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This app turns your Samsung Galaxy S10’s camera cutout into a nifty battery monitor

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 5:26 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


The latest Samsung Galaxy flagship phone uses an in-screen camera (weirdly, there isn’t a single universally accepted term, as it’s often referred to as a “punch-hole camera” or “cutout camera”) instead of a notch. And it goes without saying that the Internet has had a lot of fun with it, creating wallpapers that use the phone’s punch-hole camera as an ingenious visual element. One wallpaper turns the solitary front-facing camera lens on the S10 and S10e as the Death Star’s menacing concave laser. Another repurposes the dual-camera setup on the S10+ into a pair of binoculars for chubby North Korean…

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Game of Thrones torrents are packing a nasty surprise

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 2:26 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider


Winter is coming for one of television’s most-pirated shows. On Monday, security firm Kaspersky released a new report diving into the means by which hackers are ruining your favorite pirated TV shows. Game of Thrones, as you might have guessed, was chief among them, making it a risky move to pirate the TV show without additional filtering of downloaded torrent files. Kaspersky’s report showed that Game of Thrones content was responsible for approximately 17 percent of infected downloads, affecting more than 20,000 users — all during a year in which the series didn’t release a single new episode. The first and…

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Google kills off Google+ and Inbox in ritual slaughter

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 1:55 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider


If Google were a TV show, it’d undoubtedly be Game of Thrones. Like Game of Thrones, it’ll introduce a prominent new character (app) that has the potential to change everything, only to see it killed off in the next season. The most recent victims: Inbox and Google+, two apps that were once seen as game-changers for their respective fields. Granted, we’ve known the end was coming for some time, but I’m still sad to see them go. Inbox launched in 2014 as a revolutionary take on email. It introduced several features that eventually made their way onto Gmail proper, including…

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Nobel Prize winner wants to fight nuclear waste with lasers

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 1:44 am
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The work of Nobel Prize winner Gerard Mourou could potentially solve (or at least mitigate) a major problem in the energy industry: nuclear waste. And the solution? Lasers, that which we hope will be the answer to every question. Before you get too excited (and I know you are, because lasers), the lasers won’t be coming into contact with the waste for quite some time. According to a Bloomberg profile published this week, Mourou and his colleague, Professor Toshiki Tajima, are presently speaking about the concept of using high-intensity lasers to zap nuclear waste, shortening its lifespan from years to minutes. Mourou’s Nobel Prize…

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