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Report: Apple might finally make the compact iPhone you wanted next year

Apr03
by on April 3, 2019 at 5:41 am
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At TNW, we’ve talked a lot about the absolute lack of compact phones. While I’m using the ‘compact’ iPhone Xs as my daily driver, there are plenty of people who want smaller screen size. According to a report from DigiTimes, Apple’s taken notice and is planning to release a 5.4-inch phone in 2020. The report notes that Apple will opt for three OLED display sizes – 5.42-inch, 6.06-inch, and 6.67-inch – supplied by either Samsung or LG. This marks a change from the current iPhone line up’s sizes of 5.8-inch (the iPhone Xs),  6.1-inch (the iPhone Xr), and 6.5-inch (the iPhone Xs Max) screens.…

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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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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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