Huawei P20: i motivi per non compralo
Quali sono i motivi per non comprare Huawei P20, ossia il nuovo top di gamma compatto del colosso cinese che è ufficiale dopo l’evento speciale di Parigi? P20 subito riscontrato un grande gradimento da parte del pubblico, tuttavia non è tutto oro ciò che luccica e ci sono contro che non si possono dimenticare o sulle quali soprassedere. Per questo motivo abbiamo isolato cinque motivi validi che potrebbero far tentennare sul possibile acquisto.
Sia chiaro: sono “contro” di entità molto discreta e non esagerata, visto che parliamo comunque di un flagship moderno e con lo stato dell’arte montato a bordo, ma questo non significa che sia perfetto.
Huawei P20 è dunque la nuova proposta del colosso cinese per chi cerca un terminale più compatto e non di “altissimo range”, dunque con qualche componente che si ferma un gradino sotto il top assoluto. Per questo motivo troviamo un prezzo più basso rispetto al modello superiore, quel Huawei P20 Pro del quale vi abbiamo già parlato. Vi rimandiamo anche ai cinque motivi per acquistare Huawei P20, per apprezzare appieno le potenzialità di questo terminale.
RISOLUZIONE FULL HD+
La risoluzione dello schermo di Huawei P20 non è Quad HD+ come molti rivali come ad esempio Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus per citare uno degli ultimi né 4k come diversi modelli premium di Sony. In realtà, questa risoluzione più bassa va a tutto beneficio delle prestazioni dato che richiede meno risorse e consuma meno energia. Certo, la visualizzazione di contenuti multimediali può risentire di un numero di pixel ridotto, ma per l’uso quotidiano non cambia di una virgola. Se proprio desiderate un modello con schermo quantomeno Quad HD+ allora non è il modello che fa per voi, ma tirando le somme è una “mancanza” di poco conto.
NO JACK DA 3.5 MM
Forse l’assenza più fastidiosa è proprio quella del jack da 3.5 mm visto che l’ultima moda va verso l’eliminazione di questo ingresso universale molto comodo e molto confortevole per l’output sonoro sia con le cuffie sia con accessori come speaker. Tutto, ora, passa dalla porta USB type-C sul fondo che, ricordiamo, funge anche da input per la ricarica della batteria dunque una cosa esclude l’altra a meno di ricorrere a non così comodi adattatori supplementari. Certo, si guadagna qualche millimetro di spessore, ma in generale pubblico e critica non sono così favorevoli alla decisione.
SCOCCA SCIVOLOSA CHE AMA LE DITATE
Dal modello che abbiamo avuto in mano nei giorni scorsi, quel che traspare è che l’estetica è sì un plus non indifferente, che rende il modello seducente e intrigante (soprattutto con i colori un po’ cangianti), ma al tempo stesso patisce un grip non proprio eccellente che potrebbe costringere – purtroppo – all’uso di una custodia che andrebbe a inficiare la bellezza estetica e cosmetica. Inoltre, lascia un po’ di ditate di troppo, ma stiamo anche parlando della versione pre-commercio.
PREZZO ALTO
Il prezzo è di 679 euro di partenza, che è in linea con i modelli di pari specifiche hardware, tuttavia – e non è solo una piccola critica da muovere nei confronti di Huawei, ma in generale di tutte le marche top di gamma – il prezzo potrebbe essere almeno del 30% più basso. Soglia che raggiungerà in pochi mesi, abbassandosi fisiologicamente. In queso caso, chi ha pazienza godrà.
PERCHÈ C’È P20 PRO
Infine, un motivo per non comprare Huawei P20 è perché c’è Huawei P20 Pro che costa sì circa 220 euro in più, ma che al tempo stesso mette sul piatto prestazioni molto più alte e che per questo motivo meriterebbe il salto e la spesa maggiorata. Parliamo naturalmente della fotocamera con triplo sensore che si installa in vetta alla classifica del segmento e altri componenti di qualità superiore.
- TEMI
- Huawei
- Huawei P20
- Smartphone
Article source: http://www.tecnocino.it/2018/03/articolo/huawei-p20-i-motivi-per-non-compralo/100640/
‘Away’ is a full-length CG movie made by one person
Zilbalodis grew up in the Latvian capital of Riga. His parents met in art school, so it was no surprise that he quickly fell in love with illustration and filmmaking. As a bright-eyed 15-year-old, he made a two-minute short called "Rush," with a "pretty old iMac" and a piece of software called Toon Boom. The hand-drawn tale depicts a boy crossing a busy road and narrowly missing a flurry of cars. As he contemplates his near-death experience, another car honks its horn, causing the youth to twist his head and accidentally walk down a manhole. "I was attempting to make something funny," Zilbalodis said, "but that's not what I'm good at."
The budding animator enrolled at JRRMV, an art-centric high school in Riga, where he worked on a short called "Aqua" in his spare time. The film revolves around a cat that has to overcome its fear of the ocean. Zilbalodis "isn't really sure" where the idea came from, but he had a cat -- his family's first -- called Josephine at the time.
As the film progresses, the sea-trapped moggie learns to dive into the water, catch fish, and swim back to the surface like a kingfisher. Zilbalodis had followed a classic narrative structure called the hero's journey (character goes on an adventure, overcomes great odds and comes home changed), but he did so by accident: He only realized it after reading a pile of screenwriting books, including the revered The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, by Christopher Vogler.
The cat was little more than a stick figure, because Zilbalodis "couldn't draw very well." The short is also stuttery, because he was "lazy" and used "very few frames." Still, it was good. The shots were dynamic, and the music, performed by his childhood friend Bertrams Pauls Purvišķis, was a perfect match. Zilbalodis' teacher and parents urged him to show the film at a theater owned by his uncle. He eventually caved and invited the entire school to what became an informal premiere. "The only time I could get was in the morning," he said, "while classes were happening at school. So I had to arrange a school trip for everyone."
Zilbalodis posted "Aqua" on Vimeo the same day. He refreshed the page every hour and was taken aback when it was selected as a Staff Pick. "At that time, Staff Picks were worth so many views," he said. The coveted recommendation meant it was quickly seen and covered by animation blogs. Later, he posted the video to YouTube and Newgrounds. The latter, which rose to fame in the early noughties as a place for independent Flash animation, had been a big influence on Zilbalodis as a child. "Aqua" was one of the first videos to be uploaded in HD on the site.
"I invited the entire school to the premiere."
At this point, the Latvian animator realized two things. The first was that he didn't want to work in a large company. He enjoyed every part of the filmmaking process and hated the idea of specializing. The second was that he wanted to switch to 3D, because the medium would cover his sub-par drawing skills and facilitate more complicated camera moves.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/away-is-a-full-length-cg-movie-made-by-one-person/
Huawei isn’t giving up on the US just yet
"We are committed to the US market and to earning the trust of US consumers by staying focused on delivering world-class products and innovation," Yu told CNET in an email. "We would never compromise that trust."
Huawei's big announcement at CES was supposed to be a deal selling its devices through ATT, but the latter walked from the deal. It turned out that Congress pressured the carrier to back out as part of larger concerns over Huawei's close relationship with the Chinese government. This pushed Verizon to likewise drop its plans with the device maker, after which the US intelligence community came out to publicly warn consumers against buying the company's phones.
That suspicion has long dogged Huawei and other Chinese device manufacturers, and gaining US consumer trust remains a big hurdle, despite continuing to release quality smartphones like the P20 and P20 Pro. Yu dismissed these concerns in his email to CNET: "The security risk concerns are based on groundless suspicions and are quite frankly unfair. We welcome an open and transparent discussion if it is based on facts."
The company is doing fine without the US market, having shipped 153 million smartphones in 2017, according to its just-released annual report for last year. Still, the company will continue trying to woo US consumers.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/huawei-isnt-giving-up-on-the-us-just-yet/
Google will predict Final Four winners based on in-game data
The analytics that the Google Cloud team will be using to predict which team will win will be based on the interesting facts they've uncovered while analyzing NCAA data: "everything from who blocks more shots per minute (for the record: juniors) to whether teams with a certain type of animal mascot cause more March Madness upsets (hint: meow)," according to a blog post.
But the team wondered whether they could do more if they used machine learning and their analytics to figure out what might happen during a game, based on how the teams were performing before halftime. That's why they're trying this halftime experiment using Google Cloud Platform tech. You can learn more about exactly what they are trying to do over at their blog.
While this is certainly exciting for basketball fans, the Cloud Platform team is hoping that the techniques they use, and what they learn from the experience, will be broadly applicable. The team will break down what their results were after the Final Four.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/google-cloud-predict-final-four-winners-halftime/
Smugglers used drones to sneak $80 million worth of phones into China
Attempts to smuggle devices from Hong Kong to China are fairly common. A few years ago, one man tried to sneak 94 iPhones into China, all of which were strapped to his body, and in 2011, some smugglers were busted for using a slingshot to set up a zip line in between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, which they were using to transport iPads and iPhones. And in a less-successful scheme, a would-be smuggler tried to hide over 200 iPhones in empty beer bottles that were then sent from Hong Kong to China.
The Legal Daily reports that this is the first known case to have employed drones as part of the smuggling arrangement.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/smugglers-drones-80-million-phones-china/
Alexa’s DVR controls will finally let you record a show
For all the recent talk of using Alexa to control DVRs, there's been a conspicuous inability to record to a DVR using the voice assistant. That won't be a problem for much longer: Amazon has bolstered Alexa's Voice Skill programming kit with recording features. Tell the AI helper to record a favorite show or sports extravaganza and you'll capture the show without having to touch a remote or your smartphone. You'll have to wait for TV and set-top providers to take advantage of this, but DirecTV, Dish, TiVo and Verizon are already lining up to provide support "soon."
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/alexa-dvr-recording-skill/
Congress just legalized sex censorship: What to know
The Senate has passed the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, or SESTA, and tacked-on FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act), by a vote of 97–2. Lawmakers did not fact-check the bill's claims, research the religious neocons behind it, nor did they listen to constituents. Significant organizations, including the Department of Justice, ACLU, EFF, and more had assembled to object to the bill both publicly and in letters to elected officials. In the process, law professors and anti-trafficking groups, along with sex work organizations, unearthed the bill's many alarming legal, constitutional, and human rights disqualifications.
It's dubbed the "anti-trafficking" bill for the internet, but it's really an anti-sex sledgehammer. The bill removes protection for websites under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and makes sites and services liable for hosting what it very, very loosely defines as sex trafficking and "prostitution" content. FOSTA-SESTA puts into law that sex work and sex trafficking are the same thing, and makes discussion and advertising part of the crime. Its blurry interpretation of sex and commerce, as well as the bill's illogical, incorrect conflation of sex trafficking and sex work is straight out of a bad movie.
If only the politicians who voted this Morality in Media (NCOSE) mess into law had fact-checked it with Freedom Network USA, "the largest coalition of experts and advocates providing direct services to to survivors of human trafficking in the U.S." Freedom Network unequivocally states that protecting the rights of sex workers, and not conflating them with trafficking victims, is critical to the prevention of trafficking. They also have the data to back up the fact that "more people are trafficked into labor sectors than into commercial sex."
It's already an unmitigated disaster for free speech in America. Which was, of course, predicted. The Technology and Marketing Law Blog wrote that there's no mistaking that FOSTA-SESTA violates the First Amendment; it plainly stated that "this statute implicates constitutionally protected speech."
It's unconstitutional, but the damage is already being done. Despite the fact that FOSTA-SESTA isn't even law yet -- it could take anywhere from 90 days to until 2019 to take effect -- online companies, always dangerously prudish with their algorithms, or hypocritical with their free speech rhetoric, appear to be in a rush to proverbially herd sex workers (and all us people who talk about sex for a living) out of the airlock into places where no one can hear us scream.
Safety resources disappear overnight
Websites are removing content and communities wholesale, the result of FOSTA-SESTA making safer working conditions more difficult by criminalizing digital conversations about sex work, screening tools and discussions about how to be safe doing it.
By way of its ambiguity, FOSTA-SESTA has begun the largest wave of censorship the open internet may ever see.
Craigslist removed its entire Personals section. All these amazing moments can never happen again.
As some may recall, Craigslist already voluntary closed its Erotic Services section in 2010 under pressure from conservative groups. This is despite a study from Baylor and West Virginia Universities, which found that Craigslist's erotic services page directly reduced female homicides in the US by 17 percent, "principally because sex workers were able to use the free advertising service to move into safer indoor environments and screen clients more carefully." Request for comment to Craigslist and our queries asking why Personals was removed ahead of the bill's signing were not responded to by time of publication.
Within days, Reddit removed entire communities. Notably, its r/escorts and r/sugardaddy subreddits. We asked Reddit for comment about its pre-emptive removal of those subreddits, and how that lines up with the company's controversial philosophies regarding freedom of speech, but did not receive a response by press time.
Right now, sites and safety resources are falling like dominoes. In short order, sex work networks NightShift, CityVibe, and furry personals site Pounced shut down entirely. Sites that facilitated safety in sex work including The Erotic Review, VeryfyHim, Hung Angels, YourDominatrix, and Yellow Pages shut down their discussion boards, advertising boards, and community forums. Other sites, like MyFreeCams, have changed their policies to ban any talk about transactions of any kind.
FOSTA-SESTA's timing puts a dark spin on recent Terms enforcement by Google Drive and changes with Microsoft products.
On the Survivors Against Sesta shutdown list of services, growing every day, Google Drive is listed as "deleting explicit content and/or locking out users." Google declined to comment on the record, but Engadget was assured via email from a source with knowledge of the situation that the enforcement wave on Drive has nothing to do with FOSTA-SESTA.
Similarly, Microsoft released a Terms update this week that got the company put on the FOSTA-SESTA censorship list as well. A spokesperson for Microsoft told Engadget in an email that the changes are not related to FOSTA. Further, the spokesperson told us, "The recent changes to the Microsoft Service Agreement's Code of Conduct provide transparency on how we respond to customer reports of inappropriate public content."
Human canaries in the free speech coal mine
The hashtag #LetUsSurvive is a current rallying point on Twitter, directing attention to the sex work community's determination to get out of this insidious wave of conservative anti-sex silencing alive. To that end, sex work websites feature guides to self-censoring, the kind of thing you'd expect belongs more in Weimar-era Berlin than coming out of modern-day San Francisco.
Sex workers are right to be scared. They're facing all this sudden and casually disastrous censorship as a threat to their safety and livelihoods, and are well aware that few are willing or brave enough to fight for their free speech and human rights. Even sex writers such as myself know this; any of us who've tried to make a living off anything relating to sex online has a list of products, services, banks and payment processors, social networks, companies, and business tools that everyone else takes for granted — that we are expressly prohibited from using.
It has been a speech issue for a long time, one most people have turned away from as Instagram censors more nipples, as PayPal freezes and shutters the accounts of sex bloggers and book authors, Tumblr deep-sixes erotic artists, and more.
Hateful gamers? No problem. Death threats toward women? Here's a form to fill out. MAGA racists terrorizing women and people of color off the platform? Gotta hear both sides. But expose a nipple in artwork, discuss non-reproductive sex ed, or talk about making sex work safer by screening clients? Now that's a misguided business plan guaranteed to create lasting cultural harm. Let's definitely keep Peter Thiel on the board. If you thought all that was bad enough, just you wait. FOSTA-SESTA is making us disappear before your very eyes — and it will affect you, too.
Under FOSTA-SESTA, we'd most likely have no Stormy Daniels. That Stormy Daniels is making headlines while the absolute worst is happening to sex workers online is not lost on anyone.
"In a titillating cross-section of lawmaking and scandal," wrote sex worker Morgan Claire-Sirene, "we have on one side Stormy Daniels suing 45 for unlawful payoffs and calling him to account publicly for his associates' threats against her, and on the other side, legislation that has already silenced common sex workers, with the overlaying intersections of race and class; good whores and bad whores; victims and perpetrators; and misinformation all around."
Daniels is a perfect lens with which to view the exact way FOSTA-SESTA harms one of America's largest at-risk populations. Writer Ben Udashen points out, "The level of sex worker whose lives will be harmed by SESTA are not at the same level of fame and notoriety as Stormy Daniels"
"Daniels won't be caught up in a sting sending her to jail because she had to work as a streetwalker to help pay her rent and feed her children. Daniels won't have to carry a weapon to defend herself when she meets with a new client.
"Most importantly, Daniels's children won't be woken up to the news that their mother didn't come home last night because she was murdered by a serial killer, a class of criminal who have always targeted sex workers from Jack the Ripper to the Green River Killer. Poor and working class sex workers, regardless of gender identity, will pay that price."
And for a short moment in history, the advent of the open internet reduced that horrible cost.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/congress-just-legalized-sex-censorship-what-to-know/
Twitch layoffs affect around two dozen employees
Despite the continued rollout of new features and highlights like a recent record-breaking stream of Fortnite, Polygon reports that Amazon-owned Twitch laid off around 25 employees today. In a statement, the company said it "conducted team adjustments in some departments" but still has plans to increase headcount by 30 percent this year. Some of the people leaving include well-known names in the Twitch community like VP of community Justin Wong and director of content marketing Ben "Fishstix" Goldhaber.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/twitch-layoffs-affect-around-two-dozen-employees/
Tesla: Autopilot was engaged in fatal Model X crash
Tesla:
In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier in the drive and the driver's hands were not detected on the wheel for six seconds prior to the collision. The driver had about five seconds and 150 meters of unobstructed view of the concrete divider with the crushed crash attenuator, but the vehicle logs show that no action was taken.
It reiterated a statement from its first update, noting that a crash attenuator safety barrier intended to mitigate the effect of a collision in that spot was missing due to an earlier crash. While it noted that the driver had time and unobstructed view of the divider before the crash, it didn't mention what action the automated systems took at the time. The driver's brother told a reporter that Huang had previously complained the car would swivel toward that exact barrier and had complained to the Tesla dealership about it, but that they could not replicate the issue.
Tesla also went on to cite stats from the government showing Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, and suffered far fewer fatalities per mile than other cars.
In the US, there is one automotive fatality every 86 million miles across all vehicles from all manufacturers. For Tesla, there is one fatality, including known pedestrian fatalities, every 320 million miles in vehicles equipped with Autopilot hardware. If you are driving a Tesla equipped with Autopilot hardware, you are 3.7 times less likely to be involved in a fatal accident.
Tesla Autopilot does not prevent all accidents – such a standard would be impossible – but it makes them much less likely to occur. It unequivocally makes the world safer for the vehicle occupants, pedestrians and cyclists.
No one knows about the accidents that didn't happen, only the ones that did. The consequences of the public not using Autopilot, because of an inaccurate belief that it is less safe, would be extremely severe. There are about 1.25 million automotive deaths worldwide. If the current safety level of a Tesla vehicle were to be applied, it would mean about 900,000 lives saved per year. We expect the safety level of autonomous cars to be 10 times safer than non-autonomous cars.
The National Transportation Safety Board already said it's investigating the crash, to look at the fire and steps to make the car safe for removal from the scene. However, Bloomberg reported that it's also looking into another crash earlier this year where a Model S ran into a fire truck parked on the highway, where the driver claimed Autopilot was engaged at the time. In 2016 a driver blamed Autopilot for a crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but the company said data showed the feature was not in use at the time. And last year the NTSB found fault with both driver and technology in the case of a fatal Florida crash.
For autonomous or driver assist technology, the scrutiny is raised not only because of those incidents, but also the recent self-driving Uber crash in Arizona. Expect to hear more questions coming up about the testing of this technology and how well it handles returning control to a human driver when there's a situation the sensors aren't ready for.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/tesla-autopilot-model-x-crash-mountain-view/
Hasbro got 5,000 pre-orders to build a massive replica of Jabba’s barge
#StarWars fans, you #BackedTheBarge!! Jabba would be proud! #HasLab #BackTheBarge pic.twitter.com/RczPpqj7Qe
— Hasbro (@HasbroNews) March 30, 2018
The barge's replica is the biggest Hasbro-branded Star Wars toy yet, much bigger than the company's Millennium Falcon replica that measures 2.6 feet in length. Hasbro will bundle the barge with a 3.75-inch Jabba the Hutt and Yak Face figures that can fit inside the toy. Speaking of its interior, the barge has a two-person cockpit, a galley, an armory and a lounge inside, all of which are as detailed as the toy's exterior. Hasbro plans to ship the toy's 64-page booklet companion as soon as April 4th this year, but the barge itself won't sail its way to backers until February 28th, 2019.
Article source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/hasbro-haslab-jabba-barge-replica/