Facebook news feed changes
Facebook are rolling out changes to the news feed to include something called ‘Story Bumping’ – who comes up with these new words is what I want to know, is there a tech department somewhere trying to dream up new buzz words in technology!?!
Anyway, basically what it means is that in your news feed facebook through a complicated way of working it out, will push to your news feed the stories you are interested in – including stories from a few days ago. They work this out by a combination from what you’re commenting on and liking.
So for example if you keep liking and commenting on Spirit Radio facebook page we are more likely to be at the top of your news feed.
Source: facebook blog
Talking Robot enters space
Kirobo is an interactive talking robot due to arrive at the international Space Station on the 9th August. It’s part of a study on Communicative Support for those in Isolation.
Inspired by the popular Manga character, Astro Boy. Kirobo has a wide range of physical movement and will be able to converse with Astronaut Kochi Wakata in Japenese, as well as recognising facial expressions and record astronauts conversations.
Kirobo has a twin, called Mirata, on earth monitoring every move for understanding difficulties in the new technology.
Kirobo reportedly commented, “It’s one small step for me, a giant leap for robots”
Source: Kirobo Project Website
Do you miss the flip phone?
Do you use a flip phone or wish you could have a flip smart phone? Well there’s some good news as Samsung are reportedly working on Samsung Galaxy with dual display.
The phone is said to include a Snapdragon 400 dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and an 1,820mAh battery. One of its displays was listed as being a 3.7-inch AMOLED panel with an 800-by-480-pixel resolution.
Unfortunately at the time of writing the phone is currently aimed at the tech capital of the South Korean market, so may have to wait awhile before it’s available in Europe.
Source: Digital Spy
Apple USB charger take-back programme
Apple after concern of people using unauthorized chargers on their iPhone’s, iPod’s and iPad’s after the recent report of the chinese women who died after electricuting herself charging her iPhone from a third-party charger have issued a “USB Power adaptor take-back programme”
“Recent reports have suggested that some counterfeit and third party adapters may not be designed properly and could result in safety issues. While not all third party adapters have an issue, we are announcing a USB Power Adapter Takeback Program to enable customers to acquire properly designed adapters.”
From 16th August to the 18th October Apple are making available for concerned users to send their third-party charges marked ‘made for iphone’ in exchange for buying $10 replacement charger (or eqivalent in local currency)
Source: Apple Announcement
Note: At the time of writing we couldn’t get comment from Apple Ireland as to the detail on this programme in the ROI. We will check again nearer the time of the programme starting.
