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Names of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S series and foldable flagship phones have been outed. A Korean media outlet reports that the company held secret meetings with telecom partners on the sidelines of CES 2020. Those who attended these clandestine meetings got to see the unannounced devices. Samsung Mobile chief DJ Koh also apparently confirmed the names of the two upcoming flagships.

First up, the Galaxy S11 series. Turns out, rumors of a rename were real. Koh himself confirmed that the new phones will indeed be called Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, and Galaxy S20 Ultra.

He also revealed the name for the new Samsung clamshell foldable smartphone. The device will called Galaxy Bloom instead of the Galaxy Fold 2. The reason behind this name change is unknown, but Koh explained that the phone is inspired by Lancome’s makeup compacts. Apparently, the company wants to target the new foldable at 20-something women.

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The Galaxy Bloom will reportedly have both 4G and 5G variants. Here’s an image of a presentation slide of the phone which seems to have been shot hastily by one of the attendees.

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Both the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Bloom smartphones are said to support 8K video recording. Samsung has reportedly worked with Google to make 8K videos mainstream. YouTube is expected to enable 8K video streaming as soon as the products launch on February 11.

This is definitely a positive for Samsung, but there’s still not a lot of 8K content out there. If a number of 2020 smartphones enable 8K recording, that content gap could be filled out very soon. Guess we’ll just have to wait and watch.

While all this information is based on a report of what Samsung announced behind closed doors at CES 2020, it’s quite possibly true. Samsung has held such secret meetings with its partners before and the details revealed in this report are not drastically different from what we’ve been hearing till now.

Samsung Galaxy Bloom name confirmed for incoming foldable flagship - Android Authority

First up, the Galaxy S11 series. Turns out, rumors of a rename were real. Koh himself confirmed that the new phones will indeed be called Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, and Galaxy S20 Ultra.

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The Galaxy Bloom will reportedly have both 4G and 5G variants. Here’s an image of a presentation slide of the phone which seems to have been shot hastily by one of the attendees.

Ajunews

8K videos incoming

Kamis, 09 Januari 2020

The Morning After: Introducing the Best of CES 2020 finalists - Engadget

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The Consumer Electronics Show is a place where dreams are m... pitched to dismissive investors and crowdfunders. There are thousands of companies, startups and interest groups all jostling for the eyes of CES attendees and the assembled media. And it's easy to get excited, with flying taxis, home robots, and folding phones all on show in one location. It's the future, the day before it happens. Sometimes everyone gets too excited, and I think that's particularly true for Neon, a spin-off company from the Samsung-backed STAR Labs program. Artificial human avatars sounds totally Blade Runner, but the current state of its digitally generated Neons is more like Amazon Alexa with teeth and eyebrows. Hype is a fickle mistress.

But we've got some incredible nominees in the official Best Of CES 2020 awards. You can make a difference by voting right here for the people's choice. You can watch the results, live, later today at 8pm ET / 5pm PT.

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Here's our list of nominees for all 15 categories.
Presenting the Best of CES 2020 finalists!

Our editors have been hard at work the past few days finding the latest and greatest gadgets here at CES 2020. Now we're ready to announce our finalists for the official Best of CES awards. Below you'll find our selections for all 15 categories, which range from best TVs to the most sustainable products we've seen at the show. We'll announce our category winners tomorrow, which is also when we'll reveal the recipient of our Best of the Best award, the most coveted prize of all. That special award is selected from our pool of category winners.

And if you want your voice heard, too, no worries! There's an additional category for the People's Choice, where you can vote for your favorite of our compilation of finalists. Check out all the finalists right here.

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Quibi's secret weapon: Videos that work in portrait and landscape mode

What the heck is Quibi? That's the question we've all been asking. This mobile-centric streaming video company steadily amassed a whopping one billion dollars in funding, with notable names like Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro signing up to make some very short shows (up to 10 minutes) for the service. What did all of Quibi's supporters know that we didn't? Devindra tries to find the answer.

But it wasn't entirely the company's fault.
Neon's 'artificial human' avatars could not live up to the CES hype

The big story ahead of CES even opening was a Samsung-backed company that was barely half a year old, pitching incredibly realistic 'artificial humans' that not only looked the part but had intellectual and emotional wisdom to match. The reality, at least at this early stage, is relatively impressive, but not quite close enough to the heady conceptual showreel. Neon might have played its hand a year too early. Mat tries to figure out why everyone got so excited.

That's nearly twice as long as most other consumer drones.
V-Coptr Falcon is a bi-copter drone with a 50-minute flight time

You may not be familiar with the name Zero Zero Robotics, but its foldable Hover Camera may ring a bell. Having finally started shipping the Hover 2 to beta testers last month, the company is already showing off a different kind of drone at CES. As the name suggests, the V-Coptr Falcon is a V-shaped bi-copter that boasts an impressive 50-minute flight time -- something that should scare the competition. There are plenty more intelligent touches, too.

Daredevil eat your heart out.
Phonak Virto Black hands-on: A hearing aid that gives you superpowers

You might not have heard of Phonak, but the Swiss company's been around for decades. It makes a range of hearing aids, but the Virto Black is its latest and greatest. Unless you suffer from hearing loss, hearing aids are probably not that interesting, but there's enough going on in the Virto Black that it almost feels like a smart wearable as much as an accessibility tool. James Trew is a convert.

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Here's the real reason the Note 10 Lite matters. And it isn't the headphone jack - CNET

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This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around.

In a tightly packed, dimly lit hotel room at CES, Samsung did something so ordinary it's extraordinary. The world's largest phone brand showed off a downmarket version of its premiere phone for power users, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite. Creating a cheaper variant of a $1,000 device isn't rare. Phone-makers do it all the time to attract buyers with more humble budgets. What's unique is that it happened to this phone in particular.

Ever since launching in 2011, the Galaxy Note has represented Samsung's pinnacle in specs and performance, while the Galaxy S line is more mainstream (and yes, there's a new Galaxy S10 Lite, too). The original Note stood out for its 5.3-inch screen and its stylus, the S Pen, which you can use to navigate, draw and write on the display. Considered laughably large for its time, the first Galaxy Note single-handedly kicked off the trend of large-screen phones, or "phablets."

Since then, Samsung has carefully cultivated the Note family of phones, using the device to experiment with the curved screens that are now typical of its high-end handsets. In fact, Samsung routinely saves its most powerful specs -- the biggest screen, most advanced camera specs and largest battery and storage capacities -- for the annual Galaxy Note reveal, which generally takes place in August.

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That's why Samsung's impulse to create a "Lite" Note completely reverses everything the Note has come to stand for as the brand's best of the best. In making a cheaper, more basic Note, Samsung is also democratizing the Note's most distinct and enduring feature: the digital stylus.

Unlike the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus, the Note 10 Lite has such a different look and feature set, it could almost almost be a completely new phone. It retains a large screen (6.7 inches), but has a much less brilliant resolution. It has straight sides instead of curved, a headphone jack that the Note 10 lacked, and a different trio of camera sensors in a new square mount. The one thing it does have in common with its cousin is the stylus, which seemed just as responsive and capable as the one on the Note 10 Plus.

Samsung hasn't announced the price or release date yet, but it's a fair guess this light version will cost less than half of the Note 10's $950 retail rate.

Whatever the final price, a cheap Note creates an opportunity for Samsung to bring the S Pen stylus to a completely different tier of buyers, one that's price-conscious and interested in the flexibility of writing on the screen. Introducing the Note to a new audience has two main benefits.

The first is that it could help solidify Samsung's lead as the world's top smartphone brand by flooding the market with phones at every price. For example, there are now three Galaxy Notes and five Galaxy S10s (5G, Plus, standard S10, S10E, S10 Lite).

The second advantage of a budget Note 10 is more strategic. Samsung has often said that Note users are the most loyal, and more likely to buy future generations of Note phones than any other model from any brand. If Samsung is able to capture a new audience of Note buyers, it can help secure future sales, and perhaps upsell Note 10 Lite owners to pricier versions of future Note phones.

With the Note 10 Lite, Samsung may have created a gateway phone to long-lasting Note ownership. Only time -- and future sales -- will tell.

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U.S. Government Confirms Critical Security Warning For Firefox Users - Forbes

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The United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a notification that "encourages" users and administrators to update the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This, despite Firefox releasing a significant program update, to version 72, on January 7. So, what is the reason for this level of Government agency interest and, indeed, the urgency in the language used?

A critical zero-day vulnerability that can enable a threat actor to take control of users' computers.

A critical zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild.

Critical Firefox zero-day vulnerability confirmed

The Mozilla Foundation, the sole shareholder in the Mozilla Corporation that makes the Firefox web browser that's the main competition to Google Chrome, published a security advisory January 8. That advisory addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox that has been exploited in targeted attacks in the wild.

What is a zero-day vulnerability?

A zero-day, which can also be referred to as an 0day, is simply a security vulnerability that is not known to the product vendor or security researchers but, crucially, is known to threat actors who can then exploit it without anything preventing them. That's what has happened in the case of the Firefox 0day, CVE-2019-17026.

What is CVE-2019-17026?

Known officially as CVE-2019-17026, there remains little public disclosure as to the precise nature of the vulnerability itself. Beyond that which the Mozilla advisory reveals, that is. What we do know, then, is that this is a "type confusion vulnerability" in the IonMonkey just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the Firefox SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine. The Mozilla Foundation describes the 0day vulnerability as being due to "incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion."

What is type confusion?

What is a "type confusion" do I hear you ask? According to the Common Weakness Enumeration definition, a type confusion occurs when a program accesses a resource using an "incompatible type" which can then "trigger logical errors because the resource does not have expected properties." This, in turn, can lead to out-of-bounds memory access, and that opens the door to remote code execution.

What do you need to do now?

The Mozilla Foundation advisory states that it is "aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw," something that is confirmed by the CISA alert mentioned earlier. The good news is that a second update within a day of the first has been made available for Firefox that patches the vulnerability. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has encouraged users and administrators to "review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 72.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.4.1 and apply the necessary updates." This should be considered as a matter of some urgency, given that this critical zero-day is being exploited already.

Windows users can check to see if Firefox is safe by hitting the hamburger menu to the top right of the browser and selecting "About Firefox" from the Help section. For Apple users, the option can be found in the 'top' Firefox menu. If your browser is showing as being version 72.0.1, then you are safe from this 0day exploit. Enterprise users should ensure that they have updated to version 68.4.1 of Firefox ESR.

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What do you need to do now?