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A Samsung executive has said Bixby 2.0 will be featured on its next flagship release, presumably the Galaxy Note 9. The Note 9 is expected to launch at IFA 2018 in early September. This will likely be the first time we see Samsung’s new and improved AI assistant. Gray G. Lee, head of Samsung’s AI Center, has confirmed that the company’s next flagship will have Bixby 2.0 on board.
You remember Rhapsody right? It’s the free-for-all streaming service, direct competitor to Pandora and Last.fm. It seems Realplayer Studios is upping the ante with a few updated or entirely new key features.
First off, the ability to download individual albums and tracks to phone storage or memory card is quite nice. For those of in congested signal areas or not living in LTE-rich cities, this is a great option to “offline buffer” your music.
The US phone market is slowly shifting away from carrier subsidies, forcing customers to face the harsh reality of full retail device prices. Big players like Apple and Samsung have come up with schemes to reduce the shock, and now budget specialist ZTE is offering its own solution, with a new lease-to-own plan launching today.
ZTE’s payment plan targets customers that want a new device but can’t (or won’t) pay the full price right away.
The biggest news with the version 3.2 update is that it will allow you to run the entire Plex Media Server directly on your Shield Android TV. In the past, Plex users have been able to stream their media libraries from either a local or remote computer running Plex Media Server. Now this functionality is built right into the set-top box, eliminating the need to use a separate computer to run the server.
Huawei has sold 9 million units of its flagship handset, the Huawei P9, the Chinese manufacturer announced at a press event yesterday .
Huawei announced in September that it had achieved 6 million P9 sales, shifting an additional 3 million units – or another 50 percent of what it had old up to that point – in the last two months alone.
At IFA 2016 in September, Huawei announced the P9 in two new colors, metallic red and metallic blue, which may have made a significant contribution those additional three million sales.
Streaming services have become increasingly popular over the last several years. During this cord cutting era, platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and DirecTV Now have seen impressive growth for both streaming existing content and live TV. Part of this popularity is thanks to costs that are typically well below traditional television providers.
If you’ve been looking for an excuse to cancel your cable or satellite TV service, there’s no better time than right now.
What happens when two of the biggest names in world of privacy come together to break bread and discuss just what exactly makes the world go round? You’d like to be a fly on the wall in that room, wouldn’t you? Luckily the beans have been spilled on the extraordinary meeting between Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange and Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt.
Schmidt met with Assange in 2011, while Assange was under house arrest no less, to discuss a number of issues for his book ‘The New Digital Age,’ which is being released on Tuesday.
Technically, Best Buy’s Deal of the Day section means that the retailer always has products on offer, but today’s flash sale is particularly eye-catching. A wide range of tech is included and the savings available are well worth perusing.
TVs are best-represented in the sale, with three offers that cover all budgets. The Hisense 75-inch LED 4K UHD Smart Android TV is the flashiest option, and it’s a bit of a steal at just $599.
For listening to music around the house, probably everyone knows the old toss-your-phone-into-a-bowl trick that makes your phone’s puny speakers sound a little bit better, but one developer has a new, innovative solution to this problem. Their app AmpMe, which shares its name with the company, syncs streaming music across as many mobile devices as you like, effectively creating a “giant, distributed speaker that surrounds the users.”
The idea is pretty ingenious, but the current version is a little bit buggy.
What’s more is that Marshmallow will also bring Doze to your oversized device. This is a particular boon for the Galaxy Tab S2, since its massive screen has a tendency to suck away your battery life. Expect to get something of a boost in that regard once your download is complete. The update will automatically arrive over the air in due time, but for the impatient among us, you can always go into the settings and download it manually.