Do you remember back in high school when your geometry teacher stated that you would one day need to know how to calculate the area of a space?Well, that day has come, and it’s likely that you’ve forgotten the formula. Fortunately for you, All-In-One Calculator from MINDBOX has your back, packing in pretty much every conversion tool you might need and more.
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Following in the recent footsteps of Bank of America, Chase has added Marshmallow-native fingerprint scanning support to their mobile app. Now you can quickly and securely hop into your accounts with a single press on the scanner – far quicker than typing in a clunky username and password.
Bank of America app gains Marshmallow’s fingerprint sign-in
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Of course, there is a little bit of a catch here. You naturally have to be running a device with a fingerprint scanner (duh) but you also have to be running Android 6.
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⚡ Good morning! I tried playing Diablo Immortal on an old iPad, only to realize it had just 32GB of storage, and the game needs 12GB of storage alone! Ouch. Anyway, read on for a happy tortoise story!
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Microsoft’s bringing Xbox gaming everywhere, so just as you could play Xbox games on your smartphone, now you can on your smart TV as well.
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Apple might not bundle a power adapter with the iPhone 12. You might have to buy a charging adapter separately. Take our quick poll at the end of the post to let us know how you feel about it. When you buy a new phone, the least you expect to find in the box is a charging cable, a power adapter, and maybe a pair of earphones. Sadly, Apple might do away with at least two of those three main smartphone accessories when it launches the iPhone 12 series.
Speculation that Google would introduce a “mini” version of its Google Home smart speaker began circulating recently, and it was tipped to be a $49 competitor to the Amazon Echo Dot. A couple of days ago, we got a potential first look at the device, and now, a recent Federal Communications Commission filing (via DroidLife) has added more weight to the rumors.
While the listing doesn’t include the Google Home Mini name, it shares a number similarities with the original Google Home speaker filing, including its unique FCC ID — “A4RH0A,” similar to the Google Home’s “A4RH0ME” — and its description as a “media streaming device.
Update: An LG spokesman told me that the G6 actually uses Gorilla Glass 3 on the camera as well and that there is no Gorilla Glass 4 anywhere. This is in contrast to several other statements made to journalists at MWC and during an LG tour in South Korea before the trade show. When asked why LG would use such an old version of Gorilla Glass on the front, the response amounted to a polite way of saying it wasn't deemed to be worth the additional cost.
Below, you’ll find a sampling of movies already getting some buzz and smaller titles to look forward to. We don’t recommend spending all summer indoors staring at a screen, but these will definitely be worth checking out.
The best summer streaming movies to look forward to Fire Island Hulu — June 3
Directed by Andrew Ahn from a sceenplay by Joel Kim Booster, Fire Island is a queer romcom inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and set on New York’s famous gay party destination Fire Island.
As gamers hunker down and get ready for the next generation of video game consoles, one of the biggest questions that comes to mind is whether games from the previous generation will work with the new consoles. After all, many players have thousands of dollars invested in their existing game libraries. The idea of losing all those games when moving to the next generation of consoles is somewhat unnerving. Will Xbox Series X be backwards compatible?
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Barnes & Noble just announced a brand new Nook 7-inch tablet. The ebook-focused tablet has all the primary specs of the Kindle 7, but also has access to the Google Play Store. The starting price for the full-color Nook tablet is just $50. If you were thinking about buying an e-reader as a gift this year, you might want to consider the just-announced Nook 7-inch tablet from Barnes & Noble.
It’s a year since the arrival of the Huawei P30 Pro, a phone we praised for offering a superior camera setup and long battery life than its competitors. The handset was a pioneer of low light photography and rich with flagship defining features, making it one of the best buys of 2019. Providing it was available in your country that is (sorry, US folks).
But do those design wins still hold up 12 months later?