Apple will surprise everyone with a new iPhone next month, and now we know even more about it
There’s a new iPhone in the works, and I’m not even talking about Apple’s iPhone 12 series that’s coming in September with a tweaked design and 5G connectivity. It’s a different kind of iPhone, the device you’ve been waiting for Apple to make since 2017. Well, it’s probably in 2018 that you realized you needed this phone because that’s when Apple stopped releasing new iPhones with Touch ID support. The iPhone 8 was the last such device, as Apple moved to Face ID authentication instead — it’s the iPhone X design combined with the immaturity of in-screen fingerprint-sensing tech that dictated the change. While the iPhone 8 stayed in inventory, and it’s currently the cheapest iPhone you can buy from Apple, it did not receive any upgrades. It’s still rocking 2017-grade hardware, which is still superior to 2017 and 2018 flagship Android hardware, but not as future-proof as you might want it to be.
An increasing number of reports over the last few months claimed that the iPhone 8 will get a successor this year, a device that we’ve been calling iPhone SE 2 and iPhone 9 until recently when we learned that Apple might do something unexpected with the device when it comes to naming. The “iPhone” should hit stores in early April after a late March reveal, and we have increasing evidence that retailers are getting ready for the new device. And new reports say the iPhone will come in as many as six different colors.
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Apple will surprise everyone with a new iPhone next month, and now we know even more about it originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 07:31:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Why iPhone 12 will totally steal one of the best Galaxy S20 features
The Galaxy S20 is one of the hottest phones you can buy right now, although there’s one good reason to avoid it for a couple of months. The Galaxy S20 is actually a series of three flagship devices, all sporting the same core specs, and design, with the camera system on their back featuring the biggest differences. But you only need a few minutes with the gorgeous S20 to realize it’s got the perfect size and weight, especially compared to the huge S20 Ultra, which happens to be the best of the series overall. As we’ve already witnessed, the S20 won’t be the only phone featuring the same all-screen punch-hole display this year. Nor will it be the only device with a massive camera system on the back that’s made of at least three sensors. The Galaxy S20 phones feature a high refresh rate screen, which will become the norm this year for many of the upcoming Android flagships. Finally, all S20 versions come with built-in 5G support, and that’s another feature we’ll find on increasingly more handsets this year. But the upcoming iPhone 12 series, which is due in mid-September, is likely to steal a Galaxy S20 feature that we hardly get to talk about, and one that you might not even notice in everyday use.
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Mars loves to shake its booty, NASA confirms
NASA sent the InSight robot to Mars with a number of objectives in mind. Since its time on the planet, the robot has become the first Martian weatherman and done its best to jam its probe into a Mars hole that just isn’t cooperating. It’s also been listening intently to the inner workings of the planet, which is largely why it carries the “InSight’ moniker, and NASA just shared some of its biggest findings with the world.
InSight’s sensitive instruments can listen in to the rumbles happening deep below the Martian surface. Detecting so-called “Marsquakes” isn’t easy, but scientists have gotten pretty good at separating true Marsquake signals from other data that might be the result of wind or other environmental quirks.
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Mars loves to shake its booty, NASA confirms originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 01:20:19 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lenovo just updated its ThinkPad series and its complicated naming scheme
Laptop users who live and die by the reliable ThinkPad brand are probably used to upgrading their hardware every few years, and if 2020 is that year for you, then you should know the Chinese PC maker has a new line of ThinkPad notebooks out. As expected, the new models all feature the brand new 10th-gen Intel chips that will power virtually every new laptop on the market, and support for AMD Ryzen Pro 4000 Mobile support is coming to some of the new lines. However, that’s not even the biggest change for the new ThinkPads.
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Lenovo just updated its ThinkPad series and its complicated naming scheme originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 00:15:44 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mark Ruffalo says Kevin Feige almost left Marvel over a lack of diversity in the MCU
In almost any endeavor, being right enough times provides you sufficient capital to take on bigger risks in spite of the higher stakes that come with them. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige — the guy who shepherded the most successful movie franchise in the world into existence and who’s been a producer attached to every MCU movie all the way back to the beginning — put that principle to the test early on. Back around the time of the first Avengers movie, in fact, which came out in 2012.
The MCU was starting to establish a solid base of fans for the movies about comic book heroes at the same time it was starting to attract a knock that showed no signs of going away anytime soon: The stars seemed to be all white guys. In a little-known behind-the-scenes moment, however, Feige was already laying the groundwork for that to change. Paving the way, as a matter of fact, for future heroes like Black Panther and Captain Marvel to get their time to shine in movies of their own.
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Mark Ruffalo says Kevin Feige almost left Marvel over a lack of diversity in the MCU originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 23:13:47 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NASA needs your help to design a Venus rover
NASA does its best to involve the public in its various projects and missions, probably because it knows how much we all love science and space, but when it comes to actually design the hardware that will go on to explore other worlds, those jobs are usually kept in-house. That trend might be changing with the ongoing development of a rover destined for Venus.
The space agency wants the public’s input to help design a sensor that could work within the design of a rugged rover that would eventually call Venus home. NASA needs an obstacle avoidance sensor that could be installed on its would-be Venus rover, and it’s willing to pay $30,000 for a viable concept.
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NASA needs your help to design a Venus rover originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 24 Feb 2020 at 22:11:04 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The most exciting Xbox Series X reveal of the week has nothing to do with powerful specs
Microsoft surprised gamers all over the world with a massive info dump about the Xbox Series X on Monday morning. Many of the features and specifications that fans had been speculating about were suddenly confirmed, and although this was certainly an exciting development, the raw power of the next-gen console didn’t come as much of a surprise. That said, there were a few surprises sprinkled in the blog post, one of which blew us away.
When the Xbox One and PS4 debuted in 2013, there were still triple-A console games coming out for Xbox 360 and PS3. In order to make the transition easier, publishers were launching old-gen and new-gen versions of their games, such as Call of Duty: Ghosts, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, and Battlefield 4. The problem was that if you wanted to play the new Call of Duty on your Xbox One or PS4 when you upgraded, you’d need to buy it again. This is where Microsoft’s Smart Delivery system comes into play, simplifying the transition process even further.
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This new Android phone is a great Galaxy S20 alternative if you don’t mind missing out on Google’s apps
MWC might have been canceled, but the avalanche of new smartphone announcements continues. Sony and Realme already unveiled their own alternatives to the Galaxy S20 series: the Xperia 1 II and the Realme X50 Pro. Both are 5G phones, and both offer high-end specs, just like Samsung’s flagships. The X50 Pro, however, is going to beat both the new Xperia and the S20 on price, starting at around $600.
Those aren’t the only affordable Galaxy S20 alternatives hitting stores soon, of course, but this affordable flagship is only good for you if you don’t care about Google’s apps and services.
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World’s top Apple insider says ARM-based Macs are coming next year
Apple has something of an obsession with owning as much of the underlying technology in its products as possible. With that in mind, we’ve seen a handful of rumors over the past few years detailing Apple’s interest in lessening its reliance upon Intel and designing ARM-based chips for future laptop models.
While rumors of Apple’s interest in designing its own ARM-based chips for the Mac stretch back a few years, concrete details have predictably been hard to come by. That said, a new research report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo finally provides us with something of a launch window for these rumored Macs.
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‘The Matrix 4’ filming has basically turned downtown San Francisco into a war zone
“Beware,” reads the large warning on a white sign standing near one particular street corner in downtown San Francisco. “Low flying aircraft & simulated gunfire activity in area.”
San Francisco residents and visitors, by now, are getting used to the notion that one of the most hotly anticipated sci-fi movies — the long-awaited fourth installment in the Matrix franchise — is filming now in the city, something that’s given people tons of opportunities to catch a glimpse of (and a selfie with) star Keanu Reeves. Indeed, that’s turning into a bit of a sport for not only residents but also visitors from neighboring cities and states, with at least one couple from Pacifica telling a local news crew they drove in to try and spot the star. For other people, though, it’s the helicopter and explosions, which have turned the city’s downtown into a faux war zone, that’s been just as memorable.
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