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Like it or not, the notch — that little cutout made famous by the iPhone X — is a thing for new phones. No matter if it’s iPhone or Android, the notch is here for the foreseeable future.
Rumor has it Apple’s upcoming iPhone SE, tentatively called the “SE 2,” might follow the iPhone X with a notch of its own. It could be announced as soon as WWDC next month
The iPhone SE was released in 2016 and is so due for an update that you might have forgotten it even exists. But we assure you, Apple still sells the lil guy because not everyone wants a huge phone. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Will the iPhone SE 2 have a notch just like the iPhone X?
At some 35,700 feet beneath the ocean, there is a white plastic bag lying in the sand at the deepest ocean depths, in the Mariana Trench.
Scientists have known about the bag since May 1998, when a robotic deep-sea submersible spotted it while surveying the bottom of the trench. But a recent study on deep-sea plastic pollution gave this sad bag — representative of the planet’s amplifying plastic pollution problem — new life.
It is still the deepest known piece of plastic debris on our planet, say the researchers. The trench’s literal deepest depth isn’t much further down, at approximately 36,200 feet. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Yes, there is a plastic bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
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Can a game about popping multi-colored bubbles be relaxing?
That’s the premise of Tiny Bubbles, a newly released puzzle game that’s both surprisingly challenging and relaxing all at once.
The $2.99 game (iOS and Android) is centered around what the developer describes as “soap bubble physics,” and, at first, it’s deceptively simple. You’re presented with a series of different colored bubbles, and your goal is to get the colors to match up so the bubbles pop and you can advance to the next level.
But though the challenges start out relatively easy, they quickly get much more challenging, as the game relies on a set of increasingly elaborate mechanics to get the bubbles to align (there are almost 200 levels to play through). Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Download this: 'Tiny Bubbles' is the brain break you didn't know you needed
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Robot dogs are now scaling stairs, and they might show up in society next year
May 12, 2018The yellow robot dogs that so unsettled people in February by opening a door for one another can now easily walk up and down stairs on their own.
Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert — who founded the robot company known for building machines that mimic real animal and human movements — said Friday at the TechCrunch Robotics Sessions conference at UC Berkeley that the robots, called SpotMini, will be ready for purchase in 2019.
While declining to offer a price on the 66-pound, relatively quiet, and uniquely agile robot dogs, Raibert did say that they’re designed to be deployed in commercial office building-like settings — and then eventually homes. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Robot dogs are now scaling stairs, and they might show up in society next year
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Here's how an inventive programmer uncovered Instagram's Pride Month features
May 12, 2018Snapchat’s continuing implosion is Instagram’s gain.
As more users flock to Instagram, primarily to share Stories, the Facebook-owned company is testing a long list of new features that’ll further accelerate growth and leave Snapchat in its dust.
A couple of weeks ago developer Jane Manchun Wong shared a list of new, unreleased Instagram features the app was privately testing. Then, on Saturday, Wong unloaded even more possible features that may or may not ever see the light of day.
I caught up with Wong over Twitter DM to get a better understanding how she was making these discoveries. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Here's how an inventive programmer uncovered Instagram's Pride Month features