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Samsung Developer Confrence Opening Keynote 2018

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Today Samsung held their annual developer confrence SDC. This event had lots of specualtion. They talked about Bixby, SmartThings and, Smart TVs. But they also announced the heavily rumored Foldable Phone Bixby Bixby is Samsung’s virtual assistant, they released it a couple years ago. Bixby will be coming to more devices (TVs, tablets and, smart speakers), it will also be opening up to more countries and more languages. They also announced that they are opening Bixby up to developers. SmartThings There weren’t many consomer announcments regardig SmartThings. They announced updates to the SmartThings Cloud, new APIs, and other dev tools. … Continue reading Samsung Developer Confrence Opening Keynote 2018

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This Week In Tech 10/28-11/03/2018

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This week: Apple held and event, Nintendo held their final Direct before Smash Ultimate, IBM aquires Red Hat and, lots of NASA news Apple Event וOn Tuesday Apple biannual 2nd fall event. They announced an updated Mac Mini, an updated MacBook Air and the heavily rumored bezal free iPad Pro. There was also some new software shown off. For more on the event read my post about it. Nintendo On Thursday Nintendo held the final Direct before the release of Super Smash Brs Ultimate and A Treehouse Live Presentation. During the Direct it was announced that there are two new … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/28-11/03/2018

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Super Smash Bros Direct Fall 2018

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On Thursday (didn’t realize that I hadn’t posted it) Nintendo and Sora Ltd (hosted by Masahiro Sakurai) held the “final Direct before Super Smash Bros Ultimate” . In the Direct they announced the last two characters before release. They also announced a new game mode and a whole bunch of new features. Characters Before the direct there were 72 characters (heres a list).. The first new characters that was announced was Ken from the Street Fighter series, his model is based on Super Street Fighter 2. The last characters announced was Insinaroar an Alola Region Pokèmon, they said that it uses “traditional wrestling moves”.  Amiibos They … Continue reading Super Smash Bros Direct Fall 2018

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Apple Event October 2018

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Yesterday Apple held an announcent event. In the last couple of week since the event was announced the event Mac Air The first thing EA’s a new MacBook Air. it has a almost bezalless13.3 inch retina display. It also has the Force Touch trackpad with Touch iD. It has an I5 Dual core processor, and SSDs with upto a terabyte of storage. The computer weighs 2.7 lbs. It is made from 100% recycled aluminum. Also having Hey Siri and USB-C (2). It srarts with 8GB of memory and 128 of storage. It also has the T2 security chip and on … Continue reading Apple Event October 2018

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This Week In Tech 10/21-10/27/2018

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To preface since I couldn’t post last week we messed some big news; Apple had announced that thet are having an ecent this coming Tuesday in Broklyn. Last week the rumors said Apple was going to announce a new MacBook Air (or a replacment for that SKU) and a new Mac Mini. But the big thing rumoted is a new iPad Pro with a slim bezel and Face id (see image below). Now for the reguarly scheduled This Week In Tech. This week there’s been lots of announcments, news, and rumors. Firstly, lots and lots of rumors from the upcoming … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/21-10/27/2018

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This Week In Tech 10/07-10/13/2018

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This week there was lots of google news, some Microsoft news, DuckDuckGO usage grows 50%, President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act and, Facebook is making a Portal. Google News Made By Google 2018 This week Google held their annual Made By Google event. They announced a new Pixel phone, the Pixel Stand (a wireless charger), the Pixel Slate (a Chrome tablet), and the Google Home Hub smart display. For more info read my full article. Google+ Early in the week, Google announced that in March they discovered a security flaw in a Google+ API that exposed 3rd party developers … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/07-10/13/2018

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Made By Google 2018

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They started off by listing off all the new annoncments: The Pixel 3, The Pixel Slate, and the Google Home Hub. Google Devices hove won over 45 design awards. Google is merging Nest back into Google. First the Google Home Hub, it is Google’s smart display. Google first talked about their Smart Displays at CES (I think). I has a 8 inch displayThe UI actually looks really good. it is compatible with most thing the regular Home is. It has a feature that makes it act as a digital picture frame when not in use. Preorder today get on October … Continue reading Made By Google 2018

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This Week In Tech 09/31-10/06/2018

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This week Microsoft hwld an event where they made a few announcments, a massive scale hardware hack by the Chinese, California’s new tech related laws. There were also a few new devices announced this week. Nintendo is reportedly going to release a new early next year. Google’s Project Stream gets a game, Microsoft Event Surface On Tuesday Microsoft held their Fall 2018 Surface event. They refreshed their line of Surfaces, but announced the Surface Headphones. The Headphones will have 13 levels of noise cancellation, 4 beam forming mics, 4 active noise cancellation mics and cortana intigration. All The Specs* Surface Laptop … Continue reading This Week In Tech 09/31-10/06/2018

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Big News Regarding Facebook

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So last Tuesday, Facebook disclosed that they discovered a few “security issues’ with a few features. In this article, I’ll discuss the original story, updates to the story and, what to do to fix ot on your end. The Beguning Last Facebook announced in a blog post that they were a victum of a breach. The breach was caused by a few bugs in the code of the “View As” feature that allows you to view you own profile The bug allowed the hackers to take login access tokens from users. The access token is a cookie that is stored … Continue reading Big News Regarding Facebook

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Nintendo Direct September 2018

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1st Set Of Titles Title System Developer Release Date Trailer Luigi’s Mansion 3 Switch 1st Party 2019 http://bit.ly/2OmZuKt Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn 3DS HAL Laboratory 2019 http://bit.ly/2p8aOz4 Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey 3DS AlphaDream January 11 http://bit.ly/2CZMlpt Luigi’s Mansion (3DS Rerelese ) 3DS Nintendo October 12 http://bit.ly/2Ot99z1 YO-KAI WATCH BLASTERS 3DS Nintendo Out Now http://bit.ly/2pbjYen Splatoon 2 Ver. 4 Switch Nintendo http://bit.ly/2QAKz0W Mega Man 11 Switch Capcom October 2 http://bit.ly/2NOFfIz Mega Man 11 Demo Switch Capcom Out Now http://bit.ly/2NOFfIz Mario Tennis Aces Ver. 2 Update Switch Nintendo September 19 http://bit.ly/2pcPloK New Super Mario Bros. U … Continue reading Nintendo Direct September 2018