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Nintendo everything: cellphone games & new consoles
New Facebook Guidelines Tell You If Your Post Will Get Deleted
Inateck’s USB 3.0 Hub w/ Gigabit Ethernet Adds Ports to Ultrabooks
Xiaomi create their own smartwatch, a follow up to the Mi Band

Nintendo everything: cellphone games & new consoles

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 08:34 AM PDT

After a few years of red numbers, Nintendo has given up and announced they will develop smartphone games along with their usual offerings. Also, they claim to be working on a new console coming out next year.

Nintendo gives up after years of fighting the system: following 3 consecutive years of red numbers, president Satoru Iwata saw some changes had to be made. After cutting his salary in half after hearing the complaints about their current direction, they announced the purchase of Japanese giant DeNA, with whom they will work to create a series of smartphone games. According to Iwata’s declarations, these are all new experiences and games and not just ports from previous experiences, that can already be played in other consoles.

Yet that’s not all. The big N is doing something else besides joining the mobile market: they announced they are working on a new system, as of now codenamed Nintendo NX. The rumor mill claims this is a next gen console, but we will probably hear nothing more of it until this year’s E3.

These announcements have all gotten a favorable reception, so Nintendo’s stock shot up and climbed an impressive 4,46 in the stock market, a 31% increase. What a way to start the year, right? Are you looking forward to playing Zelda or Mario in your Android and iPhone?

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New Facebook Guidelines Tell You If Your Post Will Get Deleted

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 06:00 AM PDT

In order to provide more clarity as to what sort of content Facebook will remove, the social media site now has a set of community standards.

Social media is pretty great; it lets us saying anything we want on a whim. Cooked up a tasty meal and you want to share it with everybody? Hop onto Instagram and stick a nice filter over the top. Wondering why a particular website is down? Just tweet the people who run it and they’ll provide you with an answer. Social media lets us express ourselves in anyway we want, but when it comes to threats and abuse, there’s a line that has been crossed. Now, Facebook wants to make it clear how it decides whether the line has been crossed or not and what happens to your account if you do.

In their new community standards, Facebook explains that the following put you at risk of having your account suspended or may just see the content removed from your account: direct threats, self-injury/suicide mentions, dangerous organisations (including terrorist activity), bullying and harassment, criminal activity, sexual violence or exploitation, regulated goods (e.g marijuana and firearms), nudity, hate speech and violent or graphic content.

Facebook explains that each violation of this is looked at on a case by case basis and that they carefully review each one. It also seems as though Facebook isn’t interested in limiting free speech but is actively making sure that its users abide by the law. For example, you can use Facebook to sell weed and guns but only if you adhere to the law when doing so and also don’t try and sell them to anyone they shouldn’t (e.g minors).

Other issues such as Facebook’s policies on nudity may cause a bit of controversy, though. They don’t allow pictures of women’s breasts if they show a nipple, just in case they offend people, but the community standards list makes no mentions of men’s nipples. Many would argue that Facebook is helping to foster a double standard here. Furthermore, they also allow people to upload images of art that has nipples in, and there aren’t any clear rules on how realistic that art is allowed to be.

There are clearly some issues here that Facebook needs to work out, but the social media site is slowly but surely getting there.

Source: Facebook

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Inateck’s USB 3.0 Hub w/ Gigabit Ethernet Adds Ports to Ultrabooks

Posted: 19 Mar 2015 05:31 AM PDT

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USB Type-C may be the latest rave, but until that port becomes mainstream, most ultrabooks still rely on USB 3.0 for transferring data. Inateck’s 3-port USB 3.0 hub adds a bit of flexibility, not to mention that it also comes with a Gigabit Ethernet port.

To earn the ultrabook status, a notebook needs to ditch some of the things that would otherwise make it bulky. Ethernet and VGA ports are the usual suspects here, so anyone requiring these would have to buy adapters. In addition to that, ultrabooks never seem to have enough USB 3.0 ports, and with the number of devices using these rising quickly, buying a hub makes perfect sense. Inateck’s 3-port USB 3.0 hub with Gigabit Ethernet seems to be an affordable solution to all of these problems.

Contents of the Box

Inateck is fully aware that users are more interested about functionality rather than fancy packaging, and designs its product boxes accordingly, while also helping people to save some money in the process.

As seen on the box, the hub is compliant with FCC and CE standards, and can be recycled if it is no longer useful or functional.

The contents of the plain cardboard box pictured above are everything a user needs to add more ports to his or her ultrabook: the hub itself, a CD with drivers and instructions, as well as a paper version of the user manual.

CD Contents

Even though the CD contains the drivers for the Ethernet port, I would recommend downloading the latest version from the manufacturer’s website.

However, if no Internet connection is available, the included CD can come in handy, as it includes drivers for multiple operating systems, a User’s Manual in English, and the option to view the MAC address of the network interface card.

Bear in mind that the USB ports don’t require drivers and are, in fact, plug-and-play, the Gigabit Ethernet port being the only component that needs drivers to function properly.

Compatibility and Technical Specs

The hub should perform as advertised as long as your computer is running Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (both 32 and 64-bit versions) and MacOS.

When it comes to portability, Inateck’s 3-port USB 3.0 hub will barely be noticeable, as it only measures 110 x 32 x 20mm / 4.33 x 1.26 x 0.79in and tops the scale at 59 grams or 2.09 ounces.

Performance

USB 3.0 and Gigabit Ethernet ports provide theoretical speeds of up to 5Gbps and 1Gbps, respectively, but the results will depend a lot on the flash drives and network equipment that you’re using.

The test bench used for assessing the performance of the hub was the same as here, and the overall results were comparable.

Price & Availability

As all the other Inateck products, the 3-port USB 3.0 hub with Gigabit Ethernet is available on Amazon and can be currently purchased in the following countries: United States ($22.99), UK (£19.99), Germany (€24.99), France (€30.99), Italy (€29.99), Spain (€27.99), Japan (?3,854), and Canada (CDN$ 30.99).

Conclusions

The 3-port USB 3.0 hub made by Inateck adds functionality to ultrabooks at a convenient cost. The build quality is high, but that is something I’ve come to expect from this company, as this is not the first Inateck product I’m testing. I could’ve said that Inateck does not emphasize enough the OTG options of this hub, but come to think of it, the company already has an USB 3.0 hub with normal and OTG USB cable, so that is covered by another product, in case your tablet does not feature a regular USB port.

I would like to thank Inateck for sending me a product sample and for making this hands-on review possible.

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Xiaomi create their own smartwatch, a follow up to the Mi Band

Posted: 18 Mar 2015 03:42 PM PDT

Chinese giant Xiaomi are tacking Apple and everyone else head on in the smartwatch market by releasing their own low budget device, the Mi Band.

Xiaomi are world renowned for their low budget gadgets that compete with giants such as Samsung, Sony or Apple as if nothing, and it seems their latest offering will do exactly that: release a smartwatch following them, but slash the prices like they’re nothing. This smartwatch has no name yet, but there are many rumors about it: chief amongst them, identifying users based on their pulse, which is a new technology and true innovation. We can’t help but wonder if this would require a lot of power, and end up becoming a downside though.

When it comes to its design, Xiaomi want to do a round sphere with a metallic aspect, and minimum width. This unnamed model would follow up the "Mi Band" smartband, with a renewed design – more elegant but conserving the NFC and Bluetooth technologies of the previous model. There are no prices nor possible release dates as of now, but a tacit confirmation by Xiaomi, by always trying to provide an alternative to what the rest create.

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