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TvOS 11.2.5 Beta 6 Now Rolling Out

January 19, 2018

The iOS 11.2.5 beta 6 apparently fixes a recently discovered bug in iOS which would freeze the messages application on your iPhone and iPad when you were sent a specific link.

Pacquiao says in talks to fight Lomachenko

January 19, 2018

Legendary Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao is interested in fighting with the Ukrainian WBO champion in the second Featherweight Vasyl Lomachenko . Pacquiao aides told AFP there has been no agreement on the venue and the actual date of the Lomachenko fight.

Bulls' Kris Dunn Dislocates His Teeth On Gruesome Post-Dunk Fall

January 19, 2018

According to the Bulls , Dunn dislocated his two front teeth during the impact and cracked multiple teeth. With less than three minutes left in the game, the Bulls point guard snatched the ball from Klay Thompson to dunk the ball. He apparently didn't lose any in the process and at the same time managed to take a chunk of the wood flooring with him. He is scheduled to be re-evaluated tomorrow.

Apple rejects iPhone app created to detect net neutrality violations

January 19, 2018

Most markets worldwide showed that mobile users spend more time browsing apps than the mobile web, App Annie said. So let's dive in to see some more details on the revamped App Store web and how it features resemblance with its iOS counterpart.

Discovery Communications (DISCK) Downgraded by ValuEngine

January 19, 2018

The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.56, a current ratio of 5.87 and a quick ratio of 5.87. The company's P/E (price to earnings) ratio is 12.31 and Forward P/E ratio of 10.45. The disclosure for this purchase can be found here. The company's past year sales total was 1.67 Million. A move above 70 is widely considered to show the stock as overbought, and a move below 30 would indicate that the stock may be oversold.

Sarvikas: "Please expect it [MWC 2018] to be awesome" for Nokia phones!

January 19, 2018

There has been speculation of four upcoming Nokia smartphones that could make an appearance at the show. The deal allowed the Finnish company to sell Nokia-branded mobile devices and continue paying royalties to Nokia Technologies. If we talk about Nokia 1 specifications, the phone will have 720p IPS screen, 1GB of RAM and 8GB storage. The company asked the media to "join us at the Home of Nokia phones for an intimate and exclusive unveiling of the next chapter of our story".

IBM reports first revenue growth in 5 years

January 19, 2018

The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are $5.17 in EPS and $22.05 billion in revenue. SHARE REACTION: In post-market trading, shares fell 4.2%. Growth in the quarter was largely organic, Schroeter said, adding "in 2018, we'll maintain a high level of investment". "Stabilization driven by the continued improvement in our cloud business will start in the first quarter".

Nintendo Switch outsells Competition in December

January 19, 2018

The Nintendo 3DS system posted its best sales month since December 2014, climbing the ranks despite the popularity of the Nintendo Switch . While this is to be expected for the Switch since it has a lot of hype behind it, this performance is still impressive because there weren't really any holiday deals on the Switch to stimulate sales.

US Air Force to launch new missile-warning satellite Thursday night

January 19, 2018

The $1.2 billion SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite aboard the Atlas 5 rocket will finish the initial deployment of the Air Force's new-generation missile-warning network. A blast of cold air is not expected to stop an Atlas V rocket launch from the Space Coast Thursday night. "SBIRS provides our military with timely, reliable and accurate missile warning and infrared surveillance information", Tom McCormick, vice president of Lockheed Martin's Overhead Persistent Infrared systems mission ...

Twitch Lands High Profile Streamers In Disney Deal

January 19, 2018

Disney's aim is similar, as it is looking to extend the confines of its YouTube content into other platforms. The new features will also allow creators to schedule reruns of a video giving viewers another chance to watch. If you hypothetically wanted to watch Markiplier's next broadcast, he could set up a countdown page to let subscribers and viewers know when he planned to return.

Google's Art App Tops Charts Despite Limited Availability

January 19, 2018

The fascial match results provided by the app may vary depending on the different hairstyles and if you have the glasses on. A large number of users reported that the app is NOT an all-inclusive platform as it only uses popular art from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Tesla (TSLA) Stock Rating Lowered by Vetr

January 18, 2018

It has outperformed by 0.16% the S&P500. Edgar Lomax Co decreased Boeing (BA) stake by 8.05% reported in 2017Q3 SEC filing. (NASDAQ: TSLA ). Raymond James & accumulated 64,080 shares or 0.04% of the stock. (NASDAQ:HAS) was sold by HASSENFELD ALAN G. On Thursday, August 31 the insider Frascotti John sold $2.22M. Tesla, Inc . (NASDAQ: TSLA)'s short interest is 30.43 million shares, or 25.49% of the float.

2017 was world's second-hottest year, federal scientists say

January 18, 2018

The two government agencies use different methodologies to calculate global temperatures, but by either standard, the 2017 results make the past four years the hottest period in their 138-year archive. WMO consolidation of @NASA, @ NOAA , @metoffice @ECMWF , JMA datasets confirms 2017 as warmest year on record without #ElNiño . NASA said the global temperature was 1.62 degrees above the 1951-1980 average.

Meet The "chaiOS" Bug That Can Freeze Your iPhone With A Link

January 18, 2018

Until Apple releases a fix, users will simply have to hope their friends are nice people. Once the victim clicks on the malicious link, the app gets bombarded by an overload of coding, causing it to crash indefinitely. Despite this action, Masri maintains that users might not be safe from the link as anyone can access his GitHub account and possibly disseminate it. If you have recently received a text message with a link from an unknown person, be extremely careful before opening it.

Huawei phones will use Android Messages by default

January 18, 2018

As anticipated in the months to come, the global leader in carrier network technology, Huawei announced today that it will partner with Google to enable increased ease in mobile messaging for its huge global user base by strategically incorporating Android Messages (powered by RCS ) in its Android smartphone.

Tide Pod challenge: YouTube clamps down on 'dangerous' detergent dare

January 18, 2018

The streaming site said it will remove any of those videos when they are flagged. Subscribe to Brainstorm Health Daily , our newsletter about the most exciting health innovations. The video was posted to Twitter on January 12 and has received more than 60,000 retweets and 125,000 likes. Statistically, the number of recent deaths attributed to Tide pod ingestion has yet to be given, but Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), there were eight deaths related to laundry detergent ...

Sentiment Report: Echostar Corp (NASDAQ:SATS)

January 18, 2018

Oldfield Partners Llp who had been investing in Ternium Sa for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $6.79 billion market cap company. It has outperformed by 0.31% the S&P500. As per Thursday, June 1, the company rating was maintained by Jefferies. The firm earned "Sell" rating on Monday, May 29 by ValuEngine. The rating was upgraded by BMO Capital Markets on Friday, April 29 to "Outperform".

Tecno Camon i smartphone with 13MP selfie camera launched at Rs 8999

January 18, 2018

Tecno Camon i will be available in Champagne Gold, Midnight Black, and City Blue colour options. Specifications The USP of Tecno Camon i is its camera capabilities. The rear camera with 4X flash is optimized with Night Shot Algorithm to images brighter in low light. The phone has already been launched in Nigeria and Africa.

Nintendo Releasing Interactive DIY Cardboard Games For Switch

January 18, 2018

With each Nintendo Labo kit, kids can transform modular sheets of cardboard - specially created to interact with the Nintendo Switch console and Joy-Con controllers - into creations called Toy-Con. What do you get in each Nintendo Labo pack? The other is the Robot Kit which will turn you and your switch into a mecha warrior. The more advanced Nintendo Labo robot kit costs £69.99.

Here are the specifications of recently launched Honor 9Lite

January 18, 2018

Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Consumer Business Group, Honor India, told reporters here. The phone offers dual-SIM functionality to use multiple SIM cards together. The handset comes with Android 7.0 and EMUI 5.1. The dimensions of the phone are 151x71.9x7.6 millimeters and weighing 149 grams. The phone is available in Sapphire Blue, Midnight Black, and Glacial Grey color variants.

Lonely black hole hiding in giant star cluster identified

January 18, 2018

Sills, who was not part of the research, said she's happy that the discovery is another piece that will teach them more about globular clusters and their evolution, particularly about how some black holes manage to avoid being kicked out of globular clusters.

Xiaomi Mi 7 could be unveiled at MWC 2018

January 18, 2018

Xiaomi launched Mi Max 2 in India past year for Rs 16,999 with a huge 5300mAh battery and a massive 6.44-inch Full HD display. Some details regarding the specs and features of the smartphone have also popped up online. The report further says that the Mi Max 3 will be powered by Snapdragon 660 SoC and not the Snapdragon 635 which was reported in the earlier leak.

Phil Spencer Talks About Xbox E3 2018 Line-up, Will See "Positive Changes"

January 18, 2018

Spencer will be looking after Microsoft's topline strategy for the games, with Booty handling publishings strategy, with all studio heads reporting to him. "This is an incredible privilege and honor, to step into this role", Booty told VentureBeat . "With that, I made the decision that I wanted to anoint a leader of our Microsoft Studios organization, which if you've tracked it, I've had the leaders of our individual franchises reporting to me for the last three and a half years".

H&M tries to repair ad fallout with new diversity role

January 18, 2018

H&M was criticized for letting a black boy model wear a hoodie that read, 'Coolest Monkey in the Jungle '. In an email to The Associated Press on Wednesday, the retailer said Global Manager for Employee Relations Annie Wu , a company veteran, would be the new global leader for diversity and inclusiveness.

Twitter may alert users exposed to Russian propaganda

January 18, 2018

The initiative follows Facebook's move, announced a year ago, to create an online tool for people to learn whether they liked or followed Facebook and Instagram accounts generated by a Russian troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA).

Big 'potentially hazardous' asteroid to hurtle past Earth

January 18, 2018

At a distance of around 2,615,128 miles (4,208,641km) away - which is relatively close in space terms, asteroid named 2002 AJ129 will past our planet. Although scientists are confident that the flyby won't result in any impact, any object the size of AJ129 that strike Earth could have devastating consequences.

Maisie Williams nervous about Game of Thrones ending

January 18, 2018

The -year-old actor, who will next be seen in the film Early Man , said the end of the hit HBO series will take away her "safety blanket" but she is game for newer challenges. It was a mixed reaction for sure. She confessed: "There was a mixed reaction for sure, but when I was younger it was very odd because I had a job and I was working when I was very young".

3 things you need to know about Apple's $38bn United States tax payment

January 18, 2018

Apple had to build the facility to quality for all its $89 million in tax abatements negotiated with state and local governments. Initial plans for the Reno data center began all the way back in 2012 . Planned capital expenditures in the U.S., investments in American manufacturing over five years and tax payment upon repatriation of overseas profits will account for approximately $75 billion of Apple's direct contribution.

Mustang Shelby GT500 will have a 700-plus horsepower: Ford

January 18, 2018

Although specially tuned versions of rival cars have been offered since with more horsepower than the Dodge Hellcats can boast, nobody has yet come up with a straight production model to rival them. Spy photos have surfaced on what many believe is the Shelby supercharger, showing a design that differs from past Eaton/Ford setups. That vehicle sports a non-insignificant 526 horsepower, but the GT500 looks to bring even more to the table when we officially see it in 2019.

Motorola Moto Z3 specs

January 18, 2018

Furthermore, the Moto X5 is expected to come with a 5.9 Inch display with 2,160×1,080 Pixels of screen resolution. Hence, it is speculated that the Moto G6 , Moto G6 Plus and Moto G6 Play will be officially announced at MWC 2018 that will be held in February end at Barcelona, Spain.

Apple Employees Get $2500 Bonuses In Stock Following New Tax Law

January 18, 2018

It's unclear how many Apple (aapl) employees will receive the bonus, but the report said it would be given to "most employees worldwide". The company has more than 120,000 employees, including those at its retail stores. The move comes on the same day Apple said it would bring back most of its cash from overseas and spend $30 billion in the USA over the next five years, funding an additional technical support campus, data centers and 20,000 new employees.

Apple employee commuter buses reportedly attacked near SF

January 18, 2018

The first window was shattered on the evening of Friday 12 January, as the shuttle bus travelled from the company campus back into San Francisco. The rocks or shots only took out the outer layer of the buses' double pane windows and no one was hurt.

Amaysim works with Melbourne AWS partner DiUS for Amazon Alexa launch

January 18, 2018

The Echo ($179) is the standard unit, while the Dot ($89) has all the smarts but no speaker and is created to be connected to one. With Amazon's announcement early this morning of the availability of it's Echo range of devices which are powered by their Alexa AI Voice assistant there's a rush on announcements following that from Aussie brands keen to be seen as part of this new revolution.

Metal Gear Survive Features Always Online DRM, Microtransactions

January 18, 2018

Metal Gear Survive appears to continue the story of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and pits the player against creatures (zombies?) from another dimension. Metal Gear Survive is set in an alternate timeline to the rest of the series - quite literally as a wormhole is responsible for the soldiers stuck in an alternate universe - which is used to justify the creatures and survival-style gameplay.

Memories of 2012 give Man United Premier League title hope - Jones

January 18, 2018

Otamendi, who has made 120 appearances in all competitions for City since joining from Valencia for £33m in the summer of 2015, had previously been signed at the Etihad until 2020. " And I'm really happy to have extended my stay here by a couple more years ." . "The players keep learning day by day and I try to be a better player after every single game".

Digging Into The Data: ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET)

January 18, 2018

The most optimistic analyst sees the stock reaching $2.5 while the most conventional predicts the target price at $2.5. The Charles Schwab Corporation has distance from 20-day Simple Moving Average (SMA20) of 6.65%, Distance from 50-Day Simple Moving Average of SMA50 percent and Distance from 200-Day Simple Moving Average of 28.22%.

Page speed will soon affect Google Search results on mobile

January 17, 2018

This Speed Update , however, is unrelated to whether the site contains the same info as desktop, nor is it related to any requirements surrounding AMP usage. Meanwhile, Google will sometimes prioritize the intents of search queries so slow pages "may still rank highly if it has great, relevant content". This will affect a small percentage of queries.

Apple to Pay $38 Billion In Repatriation Tax; Plans New US Campus

January 17, 2018

The company's latest press release details almost $55 billion will be spent in 2018 in the United States, while overall $350 billion over the next half decade. The announcement of a new campus was only a small portion of the overall press release, which presented several financial details regarding Apple's five year plan for economic contribution.

Google Pitches AI Image-Detection Tool to Lure Cloud Customers

January 17, 2018

Increased accuracy: Cloud AutoML Vision is built on Google's leading image recognition approaches, including transfer learning and neural architecture search technologies . The announcement marks the latest step in the search giant's ongoing quest to democratise AI and machine learning technologies , so more enterprises can tap into the benefits of using them .

Camila Cabello's debut album 'Camila' breaks iTunes record

January 17, 2018

Speaking to Zane Lowe during an interview for Beats 1 Radio, she said: "Oh my god, I want to work with them so bad". The former Fifth Harmony star was the main entertainer at this "nightclub" and the " Havana " performance saw her from getting ready at her dressing room to annihilating her crowd with her sensuality and vocals on the main stage.

First Million HomePods Roll Off Inventec Assembly Line

January 17, 2018

Inventec has started shipping an initial batch of 1 million units, says an anonymous insider source. Apple has provided only an "available early 2018 " timeframe for the HomePod's release in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

Fortnite Surpasses 40 Million Downloads Across All Platforms

January 17, 2018

With even more to explore, the inside look at the updates coming to the map look fresh and are the flawless way to keep gameplay interesting! However, Epic Games didn't make it it clear how many of those downloads are for the paid Save The World version of Fortnite , which sees players teaming up with other survivors to fight against the undead, or how many are for its free Battle Royale mode.

Saints loss gives 49ers clarity on positioning in National Football League draft

January 17, 2018

Its own second rounder (No. 43 overall) was part of the deal with the New England Patriots for quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. Free agency will have plenty of impact on the draft but general manager Chris Ballard has expressed his affinity for building through the draft .

Tencent helped the Chinese police arrest 120 PUBG cheat-makers

January 17, 2018

It seems some of that fat is being trimmed off in the latest PUBG update however, as a Type-B preset seeks to evolve the game further. Pistols have been removed from Y button's weapon rotation and grouped with the melee weapon. The patch has reportedly done away with this issue. Following up on the December 1.0 update , PC 1.0 Update #2 notes are brief and list just three changes.

Medicaid Work Requirements Could Leave Utahns Without Coverage

January 17, 2018

Whether that's a commonsense approach or an added burden that will end up costing many Americans their health insurance will now be debated in states across the country considering the landmark change to the nation's largest health insurance program.

Just 4% of business mobile devices are safe from Meltdown and Spectre

January 17, 2018

Payments security experts are warning of the risks to some merchants with payment systems that transmit cardholder data from the processor back to the point of sale from the Spectre and Meltdown computer chip flaws. Both leave devices vulnerable to hackers. However, since the vulnerabilities were discovered by security researchers, there is no clear indication of any exploitation so far.

Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition coming in March

January 17, 2018

It will also feature a brand-new dungeon - Insomnia City Ruins: Expanded Map - and a new version of the Armiger weapon that is described as being more "action-oriented". Yesterday, Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy XV Royal Edition for PS4 and Xbox One . The Windows Edition will feature the base game and over 20 game add-ons / DLC (downloadable content).

Microsoft brings 15-inch Surface Book 2 to 17 more countries

January 17, 2018

For those of you who have been waiting for Surface Book 2 to come to your market, the wait is over. Customers in the following markets can pre-order the Surface Book 2 15-inch starting today . The 15-inch model comes with Nvidia's GTX 1060 graphics card, making it capable of running some of the latest games. The laptop is a 2-in-1 meaning it can also be used as a tablet with the help of the touchscreen display.

Blizzard World Map Opens in Overwatch on January 23

January 17, 2018

Overwatch is available in Windows PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The map hit the Overwatch PTR shortly after, and it's been in testing ever since. Game director Jeff Kaplan said a week ago he predicted balance changes would come a little after this patch. Overwatch League also marks the game's official entry into the eSports league bringing it on par with Dota 2, League of Legends and Counter Strike Global Offensive.

Smartphone Meizu M6S can get a built-in screen dactyloscopy

January 17, 2018

At CES 2018, the company Vivo introduced the world's first smartphone with a fingerprint scanner built directly into the screen. The handset comes with 3GB of RAM and a choice of 32GB or 64GB of included storage, the device also comes with a 3000 mAh battery and high end cameras on the front and back.

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