After reports that the Samsung Galaxy S10’s fingerprint scanner can be fooled by cheap third-party screens protectors, some UK banks are now blacklisting the phone in a bid to protect their customers.
Initially spotted by users on the /r/GalaxyS10 subreddit, NatWest customers in the UK have been unable to download the dedicated banking app from the Google Play Store in recent days following…
HP and Virtuix sponsor $100,000 VR esports tournament
October 22, 2019
Virtuix and HP have teamed up to stage a $100,000 esports tournament series featuring Virtuix’s Omni Arena virtual reality attractions.
The Omniverse VR Arena is the latest version of Virtuix’s Omni treadmill, which lets you run around in VR with 360 degrees of freedom…
Google Cameos expands to Android
October 22, 2019
Google introduced its celebrities platform Cameos, in which famous people answer questions to help them connect with their followers. First, it was launched for iOS, but now Google expanded the app to Android, allowing a wider range of stars to get involved.
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Google Duplex, the futuristic service that uses AI to place phone calls and make reservations, can already book movie tickets and will soon be able to rent a car. The service has been rolled out across the US, and now international rollout is beginning with a test in New Zealand.
As spotted by The Verge, Google New Zealand has published a blog post announcing a pilot of the Duplex…
Huawei sub-brand Honor today announced a new smartphone dubbed Honor 20 Lite (Youth Edition).
The smartphone’s built around a 6.3″ 20:9 AMOLED display with FullHD+ resolution and a fingerprint reader underneath. The display also has a cutout at the top for the…
Netatmo Weather Station now supports HomeKit: air quality, humidity, temperature and CO2 sensors
October 22, 2019
Smart home accessory maker Netatmo today announced that its Weather Station now supports Apple HomeKit. With a firmware update, owners of the Weather Station since the 2016 model revision will be able to start interacting with their sensors in the Apple Home app and with…
iPhone SE 2 to utilize LCP antenna
October 22, 2019
Rumored to arrive in the first quarter of 2020, the second-gen iPhone SE will pack modernized internals like the A13 Bionic chipset and 3GB of RAM in the body of the iPhone 8. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has detailed several hints for Apple’s upcoming budget offering and the latest one is that it will feature a Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) antenna which is expected to offer improved…
Opera adds Bitcoin support to its Android crypto wallet
October 22, 2019
Opera has officially added Bitcoin support to its Android browser app, nearly a year after it first introduced a built-in crypto wallet.
This means that Opera users can carry out Bitcoin transactions directly in the browser without requiring any extensions or following any…
Samsung kicked off the Android 10-based One UI 2.0 beta program for the Galaxy S10 series last week, and today the company announced that it will soon extend to the Galaxy Note10 lineup.
Samsung posted an image on its Korean site confirming One UI 2.0 beta for the Galaxy…
Samsung Galaxy A51 key specs revealed through Geekbench
October 22, 2019
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy A50 back in February and followed it up with the Galaxy A50s in August. Now it appears the company’s focus is shifting to the Galaxy A51, which has just popped up on Geekbench.
The Galaxy A51, sporting model number SM-A515F, scored 323 and 1,185 points in Geekbench 5’s single and multi-core tests, respectively.
The A51 was expected to pack an Exynos 9630…
