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Samsung has a new dual wireless charger that seems designed for its new Note 9 and Galaxy Watch. The Wireless Charger Duo has two charging pads, with a flat area meant for the new Galaxy smartwatch and a propped up charging spot for keeping a phone display visible during a charge.

This morning, Vice President Pence detailed the administration’s plans to create a Space Force, and now the Trump PAC wants to know which logo to use for the new branch of the military. The Trump Make America Great Again Committee emailed supporters today asking them to vote on six different Space Force logos. The plan is to create a “new line of gear” based on one of the designs.

Fortnite is making its way to Android, but not until Samsung device owners get a stab at it first... for a measly couple of days. At the Samsung Unpacked event on Thursday, the Fortnite team announced that Samsung users will be on the receiving end of an unusually short exclusive, ending well before the Galaxy Note 9 is released near the end of the month.

If you’re a fan of classic Palm devices and the company’s legacy, you might want to be sitting down for this one. Android Police just published images of what is said to be an upcoming Palm-branded smartphone from TCL and it’s... definitely bizarre. The quirky device, codenamed Pepito, has a 3.3-inch 720p display. That’s smaller than the original iPhone’s screen, if you’re trying to imagine scale. It’s also tinier than the screen on the last phone that Palm ever shipped — the Pre 3 — back it was still owned by HP. Читать дальше...

Samsung’s brand-new Galaxy Note 9 is perfect for people who want an immense amount of storage, a large screen, and some clever S Pen functionality, but its $999 starting price certainly isn’t cheap. It’s worth remembering that you can get a lot of what’s good about the Note 9 in the Galaxy S9, and it’ll cost you less money.

Microsoft is addressing Surface Pen accuracy issues with its latest Surface Pro tablet. Hundreds of Surface Pro owners have been complaining about Surface Pen problems with the device for months, noting that the Surface Pen becomes inaccurate when you rest your hand on the Surface Pro screen. Microsoft has been investigating a fix, and the latest Surface Pro firmware update (available on Windows Update) now addresses problems with palm rejection affecting Surface Pen accuracy.

At its Note 9 announcement today, Samsung boasted the new phablet is a “YouTube Signature Device” for 2019. If you haven’t heard of that certification before, that’s because it’s a brand-new program YouTube just launched. The YouTube Device Report recommends the best smartphones, which it calls “signature devices,” for watching YouTube. These phones feature the ability to watch 360-degree footage, support for high dynamic range, high frame rate, 4K decoding, next-generation codecs, and reliable DRM performance. Читать дальше...

Microsoft has threatened to cease hosting services for the alt-right social network Gab over two anti-Semitic posts, according to an email published by Gab founder Andrew Torba. The email claims the posts violate Microsoft policy and requests that Gab “promptly take appropriate action to resolve the complaint…within two business days” or hosting service will be suspended. If Gab is forced off Azure, Torba says service “will go down for weeks/months” as the company secures a new provider.

Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 9 has been announced, and if you want a big, powerful Android phone that can run Fortnite exclusively for a while, you can reserve yours starting early tomorrow morning at 12:01AM ET on August 10th. (That’s 9:01PM PT on August 9th for customers on the West Coast.)

This morning, Vice President Mike Pence recommended creating three new organizations within the Defense Department devoted to different space military needs. Then, he said President Trump will work with Congress next year to establish the US Department of the Space Force by 2020.

Bike and scooter startup Lime announced that it’s expanding its discount program for low-income customers. Starting today, qualifying users will receive a 50 percent discount to ride the company’s electric-powered scooters and bikes. That’s a hefty 95 percent discount on its normal pedal bikes.

The Galaxy Note 9 is official, along with the unveiling of the long-rumored Samsung smart speaker, the Galaxy Home. At its annual Unpacked event in New York City today, the company finally confirmed details of the various hardware that had been leaked leading up to the announcement. Here’s a recap of everything you should know.

Samsung announced today at its Unpacked 2018 event that its new Galaxy Note 9 will arrive with Bixby 2.0. It will be Samsung’s first smartphone device that will have an upgraded version of Bixby out of the box, which the company says will be better at processing natural language, predicting user needs, and offering quicker response times.

Samsung has announced that it’s entering a long-term partnership with Spotify, including support for the just-announced Galaxy Home smart speaker.

Samsung has announced its entry into the smart speaker market with the Galaxy Home. It’s a high-end speaker that’s meant to go head-to-head with Apple’s HomePod, while standing apart from competitors like Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home with a promise of higher-quality audio. Samsung said the speaker is meant to combine “amazing sound and elegant design.”

Samsung is back with a new smartwatch and fresh branding. The company announced its Galaxy Watch at its annual Galaxy Note phone event today. It features 3G / LTE connectivity and charges wirelessly. There will be two models: a 46mm silver version and smaller 42mm black and rose gold versions. The company’s forgoing its previous Gear branding and is instead tying the watch more directly to its Galaxy smartphone and tablet line.

A few years ago, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn began buying and restoring old exploitation films just because he could. Last week, he took the hobby public with the launch of byNWR, a new, free website designed to showcase and share that collection a few titles at a time, via selections curated and supplemented by a rotating group of guest editors. Typically for Refn, the outspoken writer-director of Drive, the Pusher trilogy, and The Neon Demon, considerable self-created fanfare preceded the launch. Читать дальше...

The Galaxy Note 9 is here, and like every Galaxy Note device before it, one of the highlights of the Note 9 is the thing that separates it from most other smartphones: the S Pen stylus.

Every piece of news that has come out about Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie has seemed surreal, and the latest cast announcement is no different: Ben Schwartz, of Parks and Recreation fame, will voice Sega’s speedy blue hedgehog.

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Mary Golda Ross, the first known female Native American engineer. Born today in 1917, she was the great-great-granddaughter of John Ross, the longest-serving chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went on to be the only woman (aside from the secretary) on a top-secret 40-person team that helped send people to space.

For the weirdos who don’t wear socks or the unfortunate people who just have smelly feet, Panasonic announced today that it will be launching a “shoe deodorizer.” It’s called the MS-DS100, and it uses some zany “nanoe” technology to suck the stink right out of your shoes.

Anchor’s app makes it really easy to throw together a podcast. But if you keep doing that and manage to build an audience, there hasn’t been an easy way to get paid for it. Now Anchor is launching an option: a feature called Listener Support that allows listeners to pledge $1, $5, or $10 per month to specific podcasts.

Discord is looking to supply games directly to its users. The company announced today that it’s rolling out a store beta to 50,000 Canadian users, who will be selected from the platform’s Nitro subscribers at random. Its launch lineup includes Saints Row: The Third, Metro: Last Light Redux, Super Meat Boy, Hollow Knight, and Starbound.

Sony has sold a lot of consoles since it first started making PlayStations in 1994. The company recently crossed the 500 million mark (525.3 million, to be exact). To celebrate that milestone, Sony is releasing a limited edition PS4 Pro with a translucent dark blue case the likes of which hasn’t shown up on a major console since the fine days of the Nintendo 64. This edition will be limited to a symbolically fitting 50,000 units worldwide.

Hot off a lackluster earnings report last week, Samsung needs to make its next device even more splashy than the Galaxy S9. Today, it’s hoping to do that with the introduction of the Note 9 — its flagship phablet with an included stylus. There may also be some other gadgets in store, and we’ll be reporting all the latest from the Samsung Unpacked event in New York City right here.