Samsung may still be trying to make up for its debilitating hardware nightmare, but it has one distinct advantage: it’s launching its new flagship phone, the Galaxy S8, early enough in the year that it gets to help establish a new standard for what a 2017 premium smartphone should be. One analyst even went as far as calling yesterday’s S8 event the launch of the “smartphone innovation Super Cycle.” If you believe that to be true, then that means the features of the new phone are some of the most innovative and important ones to date.
Below are some of the key features of the Galaxy S8 phone that are likely to be the most talked-about, tested, and even copied over the next several months. We can’t say for sure whether these are the best features of the phone, because we haven’t had the chance to use it for an extended time period. But these are definitely the ones that make it stand out. Your move, Apple.
INFINITY DISPLAY
The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch display crammed into what feels like a normal-sized phone, with a barely-there bezel. That alone is a feat of engineering, but the phone is also a thing of beauty to look at. It has a clean, unbranded face; a bright, fluid-looking display; and a mirror-like glass back. So far, the one bad thing we’ve noted about the display is its bizarre aspect ratio, which might result in pillarboxed 16:9 videos. Otherwise, Samsung has pulled off an optical magic trick. By the way, if you still want an actual phablet: there’s a version with a 6.2-inch display, too.
FORCE TOUCH
Okay, Samsung isn’t calling it “Force Touch”; that’s Apple’s jam. But this new Galaxy S8 phone does incorporate a similar mechanism into the bottom half of it, which means that when you press on the (now entirely virtual) home button, it gives haptic feedback in response. Also! This phone doesn’t have a physical home button. It does have a fingerprint scanner, as well as face-scanning capabilities, which I’ll get to. The fingerprint scanner is now on the back of the phone, right next to the camera lens. It’s too soon to tell whether this placement is ill-advised.BETTER SELFIE CAMERA
Samsung was uncharacteristically... subdued when it came to the Galaxy S8’s photo-snapping capabilities, but that might be because the biggest change was made to the front-facing camera, not the rear camera. The selfie camera now captures 8-megapixel photos with an f/1.7 lens, and also has autofocus capabilities. In our brief tests of the front-facing camera, autofocus worked well and fast. Selfie lovers, you are welcome.
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plamer luckey have decide to leave facebook for a reason which we can tell ,well according toThe Verge. “Palmer’s legacy extends far beyond Oculus. His inventive spirit helped kickstart the modern VR revolution and helped build an industry. We’re thankful for everything he did for Oculus and VR, and we wish him all the best.” Facebook apparently did not confirm whether he had left voluntarily.The 24-year-old Luckey became a controversial figure after he reluctantly admitted to helping fund an internet trolling group supporting Donald Trump. Luckey apologized and has remained largely out of sight since then, although he testified in a lawsuit against Oculus by gaming company ZeniMax, which won a $50 million judgment against him. It’s unclear what Luckey’s role has been since Oculus reorganized late last year, but Oculus and Facebook insisted that Luckey was still with the company at that time. More recently, fellow co-founder Brendan Iribe said Luckey was “still working in an active capacity” on his team at Oculus. Apparently, that’s no longer true.
Apple released a big new update for iPhones and iPads on Monday, with nifty features like Find My AirPods and Siri improvements, but most people won't even notice the biggest change.
As part of the iOS 10.3 update, Apple changed a basic part of how every iPhone and iPad works — its file system, or, basically the way the computer stores data and knows where and how to find it.
With Monday's update, Apple updated iPhones and iPads to its new "Apple File System," upgrading from "HFS+," which was first developed over 30 years ago.
It was a smart move for the future. Apple File System "is optimized for Flash/SSD storage and features strong encryption ... and improved file system fundamentals" and should help iPhones and iPads run faster and more smoothly going forward.
But this was a risky move, too. Because a computer's file system is a fundamental part of the device, there was a chance if something went wrong, it could've deleted some people's files, as Business Insider previously reported.
The good news is that 12 hours after the update went out — and was downloaded by millions — there don't seem to be any major problems with the transition to AFS. That's a big achievement for the Apple employees working on it.
If something had gone wrong, Apple would've heard about it, and it could've been bad if people actually lost their files. The one complaint is that the update takes a long time to install, and that's most likely due to rewriting the entire file system.
Apple could've made a big deal about this achievement. I'm sure people at Microsoft and Google, which have to push similar major updates, took notice. But instead, it pulled it off without much fanfare, and most people won't even know their iPhones have changed in a big way.
Describe yourself in three sentences
I’m a Johannesburg-based illustrator and graphic designer. I am really passionate about the preservation of the South African aesthetic and I often do so using illustration and graphic design. I think I’m a little quirky, quite energetic and I just really have a passion for seeing design flourish in South Africa.
Who are some of the people/artists that influenced you?
Well, the first one I have to speak about is the founder of MaXhosa Knitwear. He’s just done incredible stuff; he’s done a lot of fashion shows that have been influenced by Xhosa patterns and it’s just gained international traction completely. I just love how he stayed close to South African heritage but has taken the approach of an authentic portrayal of it. He has managed to not exploit South Africa but just really celebrate the heritage that we have.
The second one might not be part of the graphic design industry and may seem a little bit strange for an answer, but it has to be my dad. He is a financial advisor but he’s got such great pioneering ideas and he’s been so open in helping me in this. He’s really taken the financial side that I don’t like dealing with and from a very traditional background found a way to make it relevant and he just encourages me a lot.
The third person has to be Micah Bakker, she was my illustration lecturer when I was studying at the Open Window. She basically taught me everything I know. She encouraged me to follow the preservation of the African aesthetic and, yeah, she trained me very well.
Why illustration?
That’s actually a funny question because I entered illustration accidentally. When I went to go study at the Open Window I knew nothing about design; I just knew it was this fascinating career that I wanted to learn more about. So when I was going in to my second year I had to choose a major; actually two majors and a few minors and I had photography in mind. That seemed like the direction I would have gone in. But my drawing lecturer suggested that I try illustration. Can you imagine going to a black parent and telling them you are doing illustration? In photography they at least have a frame of reference.
Illustration was a pretty new career back then and they just thought I was being a good candidate for it, so I decided to give it a shot – if it didn’t work out I would try something else. And then I ended up really enjoying it; really loving the fact that it was not defined. People had no idea what it was, so the people that kind of took illustration in those years got to define what it meant. And then to almost have an African perspective of it, I thought would be really great for our country – so almost sowing seeds in that sense. That was why I did it. There was a lot that was unknown about it and then to almost define the boundaries within a South African context sounded great.
How would you rate the quality of the local creative industry at the moment?
I think illustration in South Africa at the moment has just grown exponentially. Like I said in the previous answer, it’s been such a new industry. A lot of people have been more open to investing into it, so I think we are competing on a global scale like never before and unlike any other industry within our country. I’m just really excited to see where it is headed; it’s got a lot of potential.
We see you’re speaking at the 2017 Design Indaba because you have been pioneering in VR design. Tell us about that..
Currently I’m partnering with Daniel Ting Chong, a Cape Town-based illustrator, and him and I were approached by Nedbank to assist in their Reimagination project. Since Nedbank is redoing their branding and their overall approach to banking, they want to team up with young professionals who would be good ambassadors for what they are doing. But they wanted to do it in a way that it’s never been done before, that’s going to allude to how they are going to handle banking in a way that’s never been done before.
They brought in new technology which is virtual reality technology and a program called Google Tilt Brush is what’s going to be used. Currently at the Design Indaba, Daniel and I both have two big parts that were created where he and I created artwork using Virtual Reality. So we’ve painted and drawn and stitched together a bunch of pieces that convey Nedbank’s Reimagination project. My concept focuses on the reimagination of entrepreneurs and how they handle money and my most famous entrepreneurs have to be hair dressers, because visually speaking I think there’s so much potential – so many things I draw from. I’ve grown up with hair dressers because it’s just a rally great part of black history as well. So kind of showing that industry on a platform like virtual reality; something that hasn’t been done before and can speak towards it.
How does your faith influence your art?
It forms a pretty big part of my art because I really think you’re not dreaming big enough if you can remove God from an equation with anything that you do. The plans that I have aren’t feasible without God; He influences my entire journey, every step that I take. Even how I began with illustration was something that was like a God idea and not something that I thought of, so it’s pretty much everything.
What’s like to be a Christian in a creative industry?
It’s a little tricky in the sense that there aren’t a lot of Christians in a creative industry and people don’t often associate creativity with Christianity, but I think that puts Christians in creativity in a great position. Interesting conversations can arise from this. You almost kind of show people a different side of Christianity they never thought existed. It has its challenges, but I think they’re challenges that are needed and they spark conversations that are needed as well. I get excited by the challenges that it brings.
What have you been listening to lately and which is your favorite worship album at the moment?
Let there be Light has been life-changing. I listen to that album kind of back to back. Let there be Light and Behold are my favorite tracks on the album and I go through the two of them together.
Are there any other genres besides worship music that you generally listen to?
I absolutely love RnB, so I listen to Ella Mai a lot. Beyoncé, since I was little, has always been on the playlist. I listen to a lot of old stuff as well, so Boys to Men – classic.
What would you say has been your biggest achievements/moments to date?
What would you say has been your biggest achievements/moments to date?
My biggest achievement has to be winning a gold Loerie. As I entered the industry, one of the very first projects I did won me a gold Loerie and it accelerated things a little bit and it was almost like reassurance that “Okay, maybe I should be carrying on in this industry.”
What can we expect from Karabo creatively in the future?
This year I’m concentrating a lot more on exhibitions, but specifically travel exhibitions. I’m going to be launching Mother Tongue officially and it’s going to be a travelling exhibition through Johannesburg, Cape Town, Paris and New York.
What’s your advice for young and aspiring designers and creatives out there?
When I was in matric someone told me very good advice that I’ve stuck with through until this point. They said we live in this age where we find a lot of instant things. We find instant coffee – it’s maybe not that great, but you are able to get it at the moment that you want it. We have instant messaging, but there’s something that doesn’t exist with that form of instant gratification and that’s instant success. So I think that people shouldn’t be intimidated by the length success takes. It’s something that requires quite a lot of work as well and it’s just, we shouldn’t expect it to happen overnight. It’s not a bad thing to put in a lot of work, learn the journey as well, because as you tell your story, five or ten years from now no one is really going to feel inspired by someone that got everything right in their first year and has been a success ever since. But the journey is also good – not just for yourself, but the people that you are going to be inspiring that are coming after you.
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wow i just can't believe this,scientist has it the jack pot once again,however they have gone so far to understand the female reproductive system and study it more often than being. Researchers have developed an organ on a chip that models a woman's entire reproductive system, including menstruation and hormone-induced responses. It clearly doesn't look like the real thing (see above), but numerous key behaviors are present.
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A group of scientists from Boston University have explore to hack into mammalian cells -- human cells, even -- and make them follow logical instructions like computers can. While they're not the first researchers to program cells to do their bidding, previous successful studies mostly used "Escherichia coli" which are much easier to manipulate. These researchers were able to program human kidney cells into obeying 109 different sets of instructions, including responding to particular environmental conditions and following specific directions.for more click here
Today the world is experiencing the highest levels of displacement ever recorded. UNHCR estimates that 24 people were forced to flee their homes each minute in 2015, four times more than a decade ago. One out of every 113 people on Earth has been displaced due to conflict or persecution, and 51 per cent of the world’s refugees are children, many of whom have been separated from their parents or are travelling alone.
A mobile device is often one of the few possessions taken by people forced to leave their homes, and in many instances displaced people have access to a smartphone.
Increasingly, mobile technology can provide a lifeline to education binging learning to people where they are, preparing them for work, easing their integration into new communities, firing their imaginations, building resilience and illuminating routes from an uncertain present to more promising futures.
Watching the new president, I'm struck by the fact that he is making almost the identical mistake President Obama made during his first two years. Trump has picked a major entitlement to hang his hat on -- the same major entitlement, healthcare -- and shortly will discover what most CIOs know: You don't mess with anything that touches everybody.
The likely outcome will be that like Obama, Trump will lose the house in the next election, and that the Republicans will be forced out of power over the next four to eight years, all for an avoidable, repeated mistake.
Interestingly, tech has products -- Watson, for example -- that not only could prevent this but also could ensure the success of any administration that chose to use them. By success, I mean success in war, success in peace, success in approval ratings, and success in economic achievement.
However, Watson can't help President Trump for much the same reason it can't help CEOs in general. I'll share my thoughts on why, and why we should fix that, and close with my product of the week: the Ryzen 5, a new processor from AMD that hits the sweet spot for those of us who like to build gaming rigs on a budget.
Wrapping Up: Why Tech Can't Help
This takes me full circle, in that I don't think Donald Trump and most CEOs would want a tool that made them look like they needed it. Yes, it would make them far more successful. Yes, it would benefit their firm or country dramatically. Yes, it could make the difference between leaving as a success or as a failure. However, all of that pales against the unfortunate appearance of having to admit that the job is beyond them -- even though it simply is.
This is as foolish as someone who can't swim trying to impress a date by not wearing a life jacket on a boat. People make that kind of bad decision every day, and top executives are human. It makes me wonder if, at the top of a company or country, we should be tossing out the Watson augment strategy and just have it run the whole thing.
Unless something changes, I bet we eventually get there.