📱 Samsung loses smartphone crown 🤖 Elon's weird robot video 🕹️ Gamers, are you listening? 💻 Entering Apple's walled garden | |
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Samsung replaced as king of global smartphone market
| The company will be hoping that the imminent release of its new flagship Galaxy S24 phone will help it return to the top spot | Samsung has been sitting pretty at the top of the global smartphone market since 2010. Until now, that is. Data released this week by research firm IDC shows that arch-rival Apple has knocked the Korean tech giant off its perch. IDC’s preliminary results for 2023, which could be adjusted slightly, estimate that Apple achieved 234.6 million smartphone shipments last year, giving it a 20.1% market share. Samsung, on the other hand, saw 226.6 million shipments, equal to a 19.4% share. Driving Apple’s smartphone sales in 2023 will have been the iPhone 14, as well as the newer iPhone 15 handsets, which launched in September, while Samsung has been impacted by competitors launching new Android phones in multiple markets globally ... | |
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Elon Musk's Tesla robot video not quite as first thought
| Tesla's humanoid robot has clearly come a long way since the first prototype appeared in 2022, but some observers found this latest video of it just a bit odd | A video clip shared by Tesla chief Elon Musk showing the company’s in-development humanoid robot folding a shirt looked very impressive at first, but then users on social media started to ask questions. Some, including popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, asked if the video was computer generated, while another pondered whether the Tesla team had hired “the claymation team from Wallace & Gromit,” Business Insider reported. Others commenting on the clip noticed a hand popping in and out of shot that appeared to replicate the robot’s movements. Musk has yet to directly address any of the remarks, though he did add later that the robot “cannot yet do this autonomously” but should be able to do so after further development ... | |
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Gamers may suffer permanent hearing loss and tinnitus, new study warns | A review of 14 separate studies involving more than 50,000 people has found that some video gamers need to watch the audio levels
| Millions of video gamers are at risk of damaging their hearing because the sound levels are often close to or exceed safe limits, according to research conducted by a team from the WHO and the University of South Carolina. There are particular concerns for children, who may not realize the harm it's causing until it's too late. The risks come in various forms. The practice of listening to video game audio via headphones, for example, can put extra strain on a player’s auditory system if the volume levels remain high for prolonged periods. “Those who game regularly, compared to those who do not, are more likely to experience tinnitus, measured high-frequency hearing loss, and self-perceived difficulties hearing,” said Dr. Lauren Dillard, first author of the study. The team said more should be done to highlight the risks ... | |
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EXPERIENCE by Mark Coppock |
Why I finally gave up and embraced Apple's walled garden | 'Switching from Windows and Android to Apple has dramatically changed my computing. Here's a look at why the investment has been worth it so far' | After decades as a diehard Windows user, I’ve made the switch to all-Apple computing. I ditched my Windows PC and laptop, my Android smartphone, and my Wear OS smartwatch for a MacBook Pro 16, iPad, iPhone, and Watch. I’m all in. It’s still early in the process, but the change has already been illuminating if incredibly costly — it’s expensive to make such a significant change in platforms. The transition has required changes to how I get things done, but it’s offered some distinct advantages that have made the investment a good one. Before this transition, I used a Windows desktop for my most intensive work. Equipped with an older (but still fast) AMD processor and Nvidia GPU and coupled with three 27-inch 4K displays, it was my workhorse machine ... | |
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