1 Samsung's reducing smartphone production
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/28/samsung-reportedly-cutting-smartphone-production-by-30m/
- A new report from South Korea's Maeil Business News
- says that Samsung will reduce smartphone production by 10% in 2022,
- down to 280 million units,
- according to a Samsung Electronics partner company.
- Analysts at Counterpoint Research expects sales volumes of mid- to low-priced phones to be sluggish for Samsung.
1.1 Smartphone shipments out of China are down
2 Google adding to the Universal Stylus Initiative Certified Product list (could it be for a Pixel tablet?)
https://9to5google.com/2022/05/29/google-pixel-tablet-stylus/
- The Universal Stylus[1] Initiative [2]
- maintains a Certified Products list
- for devices that supports its third-party stylus standard.
- Google recently added a device to the list with the Product Name Tangor
- and the model simply listed as Tablet.
- The list does not make it clear if Google's announced Pixel-branded tablet will support USI[3] when it launches next year,
- or if this is some other unannounced device.
3 Apple expectations for their various device operating systems
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/29/apple-preparing-enhanced-lock-screen-and-more/
- Bloomberg's Mark[4] Gurman expects iOS 16 to feature an updated Lock screen
- with widget[5]-like capabilities included in wallpapers.
- The OS[6] also reportedly[7] includes future support for an always-on lock screen.
- Gurman also expects iPadOS[8] to feature
- "major changes to windowing and multitasking,"
- with tvOS[9] 16 adding "more smart-home tie-ins[10]." ---
4 Apple and RealityOS
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/29/realityos-trademark-filing-ahead-of-wwdc/
- A product manager for The Verge[11], Parker[12] Ortolani
- spotted two seperate (a misspelling[13], only example on simple.wikt) trademark filings
- for "realityOS" filed by the company "Realityo Systems[14] LLC[15],
- with a foreign filing date deadline of June 9, 2022, a day ahead of Apple's WWDC.
- Realityo Systems lists the same corporate location that Apple has used in past years to file trademarks on macOS release names.
- Apple seemingly referenced realityOS in App Store update logs earlier this year,
- and Mark Gurman reported rOS as a codename for the OS for the company's mixed reality headset back in 2017.
5 Twitter Circle roll out
https://www.androidpolice.com/twitter-circle-instagram-close-friends-rolling-out/
6 Tether crypto
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/148910/tether-launches-mexican-peso-stablecoin-mxnt
- Tether[19] is most famous as operating the stablecoin USDT[20][21],
- which is pegged[22] to the US dollar.
- But it also has EURT pegged to the Euro[23]
- and CNHT, pegged to the Chinese Yuan[24].
- And now it has a fourth as it launches MXNT, pegged to the peso[25].
- Tether backs its coins with a mix of actual cash and easily-liquidated securities,
- however it has been criticized for not being as transparent with those holdings, as other stablecoins have been.
7 Netflix password sharing policy internationally
- Netflix[26] announced a new password sharing policy in Peru, Chile, and Costa Rica back in March,
- requiring users to pay extra for sharing passwords outside their home,
- but about one-third the price of migrating to a new account.
- Rest of World reports users experiecing (misspelling) a lack of clarity of what constitutes a household,
- with some user simply ignoring Netflix warning messages with no consequence.
8 Use of digital IDs worldwide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-61606477?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
- Peru’s consumer rights agency said differing charges could be considered arbitrary user discrimination, but did not say if it had launched an investigation. The UK Cinema Association partnered with the digital ID firm Yoti to now accept digital IDs to enter age restricted movies. The Yoti ID app lets users add in passport details and a current photo, showing an age-verified image that can be verified by movie theater staff.
9 Frontier, the new fastest supercomputer
- The Frontier[27] supercomputer at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesse (misspelling)
- became the first exascale supercomputer
- with a sustained Linpack run of 1.102 ExaFlops a second.
- It overtook Japan's Fugaku supercomputer as the world's fastest,
- and faster other top seven supercomputers combined.
- Frontier users 602,112 AMD "Trento" CPU[28] cores and 4.6 petabytes of DDR4[29] memory.
10 Apple's motion to dismiss app store Cydia denied
- U.S. District Judge Yvonne[30] Gonzalez[31] Rogers[32] denied Apple's[33] motion to dismiss the antitrust[34] lawsuit[35] brought by the makers of the competing app store Cydia. Apple argued[36] that the case fell outside of the four year window to file[37] antitrust suits, but Judge Rogers ruled that "to the extent plaintiff's[38] claims rely on Apple's technological[39] updates to exclude Cydia from being able to operate altogether, those claims are timely."
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