A top insider just leaked the first solid details about Apple’s 2020 iPhones

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It’s still just early April, which means we have many moons to wait until the 2019 iPhones arrive. Apple is expected to keep in place the same designs for the iPhone XS and XR successors, although all three models should pack various upgrades when it comes to hardware and camera features. Next year, however, Apple is also expected to deliver a new iPhone design, and while it’s too early to speculate on what the 2020 iPhones will look like, we already have one reason to be excited about them.

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NASA discovers Saturn’s moons are caked in ring dust

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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has long since bitten the proverbial dust, but data it sent back years ago is now revealing how actual dust affects some of the planet’s many moons. As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, Saturn’s iconic rings tend to litter some of its moons with a variety of material, coating them as they drift in orbit around the planet.

The researchers focused on a handful of moons that exist close to or within the planet’s rings. The moons Atlas, Epimetheus, Pandora, Daphnis, and Pan are much smaller than the planet’s larger moons like the icy Enceladus, but in many ways they’re just as interesting.

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Leaked PS5 controller and devkit are likely fake, but pretty convincing

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Smartphone leaks have become so common in recent years that the big players in the industry, including Apple and Samsung, rarely have anything to actually unveil by the time their keynotes roll around. We knew about all four of the Galaxy S10 models before Samsung announced them in February, and the iPhone XS and XS Max were thoroughly spoiled as well before they arrived last fall. Video game consoles, on the other hand, aren’t quite as prone to leaking, which is why we’re taking one of the most convincing PS5 leaks to date with a grain of salt.

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Student astronomer spots two new planets with the help of AI

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Discovering planets that nobody has ever seen before is even harder than it sounds. Space telescopes from NASA and other scientific bodies have gathered an incredible amount of data that will take astronomers years and years to sift through, and many times there’s just nothing there to be found.

But humans don’t have to do all of the work, and Anne Dattilo, a senior at the University of Texas in Austin enlisted the help of artificial intelligence to study data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope and found not one, but two new exoplanets in the process.

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Google downplays the number of ‘potentially harmful apps’ on the Play Store

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In a new report looking back over 2018, a year in which Google celebrated the 10th anniversary of the launch of the first commercial Android device, the search giant gives itself a pat on the back for what appears to be an impressive milestone. The company’s newly released year in review of its Android security efforts declares that the company’s increasing crackdown on what it calls “potentially harmful apps,” or PHAs, is continuing to pay off. How much? Less than half of 1% of all app downloads from the Google Play Store in 2018 were given that PHA classification.

Of course, as with any such analysis, some context and caveats are in order.

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Facebook will finally start explaining its choices for your News Feed

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One of the least understood and arguably most disliked features of the Facebook user experience is the social network’s all-important, algorithmically-sorted News Feed. For the vast majority of users who don’t take the time to proactively “tune” their feed, it can often seem like a haphazard mishmash of forgettable photos, political rants, ads they don’t care about and status updates from friends they haven’t seen in years. Which is a shame, from Facebook’s perspective at any rate, since the News Feed is so core to how people interact with the largest social network in the world.

And even though the reasoning behind why certain posts get ranked high in the News Feed, and why some don’t even get surfaced at all, has baffled and confounded users for years, Facebook has now finally decided to start explaining itself. Specifically, why the feed shows you what it does.

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Liquid crystal technology could prevent idiots from distracting pilots with laser pointers

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On the long list of things you should never, ever do, shining a laser pointer at an airplane is definitely very close to the top. They might seem harmless when you’re using a laser pointer to play with your cat, but the bright beams the tiny tools produce can be detrimental to a pilot’s orientation, and even cause vision damage when they strike a cockpit.

Literally thousands of reports of laser pointer “attacks” on planes are reported by pilots every year, and the idiots that do this kind of thing just don’t seem to be taking the hint. Now, researchers have developed a way for pilots to battle back against laser-wielding morons with a new windshield technology that essentially kills the lasers before they can cause a problem.

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iPhone XS Max vs. Galaxy S10+: Which flagship has the best battery life?

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Every year, Apple and Samsung engage in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse as they try and one up each other with their respective flagships. Every September, Apple releases its brand new iPhone lineup and typically sets a new bar for smartphone performance across a number of different metrics. A few months later, Samsung answers back with a new line of premium Galaxy models. These days, the gap in performance across iPhone and Galaxy models isn’t as stark as it used to be, but that’s not to say that there aren’t significant differences worth highlighting.

Of course, it goes without saying that one of the more important features in a smartphone today is battery life, all the more so given how often we remain tethered to our devices each and every single day. As a result, even an incremental improvement in battery life, year over year, can prove to be a godsend for many.

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Apple is doing something in China it almost never does: Cutting iPhone prices

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Apple is taking something of an unusual step to stem the tide of losses in China that the iPhone maker said at the end of 2018 led to a shortfall in its all-important holiday quarter worth several billion dollars. That shortfall, you may remember, was attributed in large part to lower than anticipated iPhone sales volume in China, which is why it was revealed on Monday that Apple has decided to do something pretty unlike Apple in order to try and make up for it.

The solution: Cut prices. A CNBC report Monday notes that Apple took the action earlier this year on official third-party sellers in China like Tmall and JD.com. That report also speculates that Monday’s price cut may be a response to China’s increase in the value-added tax there.

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Get a 12-pack of houseplants you pretty much can’t kill for $24

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If you’re like me, you’ve murdered before and you’ll do it again. I’m talking about houseplants, of course, and no matter how hard I try I seem to be able to kill them all. Well, almost all of them, that is. Succulents are the only plants that tend to survive in my household, and Amazon is running a sale right now that I personally just took advantage of. If you’re like me and you tend to kill houseplants, you should too. Snag a Shop Succulents Unique Succulent Collection of 12 for just $23.99 right now, or you can get a Shop Succulents Unique Succulent Collection of 20 for $32 even. If you can remember to water them about one every 4 weeks, they’ll survive.

Shop Succulents Unique Succulent (Collection of 12): $23.99

Shop Succulents Unique Succulent (Collection of 20): $32.00

Here are the key bullet points from the product page:

  • The Unique Collection is a different variety. Plants may vary from pictures shown as succulents are selected based on season, size, health, and readiness
  • Succulents come in 2 inch square pots fully rooted in soil. Plant measurement will vary as different species grow in different ways: for example, some grow wider, shorter, taller, trailing etc
  • All succulent packs are carefully packed in Shop Succulents retail packaging making these easy to gift
  • All Shop Succulents plants come with helpful care instructions in every pack
  • A Shop Succulents plant reference guide (QR Code) is included in every Shop Succulents order. Succulents are drought tolerant plants, needing little water to thrive

Shop Succulents Unique Succulent (Collection of 12): $23.99

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