car by integrating their services into this growing platform.
In a new report from BI Intelligence, we provide a roadmap for service providers looking to offer their services in the car. We analyze media consumption and overall digital time spent trends, and then forecast the growth of the connected car market in relation to the digital time opportunity. Finally, we propose potential routes that service providers can take to get into connected cars and ride-hailing vehicles.
Here are some of the key takeaways:
- Digital time spent has become nearly static; however, people are spending more time in cars every year, and the growth of connected cars will likely turn these extra minutes into digital time.
- Getting services into the car is more complicated than ever before, and will require service providers to take different approaches to integration.
- The introduction of autonomous vehicles and the growth of ride-hailing services in the coming years will completely change what people can do in cars, which will alter the requirements for digital services in these developing platforms.
In full, the report:
- Analyzes trends in digital time spent and the growth of connected cars.
- Explains the connected-car ecosystem, where service providers fit in, and what relationships they need to succeed in the space.
- Provides a detailed explanation of the future of connected cars, which will expand media consumption and offer new e-commerce and payments opportunities.
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An unlikely country is trying to win post-Brexit fintech business from Britain — Lithuania
- Lithuania wants to become a fintech hub.
- MEP who set up Blockchain Centre says Brexit is "a big opportunity" to attract businesses.
- 35 companies applied to be licensed in Lithuania last year.
- UK-headquartered startups Revolut and TransferGo have already chosen to set up EU subsidiaries in the Eastern European country.
LONDON — Lithuania is betting that Brexit can help it become a global fintech hub, as the Eastern European country seeks to attract British companies setting up subsidiaries in the EU.
"I cannot deny that," Marius Jurgilas, a member of the board of the Bank of Lithuania, told Business Insider when asked if Lithuania saw Brexit as an opportunity.
"We are not saying that we will be attracting top firms from the fintech hub of the world, which is and always will be London, to the new booming financial sector in Lithuanian, no," Jurgilas said. "But there is a huge flow of firms — and we want to participate in that flow — who want to hedge the risk of Brexit."
"This is the state of affairs that everyone has to deal with and we’re just part of the game," Jurgilas said.
Britain's future relationship with the European Union remains up in the air and finance firms fear they could lose passporting rights, which allow them to sell services across the 27 member bloc. To hedge against this risk, many businesses are setting up licensed subsidiaries in other EU countries.
Lithuanian MEP Antanas Guoga told BI: "I think [Brexit] is a big opportunity because we’re cost-wise a very competitive country, people are very diligent and hard-working, and, because of Brexit, a lot of companies are in a position to move out of the United Kingdom to make sure they’re safe and secure."
Guoga helped to set up a Blockchain Centre in the country's capital Vilnius last year, dedicated to exploring applications of the new technology that banks are excited about. The centre launched in January with the support of PwC among others.
'One of the most exciting fintech hubs in Europe right now'
Lithuania is an unlikely contender to become Europe's next fintech hub.
Unlike Paris or Amsterdam, it does not have a strong history of financial services. Unlike Berlin, Vilnius does not have startup scene of any international renown. The entire country has a population of 2.8 million, around a third of London.
But its pitch appears to be working. Invest Lithuania announced in January that 117 fintech companies are now operating in Lithuania, employing 2,000 people. It may not sound like a huge amount but the growth is impressive — 35 new businesses were registered in 2017.
Hot London-based banking startup Revolut and fellow UK startup TransferGo are among the fintech businesses to choose Lithuania. Revolut praised the country as "one of the most exciting fintech hubs in Europe right now" in a statement last year announcing they were applying for a banking license there.
"They recognise the opportunity of Brexit," TransferGo CEO Daumantas Dvilinskas told BI. Dvilinskas is originally from Lithuania but said he chose Vilnius for an EU office not just because of personal ties, but also because of its "innovative regulating body."
The Bank of Lithuania has a "business-friendly attitude," according to board member Jurgilas. The central bank has got the licensing process down to as little as three months, for example.
"We identified that the thing that is really tilting the scales in the decision-making process is time," Jurgilas said. "It’s not about monetary cost or regulatory burden, it’s about how much time do I have to invest to get a decision? Firms want certainty and quick decisions."
Other fintech-friendly initiatives include the central bank's regulatory "sandbox", where firms can try out innovative new business ideas with the regulators blessing, and a blockchain sandbox, dubbed LBChain, that will give companies a safe space to experiment with blockchain projects under the regulator's supervision.
Can Vilnius compete with Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam?
Lithuania is not alone in looking to attract fintech business off the back of Brexit. Many European capitals are trying to woo businesses, with Paris lobbying particularly hard. Why should firms choose Vilnius?
"Being in the eurozone gives us the same status of Frankfurt," Guoga said. "We’ve got a lot of hard-working people with knowledge of fintech who are not costing as much as they would in other cities because of the living costs. The country is very clean. There’s a lot of different benefits and that’s why there’s only more and more people coming here."
Established players are also choosing Lithuania for development facilities, which helps create an ecosystem Guoga argued.
"I’m just in the blockchain centre here and I can see the building next to me is all filled by Barclays," he said. "Barclays has the biggest centre of development here in Vilnius. Further on I can see Nasdaq. A lot of the IT is all done from here.
"Having Barclays here, having Danske Bank, having Nasdaq here and having many many other startups and also big multinationals have cemented our place as a place for fintech development."
"I think we’ll be on target to do a lot more [e-money licenses] this year. The momentum is definitely there. We should aim to issue 100 a year as soon as possible. The demand is very wide."
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Sensor Tower: Mobile game publishers continue to reach $1M at high rates
Sensor Tower reports that many mobile game publishers are hitting the $1M earnings milestone in 2021 -- though not as many as in 2016. Rea...
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Sensor Tower reports that many mobile game publishers are hitting the $1M earnings milestone in 2021 -- though not as many as in 2016. Rea...
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