Samsung Galaxy Wide5 unveiled with a Dimensity 700 and 64MP camera
The Samsung Galaxy Wide5 was just unveiled in South Korea for carrier SK Telecom. From what we’ve seen in Bluetooth certifications, this model will be variously known as the Galaxy F42 5G, Galaxy Buddy or Galaxy Wide5 in different countries, so you can read on even if you are not an SK subscriber (though these other variants aren’t official yet).
As we’ve suspected, this phone is related to the Galaxy A22 5G, but it is not a 1-to-1 copy. It is still powered by the Dimensity 700, which is pretty telling – this 7 nm chip has been used by Samsung only for the A22 5G. It has two Cortex-A76 cores, a Mali-G57 MC2 GPU and a 2.77 Gbps 5G modem (sub-6), plus Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.1 support.
Read More at Gsmarena
Apple says you should keep your iPhone camera away from motorcycle engines
This has gotta be one of the weirdest ways you can ruin an iPhone camera.
Apple posted a new page to its support website warning iPhone owners to be careful about exposing their phones to the specific vibration frequencies found in “high-power or high-volume motorcycle engine.” News of the support page first popped up in a report from MacRumors.
Apparently, operating these phones too close to those engines can fry the cameras in iPhones with optical image stabilization (OIS) or closed-loop autofocus (AF) technology. Every iPhone from the 7 onward has at least one of those things inside it, so if you’ve bought an iPhone in the past four or five years, it could potentially be at risk.
Read More at Mashable
TCL backs out of 2021 foldable release, shows off cost-conscious ‘Chicago’ design [Video]
Samsung’s latest foldables prove that the technology is ready for mainstream users, but Samsung is the only major player at the moment. TCL has long been teasing foldable devices, and while it’s not coming to market, the company is today showing off “Chicago,” which would have been the most affordable foldable ever.
“Chicago” is the codename for TCL’s first foldable phone, which, unfortunately, has been postponed indefinitely. At the very least, it won’t go on sale this year as TCL had previously promised.
Read More at 9to5Google
The Samsung Galaxy Note 22 might not be canceled after all
Are we or aren’t we getting a Samsung Galaxy Note 22 in 2022? With the cancelation of the Galaxy Note 21, we’re not sure if Samsung is bringing back its high-end, stylus-equipped flagship smartphone next year – but the latest evidence suggests that there’s still hope.
That evidence is a tweet from reliable tipster Ice Universe, who says that a supply chain source has seen “evidence of the existence” of the Galaxy Note 22. It’s not conclusive as far as evidence goes, but at the moment we’ll take it.
At the moment we don’t have much more to report on the Galaxy Note 22 – that’s not surprising, considering we’re only a month on from August, which is when the Note flagship phones typically see the light of day (so August 2022 is a potential launch window for the next one).
Read More at Techradar
WhatsApp will have end-to-end encrypted backups, Zuckerberg says
WhatsApp users on iOS and Android will soon be able to secure their backups to iCloud and Google Drive with end-to-end encryption, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Friday.
“WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post, “and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems.”
Read More at Mashable
Kuo: Apple Watch Series 8 to have body temperature sensors; new AirPods with health features
The Apple Watch 7 is around the corner, but we’ve already have some reports about features in next year’s iteration, the Apple Watch 8.
According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via Apple Insider), Apple plans to include a body temperature monitor in the next year’s Watch — a feature that sounds quite handy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The inclusion of a body temperature sensor wouldn’t feel out of place given Apple’s commitment to adding health-related features to the Watch. The current iteration of the wearable, the Apple Watch 6, has a heart rate sensor, a blood oxygen monitor, and a simple electrocardiogram.
Read More at Mashable
IBM Power10 Coming To Market: E1080 for ‘Frictionless Hybrid Cloud Experiences’
Last year IBM presented details about its new Power10 family of processors: eight threads per core, 15 cores per chip, and two chips per socket, with a new core microarchitecture, all built on Samsung’s 7nm process with EUV. New technologies such as PCIe 5.0 for add-in cards, PowerAXON for chip-to-chip interconnect, and OpenCAPI for super-wide memory support made Power10 sound like a beast, but the question was always about time to market – when could customers get one? Today IBM’s Power10 E1080 Servers are being announced, aimed squarely at the cloud market.
Read More at Anand Tech
Tesla rolls out Full Self Driving 10 beta with more confident decision making
If Tesla’s last big Full Self Driving beta was about enabling more semi-autonomous features off the highway, its newest release is focused more on helping you trust those features. Electrek notes Tesla has started rolling out a Full Self Driving 10 beta that, from early reports, appears to make smarter and more confident decisions off the highway. It won’t necessarily “blow your mind,” as Elon Musk claimed, but it appears to deliver smoother turns, roundabouts and merges. One driver found that it finally navigated San Francisco’s twisty Lombard Street without requiring intervention.
Users have also noticed improved visuals. You won’t always see as many stats as before, but they appear to be more accurate and stable without as much twitchiness. You’ll have a better idea of what the car is seeing, and possibly trust its decisions more as a result.
Read More at Engadget
Instagram working on new ‘Favorites’ feature to rank your close friends
Instagram is working on a new feature called “Favorites.” This one is being developed to work the same as a feature already available on Facebook that ranks people you want to see posts first on your timeline.
According to reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, posts from your favorites are shown higher in the feed. As for now, this “Favorites” feature will appear in the user’s settings with a tab with the same name. Then, users can choose how many followers they want to add to this section.
If it works the same way as Facebook’s, people will be able to designate up to 30 friends to the “Favorites” section.
While Instagram hasn’t yet added this feature, there are other tweaks that users can take advantage of to see their favorite followers first. For example, turning on notifications for some people is a great way to better rank a friend.
Read More at 9to5Mac
The Biggest DDoS Attack in History Hit Russian Tech Giant Yandex
The Russian tech giant Yandex said this week that in August and September it was hit with the internet’s largest-ever recorded distributed denial-of-service or DDoS attack. The flood of junk traffic, meant to overwhelm systems and take them down, peaked on September 5, but Yandex successfully defended against even that largest barrage. “Our experts did manage to repel a record attack of nearly 22 million requests per second,” the company said in a statement. “This is the biggest known attack in the history of the internet.”
From Wired
