Chinese brand Blackview outs smartphone with 11,000mAh battery

While it’s a brand you probably won’t encounter here, the main selling point of its newest smartphone is too much to pass up on writing about. The Blackview P10000 Pro packs in a massive 11,000mAh battery that promises 50 days of standby time and seven days of use on a single charge. Its included 5V/5A charger promises to charge the P10000 Pro from dead to full in just two hours and 25 minutes. Of course, it isn’t just the battery size that determines the battery’s performance, things like software optimization plays a big role as well. But there’s something to be said about a phone that doesn’t need to rely on that—of course, actual use is going to paint a different picture than what the manufacturer claims it can do.

The other specs of the P10000 Pro include a 5.99-inch display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and 2,160 x 1,080 resolution, 13-megapixel and 0.3-megapixel front cameras, 16-megapixel and 0.3-megapixel rear cameras, MediaTek octa-core Helio P23 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and Android 7.1 Nougat (that’s said to be upgradeable to Android 8.1 Oreo). If you’re intrigued, the phone is selling on AliExpress for around $200 USD (around $250 CAD).

Source: Android Authority

Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series might have bits and pieces of Peter Jackson’s take on Middle-earth

While Amazon’s multi-season show based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s expansive Middle-earth universe isn’t going to directly carry over from the Peter Jackson movie adaptations of Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, it seems there might be elements of it in the series. At least this is according to the report from The Hollywood Reporter, which also claims that production must start “within two years.” Amazon said to have worked out a deal with New Line Cinemas and Warner Bros. to let them use bits of the movies in the rumoured five-season show. But the show, as Amazon describes, will “explore new storylines preceding J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring.” There is also talk of possible spinoff series. With rich world Tolkien created in these books, Amazon certainly has a lot of material to work with.

According to THR’s report, it isn’t certain if Jackson will be involved in the production. But this acquisition does help Amazon face up against the other big names in video streaming and content creation. It’s said that Amazon is expected to spend around US$1 billion on the show for the duration of its run. Now, whether this will be a hit with the fans is another question altogether and one we can only answer when the show or shows do materialize. 

Source: The Verge

Facebook CEO says most of the social network’s users should assume their public data’s been compromised

If you thought things couldn’t get any worse for Facebook, here are a couple more things. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume their public information has been compromised by third-party scrapers. As he said in a call today, “I would assume if you had that setting turned on that someone at some point has access to your public information in some way.”

Zuckerberg is referring to a vulnerability in the social network’s search function, which lets anyone look up users using email addresses or phone numbers. Users would need to opt in to have their names show up in searches. He’s also said that they found a maximum of 87 million users potentially affected by the Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

Source: Facebook | Via: The Next Web

Access checker feature on Google Drive now suggests who to share files with

If you’re heavily reliant on Google apps, you should be familiar with the “Access checker” tool available on these services. This feature lets you know which recipient has access to your files. Google updated this feature on Drive to make it more convenient to use. It will now suggest to you users it thinks will need access to certain files. Instead of going with the default “turn link sharing,” this should help improve security.

Aside from this, the app now supports more file types, including those stored on a Team Drive. G Suite enterprise users will have their sharing settings still be configured by administrators. Admins can select what options appear to users in Access Checker. As explained, “This launch respects the settings you’ve already chosen for Sharing outside your domain, Access Checker, and Link Sharing Defaults. If you’ve chosen to limit Access Checker to Recipients only, link sharing will not be suggested.”

Source: 9to5Google