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iPad Pro Apple Event Oct 30 iPad Pro 11” $799, 12.9” $999 (same price as previous MacBook Air) Face ID (266 ppi), Slimmer Bezels, rounded corners, Liquid Retina Display, 4 speakers, no home button, 1 USB C Storage tops out at 1TB, 8 core A12X Bionic processor (same as new phones). Claim 92% faster than […]

OnePlus 6T to Have Teardrop Notch & Remove Headphone Jack

The Oneplus 6T: Carl Pei also confirmed:

Synaptic’s 2nd Gen Underscreen Fingerprint reader

1st gen released at CES in January.

3rd gen confirmed in Samsung’s S10 – Ultrasound.

Used when finger is wet.

More secure.

Poster for the OnePlus 6T shows the teardrop notch.

Smallest notch next to the Essential Phone.

Expandable Micro SD

German Retailer Otto had a short lived posting.

Carl Pei (Cofounder of OnePlus) confirmed the 6T will not have a headphone jack.

States that 59% of OnePlus customers already have wireless headphones.

Will have a dongle in the box.

Can buy USB C headphones.

Pros

More internal space.  Specifically used for battery.

Easier to make it waterproof.

Will we get a rating this time round?

Cons

People love their headphones – I have bose.

Can’t charge at the same time as using a dongle.

OnePlus copying Apple again (face unlock, notch, now no headphone jack)?

Will be released on T-Mobile’s 600 Megahertz spectrum.  Can be used unlocked on Verizon.

Rumored to cost $650 to $670

Tim Cook Wants Bloomberg to retract its Spy Chip Story

Bloomberg reported that China infiltrated hardware of Apple, Amazon and others in a mass surveillance campaign.  

Apple and Amazon denied the report.

Chinese spy chips were allegedly used to gather intellectual property and trade secrets.

Tim Cook says, “There is no truth in their story about Apple.  They need to do the right thing and retract it.”

Andy Jassy (head of Amazon Web services) agreed with Cook and also called for a retraction from Bloomberg.

More concerns grow over Chinese tech spying and stealing trade secrets.

Australia blocked chinese carriers from building their 5G network.

The US Government is also calling for a US built 5G network that would be “free of the possibility of overseas interference.”

 

Twitter fired spy for Saudi Arabia

Employee was spying on Twitter accounts critical of Saudi Government.

Fired in December 2015.

 

OnePlus 6T Launch Event moved to Oct 29 (from Oct 30)

OnePlus was originally going to launch the 6T on Oct 30.  

Late last week Apple announced they would be holding an iPad and Laptop event on Oct 30.  Even though there will be no iPhones released… Everyone watches Apple.

 

OnePlus to be among the first to launch a 5G phone.

Carl Pei made the announcement alonside Qualcomm at the 5G Summit in Hong Kong today.

The OnePlus 7 will feature Qualcomm’s x50 modem and QTM052 mmWave antenna.

According to Qualcomm at least 2 5G phones will be released next year.

 

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Transcript:

welcome to Tech time podcast episode 12

we’re back again and we have a lot of

things to talk about this week the first

thing we wanted to talk about is Tim

Cook once Bloomberg to retrac it’s spy

chip story so Matt a couple weeks ago we

talked a little bit about this Apple

OnePlus 6T to Have Teardrop Notch & Remove Headphone Jack The Oneplus 6T: Carl Pei also confirmed: Synaptic’s 2nd Gen Underscreen Fingerprint reader 1st gen released at CES in January. 3rd gen confirmed in Samsung’s S10 – Ultrasound. Used when finger is wet. More secure. Poster for the OnePlus 6T shows the teardrop notch. Smallest […]

Apple To Announce New iPads on October 30

* Apple will hold its next big product announcement in New York later this month, the company said today.

BuzzFeed News: It’s the first time Apple, which usually holds these events in the Bay Area, will roll out new devices in New York City. It’ll happen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on October 30.

The company is widely expected to refresh its iPad and possibly the MacBook Air lineups at the event.

iPad with smaller bezel, faceID (look more like an iPhone X)

Apps Installed On Millions Of Android Phones Tracked User Behavior To Execute A Multimillion Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme

* A new investigation uncovers a sophisticated ad fraud scheme involving more than 125 Android apps and websites, some of which were targeted at kids. None were installed on Apple hardware

Last April, Steven Schoen received an email from someone named Natalie Andrea who said she worked for a company called We Purchase Apps. She wanted to buy his Android app, Emoji Switcher.

But right away, something seemed off. “I did a little bit of digging because I was a little sketched out because I couldn’t really find even that the company existed,” Schoen told BuzzFeed News. The We Purchase Apps website listed a location in New York, but the address appeared to be a residence. “And their phone number was British. It was just all over the place,” Schoen said.

It was all a bit weird, but nothing indicated he was about to see his app end up in the hands of an organization responsible for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in ad fraud, and which has funneled money to a cabal of shell companies and people scattered across Israel, Serbia, Germany, Bulgaria, Malta, and elsewhere.

The Google Play store pages for these apps were soon changed to list four different companies as their developers, with addresses in Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Russia, giving the appearance that the apps now had different owners. But an investigation by BuzzFeed News reveals that these seemingly separate apps and companies are today part of a massive, sophisticated digital advertising fraud scheme involving more than 125 Android apps and websites connected to a network of front and shell companies in Cyprus, Malta, British Virgin Islands, Croatia, Bulgaria, and elsewhere.

More than a dozen of the affected apps are targeted at kids or teens, and a person involved in the scheme estimates it has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars from brands whose ads were shown to bots instead of actual humans.

This means a significant portion of the millions of Android phone owners who downloaded these apps were secretly tracked as they scrolled and clicked inside the application. By copying actual user behavior in the apps, the fraudsters were able to generate fake traffic that bypassed major fraud detection systems.

Silicon Valley’s Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits

* As the gig economy grows, the ratio of contract workers to regular employees in corporate America is shifting.

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Uber and other Silicon Valley tech titans now employ thousands of contract workers to do a host of functions — anything from sales...

Apple To Announce New iPads on October 30 Apple will hold its next big product announcement in New York later this month, the company said today. BuzzFeed News: It’s the first time Apple, which usually holds these events in the Bay Area, will roll out new devices in New York City. It’ll happen at the […]

Chinese Tech Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery

2 Slashdot / by msmash / 6 hours ago

Huawei’s new Mate 20 Pro has a massive screen,

three cameras on the back and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display.

From a report: The new top-end phone from the Chinese firm aims to secure its place at the top of the market alongside Samsung, having recently beaten Apple to become the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in August.

The Mate 20 Pro follows Huawei’s tried and trusted format for its Mate series: a huge 6.39in QHD+ OLED screen, big 4,200mAh battery and powerful new Huawei Kirin 980 processor — Huawei’s first to be produced at 7 nanometres, matching Apple’s latest A12 chip in the 2018 iPhones.

New for this year is an infrared 3D facial recognition system, similar to that used by Apple for its Face ID in the iPhone XS, and

one of the first fingerprint scanners embedded in the screen that is widely available in the UK, removing the need for a fingerprint scanner on the back or a chin on the front.

The Mate 20 Pro is water resistant to IP68 standards and has a sleek new design reminiscent of Samsung’s S-series phones, with curved glass on the front and back.

The back also has an new pattern etched into the glass, which is smooth to the touch but ridged when running your nail over it.

On the back is a new version of Huawei’s award-winning triple camera system using a 40-megapixel standard camera, an 8-megapixel telephoto camera with a 3x optical zoom and new for this year is a 20-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, replacing the monochrome sensor used on the P20 Pro.

The Mate 20 Pro runs EMUI 9, which is base

$1,214 USD.

 

Samsung Says Its Foldable Phone Will Be a Tablet You Can Put In Your Pocket

11 Slashdot / by BeauHD / 3 days ago

The CEO of Samsung’s mobile business, D.J. Koh, said you’ll be able to use its upcoming foldable smartphone as a tablet that you can put in your pocket. While the phone has been teased and hyped up for several months, Koh stressed that it will not be a “gimmick product” that will “disappear after six to nine months after it’s delivered.” It’ll reportedly be available globally. CNET reports: However, the foldable Samsung phone, like the Galaxy Round, will be Samsung’s testbed device to see how reviewers and the market react. The Galaxy Round, which bowed vertically in the middle, was Samsung’s first curve-screen phone. It’s a direct ancestor to the dual curved screens we see on today’s Galaxy S9 and Note 9 phones. The larger screen is important, Koh said. When Samsung first released the original Galaxy Note, he said, competitors called its device dead on arrival. Now, after generations of Notes phones, you see larger devices like the iPhone XS Max and the Pixel 3 XL, proving that consumers want bigger screens. A foldable phone would let screen sizes extend beyond 6.5 inches.

Read more of this story at Slashd

 

Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder dead at 65

Paul Allen died today at 65 from cancer.  He is best known for his partnering with Bill Gates to found Microsoft.

Paul Allen and Bill Gates met in Private School and would later drop out of college to pursue their High School software dreams.

Bill Gates stated that “Personal Computing would not have existed without Paul Allen.”

Paul Allen left Microsoft in the 80’s (before the 90’s boom) but not before he became a billionaire.  He owned the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks.

He also founded Vlucan; an investment firm for his philanthropy.  He also founded the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the aerospace firm S...

Chinese Tech Phone Maker Huawei Launches Mate 20 Pro Featuring In-Screen Fingerprint Sensor, Two-Way Wireless Charging, 3 Rear Cameras and 4,200mAh Battery2 Slashdot / by msmash / 6 hours ago Huawei’s new Mate 20 Pro has a massive screen, three cameras on the back and a fingerprint scanner embedded in the display. From a report: … Continue reading "Tech Time Podcast 10 – Huawei Mate 20, Samsung Foldable Phone and Paul Allen’s Passing"

Google Event 2018: Pixel 3 Pixel 3 XL Google Home Hub Pixel Slate

Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL – Exactly what we thought it would be.

Starts at $799 – $999 (128gb XL).

XL = 6.3” QHD+ Flexible OLED at 523ppi, Notch!, 40% louder speakers.

Finally –  Wireless charging and IPX8 Dust & Water Resistant (Pixel 2 IPX6).

Single camera on Back, Two Selfie Cameras. = All about AI!

Top Shot – Takes multiple pictures – AI to pick the best.  You can scroll through too.

High Rez Digital Zoom. – Uses AI to increase the Pixels using the wavering of your hand when you take a picture.  Let’s see!

Night Shot – Said, “Don’t use your flash again”.  AI – Multiple layers and apertures to get amazing color in the dark.  Let’s see!

Moving Focus – AI identifies people/pets and keeps the focus when it’s moving.

Wide Selfie – Two front facing cameras to create an extra wide image for lots of people in the selfie.

Screen Call – Google Assistant, will answer and you can read the text as the person replies, “This is your captain speaking”.

Home Hub – Screen to Google Home

7” Screen. BT 5.0,  Should have good sound.  

$150 – Cheaper than Amazon Show.

Can’t adjust the angle.

No camera – I want one.  Many freak out.

Pixel Slate

Chromebook/Tablet – Definitely competing with the iPad Pro.

Decent camera on the back (not sure if it gets all the AI of Pixel 3).

Folio – Magnetic keyboard, silent type, full trackpad + Cover.  Optional Pen.

$799 (Slate) + $199 (folio Keyboard) + $99 (Pen) = $1k (Surface Price).

I would rather have a full Windows Laptop (Surface Pro 6) for that price ($899 + $99 keyboard).

Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA’s ‘Lowest Probability’ of Injury Ever

In a blog post on Monday, Tesla said that the Model 3 has been deemed to have the lowest probability of occupant injury than any vehicle ever tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Drive reports: Since 1979, the regulatory body has implemented the New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) which, through a series of tests, ultimately produces a rating for a new-to-market vehicle based on how well it performs in a variety of safety-related tests. Over time the test has evolved to assess the injury to occupants based on data gathered for front, side, and rollover crashes. During the NHTSA’s previous tests of Tesla vehicles, the Model S and Model X, respectively, became the two vehicles with the lowest probability for injury, outpacing all other automakers. The Model 3 has now widened that gap as it takes the new number-one position on the leaderboard for the safest overall vehicle for occupants. The California-based auto manufacturer acknowledges the car’s low center of gravity as a major factor in its gracious performance in rollover tests. Similar to The Model 3 places its heaviest component, the battery pack, into the floor, so this helps improve the overall stability and rigidity of the car, making it perform excellently in rollover crashes. Additionally, the automaker gives a subtle nod to its engineering team for their design of the vehicle’s crumple zones. Working in conjunction with airbags placed in the front of the vehicle and at the occupant’s knees, the Model 3 was able to safely control the deceleration of passengers in frontal crash tests.

Google Event 2018: Pixel 3 Pixel 3 XL Google Home Hub Pixel Slate Pixel 3 & Pixel 3 XL – Exactly what we thought it would be. Starts at $799 – $999 (128gb XL). XL = 6.3” QHD+ Flexible OLED at 523ppi, Notch!, 40% louder speakers. Finally –  Wireless charging and IPX8 Dust & Water … Continue reading "Tech Time Podcast 9 – Google Pixel 3 XL Home Hub and Pixel Slate"

Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Tech Hack

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/09/28/233249/facebook-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-massive-new-hack

* hacker exploited a security flaw in a popular feature of Facebook to steal account credentials of as many as 50 million users.

* a class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of one California resident, Carla Echavarria, and one Virginia resident, Derick Walker. “Both allege that Facebook’s lack of proper security has exposed them and additional potential class members to a significantly increased chance of identity theft as a result of the breach,” reports The Verge.

* From the report:The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges Facebook is guilty of unlawful business practices, deceit by concealment, negligence, and violations of California’s Customer Records Act.

* The plaintiffs want statutory damages and penalties awarded to them and other class members, as well as the providing of credit monitoring services, punitive damages, and the coverage of attorneys’ fees and expenses.

FBI Forced Suspect To Unlock His iPhone X Through Face ID

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/18/10/01/1438241/fbi-forced-suspect-to-unlock-his-iphone-x-through-face-id

* In what may be a world first, the FBI has forced a suspect to unlock his iPhone X using Apple’s Face ID feature.

* Agents in Columbus, Ohio entered the home of 28-year-old Grant Michalski, who was suspected of child abuse, according to court documents spotted by Forbes.

* With a search warrant in hand, they forced him to put his face on front of the device to unlock it. They were then able to freely search for his photos, chats and any other potential evidence. The FBI started investigating Michalski after discovering his ad on Craigslist titled “taboo.”

Swiss Chalet, Harvey’s, other big chains hit by ‘malware outbreak’

Recipes Unlimited – owns many large canadian restaurants (1,400 locations; Swiss Chalet, Harveys, Milestones, Montanas, East Side Mario’s…) were hit with malwear on Friday.

* The restuarants cannot accept credit or debit (cash only).

Many restaurants are closed a few have remained open but with limited services.

* Can/will malware cause bigger issues in the future?

Here’s every new Android phone being announced in October — it’s going to be a busy month

Oct 3 – LG V40 THINQ, NYC & Seoul Korea.

Small notch and Boom Box speaker.

Oct 4 – Nokia 7.1 Plus, London

Oct 9 – Google Pixel 3, XL & mystery phone? NYC

Oct 10 – Razer Phone 2, Hollywood

Made for gaming.

Oct 11 – Samsung Mystery Phone

4 cameras?

Oct 16 – Huawei Mate 20 & Mate 20 Pro

Water drop notch; In-display fingerprint sensor, triple camera setup.

Oct 17 – OnePlus 6T

Water drop notch, in-display fingerprint sensor, T-Mobile

Google reportedly pays Apple $9 billion per year to stay the default search engine in Safari on iOS

Rod Hall @ Business Insider estimates $9B for 2018 and up to $12B for 2019.

Is this worth it?

Siri already uses Bing when it searches the web.

How would Apple users feel if they get Bing results? Is Google still King?

Some iPhone XS Owners Await Charging Issue Fix in iOS 12

* Some shiny new XS and XS Max phones won’t charge when the screen is off. It only resumes when the screen is tapped awake.

* People have woken up to an uncharged phone after having their phones plugged i...