There’s a new improvement rolling out with the app beta that may help alleviate this. en you launch Now on Tap (if you’re one of the lucky few, anyway) you’ll see some of the cards that you’d find in Now, such as weather or upcoming events. You’ll also see icons to set a reminder, create an event, set a timer, or other comms. It’s one of those staggered rollouts to the beta channel of the app, as I was able to launch these on a Galaxy S7 ge but not on a Nexus 5X....

WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS for Rogue One - Lucasfilm’s first Star Wars anthology, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has no shortage of great moments that made the film standout and become a valuable piece of the franchise canon. However, for many viewers, the biggest sequence came towards the very end of the movie. Following the intense Battle of Scarif, the Rebel Alliance attempt to flee with the stolen Death Star plans, but as Alliance soldiers try to get the readouts to the Tantive IV, they have a most unfortunate encounter with villain Darth Vader....

Former Rochdale Securities trader David Miller was jailed for two-and-a-half years after fraudulently buying a billion dollar’s worth of AAPL shares in the hope of cashing-in on an expected rise in the stock price after last year’s Q4 earnings call, reports Fortune. His plan was to wait for the stock price to climb, sell the shares, pay the client the profit on their investment and pocket the rest himself. Even a modest rise on a billion dollar investment would have netted him tens of millions of dollars....

Oh, Digitimes. This is the 4th year in a row that you’ve reported that Apple would be moving its chip business away from Samsung in Texas to the friendly local confines of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). This time however, the report hedges the bet saying only a portion of the production will move to Taiwan. It also sources a Korean publication Hankyung. Apple shifting production of its iPhone and iPad chips away from Samsung to TSMC is one of those constant rumors, dating back to at least 2011....

According to famed HTC leaker LlabTooFeR, HTC will be unveiling the M10, codenamed Perfume, at a dedicated event that will be held sometime after MWC in March. HTC also plans on offering two variants of the M10: one with a Snapdragon 820 chipset that will be primarily sold in the United States and Europe, with another variant being powered by a MediaTek chipset that is primarily targeted towards the Asian market....

The days are numbered for the last remaining Galaxy Note 7 holdouts. To safeguard any devices still in circulation, Samsung announced. It will push out a software update to prevent charging, effectively bricking the beleaguered handset. In a press release, Samsung said that it has had overwhelming participation in the Note7 U.S. recall program. Some 7 percent of devices remained in customers’ hands. Starting December 19, 2016, and continuing over the following 30 days....

The Samsung Galaxy A8s is coming down the pipe, and it looks like Samsung is ready to start introducing its first notched displays in early 2019. We know Samsung is ready to stop mocking other companies for adopting notch designs and go with the flow, and the Galaxy A8s looks to be the first handset to welcome that trend. Courtesy of AllAboutSamsung.de, we have a clear look at the front and back of the upcoming Galaxy A8s....

Director Jay Roach’s untitled Roger Ailes movie officially lands a December 2019 release date. The film, which features an all-star cast including Charlize Theron, Margot Robbie, Nicole Kidman, and John Lithgow, revolves around a group of women that took on the former Fox News chairman, who resigned from his position in 2016 amidst a sexual harassment scandal. It was previously set up at Annapurna before being dropped late last year as production was ramping up....

Rugby union is a sport that doesn’t always work in video games. Video game adaptations have been around for decades, yet whereas other sports titles have seen improvements over time it’s fair to say that many rugby fans are still chasing the quality of original PlayStation classic Jonah Lomu Rugby. That’s not to stop other titles giving it a go, with Rugby 2020 the latest game to try and bring rugby successfully into the video game world....

There may be some noteworthy Marvel Comics character heading to the small screen, for the upcoming Jessica Jones season 2. Production on Jessica Jones season 2 is now underway, continuing the story of everyone’s favorite Marvel P.I. (played by Krysten Ritter) in the process. Season 1 of the series was highly praised by critics, but for the followup season, some of the biggest characters will not be returning. Luke Cage (Mike Colter) is not expected to appear again, and Jessica snapped the neck of her season 1 antagonist, Kilgrave (David Tennant)....

We have already seen and heard quite a bit about the Galaxy Alpha — rumored to be Samsung’s first Android phone with a metallic body. However, it was not clear whether Samsung would be unveiling the device with the Note 4 at IFA or at a separate event to be held earlier. Today, the folks over at SamMobile have managed to solve this mystery and can confirm that the Galaxy Alpha would be launched next month on August 4th (....

The Galaxy S5 was Samsung’s flagship for 2014, launched earlier in the year. And then Samsung launched the Galaxy S5 LTE-A, solely for South Korea, and suddenly the flagship from earlier in the year isn’t so much the flagship of 2014 anymore. Now, if leaks of a rumored device are true, Samsung has yet another flagship replacement in the pipeline. We’ve seen the Galaxy F before. Quite a few times, actually, if you include all of the leaks for the device that pointed towards a release earlier this year (but eventually turned into the Galaxy S5 LTE-A)....

Still not tired of all those leaked images of the Galaxy F? Well, today the guys over at PhoneArena have received another image of the handset in which it is compared side-by-side to Korean company’s current flagship — the Galaxy S5. It is quite clear from the image that Samsung has considerably reduced the bezels on the Galaxy F (a.k.a the Galaxy S5 Prime) compared to the S5, which gives it a very sleek and modern look....

On compromised systems, rootkit detection and removal is difficult at best and outright impossible at its worst. This makes the early analysis of discovered rootkit software a high priority for security experts. The standard protocol for the evaluation of any rootkit involves reverse-engineering the malicious software in question. This will enable security professionals to uncover the following main aspects of a rootkit: The targeted filesystems and individual files The common registry keys used The kind of data it is stealing, if any The potential of secondary attacks post-infection The threat of remote access to target systems The type of encryption used for backdoor access...

We have seen the HTC One M8 Prime leaking out on a number of occasions with the most recent rumor showing a press render of the handset. But Evleaks is now claiming that this smartphone has been canceled by HTC. The reason for this is not known at the moment, but it should put an end to the rumors and leaks regarding the device. Given HTC’s limited resources, it was always going to be tough for the company to procure QHD displays in required quantities for this smartphone....

Recently, Samsung didn’t roll out support for Google Assistant in Samsung Galaxy Watch4, but it was shown in the video trailer. In March, the company reported that the release of the next updated version of One UI based on Android 12 would include new camera features for some older Galaxy models. Samsung didn’t specify any date, but it revealed the features list with capable devices. Samsung Galaxy S21 Series Latest Update Retains New Camera Features According to Samsung’s latest Community forums, Samsung has begun including the Galaxy S22 camera features with a new camera update to Galaxy S21 series....

Oh Samsung, how boring would our lives as technology bloggers be without your awesome unashamed commercials? And what would your marketing division do if there was no Apple and no iPhone? Their entire creative team is burning the midnight oil trying to come up with ways to bash it in its advertisements. But I digress. This new ad, well, it’s funny and brilliant. Unless you are the target demography that is, in which case, Samsung just made fun of you to try to win you....

Back in September, Roku announced that it would add HomeKit and AirPlay 2 support sometime this year. The new features are now rolling out to 4K Roku streaming devices as well as Roku TV models. AirPlay 2 and HomeKit have rolled out to a variety of smart TVs over the last two years, from companies such as LG, Samsung, and Vizio. Roku’s rollout is particularly notable because of the company’s popular streaming sticks and set-top boxes that are oftentimes more affordable than the competition....

Qualcomm is the undisputed leader in mobile chips. You could argue that Apple does a better job with their processors, and you’d be right according to the testing that AnandTech has done, but when it comes to Android, it’s Qualcomm or bust. Now in order to stay on top, you have to keep on innovating, which means better products. According to a rumor on Fudzilla, Qualcomm will release new Snapdragons early next year that feature a new GPU called the Adreno 400....

Former Apple Retail Chief Ron Johnson is out at JCPenney after his radical retail redesign failed to ignite sales in the same manner in which Apple Stores had grown accustomed. Ron Johnson left Apple in 2011 for the JCP job after a decade at Apple. He helped design the original Apple Store concept after being lured away from Target by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He pioneered concepts like the Genius Bar which was unheard of at the time but still a growing trend in the industry....