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Around 5.07 billion people use the internet around the world at present, which is equivalent to 63.5 per cent of the world’s total population
With a penetration rate of 47 per cent of the total population of the country, India is one of the leading countries with the highest number of Internet users. In January 2022, India had 658 million Internet users, according to the World Population Review.
China has the highest number of Internet users. India ranks second in the number of Internet users, although only 20 per cent of its population uses the Internet. The penetration rate of countries like the UK and the US is more than 90 per cent.
On International Internet Day, here’s a look at the top 10 countries with the highest Internet users in 2022.
On International Internet Day, here’s a look at the top 10 countries with the highest Internet users in 2022.
China
China had 1.02 billion Internet users as compared to its population of 1.45 billion in January 2022.
India
While the World Population Review said India had 658 million users in January 2022, a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)-Kantar in July revealed that there were 692 million active Internet users in the country at present.
United States
There were 307.2 million internet users in the US in January 2022. The country has an Internet penetration rate of 92 per cent of the total population.
Indonesia
As compared to the total population of 277.7 million in January 2022, Indonesia had 204.7 million Internet users.
Brazil
Brazil had 165.3 million Internet users at the beginning of the year. The country has an Internet penetration rate of 77 per cent of the total population.
Russia
There are 129.8 million internet users in Russia in January 2022, while the total population of the country is 145.9 million. This means that 16.04 million people in the country were not using the Internet at the start of 2022.
Japan
Japan has 118.3 million Internet users and a 94 per cent penetration rate.
Nigeria
Among African countries, Nigeria has the highest number of Internet users at 109.2 million.
Mexico
Mexico’s total population stood at 130.9 million in January 2022, while the number of Internet users in the country was 96.87 million.
Germany
Germany had 78.02 million Internet users in January 2022. The country has an Internet penetration rate of 93 per cent of the total population.
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Pros: – Lively and loud sound output – Useful sound presets – Lightweight and comfortable fit – Compact and pocketable charging case – Good battery life – IPX4 splash resistance – Programmable touch controls including volume control
Cons: – Below-par call quality – Sounds a bit too bright at high volume – No multi-point support
Price:Rs 1,999
Rating: 3.8/5
Not too long ago we reviewed the Oppo Enco X2 TWS earbuds, the company’s flagship product, and totally relished them. While that caters to a different set of users, what we have for you today is targeted at the masses, given its attractive price tag. The Enco X2 managed to raise the performance bar around the Rs 10,000 mark. Can the Oppo Enco Buds2 do the same in the sub-2K segment? Let’s find out.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Design and Comfort (8/10) The design of the buds is not very different from some of Oppo’s previous products, but drastically different from its predecessor. They look a lot like the Oppo Enco Air 2 Pro rather than the Enco Buds. Having said that, it doesn’t look bad at all if you like TWS earbuds with stems. You only get the black variant at the moment, and it largely sports a matte black finish with just a hint of gloss on the buds as well as the case. The inside of the case has a pleasant light blue shade, which looks cool.
The circular charging case is quite slim and easily pocketable. Despite its slim profile, it hosts a sizable 460 mAh battery and weighs just 38 grams. A charge indicator LED and a USB-C charging port are located at the bottom of the case. The earbuds are fairly light too and weigh just 4 grams each. They are extremely comfortable to wear for long hours and snug enough to not pop out of the ear during a workout or a jog.
The right-sized silicon tips offer very good passive noise isolation. Two extra pairs are bundled in the package but a USB charging cable is absent. The touch-enabled zones are present at the top of the stems, and the area is flattened out to give you an idea of where to tap. The touch sensitivity is good and the buds produce a small click every time you tap in the zone. It supports single tap, double tap, triple tap and ‘touch and hold’ gestures.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Features and Specifications (7/10) The Enco Buds2 are IPX4-rated splash resistant, but not dust resistant as well like its predecessor. Having said that, a special mention for the fluid resistance of these Oppo buds. I had a small mishap on a flight and spilled coffee all over the buds. Two weeks later, they are still functioning perfectly fine with no change in sound quality. Thankfully, the charging case was not involved in this coffee-tasting session as that does not have any ingress protection.
Each earbud is fitted with a 10 mm Titanized dynamic driver and a microphone for calling and ‘AI Deep Noise Cancellation’ for calls. There is no active noise cancellation (ANC) or wear detection sensors here, which is acceptable in this budget. These earbuds are Bluetooth 5.2 compliant and support SBC and AAC codecs. There’s support for Dolby Atmos too when paired with compliant phones. The latency can supposedly go as low as 94 ms in Game mode.
You don’t need to install any app if you use these buds with a OnePlus, Realme or Oppo phone. You get access to a bunch of customisations for the buds in the Bluetooth settings itself. For all other phones, you will need to install the HeyMelody app and sync the earphones with it to tweak certain features of this product. The app lets you alter the sound profile, configure the controls and update the firmware. The use of double tap as a camera shutter is limited to Oppo phones only, I suppose, as it did not work on the OnePlus phone I was using.
You can allocate functions to a single tap, double tap, triple tap and ‘touch and hold’ gestures for the left and right earbuds. You can assign play/pause, previous/next track, voice assistant, Game mode or nothing to the first three gestures. Not all functions are available for each gesture. Volume control can only be assigned to a ‘touch and hold’ gesture, but it’s great to have that option on the earbuds itself so that you don’t have to reach for the source device to alter the loudness.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Performance (8/10) These buds are among the loudest around, and the volume level mostly stayed between 40 to 50% during the course of my testing. That is sufficiently loud indoors as well as outdoors. I wouldn’t advise taking them beyond 70% as they sound a bit too bright and harsh on the ear. Oppo offers you three sound profiles for these TWS earbuds – Original sound, Bass boost and Clear vocals. Interestingly, all three are usable, though I preferred the default Original sound profile over the other two.
The default sound signature is reasonably balanced for a pair of budget wireless earphones. The bass is punchy but tight and doesn’t majorly impact the midrange frequencies. The vocals sound sharp and lively. The highs have a good presence too but could have been tempered better, especially the S sounds that tend to sound a tad harsh in certain tracks. While I found the bass adequate, some may crave more. That’s where the Bass boost preset comes in handy.
It does boost the bass at the cost of certain lower midrange frequencies but doesn’t overdo it. It gives you a more traditional V-shaped sound that the masses prefer. The Clear vocals preset is better suited for podcasts and other voice-heavy content, and not so much for music. The soundstage here is not too broad, but that’s what you generally get in this segment. We faced no latency issues with no perceptible lag between the video and audio when watching videos on my phone. The wireless range is pretty standard with a strong connection of up to 10 metres with a clear line of sight.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Call quality (6/10) The call quality on the Enco Buds2 is not very impressive. It is decent indoors, and while the vocals aren’t the sharpest, people on the line did grasp what I was saying without much effort. When outdoors, the ‘AI Deep Noise Cancellation’ didn’t really work for me with people complaining of too much background noise being audible to a point that it would impact the conversation. Generally, Oppo TWS earphones are pretty good for calling. This one needs more work, especially the noise cancellation algorithm.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Battery life (8.5/10) The battery backup of the Enco Buds2 is quite impressive. The company claims 7 hours for the buds and 28 hours overall with the charging case. Given the battery specs and that there is no ANC here, these numbers seemed doable. With the loudness mostly between 40 to 50% during testing, the earbuds managed to go on for close to six and a half hours, and the case could recharge them thrice over.
That translates into an overall battery backup of close to 26 hours for the buds and case combined, which is quite impressive. They also support fast charging, but the numbers are modest at best. A 10 minutes charge promises an hour of playtime, which is handy, not spectacular. The product can be fully charged in a couple of hours, while the buds alone take about 90 minutes to charge. The battery level of each earbud and the charging case is visible in the Bluetooth settings of the synced device or in the HeyMelody app.
Oppo Enco Buds2: Price and verdict The Oppo Enco Buds2 is priced at Rs 1,999 with a one-year warranty, and can often be spotted for 10% lower online. For that price, you get a pair of TWS earphones with a neat design, lively sound output, multiple sound profiles, configurable controls and impressive battery backup. That makes it one of the best TWS options in this segment.
Of course, there is competition in this segment, but there’s only one option that can truly give these Oppo buds a run for their money. The Realme Buds Q2 which sells for a similar price offers most of the features that the Enco Buds2 do as well as comparable sound output. In addition to that, it also offers functional ANC, something quite rare in this segment. However, the battery life is at least 25% lower. Both are excellent products that offer great value, and neither would disappoint you if you have a budget of 2K.
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Cloud misconfigurations are one of the biggest causes of data breaches these days, and one security researcher has now set out to fix it with a new tool.
Built on Python, S3crets Scanner allows security researchers and analysts to look for “secrets” that companies exposed to the public, by mistake, through their company’s AWS S3 storage buckets.
As explained by BleepingComputer, secrets include authentication keys, access tokens, or API keys, all of which can be used by threat actors to deal plenty of damage. For example, these secrets can be used to access the company’s corporate network and endpoints, which could result in data theft, malware infections, or even ransomware attacks.
Targeting PII
The tool was built by security researcher Eilon Harel to only look for secrets exposed by mistake. It does so by only scanning S3 buckets that have specific configurations set to false, such as “BlockPublicAcls”, “BlockPublicPolicy”, “IgnorePublicAcls”, and “RestrictPublicBuckets”. Any other buckets are filtered out.
Buckets that match the above criteria will be downloaded as text files, and scanned using the Trufflehog3 tool which checks for credentials and private keys on S3 buckets, but also GitHub, GitLab, and filesystems. Harel created a unique set of rules for Trufflehog3, which targets personally identifiable information (PII) exposure, as well as internal access tokens.
Harel believes the tool can help businesses expose fewer secrets, consequently suffering fewer data leaks and similar cybersecurity incidents. He also believes it can be used for white-hat operations, as researchers can scan publicly accessible buckets for misconfigurations and notify the businesses before bad actors.
A multi-cloud environment is essential for businesses these days, but securing data in such a system is one of the biggest challenges they face. A recent report by cybersecurity experts Radware states that 70% of senior execs, DevOps leaders, and other seniors, aren’t confident they can properly secure both on-prem and multi-cloud environments.
We're not even a week in from Elon Musk becoming the owner (or 'Chief Twit' as he calls the position) of Twitter, and already his plans for overhauling the verification process sounds like a terrible idea.
According to The Verge, Musk is planning to raise the monthly price of Twitter Blue, which gives you the ability to edit tweets, as well as get custom icons and exclusive features, from $4.99 / £4.99 / AU$5.99 to $19.99 / £19.99 / AU$20.99. By subscribing, Twitter Blue users will also now be verified, which gives them a blue tick next to their username - something that was once limited to verified users, such as notable public figures, politicians and members of the media.
Users who are already verified will have a 90-day window to sign up for this new plan, or they will lose their blue tick.
This could already be a fatal decision for the platform, especially when this could allow trolls with few followers to pay to get verified, making the blue tick system irrelevant.
Paying for the blue tick is just wrong
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Getting verified on Twitter can be a slow, frustrating affair, in which you have to send the company multiple web links as proof that you're a real person and deserving of the blue tick.
Some people have been denied multiple times, and it took two tries for me to get the blue tick. I still don't know why I was denied the first time, but it's fair to say that the process should be looked at.
However, charging $20 a month for this is not the way to go. It's the equivalent of opening the floodgates and diminishes the point of verification - which was to help users know if an account is authentic, or of public interest. At four times the price of what a Twitter Blue subscription currently is, it's going to be a hard sell.
Combined with the fact that Musk has allegedly told Blue's developers that they will be fired if this feature isn't live by November 7, we could be about to see Twitter's dark days begin, and possibly the end of how you can freely use your account on the platform.
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With Elon Musk now in charge of Twitter, we are bound to see some major changes to the platform. People who are still working with the social media platform have informed reporters that they have been asked by Musk to introduce paid verification on Twitter.
According to a report by The Verge Musk has ordered Twitter employees to expand the scope of Twitter’s Twitter Blue subscription. Currently, Twitter Blue subscribers pay $5 dollars a month for an exclusive list of features, such as editing tweets, access to new features earlier, and a few other exclusive features. Musk wants the subscription charges to be increased to $20 per month for every Twitter Blue subscriber. For that $20, users will also be getting the highly coveted Blue Tick or verified badge from Twitter.
So basically, instead of verifying whether a user is actually important or a significant user who uses the platform, Musk wants the feature to be accessible to all, who are willing and ready to pay to have a verified profile.
Existing users who already have had their accounts verified will also have to subscribe to the new and higher-priced version of Twitter Blue, if they want to keep their Blue Ticks. Under the current plan, verified users would have 90 days to subscribe or lose their Blue Ticks.
Twitter employees who have been assigned to the project the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired. So there is a very good chance that the feature will indeed be launched next week. Consequently, several engineers and managers associated with the project have been working late into the night and also over the weekend.
Musk has been clear in the months leading up to his acquisition that he wanted to revamp how Twitter verifies accounts and handles bots. “The whole verification process is being revamped right now,” tweeted Musk recently.
Twitter started their Twitter Blue subscription last year to let viewers have an ad-free experience on the platform and read ad-free articles from certain publishers. In the few quarters that Twitter reported earnings as a public company after that debut, advertising remained the vast majority of its revenue. Musk has stated that he plans on growing subscriptions to become half of the company’s overall revenue.
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Twitter's new owner Elon Musk has denied a New York Times report about laying off Twitter employees at a date earlier than November 1 to avoid stock grants due on the day. The report said that Musk has ordered job cuts across the company, with some teams to be trimmed more than others.
Twitter will revise its user verification process, Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday, just days after he took over one of the world's most influential social media platforms. Separately, a report suggested that Twitter will increase the subscription price for Twitter Blue, which also verifies users, from $4.99 (roughly Rs. 400) a month to $19.99 (roughly Rs. 1,600) ...
Elon Musk finally took control of Twitter last week after buying it for a record $44 billion, one of the highest amounts anyone has ever paid in a tech acquisition. When Elon made the original offer to buy Twitter, Musk said that he is a free-speech absolutist. Musk and his fans had positioned him as an entity that would safeguard free speech at all costs. Well, it turns out, people really put that theory to the test.
As per a report by The Washington Post, the use of certain derogatory epithets for African-Americans, Jews, and East Asians increased by up to 500 per cent on the platform, once news broke of Elon Musk taking over Twitter and firing most of its executive command, including CEO Parag Agarwal.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a research group based out of Princeton, that analyzes social media content to predict emerging threats, said that the use of the N-word on Twitter increased by nearly 500 per cent in the 12 hours immediately after Musk’s deal was finalized.
Responding to the increase in such racial occurrences, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity, on Saturday evening posted a thread blaming the hateful conduct on a “trolling campaign.”
According to Roth, over the previous 48 hours after Musk took control of the company, Twitter had seen “a small number of accounts post a ton of tweets that include slurs and other derogatory terms.” He said that more than 50,000 tweets repeatedly using the derogatory term for an African-American came from just 300 accounts, most of which were “inauthentic.”
Roth also said, “Twitter’s policies haven’t changed. Hateful conduct has no place here. And we’re taking steps to stop an organized effort to make people think we have.”
Basketball legend LeBron James had tweeted that he had serious concerns about the spike in hate speech on Twitter.
“I don’t know Elon Musk and, TBH, I could care less who owns Twitter. But I will say that if this is true, I hope he and his people take this very seriously because this is scary AF. So many damn unfit people saying hate speech is free speech,” James wrote.
While replying to James, Musk pointed to Roth’s thread on the subject. Roth noted that Twitter does not have “a list of words that are always banned. Context matters. For example, our policies are written to protect reclaimed speech.” Twitter’s rules prohibit “hateful conduct,” which includes “targeting people with dehumanising content and slurs,” Roth wrote.
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Meta’s latest VR headset, the Meta Quest Pro, is finally getting into users' hands, and it looks like many aren’t impressed with the next-generation device.
Following its October 25 launch, preorders for the Meta Quest Pro – a much more powerful and feature-packed device than Meta’s Oculus Quest 2 – are arriving at people’s doors, and users are taking to social media to share their thoughts.
Unfortunately for Meta, several of the posts we’ve seen on platforms like Reddit are far from positive, with titles like “Quest Pro sucks” and “Returning the Quest Pro” appearing just a day after the device was released. Reading through the posts it’s clear users share a few key frustrations related to passthrough and the Quest Pro’s VR capabilities.
One big upgrade for the Meta Quest Pro is its color passthrough, meaning while wearing the headset you can see a full-color video feed of the outside world. In theory, this should allow it to better facilitate mixed-reality experiences than the Quest 2's black-and-white passthrough. When we demoed the headset ahead of its launch, we thought this feature had a lot of potential – the mixed reality titles we played were some of the best experiences we’ve had while wearing a Meta headset – but out in the real world the passthrough isn’t popular.
Users are complaining that unless you’re in a very bright space, the image is far too grainy, especially when you consider you’ve paid $1,500 / £1,500 / AU$2,450 for the privilege.
According to some users, the Meta Quest Pro kinda blows(Image credit: Meta)
Additionally, as we suspected, the Quest Pro isn’t the most immersive headset for playing VR titles like the best Oculus Quest 2 games. We didn’t get to play any VR games during our brief hands-on time, but we were worried they wouldn’t be as immersive as they were using a Quest 2 because of the Quest Pro’s design.
Unlike a typical VR headset, which forms a seal around your eyes, the Meta Quest Pro leaves a large gap between the screen and your face so you can see the real world at all times. For mixed reality we thought this was a benefit, but – as users have found – when you’re trying to escape into virtual reality being able to see the real world can be super off-putting. You can buy blinders for the Pro headset to mitigate this issue, but when you’re already paying so much for the device, shelling out more for what feels like an essential add-on is a tough pill to swallow.
It’s worth noting that other users have had a more positive experience, and the complaints we referenced above could be coming from a loud minority rather than the majority of users. Nonetheless, they’re worth paying attention to. Considering the high cost of the Meta Quest Pro you want to be absolutely sure it’s the best headset for you. By reading through people’s reviews you can better determine if it is indeed what you want to buy, or if you’d be better off with one of the other options out there.
Analysis: the best VR headset for you
The Meta Quest Pro does have some strengths. When we tried the headset, we found that its mixed reality experiences were incredibly immersive – thanks to its more open design and color passthrough – and face tracking did make interacting with other users feel more genuine.
However, its price is rather higher and its focus on mixed reality comes at a cost to its VR experience (unless you purchase the additional add-on that blocks out the real world).
So even though it’s Meta’s latest headset, you might find that the Meta Quest Pro isn’t the best option for you.
Maybe Meta's other headset, the Oculus Quest 2, would be best for you(Image credit: Shutterstock / Boumen Japet)
If you’re after a more budget-friendly VR headset, then right now, you’ll want to go for the Oculus Quest 2 or Pico 4. Based on our experience with both devices, the Quest 2 has a slight edge. Despite having worse specs, its software is generally more polished, it has a better selection of games and apps, and it’s more widely available (the Pico 4 is only available in the UK, Europe, and Asia).
However, if you’re in the UK the Pico 4 is one to consider. It’s slightly cheaper than the Quest 2 (though the Pico 4 doesn’t come with a free game like Beat Saber), and as I mentioned, it’s slightly more powerful. The software does let it down, but Pico has made considerable improvements to the device already. With exclusive games like a VR version of Just Dance on its way to the Pico platform, we could see the Pico 4 match and even surpass the Quest 2 in the coming year.
While it’s not as talked about as the Quest 2, you might also want to consider the best VR headset in terms of raw performance: the Valve Index. It’s pricey (costing $999 / £919 / about AU$1,425), and you need a solid PC to run many of its best VR games (setting you back at least another $500 / £500 / AU$750), but in return, you get a great headset. The image quality and its knuckle controllers help make your VR titles feel even more interactive. This headset offers the best way to play some of VR’s greatest games like Half-Life: Alyx.
If you have a PC and don't mind wires, the Valve Index could be the best VR headset for you(Image credit: Valve)
The only downsides are that the Valve Index is wired and requires a fair amount of setup and space, thanks to its base stations. But these drawbacks are more than made up for by the Index’s performance.
One other device to consider is the Oculus Quest 3. Sure, it’s not available today, but it is coming next year (according to Meta). Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said it will cost $300 to $500, which is about the price of the Quest 2 right now. We also expect to see the PlayStation VR 2 in 2023, though you’ll need a PS5 to use it. So If none of the headsets above tickle your fancy there’s no harm in waiting a few months and seeing if the next generation of VR devices suits your needs (and your budget) better than what’s out there now.
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While we wait patiently for The Witcher season 3, there's some good news and some potentially bad news for fans of the fantasy series: Netflix has renewed the show for a fourth season, but star Henry Cavill won't be returning as Geralt of Rivia.
As per the Netflix announcement, Liam Hemsworth – perhaps best known as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games series – will be stepping into the role. That casting change is just about the only information we have on season 4 at the moment.
"My journey as Geralt of Rivia has been filled with both monsters and adventures, and alas, I will be laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4," said the departing Cavill in a statement. "In my stead, the fantastic Mr. Liam Hemsworth will be taking up the mantle of the White Wolf."
"As with the greatest of literary characters, I pass the torch with reverence for the time spent embodying Geralt and enthusiasm to see Liam's take on this most fascinating and nuanced of men. Liam, good sir, this character has such a wonderful depth to him, enjoy diving in and seeing what you can find."
"As a Witcher fan I'm over the moon about the opportunity to play Geralt of Rivia," added Hemsworth. "Henry Cavill has been an incredible Geralt, and I'm honored that he's handing me the reins and allowing me to take up the White Wolf’s blades for the next chapter of his adventure."
"Henry, I've been a fan of yours for years and was inspired by what you brought to this beloved character. I may have some big boots to fill, but I'm truly excited to be stepping into The Witcher world."
Wait and see
You can of course find reactions of all kinds to the news on social media, but it's probably best to reserve judgment on the switch until season 4 actually appears – though it's fair to say Cavill has been great in the role and is going to be hard to replace.
In an ideal world the casting would have stayed fixed, but there's no reason why Hemsworth can't also impress as Geralt. We've recently seen deliberate casting changes in HBO's House of the Dragon – another epic fantasy series that's developed a loyal following – showing that they can work if done right.
Then there's Doctor Who of course, which recently said goodbye to Jodie Whittaker as its main star. The difference here is that casting changes are built into the narrative of the show, but again its evidence that they don't have to kill the momentum of a series.
We are going to have to wait a while to see how Hemsworth does though. Presumably filming hasn't yet started on The Witcher season 4, and there's no indication that it will get underway shortly either. We're looking at a 2024 release at the earliest.
Netflix will be hoping the change from Cavill to Hemsworth won't have an impact on the popularity of the show, which is one of its biggest hits. The spin-off The Witcher: Blood Origin is making its debut on Christmas Day and should keep fans going until season 3 drops at some point next year.
What we didn't get from Netflix is any reason for the change. Given Cavill has just revealed that he's returning as Superman in another movie, perhaps he just doesn't have the time for The Witcher any more – or perhaps he just feels like he needs to take some time away from the Continent now.
The Google Pixel Tablet is taking its time on the journey between the first reveal of the device (May 2022) and it actually being available to buy (sometime in 2023), and that means a wide window of opportunity for leaks and rumors to appear.
As spotted by the team at 9to5Google, we may have been given our first look at the software running on board the Pixel Tablet, via a blog post on keyboard shortcut updates that are coming to the Google Keep app on Android.
It's difficult to know for sure, but it makes sense that Google engineers would already be using the tablet internally, and the size of the GIF scales up to the expected Pixel Tablet screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels.
Details, details
The animated image doesn't tell us too much about how the Pixel Tablet is going to look in terms of its software, but we can see a docked row of icons along the bottom of the screen, and the familiar Android status bar along the top.
That status bar is bigger than it would normally be on an Android phone, making room for what looks like a Google account switcher button – enabling you to quickly jump between different users on the device.
The green and black color scheme matches some of the promotional material that Google has already put out as well, further evidence that this image has indeed been grabbed from a Pixel Tablet running Android 12L.
Analysis: what we know so far
When it comes to what we know so far about the Google Pixel Tablet, we've got a mixture of officially confirmed details plus a few unofficial leaks and rumors. For example, Google has itself said that the tablet will use the same Tensor G2 chipset that runs the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro phones.
We also know that there will be a Charging Speaker Dock accessory available for the Google Pixel Tablet, which will charge up the slate and also turn it into something of a smart hub for the home – much like the Google Nest Hub, in fact.
When it comes to unconfirmed rumors, a 10.95-inch screen, Wi-Fi 6, and internal storage options of 128GB and 256GB have been mentioned. There has also been chatter that the tablet is going to come fitted with 4GB of RAM.
Those leaks suggest something a bit more mid-range rather than premium, but we'll have to wait and see to know for sure. Google has told us that the device is going to make an appearance at some point in 2023 – we can't be more precise than that, but considering it was announced in May 2022, we're expecting it sooner rather than later.
It’s the early 2010s, and Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliviera are working well into the evening, developing their internet monitoring software ThousandEyes in their startup’s first office in San Francisco. The city is energy conscious enough that the lights in the building will go off at 6pm on the dot, and it takes a phone call and a passcode to get things back up and running. Oliviera has had enough of this, and has written a script using Twilio, which offers APIs to automate phone calls.
This works for a week, until the lights turn off of their own accord again. After frantically debugging the script in the dark, the founders realize that their script is absolutely fine. The problem is that Twilio is hosted on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center on the other side of the country, which has been brought down due to a storm.
As he speaks from Austin, Texas in 2022, Lad thinks this was a prescient moment to describe the way the internet works today.
The changing internet
“Every time there’s an Amazon outage, something breaks because the way applications are being built right now, there’s a lot more API calls than ever before,” he tells TechRadar Pro.
“Previously, you would see - 10 years ago, 20 years ago - when you were building applications, you would include the code inside through libraries. Now you do an API call. An API call means you insert a dependency into some provider that may be sitting somewhere you don’t know.
“So as things get concentrated, if there are outages in parts of Amazon's environment, what happens is even things you don't anticipate breaking will break, like your doorbell cam may not work because they have an API call where on Amazon.”
“And I think one, one pattern you will start to find is that there's more and more unpredictability that will come through in terms of ripple effects. When large networks or large hosting providers, cloud providers go down.”
The best illustration for how the internet has changed, according to Lad, is the switch from data being stored on a business’ own premises to trusting cloud service providers, like AWS, Google Drive, and Microsoft Azure, with the data, usually as a cost-cutting measure. That, and a familiar interface, are the most obvious benefits, but this too, comes at a price.
“Companies used to put everything in their own data center,” he notes. “Now they’re going into cloud, they don’t control it. They used to build their applications in their own premises, like a CRM, or HR application. And even that is now done on Salesforce, Workday, or Office 365. We’re using Teams, right? Teams is hosted in the cloud.”
“The single thing that connects all of this together is the internet. And if it doesn’t work. Or portions of it don’t work, then it severely impacts user experience. The whole concept of ThousandEyes was started because we believe that the quality of the internet impacts quality of life.”
The ThousandEyes software
Part of what makes ThousandEyes indispensable to over 170 Fortune 500 companies, the top ten banks in the US, and customers such as Mastercard, Volvo, and HP, is that it maps routes between vital company infrastructure and the cloud providers hosting it.
“Think about Google Maps, or Waze. It’s all about providing a visual around what’s happening between point A and point B, so you can make the right decision,” says Lad. “That sort of end-to-end view of what the journey is between your end users and application, which is missing in the current market world.”
Lad maintains that ThousandEyes remains a vital resource because of the way the internet works. “The internet is essentially a collection of different networks. What ThousandEyes is doing is providing a view showing that journey and highlighting if there’s an outage somewhere, and that gives you the ability to route around it.”
To illustrate, he shares what he calls “the 30,000 feet view” inside the ThousandEyes software - a total overview of outages across the internet, with the estimated geographical impact depicted on an interactive map.
The closest, publicly available approximation to the “30,000 feet view” Lad showcased, available on the ThousandEyes website.(Image credit: ThousandEyes)
Another example Lad gives of ThousandEyes’ unique functionality is its ability to drill down into where exactly an outage is coming from within a network. He picks an ongoing outage at random - a US provider is down, impacting traffic coming from Australia, via Cloudflare.
“So if we drill down, it shows up as Sydney, and you can look at specific parts of this network in Sydney, where the outages are,” he explains. “And knowing this, if you’re using this provider and you have critical customers in Australia, you actually know there’s an outage going on in that part of the environment. You can avoid this network, and make sure your users have a consistent experience and be able to help them out of a blind spot.”
Getting ThousandEyes funded
Since the company began around ten years ago, Lad says that this belief has only become more important. The road to getting to where he and ThousandEyes are today was difficult, and, it turns out, a last ditch effort. Lad’s plans to enter into academia at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) were scuppered, and his US visa was running out. Something had to be done.
In July 2008, Lad began working at an internet startup, but within two months was told that he was being let go as a result of layoffs because of the financial crisis. This, he says, opened his eyes. Oliviera, his labmate at UCLA, had been asking him to start a company with him, and he wasn’t interested. Redundancy, Lad says, made him decide to take a chance, although it initially seemed an unlikely one.
“Nobody was willing to fund ThousandEyes,” he notes. “A lot of people didn’t think the internet was going to be important enough to be monitored. We ended up raising money from the National Science Foundation, from the US government.”
That initial grant of $150,000 built the first version of ThousandEyes, but Lad is quick to point out that, in practice, it wasn’t a life-changing sum of money. ThousandEyes’ first datacenter, he says, was built in a garage with servers that had been thrown out into the street.”
“One of the things that came out of [the financial crisis] was a lot of equipment being put in recycle bins outside companies in the Bay Area. Even today, we have the first server we put in place in our office.”
Ricardo Oliveira (left) and Mohit Lad (right) with ThousandEyes’ first server, still live and kicking.(Image credit: ThousandEyes)
The state of funding for technology startups right now isn’t quite so bleak, says Lad. “Last year was quite crazy. Everybody was throwing a lot of money. I think, this year, investors are more disciplined around fundamentals, and are being pretty selective about where they invest and how they invest. And sometimes these market shifts are a good opportunity to really understand where to focus.”
“Take ThousandEyes as an example. If we had gotten a lot of money from day one, we would have gone and tried all these different things to build a product and probably failed. The fact that we had very little money meant that we had to really focus on the one thing we could sell. And sometimes I feel like overfunded companies are essentially writing their own failure when they raise too much money and try to grow faster.”
“There’s still a lot of investor money. [...] There are other government programmes in different countries, and I would definitely encourage people to leverage [them]. Sometimes these programmes won’t give you quick money - [the National Science Foundation grant was] spread out over increments every three months. But it does help you, and puts more discipline in how you operate. So, I think: look for alternative ways.”
“My recommendation to entrepreneurs building software companies [today] is to focus on getting early customers. That’s the best way to build the company, validate the product.”
Predicting the internet
To commit to monitoring the internet is also to commit to the idea that the internet is constantly changing. It’s the first thing Lad admits when we ask him about the unpredictability of ThousandEyes’ monitoring solutions. That change can be problematic, he says, in that companies’ own senses of self-preservation sometimes govern the internet.
“[The internet’s] also very complex, and it’s not controlled by one entity. So every network is making decisions that are sometimes in their own self-interests. For example, occasionally networks will announce IP addresses that don’t belong to them, and they can suck traffic into their site, and this is how even big sites like Google have gone down. This is what’s called BGP hijacks, or route hijacking. ”
“Even the best networks with the best engineers can’t control availability, because somebody else on the internet announces that they are Google and traffic starts going to them. This is part of what makes the internet really fascinating, and really difficult to predict.”
The ThousandEyes platform in action.(Image credit: ThousandEyes)
ThousandEyes is by no means giving up hope, though, and Lad says that the company has built technology that uses historical data to predict outages at particular times of the day - much like those early days for the company in San Francisco, but without having to wait for the outages to happen before companies can react.
“We can’t predict every outage,” he's quick to point out. “We won’t predict if a lightning strike takes out a data center. But if there’s a certain pattern that we can predict based on past data - for example, at 9AM on a Tuesday you always have issues with Microsoft 365 from this office, but you won’t have this problem if you switch [internet service providers]. That’s the kind of prediction we can make.”
The mention of natural disasters is genuinely surprising, and we have to admit that we haven’t thought too much about how environmental factors, or indeed climate change, are impacting the stability of the internet. Separately, Lad uses recurring fires in New York, which impact a large portion of the East Coast’s ability to connect to the internet, and beavers chewing through cables as examples of unpredictable events that affect connectivity.
Cisco's acquisition of ThousandEyes
Lad claims that a large part of ThousandEyes’ ability to help as many companies as possible (and, by extension, people) is the company’s acquisition by Cisco in 2020 which, as it turns out, is an unusual and engaging story.
“Cisco was a customer of ThousandEyes from 2014, and they actually spoke at our conferences as well,” he explains. “They were using it on their internal side to understand their employees' experiences, as they were adopting the internet more and more between their offices, moving things to cloud, so they were using ThousandEyes internally to be proactive on outages that were happening.”
“Every product functionality we released, they were adopting it. And I think a couple of things happened. One: the Cisco engineering teams made some changes where they decided that the Cisco platform should potentially run other applications as well, and when they were making these changes, the IT team, the customer side of Cisco, came to us and wanted to run ThousandEyes on all the Cisco devices in the branch offices. So we worked with them to get 1000s running on the Cisco devices.
“A couple things happened as a result [of that]. The leadership side [of Cisco], all the way to the CEO, started learning about how ThousandEyes [was] being used within Cisco. And Cisco being the company that basically helped build the internet, [they think] “if there’s something that we’re using as a first party, we should look at it.”
“The other thing [was] that, before we came to Cisco, we had more than a hundred Fortune 500 [customers]. So every time Cisco would have advisory meetings with some of these customers, they would bring ThousandEyes up to the leadership and say “you should consider partnering.”
Lad believed - and still believes - that Cisco and ThousandEyes’ goals were aligned: wanting to build the best view of the internet. He and Oliviera thought that, by partnering with Cisco, they would be best equipped to gather data from all corners of the world.
Lad has agreed to this interview largely to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the acquisition, although it is still tempting to ask him whether he finds it difficult being a huge cog in a big machine. However, he preempts this question before it’s asked, by discussing ThousandEyes’ unique role within Cisco.
“We’re set up as an independent business unit, not part of a certain product group within Cisco. And that’s because the internet threads to every piece of Cisco’s business. And because we help monitor, visualize, and understand the internet, [we’re] helping all the product lines sort of benefit from the galvanized data. [...] We’re still operating like a startup, except at that Cisco scale.”
He says that one of the key benefits of the Cisco partnership is the ability to get first meetings with customers, as the ThousandEyes company can trade on Cisco’s brand recognition. Another is that, by continuing to integrate ThousandEyes with Cisco devices, the amount of data that ThousandEyes can collect is increasing exponentially. “I look back,” he says, “and it was one of the best decisions we made.”
The internet in the future
As Lad looks forward, he thinks that there are challenges coming, but, equally, to celebrate.
“There isn’t one thing I would say that’s going to change,” he says. “I just feel connectivity is so critical that people live their lives around just being able to connect to something really quickly.”
“It’s also the devices that are becoming increasingly internet connected. That’s also going to challenge how the internet is evolving and how it needs to support all these billions of billions of devices that are coming online.”
“The last thing I would add is that there’s a large population of the world that is still not online. And there are areas, especially in Africa, and parts of Asia and India, where people are connected through their cell phones. [...] And I do think, in those markets in particular, the ecosystem is evolving around that lifecycle versus building things for desktops and laptops.”
Lad isn’t necessarily convinced that future changes to the way humanity takes to technology will be quite so rapid. “It’s not typical to have such a rapid acceleration of a trend overnight, so I feel like some of these changes are going to be accelerated more regionally, or are going to be gradual, globally. But [things] will continue to evolve.”
“What I see is that some of the changes are stirred by an application that makes life easier for people. And suddenly people start coming online or using a cell phone because they can get something done. They can accept payments for their work [for example], so that's the reason why they have a cell phone.”
For the most part, Lad won’t be drawn to discuss fears about the future of the internet. He describes himself as an optimist for the internet’s future, and continues to see it as a force for good. There’s an overriding sense that to him, ThousandEyes is not about keeping watch over and pushing back against the internet, but embracing it as a tool, and working to keep it accessible.
“Obviously, the internet is one of the reasons why your online accounts can get hacked, and all of that. So there's definitely a lot of bad stuff happening, but I think my hope and optimism is the good trumps the bad.”
“And we're able to use it for the right reasons. And it really continues to change lives and connect people and create, you know, an experience where people from different parts of the world are able to come together no matter where they are.”
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If you’re a business owner or leader thinking about bashing the “metaverse” button, you’re in luck.
New research appears to suggest many workers are willing to embrace the concept, despite often not being able to say why the metaverse at work should exist, how it will improve their working lives, or even exactly what it is.
A report released at the end of September 2022 claims over three-quarters (78%) of “business professionals” - presumably at all levels - want to “embrace the metaverse”, which is definitely a phrase that normal people use.
The majority (71%) of respondents said they could see the metaverse being incorporated into their working lives, and 40% saw the metaverse replacing “static collaboration environments” - presumably the likes of Slack, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or any of the online collaboration tools that have become common since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
This is despite Deepak Agarwal, Project Manager at GlobalData, admitting that, “the Metaverse is still largely conceptual” following the company’s latest report on the gargantuan size of the metaverse market. It doesn’t yet exist, but the firm says there’s $23 billion in it.
This is disgusting. An affront to being.(Image credit: Meta)
“Conceptually”, using the metaverse to sit at a virtual representation of your desk, attempting basically any task with those ergonomic controllers, sounds rancid. And if I ever suffer prolonged exposure to my line manager as a Playmobil man, I’ll sell my earthly belongings and live in a cave. Giving him legs is not the point. Instead, it's a patronising, exclusionary diktat about all the functioning limbs you need to be "normal".
Because the most compelling reason why I’m sick of reading about the metaverse at work isn't that it's a dull, strange power fantasy, it's that I’m not going to be able to participate anyway.
The metaverse at work is exclusionary
In late August 2022, The Conversation published an article by three academic researchers in England discussing the potential benefits of the metaverse for people with disabilities.
Except the article bases its arguments on a reductive view of disability that amounts to “wheelchair-bound”. That’s not my experience of disability. I can walk, but I can’t even hold the controllers, and so any virtual reality is a non-starter for me.
It also concedes that virtual mobility - the idea that technology can give disabled people with limited physical mobility more agency and independence - is already achieved by the internet.
I can agree with this. The internet lets me make a living, have a social life, and absorb information and culture. It is literally the apex of human existence, and that includes the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel - which the internet lets me look at any time I want.
Computers have been around for so long that accessibility solutions - speech recognition, text-to-speech, on-screen keyboards, eye tracking, you name it - make working life accessible to pretty much everyone. Is it really progress if we tear all that up? That’s a rhetorical question, Mark.
Worse still, we haven’t reinvented the internet just once, but at least fourteen times. Geekflare keeps adding to this number, and I keep lamenting that God is dead. You can’t expect accessibility standards to bed in across that many platforms.
We need the solutions that already exist, especially at a time of massive upheaval like - oh, the one we’re living through now. If Microsoft's latest Work Trend Index report is to be believed, 85% of leaders don’t trust that their employees are being productive in a hybrid work environment.
That’s nonsense, obviously. But I’ll tell you what - a chunk of your disabled employees won’t be productive when you put them in an environment where they literally can’t work. And you’re going to sack them, are you, because of “the future”? That should be an interesting day in court.
Forcing the metaverse into a work setting is going to disenfranchise so many people. If you really want to recreate Ready Player One or Snow Crash - that’s how you get there. Oh, you haven’t read them? You just thought their Wikipedias were cool? Okay.
(Image credit: Twitter / Alex Blechman)
It’s irresponsible to push for “the metaverse at work” without considering these implications and ensuring that alternative working environments exist. And we do have those environments, because a plague forced us to make - a-ha - progress.
And if your gotcha here in the MENSA meeting is “well you can still dial in on video conference”, that’s a tacit admission that we’ve already cleared this high bar of invention. It also disregards my staunch religious belief that contact with the metaverse of any kind will make my heart explode.
Reconsider.
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General Motors said late on Friday it had temporarily halted paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his takeover of the social media company. The largest US automaker said it was "engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership."
We're only just getting used to the iPhone 14 being out in the wild, but the rumors are already flying about what Apple might do with its successor – and a new iPhone 15 report suggests that the Pro models are set to get 8GB of RAM and a periscope camera.
This comes from the industry analysts at Trendforce (via SamMobile), who have a reasonable record when it comes to predicting what Apple's hardware department is going to produce. Apparently, "chances are high" for an 8GB RAM boost in the Pro and Pro Max and improvements to the camera technology, specifically for the Pro Max.
The current iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models have 6GB of RAM installed, though this isn't traditionally something Apple talks much about (RAM isn't listed in the iPhone tech specs page on the Apple website, for example).
Up periscope
The periscope camera rumor is interesting: it's a camera design we've seen on Android phones (including the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra), where thanks to some mirror trickery the camera extends down the length of a phone, allowing more room for zoom lenses.
It's something that we've been hearing might come to the iPhone for several years now, and if it does indeed arrive with the iPhone 15 Pro Max, then expect the 3x optical zoom on the current model to get a significant boost – assuming Apple can find enough room in the device to fit in the camera mechanisms.
The same research note also mentions the Pro and Pro Max models having a faster processor than the standard iPhone 15 handsets: that's something Apple has done this year and that it's expected to do next year too.
Analysis: what does RAM do anyway?
iPhones have tended to lag behind their Android competitors when it comes to the amount of RAM they pack in – the Samsung Galaxy S22 has already hit 8GB, for instance – and this may be one of the reasons that Apple doesn't refer to the spec when launching new handsets or indeed advertising them on its own website.
So is this RAM (Random Access Memory) important, or isn't it? As on a computer, RAM can be thought of as a phone's 'thinking space' – it's where it keeps data about the photo you're editing, or the webpage you're looking at, or the game you're playing. When your phone restarts, everything gets cleared out of the RAM and you start again.
More RAM therefore means more room for your phone to think. Switching quickly between multiple apps, or working on bigger images, or playing games with more detailed graphics should be faster. However, phone speed also depends on how well the RAM is optimized (as well as other factors, not least the chipset speed).
This is where Apple excels: with full control over the hardware and software on the iPhone, it can typically optimize RAM very well, quickly removing old information that's no longer needed to make room for new information. That ensures top-tier performance even with lower amounts of RAM, although an 8GB upgrade will still be very welcome.
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Currently, Apple’s brand new M2 12.9-inch iPad Pro is the biggest tablet in the market from their tablet division. However, it seems that Apple will be going all out with their next iPad Pro in 2023. A new report suggests that Apple is working on a 16-inch iPad Pro model with a mini-LED display which may launch towards the end of 2023.
Apple will indeed launch a new, huge iPad Pro. However, all the other details, such as Apple launching it by the end of 2023, and that it would be a 16-inch iPad, should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Apple shook up its iPad lineup earlier this month, with the release of the more expensive entry-level iPad with USB-C as well as the new and updated 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
Apple tracker Mark Gurman mentioned a 14- to 15-inch iPad back in 2021, and he recently said a larger model could launch in the next year or two. Supply chain analyst Ross Young backed up this prediction in June and said we could see a 14.1-inch iPad Pro with Mini LEDs and a ProMotion display as soon as next year.
A 16-inch iPad Pro would be ideal for creators. On paper making the device and the screen size a bit larger looks easy, but it would take a humongous effort from Apple to package the device properly, and give it the strength to withstand stress.
The upshot, however, is the fact that Apple will finally be able to integrate the iPad Pro with its MacBook and MacBook Air laptops, something that executives and engineers at Apple have been hoping for a long time.
Introducing a premium 16-inch iPad could help add some sense to Apple’s lineup. This would likely establish a wider price gap between the entry-level iPad and the larger high-end model.
Apple surely knows this, but the introduction of a 16-inch iPad will surely cannibalise the sales of much of the MacBook and MacBook Air lineup. The MacBook Pro, because of its specifications shouldn’t be that adversely affected.
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‘The bird is freed’, tweeted Elon Musk shortly after he completed his $44-billion acquisition of Twitter, following months and months of back and forth.
With this move, the billionaire behind SpaceX and Tesla brings to a close a saga that saw Twitter go to court to hold the multi-billionaire to the terms of a takeover deal that he had tried to escape.
However, if you think the Musk-Twitter saga is over, you’re sorely mistaken. The real drama is yet to come.
In April while he was still on good terms with now ousted CEO Parag Agrawal and was about to join the board, he had written in a text message to Agrawal, “I have a ton of ideas. I just want Twitter to be maximum amazing.”
So, what ‘amazing’ changes could be coming? How will the eccentric yet genius billionaire change the social media platform?
If you have been following the drama, Musk has been throwing hints at the way he wants to transform the platform. For those who haven’t been following the saga, but are interested, read on.
Make Twitter a ‘free speech’ platform
Musk has consistently stated that his reasoning to buy Twitter is that he wants it to be an open digital town square of ideas, without intervention.
A self-styled “free speech absolutist” who has been critical of Twitter’s moderation policies has said that he would allow anyone to say anything on the platform, as long as it’s legal.
Back in April, he had tweeted his explanation of ‘free speech’.
By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.
I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.
If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.
Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.
In June, he reiterated his ‘free speech’ stance, saying, “I think people should be allowed to say pretty outrageous things that are within the bounds of the law, but then that doesn’t get amplified, it doesn’t get, you know, a ton of reach.”
How Musk will achieve that through Twitter as of now is unknown. But, on Thursday, he did try to address concerns about his hands-off approach to content moderation in his public memo to advertisers.
He wrote that Twitter “cannot became a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences!” and added that he wants Twitter to be a place “where you can choose your desired experience according to your preferences, just as you can choose, for example, to see movies or play video games ranging from all ages to mature.”
Reinstate Donald Trump and other suspended accounts
On 8 January 2021, Twitter had permanently suspended the former US president after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol.
Since then, Musk has been critical of Twitter’s decision and said that he plans to reverse Trump’s ban from the platform even though the former US president said he doesn’t plan on coming back.
When asked about Trump in May, he had said, “I would reverse the permanent ban,” adding that Twitter was “left-biased”.
Speaking to the Financial Times, the SpaceX CEO had said, “I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice. Banning Trump from Twitter didn’t end Trump’s voice. It will amplify it among the right, and that is why it’s morally wrong and flat-out stupid.”
Other suspended accounts such as US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and, in the UK, the rightwing commentator Katie Hopkins could also be reinstated.
Republican’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose personal Twitter account was suspended this year for repeatedly sharing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, could also be allowed back.
Through this long saga of acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk has repeatedly shone light on Twitter’s bot issue.
That is why we must clear out bots, spam & scams. Is something actually public opinion or just someone operating 100k fake accounts? Right now, you can’t tell.
And algorithms must be open source, with any human intervention clearly identified.
Musk has said that even though Twitter maintains that bots represent less than 5 per cent of all accounts, the number is much higher — almost 20 per cent or even more.
In fact, he had used the bot issue as a legal way to get out of the deal, saying that the company had defrauded him and investors on the matter.
On April 21, Musk tweeted if a Twitter bid succeeds “we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!” and “authenticate all real humans.”
Introduce an edit button
Twitter users have long asked for a way to edit their tweets for typos and other problems, but the highly requested feature hasn’t been at the top of the company’s priorities.
Elon Musk has long been in favour of introducing an edit button for all users and on 4 April, 74 per cent of his supporters said they supported adding the edit feature.
In September, the company did introduce the edit option for select users. But Musk may now expedite the process now that he is in charge.
But there are still concerns that the edit feature could be used with malicious intent to spread misinformation or harmful messages.
Transform Twitter into a super-app
Musk wants to make Twitter much more than a social media app: turning it into a “superapp.”
In June, Musk told Twitter staff that the company should emulate WeChat, the Chinese “superapp” that combines social media, messaging, payments, shopping, ride-hailing — basically, anything you might use your phone to do.
“You basically live on WeChat in China,” Musk said in June. “If we can re-create that with Twitter, we’ll be a great success.”
This is by far one of Musk’s most ambitious plans and the closest thing he has to a real business strategy. However, he faces competition from Snap’s Evan Spiegel and Uber, who have also been pursuing the “super-app” idea.
Overhauling Twitter Blue
The billionaire has been critical of Twitter Blue, the company’s subscription service that offers exclusive features like bookmark folders and ad-free articles for $4.99 a month.
In April, he had said that all Blue members “should get an authentication checkmark,” similar but different to the blue checkmark that ‘verified’ public figures receive.
He also said that subscribers should pay $2 per month rather than the $4.99. However, this amount should be paid for 12 months up front.
Cut costs and staffing changes
With Musk taking control, Twitter will also see an internal shake-up. As already reported, the current CEO Parag Agrawal has been asked to leave, fuelling speculation that Musk, who already runs multiple companies, could take the reins himself.
In the run-up to Musk’s takeover, many employees began quitting disheartened by Musk's plans to overhaul the company.
Musk, himself, told Twitter employees on his first visit to the company on 5 October that he did not plan to lay off that many workers. However, he is still expected to make some cuts.
What happens next in the Musk-Twitter saga is unknown, but it’s apparent to all that the next few months will be turbulent for Twitter employees and Twitter users.
That’s according to leaker @UniverseIce, who has a reasonable track record and sent out a flurry of tweets, hyping this upcoming phone.
They claim that its night photography and night video skills have both been “greatly improved,” with low light photos being much better than those on the Galaxy S22 Ultra. In fact, they go so far as to say that this is “the biggest improvement of Samsung’s flagship mobile phone in five years.”
It can be confirmed that S23 Ultra's night photos are very strong and much better than S22 Ultra's. I think it's the biggest improvement of Samsung's flagship mobile phone in five years.October 27, 2022
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Presumably they just mean the biggest improvement to night photography, but either way that’s a big claim.
It’s not just night photos that are apparently getting better though, with the same source also saying – not for the first time – that the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra will have a 200MP main sensor, up from 108MP on the Galaxy S22 Ultra.
That’s not a new claim, but they add here that it’s the strongest 200MP camera they’ve so far seen on a phone, and that it has “unparalleled analytical power.”
The 200MP of Samsung S23 Ultra is too strong. It has unparalleled analytical power. It is stronger than all the 200MP I have seen before.ðŸ˜October 27, 2022
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Slightly less promisingly though, they say that this 200MP camera isn’t currently capable of taking 50MP photos through pixel binning. Though this is apparently a software, rather than hardware, issue and is being worked on; so by the time the phone launches, 50MP shots might be possible.
Finally, the say that while the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra will apparently have the same 3x and 10x optical zoom cameras as the S22 Ultra, the resulting photo quality will be improved; thanks to better colors and AI algorithms.
So, the only expected rear camera not mentioned here is the ultra-wide, which might mean that’s not being improved, but only time will tell. Either way, if @UniverseIce’s claims pan out, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra could be the top camera phone in 2023, just like the S22 Ultra is this year.
Although the 3x and 10x camera specs are exactly the same as those of the S22 Ultra, the S23 Ultra still has an improvement in telephoto, and the improvement in color and some AI algorithms is obvious.October 28, 2022
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Analysis: the cameras could be the main upgrade
All of this sounds extremely promising, even if we would have liked to see hardware upgrades for the telephoto cameras, but it’s sounding like for the Galaxy S23 Ultra, Samsung is putting almost all of its attention on the cameras.
That’s because other leaks suggest very little else is changing. The overall design is reportedly near identical, and while the screen might offer improved HDR and a higher peak brightness, it will supposedly be 6.8 inches, again – and likely the same resolution as the S22 Ultra’s display. We’ve also heard reports that the battery will once again be 5,000mAh.
Beyond the cameras, one thing that will, of course, be changing is the chipset, but that’s not overly exciting, since that gets upgraded every year. Though at least this time Samsung might offer the same chipset globally.
So while the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s design overhaul made it feel like a major improvement, the S23 Ultra might be a more modest upgrade overall. Still, it’s building on an already excellent handset, so it will probably rank among the best phones, regardless.
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