In short, the entire concept of a flagship phone became… I’m not sure redundant is the right word, but perhaps blurred? Take the Honor 20 series, for example, which Huawei announced today at an event in London. The top-tier Honor 20 Pro model retails for €599 (about $670), which is a bit less than half the price of an entry-level iPhone XS Max. Here’s what you get for your money:...

Specifically, it has been focusing on software development and, in fact, many cars on the market are using BlackBerry’s QNX platform for ADAS. As per the firm, its platform is especially useful to EV makers, who are building their vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems and enhanced automated features. BlackBerry’s first tech feature: QNX What it’s for: Its main role is to make sense of the EV data firehose, meaning the continuous stream of all available real-time information an EV gets through its sensors to perform automated functions....

On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result of the digitization of audio. While analog sound waves are continuous, digital music is made up from lots of small data points played one after another. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Sampling rate in audio is literally the number of “samples” taken per second. This is measured in Hertz (Hz). [Read: How do you build a pet-friendly gadget? We asked experts and animal owners] Now, the common rate is that of CDs or FLAC, which is a lossless audio file....

This is a refined version of a feature that rolled out earlier this year. In the previous iteration, you could choose to allow anyone to add you to groups, or all your contacts, or no one at all. The new version lets you pick certain people who can add you to groups, that avoids people whom you don’t know well adding you to random groups. Here’s how it works:...

I don’t agree at all. That’s why I’d like to offer a different perspective on things and explain why ‘exposure’ can be worth it and the upside of speaking ‘for free.’ But first, why is my perspective worth sharing? Because I’m both a paid speaker who refuses to speak for free, and I’m an event organizer who asks speakers to… speak for free. Does that sound like a contradiction? Let me explain why it isn’t....

As governments and health organizations scramble to contain the spread of coronavirus, they need all the help they can get, including from artificial intelligence. Though current AI technologies are far from replicating human intelligence, they are proving to be very helpful in tracking the outbreak, diagnosing patients, disinfecting areas, and speeding up the process of finding a cure for COVID-19. Data science and machine learning might be two of the most effective weapons we have in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak....

We are witnessing the emergence of a new commercial industry with intense activity, massive financial investment, and tremendous potential. It would seem that there are no areas that are beyond improvement by AI – no tasks that cannot be automated, no problems that can’t at least be helped by an AI application. But is this strictly true? Theoretical studies of computation have shown there are some things that are not computable....

For most of us it’s a variation of a familiar scene: two lanes of automobile traffic most likely flanked by a row of densely parked cars on either side. Confined to the periphery, narrow sidewalks accommodate the vast majority of human activity performed by pedestrians, joggers, tourists, commuters, parents, pet owners, municipal workers, and street vendors. These are the city streets much of the world has come to know and accept over the past 100 years as urban living has progressively become defined by smog, combustion engines and tens of millions of square meters of car parking....

The silver lining to this abrupt, forced remote workforce is that we have the opportunity to usher in true digital transformation in DevOps. This may seem like a time to freak out and despair, and the absolute worst time for a digital upheaval, but the truth is that we’re now in a position to automate, delegate, and organize our infrastructure in a way that wasn’t possible even five years ago....

Sitting roughly 300 light years from Earth, the exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbits a small, red star. Although this star does not give off much heat, the planet huddles close to it, like a camper close to an inadequate fire on a chilly night. This close to its parent star, Kepler-1649c is in the habitable zone of its solar system, where bodies of water are more likely to form. With oceans, rivers and seas, the possibility of life arising on the alien world increases....

All women of child-bearing age, regardless of how secure and how privileged they may have imagined themselves to be, are now among the marginalized and vulnerable populations whose privacy is at risk. As a researcher who studies online privacy, I’ve known for some time how Google, social media, and internet data generally can be used for surveillance by law enforcement to cast digital dragnets. Women are at risk not just from what they reveal about their reproductive status on social media, but also by data from their health applications, which could incriminate them if they were subpoenaed....

And while wind, solar, and green hydrogen are already on the rise, there are still important steps to be taken the coming year to increase their sustainability — and improve what they’re capable of. To find out how this will work, TNW spoke with three experts. Wind power Floating offshore wind is a “game changer” for the renewable energy industry and a “key technology” against climate change, Felipe Cornago — Commercial Director Offshore Wind, at BayWa r....

Now, as the country’s government is slowly lifting restrictions, these companies are set to resume their production. In a statement, Samsung, which has the world’s biggest smartphone plant in India, said that it has restarted production in a limited capacity: Earlier this week, in a call with journalists, Xiaomi said that the company’s partner Foxconn has received permission to resume production at its facility in Andhra Pradesh. Credit: Xiaomi Oppo also confirmed that it’ll be resuming production soon in its factory situated in Greater Noida....

Xiaomi showed off its new wireless charging tech today that can charge up a phone with a 4,000 mAh battery in just 19 minutes. The 80W charger can charge 10% of the battery in just 1 minute and 50% of the battery in 8 minutes. This could set a new benchmark for wireless charging standards, but the company hasn’t said when it expects to mass-produce this bad boy. [Read: Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle] Currently, Xiaomi manufactures a 50W wireless charger for the Mi 10 Ultra and it also ships a $31 wireless charger that juices up phones at 30W....

Indeed, EVs do present a new waste management challenge, but it’s only a problem if we — us humans — choose to do nothing about it. [Read: UK gets its first fully electric avenue to charge EVs on the street] Aceleron says that batteries should be designed with a circular life cycling in mind. In other words, it thinks waste can be reduced by reusing healthy battery components and repairing units that have degraded beyond a useable level....

From search engine optimization (SEO) to content marketing, from social media advertising and engagement to email campaigns and affiliate plays, there are nearly as many avenues to digitally market online as there are sellers marketing. And while one method may serve a particular seller better than others, there’s never a one-size-fits-all answer to assembling a digital marketing plan. In fact, the reality is it will almost always take a combination of many approaches to build to the web audience and customer base you want....

As XDA Developers reported, the feature is currently visible only to users in India. The change means there’s a new button to access the comments section next to the Like and Dislike buttons. And instead of showing comments below the video, YouTube’s showing what video will play next. Also, in order to accommodate the comments button, YouTube has moved the “Save to watch later” button to the expanded menu. In March, the streaming service disabled comments on videos featuring minors....

There are so many programming languages out there, but for anyone who wants to break into the world of engineering, knowledge of Python can open a lot of doors. The beauty of Python is that it’s general, meaning that there are a number of career paths. At the same time, this can be a bit overwhelming. Not to worry. Whether you’re just starting your career or you’re in need of a change, we’ve broken down five brilliant jobs you can consider if you decide to learn Python....

I had the chance to try a couple of variants of the Amsterdam in New York City. While these were prototypes, they should be fairly representative of the bikes that will hit the market — and there’s a fair bit to like. First is the price: starting at $999 and configurable up to $1,950, the Spinciti is among the more affordable new e-bikes to hit the market, at least among ones that just look and feel like a nice ‘normal’ bike....

— Alex Gladstein (@gladstein) June 2, 2019 While some responses, like the one above, were overtly genuine, others were more sarcastic. “Bitcoin is free Internet money that will make everyone rich, automatically solve ethics without any effort on our part, cure cancer, and bring about world peace,” joked Bitcoin Core developer Eric Lombrozo. It also wasn’t long before proponents of alternative cryptocurrency projects like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) assigned similar challenges to their communities....