Samsung unveils new Galaxy S8 smartphones, showcases Bixby personal assistant, new accessories and IoT expansion

 Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla                       

New York- Today was a comeback day of sorts for Samsung. The company, who had a rough year in 2016 on the heels of the exploding Galaxy Note 7 debacle, was back in form with its latest flagship smartphone launch.

The Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ offer a refined improvement of Galaxy S devices of the past. Much more integrated design, a new Infinity Display which minimizes the bezel to a fraction of what we are used to. In terms of design, the Galaxy S8 5.8-inch) and Galaxy S8 + (6.2-inch) are easily the most impressive and desireable new smartphones we've seen in a long time.

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NASA opens new image and video library with copyright-free content

If you want to indulge your inner space nerd, NASA has given you the next best thing: a searchable image and video library with copyright-free content. These public images can be used for whatever purpose you want. And there are a lot of those—over 140,000 images, videos, and audio files, in fact. The site will let you embed content on your own site and the images come in multiple resolutions for you to choose what you want to download. Searching is easy on the site. You can opt to just look for images, videos, audio files, or a mix of the three.

Source: Mashable

Samsung patent for Gear smartwatch shows rotary dial wraparound display

A recently discovered patent from Samsung shows the South Korean tech company considering other new features for its smartwatch design. In this patent originally filed in September 2015, it shows Samsung trying out having a secondary display along the rotary dial of the watch. Much like the secondary screen on its Galaxy Edge devices, there seems to be app shortcuts there and basic information like date, time, and weather. And as the patent filing says, that display can be rotated 90 degrees and is even split between an upper and lower section for an undisclosed purpose. We’re not sure how intuitive this design would be though. And since it’s been filed a while back, perhaps Samsung has already thought of other ways to implement the display.

Source: Wareable

LG highlights key features of G6 in first commercial

LG doesn’t rely on Jason Statham this time to promote its latest flagship. Instead, the first commercial for the G6 focuses more on some of the phone’s key features as it switches many hands. Of course, LG opted to release this 30-second teaser ahead of Samsung’s unveiling of its new Galaxy S8 device. And so with these, the smartphone war of 2017 has started. Which flagship device are you more excited for?