Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk …
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Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk …
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For the past decade or so, my primary criteria for choosing a smartphone has been its camera capabilities. For numerous years after the Nokia Lumia 1020 was released, there was no innovation in smartphone camera capabilities. Happily we’ve finally reached a point where smartphone cameras are better than ever, and here’s my current favorite. If you’re already familiar with my writing on Pocketnow, you’ll know that I love to use smartphones for photography, especially when I …
Continue readingNow hold on… when I say “bad design” here, I’m talking about bad design in the context of user experience and human-computer interaction design not the beautiful new immaterial background wallpaper graphics. The new background images and semi-opaque Vista-like windows look great! Human-computer interaction design generally has two important approaches; “easy to use” and “easy to learn.” There’s also the “easy to look at” approach to design, and that seems to be more what Microsoft …
Continue readingWith Facebook finally changing how WhatsApp works so that they can profit off of the users (as expected), many people are choosing to switch to other internet messaging apps like Signal & Telegram. We’ve already talked about how naïve that is given there isn’t really anything stopping Signal & Telegram from changing their policies or adding anti-features in the future (they have already). If you haven’t had your ear to the ground in places like the Fediverse or Free …
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The trend today has been to stop using WhatsApp ever since the policy was updated to allow sharing your personal information with Facebook. Some are recommending switching to other centralized messaging systems like Signal or Telegram, but there’s a problem with that too. Read on to learn how to recognize when a messaging app is out to profit off of and control you versus enabling better communications between people. Personally, I specifically never became dependent on …
Continue readingOften if you take a logic-based critical look at something that society has long taken for granted, you might see that it really doesn’t make sense in modern society. It may have made sense many years, or decades, or centuries ago, but it clearly doesn’t make any sense today. Usually the reason we still do things that way is because that’s how we’ve always done it. In other words, we’re used to doing things stupidly …
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Many tech businesses these days are investing heavily in developing artificial intelligence, and with good reason. Artificial intelligence can potentially evolve much more quickly than human intelligence and therefore find solutions to problems much more efficiently. We’re not quite there yet though. In fact it may be a few decades before we get any artificial intelligent constructs that can match the general intelligence of humans… well, some humans. Right now we’ve got some basic constructs …
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