Month: November 2017

  • LG appoints new mobile division chief

    The third quarter LG financial results showed profit from almost all divisions, with only Mobile Communications being in decline. In an attempt to “enhance competitiveness”, the Korean company announced new appointments and promotions. There are new chiefs of the mobile, technology and marketing departments and an entirely new company for overseeing B2B product sales. The…

  • OnePlus 3 and 3T also get Face Unlock with Android Oreo

    Last week we reported that OnePlus started pushing the Oreo update to the OnePlus 3/3T duo and the OnePlus 5. Now all three phones are getting the Face Unlock feature that OnePlus introduced in their latest flagship. Enabling the feature is quite easy. Just head to the Security menu in Settings, then select Smart Lock.…

  • Fast.com reaches quarter billion speed tests milestone, adds sharing options

    Fast.com, a service by Netflix, was launched last year as a way to quickly and easily check the download speed of your internet connection. Since then, the company has generated a quarter billion speed test results from around the world. According to some Fast.com data, the top countries using the service are the U.S., Brazil,…

  • Rumored Snapdragon 845 specs point to next-gen Kryo cores, but old process

    Qualcomm should announce the Snapdragon 845 chipset by the end of the year but some unconfirmed info is making the rounds. The new flagship chip will be built on a 10nm Low Power Early process (from TSMC rather than Samsung). So we can’t expect performance gains due to the process. Gains will be had, however,…

  • Amazon launches an AI camera and machine learning tools for businesses

    Amazon might be the biggest online retailer, but the company wants to be even more influential, launching a set of AI products. The subsidiary Amazon Web Services introduced a $250 AI camera called DeepLens, a new platform named SageMaker for deploying machine learning and a new AI service for transcription and translation, all aimed at…