HTC senza jack da 3,5mm

L'evento HTC del 2017 preannuncia l'uscita di un nuovo smartphone.
Il logo dell'evento dice FOR U (per te, per voi) fa pensare a un device di fascia medio/bassa di una nuova serie HTC U.

Ci sono voci che suggeriscono l'arrivo di HTC X10, il successore di One X9.
I rumors parlano di un X10 don processore MediaTek Helio P10, 3Gb ram, display da 5.5' pollici e fotocamera da 13 Megapixel. Prezzo attorno ai 288 dollari.

Per quanto sembri il candidato principale l'HTC X10, ci sono parecchi dubbi sul fatto della U. Si pensa ad un rebrand della serie HTC U10 al lancio di un nuovo prodotto indossabile o un altro genere di prodotto. 

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A togliere tutti i dubbi ci pensa con un tweet LlabToFer.

"Ocean Note to be announced on the January 12th. Device will be available in single and dualsim modifications."

 "HTC Ocean Note sarà annunciato il 12 gennaio 2017. Lo smartphone sarà disponibile in Single Sim e Dual Sim".

Grazie ad alcune indiscrezioni dalla versione cinese di ePrice si scopre che la serie Ocean prevede tre modelli (Ocean Note, Ocean Master e Ocean Smara).
Uno dei tratti distintivi dovrebbe essere l'assenza del jack da 3,5 mm, gia collaudata da HTC 10 evo/bolt, sostituita con la porta USB Type-C che permette l'uso di auricolari e cuffie compatibili con il nuovo standard.
La fonte annuncia anche alcuni piccoli dettagli relativi a Ocean Note.

HTC Ocean Note dovrebbe essere caratterizzato dalla presenza di una tecnologia audio adattiva in grado di modificare i parametri di ascolto in base alle condizioni ambientali, dal display a bordi curvi Edge e dalla fotocamera che punta ad essere in grado di raggiungere il punteggio più alto su DxOmark.

Sembra che HTC Ocean Note sarà equipaggiato con un processore MediaTek e le colorazioni previste dovrebbero essere tre (bianco, nero e blu). I dispositivi che vedremo il prossimo 12 gennaio avranno un altro elemento in comune, ovvero la scelta di essere basati su processore di casa MediaTek.

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Potato and morcilla scotch eggs

MAKES 6. HANDS-ON TIME 35 MIN, FRYING TIME 10 MIN, PLUS COOLING

Make the mash, and cook and cool the eggs the day before, then keep both chilled in the fridge. Alternatively, reheat the fully cooked eggs the next day in a medium oven for 10 minutes or until they begin to smell fragrant.

Morcilla is the Spanish version of black pudding. Find it in Spanish delis or online at brindisa.com. If you can’t get it, use black pudding instead.

The timings in step 3 should give you eggs with runny centres. If you want firmer yolks, boil for 3-4 minutes more.

• 400g floury potatoes, such as maris piper, chopped into chunks
• 2 litres sunflower oil to deep-fry, plus a glug
• 300g morcilla or black pudding, crumbled or finely chopped (see Know-how)
• 50g manchego or cheddar cheese, grated
• Large knob of butter
• Handful fresh flatleaf parsley, finely chopped
• 10 large free-range eggs – 6 of them whole, 4 lightly beaten
• Plain flour for coating
• 250g dried breadcrumbs
• Sea salt flakes to sprinkle

YOU’LL ALSO NEED…

• Digital probe thermometer

1.  Boil the potatoes in a large pan of salted water for 15-20 minutes until just tender. Meanwhile, heat a glug of oil in a frying pan. Crumble the morcilla into the hot oil and fry for 2 minutes, without stirring, until slightly crisp. Fry, but this time stirring, for another 2 minutes, then remove from the pan and set aside.

2. When the potatoes are cooked, remove from the heat, drain and steam dry for a couple of minutes. Return to the pan, then mash well. Add the cheese and butter, season well, stir in the fried morcilla and parsley, then leave to cool.

3. Meanwhile, put the 6 whole eggs in a pan of boiling water and cook for 6 minutes exactly (see tip). Drain, cool under running water, then carefully shell. (It will help if your eggs aren’t exceedingly fresh – older eggs peel more easily.)

4. Once the mash has cooled, divide it into 6 equal pieces (about 100g per egg). With lightly floured hands, press each piece, one at a time, into a flat disc of mash a little smaller than your upturned hand. Put the disc in your palm and place an egg in the middle, then bring the disc up around the egg to enclose, making sure there are no gaps or places where the mash is too thin – the casing should be about 1cm thick.

5. Once all the eggs are wrapped, roll each one first into flour, then beaten egg, then breadcrumbs, shaking off the excess each time. Press the breadcrumbs gently into the eggs in your hands to keep them secure, then dip back into the egg and again into the breadcrumbs, pressing in the breadcrumbs again.

6. Heat the sunflower oil in a large heavy-based saucepan until it reads 160°C on a digital thermometer. Fry the eggs in batches for 5-6 minutes until golden and crisp, then serve immediately, halved, sprinkled with sea salt, with a tomato dip or relish alongside. They’re best warm but they can also be eaten cold – the yolks will stay runny.

PER SCOTCH EGG

• 648kcals,
• 37g fat (10.8g saturated),
• 27.3g protein,
• 50.7g carbs (2.7g sugars),
• 2.1g salt,
• 1.4g fibre 

Ham, Cheese And Chilli Beetroot Chutney Toastie

MAKES 2 (WITH LEFTOVER CHUTNEY). HANDS-ON TIME 30 MIN, SIMMERING TIME 30 MIN, OVEN TIME 5-6 MIN

The chutney will keep in the fridge in an airtight container for up to a week. Use the leftovers on cheeseboards, with a ploughman’s or in chicken wraps.

FOR THE CHUTNEY 

• 250ml red wine vinegar
• 250g caster sugar
• 1½ tsp black mustard seeds
• 1½ tsp cumin seeds
• 2 red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 banana shallots, finely chopped
• 1 bunch raw beetroot, peeled and coarsely grated (around 500g prepared weight)

FOR THE TOASTIE

• 4 slices good bread
• Butter for spreading
• 2 thick slices good quality ham
• 100g mix of blue cheese and cheddar, crumbled or grated
• Parmesan for grating

1.  To make the chutney, gently warm the vinegar and sugar in a pan over a medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Add the remaining chutney ingredients and some salt. Bring to the boil and cook for around 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the mixture has reduced and the liquid is syrupy. Leave to cool.

2.  Heat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/ gas 4 and put a baking sheet inside. Butter one side of each slice of bread. Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat, then add 2 of the bread slices, butter-side down. Spread with a couple of spoonfuls of chutney, top with a slice of ham each, then divide the blue cheese and cheddar between them.
Sandwich with the remaining slices of bread, butter-side up. Cook for 5-6 minutes, pressing down on the sandwiches with a spatula or fish slice until the bread has toasted on the underside. Flip and repeat.

3. Grate a good layer of parmesan over the top of each sandwich, then flip again, frying until the cheese is golden and crisp. Transfer to the baking sheet, parmesan-side up, and bake in the oven for 5-6 minutes to properly melt the cheese inside.

PER TOASTIE 

• 577kcals,
• 29.4g fat (17.2g saturated),
• 25.6g protein, 51.1g carbs (17g sugars),
• 2.7g salt,
• 3.1g fibre.

Researchers hack Philips Hue smart bulbs from the sky

Security researchers in Canada and Israel have discovered a way to take over the Internet of Things (IoT) from the sky.

Okay, that’s a little dramatic, but the researchers were able to take control of some Philips Hue lights using a drone. Based on an exploit for the ZigBee Light Link Touchlink system, white hat hackers were able to remotely control the Hue lights via drone and cause them to blink S-O-S in Morse code. The drone carried out the attack from more than a thousand feet away. Using the exploit, the researchers were able to bypass any prohibitions against remote access of the networked light bulbs, and then install malicious firmware. At that point the researchers were able to block further wireless updates, which apparently made the infection irreversible.

“There is no other method of reprogramming these [infected] devices without full disassemble (which is not feasible). Any old stock would also need to be recalled, as any devices with vulnerable firmware can be infected as soon as power is applied,” according to the researchers.

The researchers notified Philips of the vulnerability. The company then delivered a patch for it in October, according to The New York Times.

The ability to attack Philips Hue lighting doesn’t sound all that menacing and more of an inconvenience than anything else. The obvious exception to that would be using the lights to trigger epileptic seizures in vulnerable people, or plunging properties into darkness.

Shedding light on a deeper issue 

The bigger issue is that security researchers worry exploits like these could be used to infect devices with a computer worm. That worm could then move on to attack other IoT devices on the same network. The researchers argue this kind of attack could be used to take over a building or an area with a high concentration of connected devices within minutes. All the hacker would have to do is hover over a building with a drone or drive past an area with a computer searching for vulnerable devices.

Taking over massive numbers of IoT devices may sound like alarmist nonsense, but it’s really not that hard to believe. Just a few weeks ago, an IoT botnet was responsible, at least in part, for the major DDoS attack that caused disruptions to US internet traffic.

Over the past few months, it’s become increasingly clear that while we may be ready to put networked light bulbs, thermostats, and door locks on our homes, the security for many of these devices is still sub-optimal.

London next in line for Google-backed gigabit Wi-Fi

After New York, Intersection is bringing its gigabit Wi-Fi street furniture to London

London is next in line to receive the Link high-speed Wi-Fi service that briefly brought high-speed porn to the streets of New York.

Intersection, the company behind LinkNYC, is partnering with BT and outdoor advertising company Primesight to deliver the service in London. Intersection is partly funded by Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet.

Next year, BT will replace 100 of its phone booths with the LinkUK pillars, delivering gigabit Wi-Fi, free phone calls, and local information services on built-in Android tablets. The companies aim to install up to 750 of the hotspots across the UK in the coming years

The pillars will also offer free power, via USB charging sockets. There’s no risk of them slurping your phone’s contents, or infecting them via the BadUSB vulnerabilities, as the sockets contain no data lines. “It’s just power and ground,” explained BT spokesman Yusuf King.

Free web browsing will not be allowed on the London Link pillars. When the service was introduced in New York in January, some people began using the embedded tablets to watch porn in public. LinkNYC put a stop to that last month when it shut down the web-browsing option on the pillars.

ISPs, including BT, are required to block adult content by default, so using the tablet to watch porn ought not to be possible there.

Limiting the tablet to providing local information has other benefits, though, said King. “Another reason to remove the tablet web browser is to prevent people monopolising kiosks for long periods.”

LinkUK, like LinkNYC, will be funded by advertising. Instead of the posters or wraparound ad spots that Primesight will sell on 17,500 other BT phone booths around the UK, the new pillars will each carry two 55in HD displays running non-stop commercials and public service announcements.

London’s traditional red phone boxes won’t disappear from London’s streets with the introduction of the new pillars. Many of the 602 remaining in the London area are legally protected as historic architectural features. Instead, the pillars’ brushed stainless steel and glass panels will replace a more recent generation of phone booths.

Intersection isn’t the only game in town when it comes to public gigabit Wi-Fi: Berlin is getting its own gigabit service, thanks to mobile network operator Vodafone.

The 10 Most Influential Websites Of All Time

• GOOGLE 

Influence ranking 9.8 out of 10 

 There’s perhaps no better example of why Google sits top of this list than a remark made by one of our sub-editors, when she was checking one of the websites in this countdown. “So, I just Googled Sex.com and then Jon Bray came over for a chat,” she said, prompting the immediate reply: “You Googled it?” Such is Google’s pre-eminence that for many people it is the internet – used as the gateway to the web even when it’s more difficult to fire up Google and search for a site than it is to simply type in the domain name. That there are hundreds of millions of searches for “Google” on Google every month should surprise nobody. Google has, of course, become more than an indispensable search engine. Gmail and Google Docs have legitimate claims to be recognised in their own right in this countdown, although we’ve included them under the Google umbrella. The Google-owned YouTube does stand alone at no. 4, only because Google bought it and it can’t be ignored. Search remains the crux of the company and its dominance is all but complete. On the desktop, it has a market share in excess of 70%, while its nearest competitor Bing barely reaches double figures; on mobiles and tablets, 95% of all searches are performed via Google (both stats recorded by NetMarketShare). The job title SEO specialist is a misnomer – they’re Google gamers. Such dominance is brutally profitable. If you happen to be a car wreck attorney in the Texan city of San Antonio, it would have cost you, on average, $670 to generate a single click to your website last year using Google AdWords, making it the most expensive keyword term, according to SEMrush. The entire top 100 terms cost in excess of $265 per click. The unit cost to Google for one of those clicks? Negligible. Those profits ($13 billion in the last quarter alone) provide Google with the kind of financial war chest that only Apple can match. Billions have been wasted on failed social networking ventures (Wave, Buzz, Google+); billions more are being ploughed into driverless cars, for no other reason than it engages Google’s near-anonymous founders and they can afford to take expensive punts.

• AMAZON

Influence ranking 8.82 out of 10

Amazon’s almost careless disregard for the rules of business have secured its place as the world’s biggest online retailer. “We will continue to make investment decisions in light of long-term market leadership considerations rather than short-term profitability,” wrote CEO Jeff Bezos to Amazon’s shareholders in 1997. He wasn’t kidding.
Amazon’s relentless expansion has resulted in almost 20 years of losses or desperately slim profits. Only in the last financial year, with Amazon Web Services proving thunderously profitable, has the company recorded profit margins that come anywhere close to reflecting the size of a company worth $366 billion. “I think we may have hit a point where it’s going to be hard for them [Amazon] to spend enough to hide all this profitability,” noted Scot Wingo, executive chairman of ecommerce consultant ChannelAdvisor, after Amazon announced profits of $513 million last quarter, compared to a loss of $57 million a year earlier.
Of course, customers don’t care whether or not Amazon is profitable. They care that their goods are keenly priced, arrive on time and are backed by good customer service. Amazon ticks all those boxes and more. Indeed, it’s Amazon’s mission to get goods from its warehouses to customers’ doorsteps more quickly that could threaten the supermarkets next.

In the past couple of years alone, Amazon has launched one-hour deliveries to selected inner-city locations, fresh food deliveries, and Amazon Pantry – boxes of groceries that arrive at your door the next working day. That’s not to mention Amazon Dash Buttons for re-stocking toilet rolls, washing powder and other consumables at the mere press of a button, and the Amazon Alexa voice assistant that can take your shopping orders for you. If you still have shares in Tesco or Sainsbury’s, it’s time for a word with your broker.

• FACEBOOK

Influence ranking 8.39 Out Of  10

Remember Friends Reunited? The site that charged $15 per year to connect with old friends, which ITV bought for a cough-inducing $350 million in 2005? At that point, it may have looked like good value, with Facebook just a one-year-old service limited to American schools and universities – with no obvious means of making money.
Things have changed a mite since then. In 2015, Facebook’s revenue hit $18 billion, while Friends Reunited finally closed its virtual doors in February 2016. The number of active monthly Facebook users grew to 1.71 billion by the end of 2015, a 15% leap from the previous year. In terms of global communities, only the 2.2 billion Christians in the world are bigger in number – and we suspect they don’t keep in touch quite as regularly.
Facebook has had a genuine impact on the world, too. It’s widely thought to have played a key role in the Arab Spring uprising that ultimately led to Hosni Mubarak resigning as president of Egypt: journalists claimed Facebook and Twitter were the primary tools for connecting and organising protestors.
Ultimately, though, Facebook can be viewed as a unifying force that reinvented the local connections we used to get from living in close communities. Photos used to be taken and left to wither in shoeboxes, but now they’re instantly shared and enjoyed by friends and family. Together with services such as Skype, it allows families spread across continents to stay in touch, which would have been impossible a decade ago. All of which almost makes up for the countless cut-and-paste motivational messages we’ve been forced to wade through in that time.

• WIKIPEDIA

Influence ranking 8.09 Out Of 10

When Wikipedia opened its virtual doors in 2001, the idea sounded like a joke – an empty encyclopaedia, reliant on the kindness of strangers to write, edit and update its articles. It’s amazing anyone had the optimism to launch it in the first place. The thinking makes more sense if you know that Wikipedia wasn’t originally intended as a standalone project. Two years previously, founder Jimmy Wales had already launched Nupedia – an encyclopaedia site written and curated by experts in the traditional way. Wikipedia was to be a “feeder” project, allowing anyone to create and expand entries, which trusted editors could then review for inclusion into the “real” encyclopedia.
A final concern is the question of reliability. In 2005, a study in the journal Nature found that Wikipedia’s millions of contributors had refined its content to a degree of accuracy almost on par with the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But while minor inaccuracies quickly get picked up, outright fabrications may hang around for months without being corrected. Last year, researcher Gregory Kohs carried out an experiment in which he inserted nonsensical claims into Wikipedia – such as that pain from inflammation is caused by the body’s release of volcanic rock – and saw them hang around uncorrected for many months.
Despite its imperfections, Wikipedia is a unique resource and the web’s de facto central repository of information.

• YOUTUBE

Influence ranking 8.00 Out Of 10

Before YouTube, watching a video on your computer meant downloading a huge MPEG file. Even in grainy lowres, this could take hours to arrive over a dial-up or ADSL line. Want to share it online with a friend? The only way was to send them the link so they could download it.
Today, YouTube is such an integral part of Google’s platform that it’s impossible to put a value on it. For some uploaders, it’s lucrative: Swedish YouTube star PewDiePie earned over $12m last year from advertising and sponsorship, thanks to the 48 million followers of his game commentaries. Another star is Korean singer Psy, whose 2012 hit “Gangnam Style” is still the most viewed video on the site with over 2.5 billion views.
The breadth of YouTube’s library is integral to its appeal. And, in terms of obscure material such as old TV series or crackly B-sides, it’s arguable that YouTube provides an invaluable service allowing the world to enjoy previously off-limits media.

• BBC NEWS

Influence ranking 7.45 Out Of 10

BBC Online is one of those rare truly global news sites websites that inveigles its way into our daily lives. We use it to to get a straight analysis of today’s news. Nor are its effects limited to the UK: it’s taken the ethos of the BBC World Service and spread it to the online world. For many countries, it’s the only news source that can be trusted.
Of all the global news sites, we think the BBC and The Guardian (another UK site on this list) do the best job of providing balanced and wide ranging news coverage, and for Australians there is so much locally relevant content (particularly The Guardian, since it set up local operations last year) that, apart from a quick stop at SMH or The Age (effectively the same site), it’s possible to stay on top of world events without venturing much further afield.

• EBAY (Incorporating PayPal)

Influence ranking 7.21 Out Of 10

eBay took many years to shake-off its reputation as an iffy online car boot sale. Now the stories of eBay fraud are limited to a low murmur, with the auction site finally winning the mainstream respectability it always craved: it is, according to Fortune, the fifth most admired company in the internet services and retailing sector.

eBay deserves credit for its parenting of PayPal. Bought for $1.5 billion in 2002, eBay turned PayPal into the site’s payments provider – an unpopular decision at the time, but one that has borne fruit. PayPal was again spun-off as a separate business last year, earning a valuation of $46.6 billion – more than 30 times the price eBay paid. eBay behaves like users of its site – buying firms before selling them on for profit. It paid $2.5 billion for Skype in 2005. It failed to get users to communicate by phone but still managed to sell 70% of Skype to a consortium for $1.9 billion; when Microsoft paid $8.5 billion for the service in 2011.

• TWITTER

Influence ranking 6.84 Out Of 10

Like many of our top sites, Twitter at first seemed like a rather dubious idea – a blogging site where each post had to be shorter than a single text message. But the enforced brevity freed us from spending time and effort drafting updates. As founders Dom Sagolla and Jack Dorsey put it, the idea was that tweeting should be “so simple that you don’t even think about it”. Breezy, throwaway tweets rapidly became a hugely popular way to stay in touch with friends and colleagues.
 Back when Twitter launched in 2006, it wasn’t only the posts that were simple, but the platform itself. At launch, there were no such things as hashtags – even replies weren’t immediately implemented. And if you wanted to “retweet” a post, you had to copy and paste it into your timeline.
With more than 500 million tweets sent each day by more than half a billion users, Twitter is a cultural phenomenon. However, the worry is that its popularity has plateaued. Company revenue has fallen short of expectations this year, and lately, shares have dropped as low as $14, from a high of $69 in 2014. Recently, the company has tried to get casual users more invested, with updates such as shuffling the order of tweets to put more interesting posts first on the feed and adding live video-streaming capabilities.
Even so, some financial analysts see Twitter’s most likely fate as a corporate buyout. The question is which tech giant will end up acquiring the service – and how cheaply the management will have to sell.

• WORDPRESS

Influence ranking 5.56 Out Of 10

WordPress can mean many things: it’s a blogging website (wordpress.com) that also hosts blogging software, which you can run in your own web space. And it’s also the name of that software itself. Confused? You might be, especially since the WordPress CMS underpins not only conventional blogging sites, but business websites and ecommerce portals, too. The platform’s publisher, Automattic, boasts that WordPress powers more than 70 million sites, which according to some estimates represents around a quarter of the entire web.
The security-minded among you may get a sense of unease about all this. When a platform has such a huge footprint, it becomes a target for hackers. The risk isn’t as widespread as it may seem: around half of all WordPress sites are hosted on the official site, so you can trust that patches and security updates will be applied.
But the other half are running on personal or company servers. Simple mistakes, such as using the default “admin” username, can allow intruders to access your site and expose you to attacks. Hackers might use your WordPress site to host a phishing gateway – or to access other resources on the same server.
It shouldn’t scare you away from WordPress, though: it’s an open-source project with a huge community of developers.

• NETFLIX

Influence ranking 5.39 Out Of 10

It’s by no means an overstatement to suggest Netflix has transformed the way we consume television. Yes, you could binge-watch a boxset on DVD, but that was for series that had been broadcast on television channels. Netflix has viewers primed to stay up all night when new series of shows such as House of Cards, Narcos or Orange Is The New Black arrive – and nobody dares talk about them on Twitter for fear of spoilers. Netflix has killed the watercooler conversation about what you watched last night.
Note that all the shows mentioned above are Netflix originals – shows that were commissioned, funded and first broadcast by Netflix itself. Netflix has raised the bar for television drama: of the top 50 highest-rated TV series on IMDb, Netflix is responsible for four of them (Stranger Things, House of Cards, Narcos, Making a Murderer). Number three on IMDb, Breaking Bad, was a Netflix exclusive and the reason many people took out a subscription in the first place. At this year’s Emmy Awards, Netflix won more nominations (54) than any network, other than Fox and HBO.
The sheer weight of Netflix video traffic places a huge burden on the internet. Netflix alone accounts for more than one-fifth of all network traffic in the UK and Ireland, according to Sandvine, which is why all of the major ISPs now have Netflix caches in their own datacentres, so that the HD streams don’t cripple their networks
The company continues to spread its reach: Netflix is available in more than 60 countries and has more than 80 million subscribers, growing at a rate of around 10 million per year. This is despite Netflix “ungrandfathering” long-term subscribers, who were afforded a two-year freeze on the price increases imposed on new customers. Will Netflix become the biggest broadcaster on the planet? We certainly wouldn’t bet against it.

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Aromatic chicken pho noodle soup

"SERVES 4READY IN 10 MIN"

Ingredients:-

• 1 litre chicken stock
• 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 star anise
• 2 free-range chicken breasts, sliced
• 300g ready-to-stir-fry fine noodles
• 150g mangetout, sliced
• 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce (nam pla)
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• Juice 2 limes
• 2 spring onions, shredded
• Small bunch fresh coriander,
leaves chopped
• 1 fresh red chilli, finely sliced

Steps:-

1. Put the chicken stock in a pan over a medium heat, add the grated ginger, crushed garlic, star anise and the finely sliced chicken breasts. Simmer for 5 minutes.

2. Add the noodles and the mangetout, then continue to simmer for 2 minutes. Add the fish sauce, the soy sauce and the lime juice. Spoon into 4 serving bowls and top with shredded spring onions, chopped fresh coriander and the finely sliced red chilli.

Gains PER SERVING
262kcals
2.9g fat (1.6g saturated)
30.4g protein
30.6g carbs (4.2g sugars)
2.9g salt
3.7g fibre