Friday, February 8, 2019

February 8, 2019 More Tech News

Here are some more summary of tech news for today ( February 8, 2019 )


How China’s technology boom is changing New Year celebrations
Traditions has changed in several way due to the introductions of several new technologies, such as the ease of ordering takeaway food to Celebrate Lunar New Year is actually consider normal and this changed is embraced by all generations from eldery to young ages.
Another technology development is that WeChat now provides the ability to give money to children through QR Code attached to messages, which was traditionally given in red envelope.
“Tencent, WeChat’s parent company, provided South China Morning Post with records showing that the popularity of this feature has increased every year since its introduction in 2014.”
Through this changes, it is claimed to be more convenient without changing the celebration atmosphere.

Line bets $182m on its mobile payments business
Line has branched out it’s functions from communication and chatting app to games, jobs, manga, and e-commerce services. Even now, it is providing the function of payment businesses, which now includes physical retail terminals and credit cards – is what ties all these things together, and Line is going all in by investing in financial services.

Is China’s corruption-busting AI system being turned off for being too efficient?
China is implementing AI to perform “anti trust” to avoid corruption. Slightest abnormal in financial issues is easily detected which now cause stressed in goverment due to the discipline that must be performed.

Xbox One controllers, Alexa-powered microwaves, and more are cheaper today
Products that are worth checking and worth the price, additional several brief reviews of the mentioned products.

Tesla’s Model 3 pricing inches closer to $35,000 target
Sources : www.theverge.com
Tesla has reduced the price of the Model 3 by $1,100, bringing the starting price of its cheapest model down to $42,900 before incentives applied to three version of the car, including rear-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, and performance models. Tesla is an well-known car for it’s technology, electric cars, solar panels, and clean energy storage. Tesla create a car that’s sustainable for living.

Samsung Galaxy S10 reverse wireless charging to charge new Gear Buds
Galaxy Buds introduced will charged wirelessly by the Galaxy S10 underneath, by simple contact and it is believed that they will be the Gear IconX successor.

Google and WhatsApp are using AI to kick users, flag spam on a massive scale
Gmail and Whatsapp are now using their own artificial intelligence engines to cut down the number of publicity of fake news and spam.

macOS 10.14 Mojave problems: how to fix them
About bug, which the bug cause stealing personal data. There is no fixes from Apple yet.
However, if you encounter the macOS Mojave problem where the installation fails due to low disk space, restart your Mac and press Control + R while it’s booting to enter the Recover menu. Select ‘Disk boot’ to boot normally, then remove any files you no longer need.

Skype’s new background-blurring feature is a celebration of living in your own filth
Skype is now improving their app with innovation featuring blur background toggle, causing focus on the subject,intelligently obscures the backdrop while leaving the subject in sharp focus.

The sensors in the Nissan Titan are obnoxious, but attention-getting
An artificial intellegence car, Nissan Titan getting reviewed by the user. The review is about the artificial intellegence that is light detection and ranging. Though, every sensor can be manually set based on the drivers need, but the sensor need some improvement, it needs to differentiate between plastic bottle or real obstacles. Overall, the car has no problem.

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