were you looking forward to buying a shiny new zte phone after zte phone
after the trump administration decided to let them off the hook for providing
us-made hardware to north korea and iran well
you might want temper your excitement a little bit as the u.s senate has
overwhelmingly voted to put the import ban on zte phones back in place by a
vote of 85 to i don't remember the last time this many senators agreed on
something since caesar was stabbed to death
anyway the ban still needs to be approved by
the house and while president trump could veto the bill remember that
two-thirds of congress can override a veto if you think back to high school
civics which might be likely if the senate vote is any indication the
senators that voted for the ban cited national security concerns over jobs as
their rationales but maybe it's all a conspiracy to increase apple's market
share one phone maker that probably won't be banned from us shelves anytime
soon though is samsung who is looking at implementing a sound emitting display
into their upcoming galaxy s10 instead
of speaker samsung wants to use small vibrations within the display itself to
create sound when a user presses the phone against his or her ear eliminating
the need for that top speaker the technician technic technology is also
coming to the vivo nex as phone makers are looking to pull as many tricks out
of their bags as possible to make their devices as bezel-free as possible and of
course avoid having to incorporate a controversial
notch not that controversial notch a previous
report indicated that the front of the galaxy s10 will be 93 screen so this
fancy speakerless design could go a long way toward making that a reality now if
only we could find a way to bury the selfie cam under the screen instead of
putting it on a very breakable looking
pop-up piece meanwhile NVIDIA is suddenly apparently
stuck with a bunch of excess product that
i hope they don't have to bury in the desert atari style a report from taiwan
indicates that a major as yet unidentified board partner has sent back
allegedly 300 000 gpus not because of any kind of
defect but simply because they had way too many of them the blame for the glut
of gpus is being placed on NVIDIA's overestimation of not only demand from
gamers but also on how long the GPU crypto mining rush would last and since
NVIDIA has a history of being stingy with how many gpus it hands out to board
partners this news is a pretty good indicator of just how badly NVIDIA may
have messed this one up with some speculating that this is part of the
reason that it's taking so long for us to see new team green graphics cards on
the market i wonder if they could just use all of those extra gpus to mine
themselves the revenue they lost now it's time for quick bits brought to
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below for all the details so ddos attacks are often carried out as
pranks but one arizona man has earned a 20-month prison stay for his trouble or
the trouble he caused as it were he was convicted of ddosing government
infrastructure in madison wisconsin including
dispatch uh i don't think it's just a prank bro
it's just a prank it's gonna smooth things over with someone who's waiting
impatiently for those heart-zapping paddles elsewhere in the city
speaking of death you wrote heart zapping paddles in there don't give me
crap about it speaking of death google's neural
networks are now able to predict whether a patient admitted to a hospital will
die after a patient has been in the hospital
for 24 hours google's ai is predicting
outcomes with 95 accuracy using medical
histories doctor's notes and vital signs
i wonder how long it will be before ok google is my aunt about to buy the
farm becomes a real voice command on a far lighter note Android's messages
app is about to get another layer of fanciness as you're now able to go to
messages.Android.com scan a qr code with your phone and send and receive text on
the desktop finally finally
another nice feature to go with google migrating the app to rcs especially if
you still haven't gotten the hang of tapity tapping on your phone screen in
just the right spot unfortunately facebook's messenger app is also adding
functionality but it's probably not what anybody wants
as they are set to roll out auto playing video ads in the app after finding that
less intrusive ads didn't affect usage patterns but i can't imagine that users
will be too pleased after commercials for stuff they don't want start eating
into their data limits on the subject of ads the popular mobile browser brave
which is notable for blocking ads and trackers is now going to offer specific
ads but with an interesting twist you
will be opting into the ads and you will get paid
70 of the gross ad revenue through a
cryptocurrency xj could this be any more convoluted and sketchy sounding no word
yet on how much an average user could end up receiving but i don't think for
me personally you could pay me enough to sit through
that what's a computer spot from apple again
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i think it won't affect their usage patterns let's just keep going