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Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra render leak suggests a Galaxy Note replacement

Galaxy S22 ultra render revealing the front and back of the smartphone.
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As we head towards 2022, a slew of smartphone launches awaits us. Ahead of the official unveiling, a number of leaks surrounding the next-gen OnePlus smartphones have already popped online. Now, it’s Samsung’s turn with the leak of a Galaxy S22 Ultra render. The takeaway from that one image is — it might be the next Galaxy Note replacement.

Popular tipster Evan Blass aka @EvLeaks uploaded a render of the upcoming Galaxy S22 Ultra on Twitter. The alleged render reveals the front and back sides of the device. According to the image, the upcoming Ultra smartphone will come equipped with curved edges — both front and back. It could result in a much more ergonomic fit in the hands. However, the flat corners might spoil the in-hand comfort that you’d get from a phone with curved corners.

From Digital Trends

OnePlus 10 Pro leak says it’ll arrive in under two weeks

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A new OnePlus 10 Pro leak has suggested the phone will be arriving in the first half of January 2022.

According to a leaked video posted to Chinese social networking website Weibo, the OnePlus 10 Pro is set to debut on January 11.

It’s unclear who has supplied this video, but the clip itself looks official and it matches with previous leaks we’ve seen of the handset. Nevertheless, take this leak with a pinch of salt as we can’t gurantee the source.

From Techradar

Samsung has quadrupled Galaxy foldable phone shipments in 2021

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The Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Galaxy Z Fold 3 have brought in more customers than the Galaxy Note 20 and the Galaxy S21. Samsung confirmed this little fun fact earlier today, but there’s more to share about the success story of the latest foldable devices.

Samsung claims to have shipped four times more foldable phones this year than in 2020, exceeding analyst expectations. Industry watchers estimated a three-fold growth rate for Samsung’s foldable shipments; however, they appear to have underestimated consumer interest in this emerging technology and the impact that the new-gen foldable phones will have. According to previous estimates, the Galaxy Z Flip 3 alone accounted for around 60% of all foldable phone shipments in Q3.

From Sammobile

Samsung teases Exynos 2200 with AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics coming January 11th

Samsung has started teasing its next flagship smartphone SoC — expected to be called the Exynos 2200 — ahead of a January 11th announcement with a tantalizing tidbit of information: the new chipset will feature a GPU powered by AMD’s RDNA 2 graphics architecture, better known for powering the next-gen graphics on the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and AMD’s RX 6000-series graphics cards.

From The Verge

Intel and Samsung’s new demo shows how blisteringly fast a PCIe 5.0 SSD setup will be

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PCIe 5.0 SSDs have already started to get announced ahead of CES 2022, with Samsung and Adata teasing early hardware that supports the new standard. But it’s not just theoretical: Intel has released a new demo video showing off Samsung’s new PM1743 PCIe NVMe SSD in action (together with Intel’s Core i9-12900K CPU, of course) to hit data speeds over 13GB/s in the real world.

To put that in perspective, the PlayStation 5 touts a PCIe Gen 4 SSD as one of its main selling points, with Sony arguing that the ultra-fast speeds on its solid-state drive enable the near-instant load times on its consoles. That drive tops out at about 5.5GB/s, or more than half of the speeds that the Intel / Samsung system can manage.

From The Verge

Telegram adds message reactions, bigger emoji animations, and more in latest update

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Starting with this latest update, Telegram users can send reactions that attach to specific messages instead of sending as their own messages. This feature, which has been widely adopted throughout other messaging clients, including iMessage, Discord, Slack, and others, works with six emojis currently, including thumbs up, thumbs down, heart, fire, party, and star-eyes. On iOS, you can customize this list to include several other options, but Android currently lacks that ability. There’s also a “default reaction” gesture that lets you double-tap a message to add a reaction, and this gesture can be customized too.

To add further flair to your conversations on Telegram, the app is also putting more emphasis on its animated emojis, which have been around for quite some time. The new animated emoji effects will be much larger and more intricate on the screen, but only in one-on-one chats.

Telegram is also rolling out support for “Spoiler Alert” messages that blur out selected portions of text until a user clicks on the option (we’ve opted not to include Telegram’s demo of this feature since it does, ironically, contain a legitimate spoiler).

Telegram is also adding in-app translation for messages. This feature works on all Android devices, but only iPhones running iOS 15 or higher. And lastly, users can create themed QR codes for their accounts.

From 9to5Google

Tesla recalls nearly a half a million vehicles over safety issues

Tesla is recalling nearly half a million Model 3 and Model S vehicles in the U.S. over safety issues related to the rearview camera and the trunk.

Specifically, 356,309 Tesla Model 3 electric cars (model years 2017 through 2020/production dates July 15, 2017 through September 30, 2020) have been recalled over a problem with the trunk harness coaxial cable that could wear away and cut the feed from the rearview camera to the center display.

“Over time, repeated opening and closing of the trunk lid may cause excessive wear to the coaxial cable,” a document posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says, adding that if the wear causes the core of the coaxial cable to separate, the rearview camera feed to the vehicle’s center display will stop working, increasing the risk of a collision.

From Digital Trends

Old BlackBerry phones will stop working from January 4

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Own an older BlackBerry phone? You will likely soon find your handset unusable as certain devices from the company won’t be able to make phone calls, send SMS messages and complete other functions from January 4.

BlackBerry has confirmed it is dropping support for BlackBerry OS devices, but this doesn’t impact more recent devices from the company that run Android software.

A statement from the company said, “The legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, will no longer be available after January 4, 2022.  

“As of this date, devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality.”

The last device to run this software was introduced in 2015, which was the BlackBerry Leap. This means anyone using these older devices will find their devices are at best unreliable, and at their worst they will be unusable as a mobile phone.

If you own a BlackBerry device running Android software, those will continue to get support.

The BlackBerry brand has now been sold to a company called Onward Mobility that has said it will continue to makes devices with the name. It has previously promised a 5G BlackBerry device in 2021, but it’s now thought that’ll be introduced in 2022.

From Techradar

A Robot for the Worst Job in the Warehouse

Boston Dynamics Handle 2 robot loads boxes on conveyor belt
Image: Boston Dynamics

AS COVID-19 stresses global supply chains, the logistics industry is looking to automation to help keep workers safe and boost their efficiency. But there are many warehouse operations that don’t lend themselves to traditional automation—namely, tasks where the inputs and outputs of a process aren’t always well defined and can’t be completely controlled. A new generation of robots with the intelligence and flexibility to handle the kind of variation that people take in stride is entering warehouse environments. A prime example is Stretch, a new robot from Boston Dynamics that can move heavy boxes where they need to go just as fast as an experienced warehouse worker.

Stretch’s design is somewhat of a departure from the humanoid and quadrupedal robots that Boston Dynamics is best known for, such as Atlas and Spot. With its single massive arm, a gripper packed with sensors and an array of suction cups, and an omnidirectional mobile base, Stretch can transfer boxes that weigh as much as 50 pounds (23 kilograms) from the back of a truck to a conveyor belt at a rate of 800 boxes per hour. An experienced human worker can move boxes at a similar rate, but not all day long, whereas Stretch can go for 16 hours before recharging. And this kind of work is punishing on the human body, especially when heavy boxes have to be moved from near a trailer’s ceiling or floor.

“Truck unloading is one of the hardest jobs in a warehouse, and that’s one of the reasons we’re starting there with Stretch,” says Kevin Blankespoor, senior vice president of warehouse robotics at Boston Dynamics. Blankespoor explains that Stretch isn’t meant to replace people entirely; the idea is that multiple Stretch robots could make a human worker an order of magnitude more efficient. “Typically, you’ll have two people unloading each truck. Where we want to get with Stretch is to have one person unloading four or five trucks at the same time, using Stretches as tools.”

All Stretch needs is to be shown the back of a trailer packed with boxes, and it’ll autonomously go to work, placing each box on a conveyor belt one by one until the trailer is empty. People are still there to make sure that everything goes smoothly, and they can step in if Stretch runs into something that it can’t handle, but their full-time job becomes robot supervision instead of lifting heavy boxes all day.

From Spectrum ieee

Scientists discovered a massive new world and they have no idea how it formed

Planets of the solar system
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The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope—yes, that’s actually the name—has discovered a brand-new world. The planet in question is located 325 light-years away from Earth, in the Centaurus constellation. The planet itself orbits b Centauri, a two-star system that you can often see with the naked eye. Scientists say that this star system is the hottest planet-hosting system that we know of. It is now known as b Centauri (AB)b, or b Centauri b. Additionally, scientists found that the new world orbits its star over 100 times the distance between Jupiter and the Sun.

From BGR

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