225 results for “phones_and_gadgets”
Went into an Apple store this morning and played with the iPhone Duo. It's annoyingly nice.
I've been reconsidering my phone options moving forward. I honestly don't know if I want to re-engage with technology or move further away from it. But the Duo hits all the right 'cool gadget' notes.
Weirdly, at least from my playtime in the store, I feel the Duo was more comfortable than the iPhone 18 Pro to hold. It's heavier, but my hands just seem to prefer the wider folded Duo.
@trumpet I'm having serious trouble accessing mas.to on my Android devices - 1 Samsung tablet and two Xiaomi phones.
Last week when I logged out of #Tusky @Tusky on all 3, I found that I could not log back in because I never got a chance to tick the captcha box on the Cloudflare verification page - it timed out ant took me back to "which instance?" page, with the error message "could not load the login page".
I installed Moshidon on my tablet and WAS able to complete the verification and log in, but I just installed #Pachli @pachli on both my phones and had exactly the same problem - the Cloudflare verification page starts loading, then kicks me back to the "which instance?" page, with the error message "could not load the login page".
Once again, #Moshidon DID work, but I've never had this problem before. I regularly log out on all my devices, and have never had issues with logging back in before.
Our report shows how AI has become stitched into the UK Home Office.
From detecting potential sham marriages and age estimation of asylum seekers to searching phones and producing summaries for asylum decisions.
Plus border surveillance with live facial recognition, AI-powered drones and satellites.
#ai #report #immigration #asylum #HomeOffice #AutomatedDiscrimination #HostileEnvironment #ukpolitics #ukpol
Quebec warranty law forces 3- to 6-year disclosures into Google Shopping ads: Stoves, TVs, phones and laptops sold to Quebec shoppers need a 3- to 6-year term shown by the price. Google displays it only later in 2026. What fills the gap? https://ppc.land/quebec-warranty-law-forces-3-to-6-year-disclosures-into-google-shopping-ads/ #QuebecLaw #WarrantyDisclosure #GoogleShopping #ConsumerRights #Ecommerce
Antonino X The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer (Bitty Summer Beats Mix) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find cool soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Tori Amos, Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is a classic from The Motels, Suddenly Last Summer. The song was actually inspired by the film of the same name, which starred Elizabeth Taylor in a holiday romance/drama. So naturally elements of the film have gone into this new version – dialogue from Taylor herself, along with over-the-top trailers for the movie.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
https://creammagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/side-b4.-master_martha-master-final.wav
Antonino X The Motels Suddenly Last Summer (Bitty Summer Beats Mix)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
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#ambientMusic #ANTONINOTATI #art #audioArt #audioCollages #Chill #CHILLOUTTUNES #CREAMMAGAZINE #electronicMusic #foundObjects #freeDownloads #freeMusicDownloads #kateBush #MUSIC #pop #remixes #remixing #samples #sampling
Antonino X Tori Amos – God (Monkeying Around With The Overzealous Televangelist) MUSIC DOWNLOAD
Found Objects celebrates the return of the remix and the art of sampling (as in found audio).
Australian audio artist and Cream magazine editor Antonino Tati trawls the internet to find great soundbytes that he then layers over alternative mixes of great songs.
The Ultimate Eurythmics Archives calls it “a series of imaginative audio collages that feel part remix, part radio drama, and part pop culture time capsule,” while the series has also been acknowledged by the David Bowie fan site maggioreonbowie.com and other music sites.
Each day a new track is added, building up to a compilation of songs that go beyond the normal parameters of music mixing.
And each track is an awesome head trip. Good to show off on the playlist. The music featured is varied, with Volume 02 containing mixes of songs by Soulwax, Kate Bush, David Bowie, R.E.M., Air, Lily Allen, Taylor Swift, Malcolm McLaren, and more.
Today’s addition is Tori Amos’ masterful ode, God, to which has been added a sermon courtesy of a rather zealous late night televangelist.
Slip on a pair of earbuds or ‘phones and be transported into worlds of aural delight and mad sonic adventure. A musical universe where cool beats are paired with vintage educational fodder, insane radio ads of the 1950s, and classic film quotes.
https://creammagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/side-b1.-master_tori-master-final.wav
Antonino X Tori Amos God (Monkeying Around with the Overzealous Televangelist)
Access your free downloads from the Found Objects: Volume 2 page, and tell your friends.
Don’t forget there’s a load of mixes in Found Objects: Volume 1 you might like as well.
Rate this:
#ambientMusic #ANTONINOTATI #art #audioArt #audioCollages #Chill #CHILLOUTTUNES #CREAMMAGAZINE #electronicMusic #foundObjects #freeDownloads #freeMusicDownloads #kateBush #MUSIC #pop #remixes #remixing #samples #sampling
It's half-baked that the EU requires privacy consent by users of digital services and digital information, which they can grant with one click, whereas declining is a maze of clicks.
Regarding tracking of Internet and phones, the EU regulator could enforce visually equal, one-click access to the buttons for:
• Agree
• Reject
Also, regulate an end to "essential" cookies, and require websites to provide meaningful use without "essential" cookies.
Prepaid and Unlocked Phone Deals
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Phones with Sailfish OS are a good match with Nextcloud. Yesterday we got a first test build of fiat penus, a native Pantry app. Pantry is a household management app. It lets families and shared living groups collaborate on daily tasks, shopping and notes.
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/fiat-a-new-series-of-small-apps/32739/75?u=frankps
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I went to a techno festival and only a few people were on the dancefloor using their phones.
Instead everybody was raving like in the good old days.
The kids are alright.
Samsung plans to sell 20% fewer mid-range phones due to rising chip costs
Samsung recently increased the prices of all its phones, including low-end, mid-range, and high-end models. However, that may…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Samsung #DRAM #NAND #SamsungGroup #SamsungMX
https://www.europesays.com/korea/202527/
Neighbours is being recut into a microdrama focused on Margot Robbie – and her co-stars aren’t happy
By Ima Caldwell
Robbie’s storylines in the famous soap will be recut into vertical micro-episodes to be watched on phones – but her fellow cast members say they haven’t been consulted
#Neighbours #AIartificialintelligence #MargotRobbie #Drama #Film #Culture #Soapopera #Technology #Television #Televisionradio #TheGuardian #ImaCaldwell
Gizmodo: Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year. “a new report… shows searches of the laptops and smartphones of visitors entering the United States have gone up 32 percent this year, according to data CBC News obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And this is with only the first three quarters of the 2026 fiscal year accounted for, which runs from […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/26/password-please-border-searches-of-laptops-phones-up-32-this-year-gizmodo/
In a long post with lots of images Eduardo Kraus has highlighted the gap between typical student use of #Moodle in mobile browsers and how admins and teachers typically use a desktop browser. He summarises with
"Perhaps the best way to improve Moodle's mobile experience is to start using Moodle on our phones the way our students do, because some problems only become obvious when we're the ones who have to deal with them."
I got AI to argue over the best smartphone, and the winner is…
Joe Maring / Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: When it comes to the best Android phones,…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #GoogleGemini #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/813082/
A while back I was talking to someone about whether it was possible to set up your own GSM cell tower for 2G connectivity to try to revive old feature phones now that 2G is dead in many parts of the world. The idea would be to have something that would broadcast on the GSM wavelengths and communicate with the phone, then have it act as a proxy to allow for browsing the internet and sending SMS or making phone calls, which would be proxied to some kind of Internet service.
Of course, just broadcasting a tower on the GSM spectrum is highly illegal because of how it can cause surrounding phones that still listen in on old 2G networks to connect to that and mess up emergency services and whatever else.
However this would still be really interesting to do in a controlled environment where it won't leak signals into the background. Supposedly there are SDRs that can broadcast on GSM frequencies, and apparently you can target it such that you basically wire it up to the RF receiver on the phone, though I'm not sure where that is on my phone and I assume I'd need to disassemble it to get to it.
Neighbours is being recut into a microdrama centred on Margot Robbie. The original episodes are being turned into vertical micro-episodes for phones using an AI-assisted tool.
Source: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/26/neighbours-soap-recut-ai-microdrama-mobile-series-feat-margot-robbie
South Africa has no AI law yet. WhichVoIP shows businesses what to check before an AI answers their phones
WhichVoIP publishes a free guide to what businesses must check before an AI answers their phones, alongside cost calculators, scored comparisons and quotes from up to three providers. Cape Town, 23 October 2026 – South…
https://pressportal.co.za/telecommunications/story/eusjtr60zfb09c8kodn8-20261024.html
#pressrelease #AfricaNewsroom #bizcommunity #publicrelations #africa #southafrica
🧾 The organizations we work for often pay a heavy but invisible tax: the complexity tax. It shows up in slow decision-making, unnecessary overhead, and warring metrics.
We've all seen the symptoms: approval by committee, constant need for permission, information silos. Complexity didn't arrive overnight. Instead, it came one tiny decision at a time. Most of these decisions weren't harmful. It's the collective result that hurts. We have a cognitive bias when solving a problem, in that we tend to look for things to add rather than subtract.
In the early 2000s, as Nokia did very well with mobile phones, it hired more people to help coordinate the work. On the surface, this helped. Then, as Ran Nyman and Ari Tikka document, the coordination chaos that resulted was a significant factor in the demise of Nokia mobile.
Adding additional managers and departments isn't always bad, because the problem isn't the person or even the role. Instead, the problem is when the decision is made to add a new manager (an increase in complexity) without seeking simplicity first. Once the manager or department is added, people will be invested in this complexity forever.
A quick test: you have a complexity problem if you need a flow chart to map out your organization's decision-making process.
After 25 years of Agile, I still see organizations strangling their decision-making process with so much overhead that the teams do low value work, waiting for all of the decisions.
When doing work, always ask the question, how could we simplify this system? What could we eliminate? Every time we make a decision to simplify, we make it easier for the person who follows.
TL;DR
Synapse Shield is an open-source, self-hosted behavioral biometrics engine for bot mitigation. It scores mouse, touch and keystroke dynamics instead of showing CAPTCHAs, and it collects no PII (only relative millisecond timings).
v0.10.0 adds the mobile leg: a Mobile SDK v2.0 across the vanilla JS, React and Vue packages, plus matching changes in the Python engine and the native Rust core.
The problem: desktop heuristics punish real phones
The first versions were tuned on mouse trajectories. Mobile traffic exposed five false-positive cases, all of which looked like bots to desktop-oriented rules:
radiusX == 0Touch radius is quantized or zero, which looked like a synthetic constant-radius touch.Android Gboard / IMESoft keyboards emit key="Unidentified" with 0-5 ms synthetic dwell times, tripping the mechanical-key rules.Touch drawing on the demo canvasThe cockpit canvas only listened for mousemove.What changed in v0.10.0
1. Client SDK (JS, React, Vue)
touchend - touchstart) is recorded as tap_duration_ms.source: "touch" and a 3-decimal average radius, so WebViews that report r = 0 can still be recognized as touch input.click that browsers fire after touchend is de-duplicated.devicemotion listener computes motion_variance (handheld micro-tremor, no permission prompt needed where the browser allows it).device_pixel_ratio, orientation and the WebGL renderer string are included for cross-validation.2. Engine rules
SwiftShader, llvmpipe or a desktop NVIDIA/AMD renderer scores +85 risk.Unidentified / Process keys are exempt from the mechanical dwell-time penalties. Flight-time and entropy checks still apply.3. Rust parity
The six new features (tap_count, avg_tap_duration, tap_duration_var, device_pixel_ratio, motion_variance, is_mobile_gpu_mismatch) exist in both the Rust SIMD core (synapse_core_rs) and the Python fallback. A new parity test runs both implementations on the same telemetry and compares the results.
Verifying it
The full suite passes with 141 tests, including new cases for:
There is also a new mobile_emulator_spoof_plugin in the built-in red-team orchestrator.
pip install -U synapse-shield
synapse-shield run --port 8000
synapse-shield redteam
Honest limitations
devicemotion availability varies by browser and permission policy, so it is a bonus signal, never a requirement.What's next
Feedback, issues and PRs are welcome. If you try it on a real device fleet, I would like to hear which false positives you hit.#opensource #security #python #rust #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
Synapse Shield v0.10.0: Bringing Behavioral Bot Detection to Mobile (Without Building an App)
@lrz I plan to write a 🧵in a few days.
For the hw, what I find good is responsiveness of the gorilla glass. And TOH concept that could open a lot of possibilities for extensions. For now I only have a blue half to put instead of my orange (a complimentary gift for batch 3 pre-orders), but who knows if they'll make some more exciting components in future.
What I don't like: the size, as I prefer smaller phones, and the lack of a headphones port.
Theories (some videos show theory behind it) are this is hinge related. So, if you got an iPhone Duo and noticed any of this be safe. These batteries aren’t a joke when something goes wrong.
Now with the PSA out of the way: Apple “catching up” to Samsung. Now with exploding phones. *scnr*
https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDuo/comments/1xfkntl/duo_just_fried_itself_in_my_pocket
Louis Vuitton waist or chest bag
Louis Vuitton chest bag, LV waist bag, equipped with an adjustable strap, can be worn around the waist, or hung on the shoulders or chest freely. Convenient access to mobile phones, cards, and keys. Size: 26 * 18cm,
Some iPhone Duo Models Are Breaking. iFixit’s Teardown Might Explain Why
Befuddlement.... I walked into the kitchen with my phone in one hand and my morning cup of tea in the other, intent on dumping the used teabag in the bin.
Opened the bin lid, threw in the phone and walked away with the cup and its tea bag.
UM.... noooooooo!
I was wondering when Laura Malvoyante would be getting her new Jolla Phone 2026. Apparently she now has had it for a week and she has published a video on her YouTube channel with her first impressions. And what a video it is! She has been daily driving the Jolla C2 phone and now switched to the Jolla J2.
I'm pretty sure she will follow this video up with one or two more videos, so I recommend subscribing to her channel.
