How can the Apple chip change the use of the iPhone forever?
A new chip, installed on the latest models of iPhone phones, does not have much use today, but this chip is the foundation for future applications, which have not been possible before.
Although Apple's new chip, the U1, hasn't received as much media attention as Apple's other creations, the company isn't releasing new products unless they have a big role to play.
The U1 chip could be the foundation for applications that will be key to Apple's products and services in the future.
U1 has a technology that the Internet doesn't need, called UWB (Ultra-Wideband), which Apple has introduced as "GPS in your living room." This technology is similar to the Internet, but operates at a different level of frequency, which usually has feweobstacles, resulting in better performance.
This chip enables large data exchange, much more than is possible with Bluetooth.
Ultra-Wideband is not new, it has been used before in professional athletes, due to their tracking, in competitions, by televisions. This is the first time a U1 chip has been used by any major company such as Apple.
Apple has not revealed long-term plans for this chip, but researchers have found many ways it can be used. First, the chip has been introduced to potential customers on the grounds that they can exchange data with large gigabytes.
According to researchers, UWB can be used to open the car as you approach. While this is possible with other technologies that do not require internet, UWB is much more accurate than them. Bluetooth Low Energy, for example, is so accurate that it will only open the door near you.
Some "leaks" from Cupertino have suggested that Apple is competing with Tile, which can label, with electronic products, things you consider "important" and then find them. location with application. Since the Tile app relies on Bluetooth LE, phones equipped with the U1 chip would be more accurate in locating the exact location.
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| 1point5 |
The UN mobile application for social distancing is considered dysfunctional
On Wednesday, the United Nations (UN) announced the application "1pont5" which helps people for social distance, but the application does not perform most of its basic tasks, reports VICE.
This week, a UN division announced the new social distancing application, created to alert people who are getting too close to another person during coronavirus pandemic, lifehack reports.
Motherboard has concluded that the "1point5" application is almost non-functional. An independent researcher has pointed out how the app can be largely ineffective due to the way it notifies its users. The app uses Bluetooth but not just mobile phones that people are supposed to carry in their pockets.
The news highlighted how the emergence of various diverse applications and new technologies should help during pandemics, even governments.
"1point5" measures the distance to phones and other devices as long as their Bluetooth is on. Other phones do not need to have the application installed in order to detect their presence, "the UN Laboratory of Technology and Innovation Laboratories (UNTIL) said in a statement on Wednesday.
When users download 1point5, the app is supposed to notify them when a Blotooth device is 1.5 meters away from their phone or they may decide to increase the distance for a while. The application is supposed to give the message "Please keep your distance" if you detect a device closely.
But when Motherboard downloaded the app during the week due to the official UN announcement, the app didn’t perform them, the app didn’t even perform basic actions. Motherboard tested the app on various Android devices and kept them close with other Bluetooth-enabled phones. The application did not detect other lawsuits in any of the tests.
Numerous users seem to have encountered the same problem, according to the reviews left on the app in the Google Play Store.
"Loss of time ... This app is not working," said one user.
"Please do not download this useless application, a waste of time," wrote another.
The application has another drawback in the way it is created. Independent researcher and consultant Ashkan Soltani noted that the description of the application says that the software was made to alert the user to the presence of a device with Bluetooth, but not other phones. All types of devices use Bluetooth, from Playstation, to computers, to speakers, to "smart home" to many other devices.
"I understand that an important part of the response to pandemics is to help people be aware and vigilant about social distancing. But I’m not sure if the presence of the phone alarm every time you pass near a Bluetooth signal helps them, in addition to making them nervous; especially in apartments, buildings and dense workplaces, ”Soltani told Motherboard.
When contacted by Motherboard for the first time on Wednesday, UN spokeswoman Stephane Dujarric De La Riviere responded via email: "I've never heard of this app." But they did not respond to other emails in which confirmation was requested that the application is an official UN product, hacklife reports.
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Samsung Galaxy
S20 Ultra 5G |
Samsung's new Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, which went on sale last month, appears to have technical problems.
According to the Digital Trends report, some people had problems with the screen and glass of the phone's camera on Wednesday.
At the Samsung user forum, many people have complained.
Someone has shown that the camera glass has cracked without falling to the ground and without being damaged in any other way, reports CNET, reports lifehack.
One couple reported that the same injury happened to them.
While another person with the same problem, has shown that he tried to change the glass of the camera, but there was no glass available and they told him to return after three weeks.
Samsung did not want to comment on the issue.
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| Bitcoin |
Like precious metals such as gold, virtual currencies are better able to withstand destabilized markets in times of coronavirus pandemic. The virtual currency "bitcoin" is continuing its upward trend, approaching the threshold of 10 thousand dollars per unit.
The cryptocurrency market has returned to the pre-coronavirus period, performing better than any traditional stock exchange in this pandemic period.
On Thursday, the value of the virtual currency, bitcoin, rose nearly 20 percent, or $ 1,200 a day, to $ 9,469.
The overall digital foreign exchange reserve was also estimated at $ 35 billion more.
Expressed in Euro, such a coin is currently traded with over 8.047,51 Euro
Compared to the end of March, the value of bitcoin stands at around 30 percent higher, at a time when common assets such as crude oil are experiencing the deepest historical dive, or when coronavirus fears have undermined profits in financial markets.
Experts in the field point out that recent developments are attributed to the central bank's monetary policy to keep the key interest rate at zero until the economy emerges from the recession.
Another factor is the expected halving of the reward for manufacturers and the amount of bitcoins on the market.
This practice is expected to be implemented from May 12 for the next four years, as a measure to keep digital currency inflation under control.
Many investors are now buying coins in the hope that their value will increase in the future, especially at a time of geopolitical turmoil.
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