LG G6 gains pundit's praise as best smartphone of MWC 2017

As expected, the unchallenged LG G6 flagship made like a bandit in Barcelona, earning all the major best of show accolades from various technology publications. The new 5.7-inch flagship, which I had a chance to briefly check out last week, brings a new screen ratio, a sleek glass and aluminium design as well as one-handed ease of use.

LG G6 also has a lot of photography tricks up its sleeve thanks to dual cameras. Hit jump for the list of awards this smartphone, which is expected to come to Canada in April, hit jump to see the hardware LG earned at MWC 2017.

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Google is releasing a new Pixel phone this year, will still be a premium device

Google will release new Pixel and Pixel XL devices in 2017. While the original models were rushed to market (reportedly because Huawei dropped out of the project and HTC stepped at the last minute), the upcoming versions are expected to bring more Pure Android goodness plus add some user requested features like water resistance and possibly wireless charging.

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There are now 50 million Spotify subscribers

Spotify has hit another milestone in less than half a year. The music streaming service adds 10 million new paying subscribers in around five months, pushing them up to having 50 million users. To put it in perspective, Spotify spent less than half a year adding around half an Apple Music. Apple’s own streaming service hit 20 million in December, adding three million subscribers in three months.

This boost in subscribers for music streaming services underscores the changing consumer habits when it comes to music. More and more people it seems would be willing to pay a fee for all-you-can-access music instead of buying per song or per album. It would seem Spotify has the advantage at the moment, if these figures are anything to go by.

Source: CNET + Spotify

A typo caused the big Amazon Web Services outage

Mistakes happen to the best of us but it seems just one tiny “human error” has caused embarrassment for Amazon. As you know, the Amazon Web Services went down this week and disrupted many internet services for hours. It seems the error had been a typo. On Tuesday morning, an employee doing routine maintenance mistakenly entered the wrong command while trying to take offline “a small number of servers.” What was typed in took down a “larger set of servers,” including those that support two S3 subsystems. These subsystems have the data storage service used by a number of web-based services.

With these two systems offline, it took with it many services including the ones Amazon uses to update its own status page. And with the system not having been completely restarted “for many years,” it also took “longer than expected” to bring them back up. Amazon acknowledges and apologizes for the mistake and promises it has taken safeguards to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Source: Mashable