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Can DJI compete against GoPro in the action camera arena?

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If you own the DJI Osmo Action, what would you score it? Did it serve your needs? Did you appreciate that front-facing display? Were you also frustrated by the lack of GPS or an HDMI port? Tell us (and your fellow readers) all about this outdoor camcorder with a user review on our Osmo Action product page! If you’ve used other action cameras, feel free to compare them as well. And don’t forget that your review could be used in an upcoming user review roundup, so don’t leave out any details!

Note: Comments are off for this post, but we’d love to hear your thoughts on our DJI Osmo Action product page!

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Apple TV app is now available on the Fire TV Stick

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Through the app, users will have access to their iTunes libraries and all of the TV shows and movies they’ve already purchased or rented through Apple. Of course, the app will allow users to sign up for Apple TV+ even if they don’t own an Apple device.

For now, the app is only available on those two Fire TV Sticks, but Amazon says it will arrive on a few Fire TVs and the Fire TV Cube “soon.”

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Amazon acquires another healthcare start-up for its Amazon Care program

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At this stage, however, the service is intended only for Amazon’s own employees, and joins pilot program Amazon Care, which acts as a medical benefit for staff. If employees are unwell they can use the service to access virtual care through a video consultation, or obtain a home visit if necessary. PillPack, which provides prescription delivery, also falls under the Amazon Care umbrella.

With around a dozen employees, Health Navigator is considerably smaller than PillPack, for which Amazon paid $753 million last year. The exact details of the new acquisition haven’t yet been disclosed, although CNBC reports that Health Navigator does not plan on renewing its contracts with existing customers.

Although the move is primarily focused on internal benefit right now, it does provide another hint as to Amazon’s longer-term, more commercial aspirations within the healthcare field. Last year the company announced a partnership with Warren Buffet and JPMorgan Chase that aims to create healthcare solutions that benefit “potentially all Americans.” The acquisition of Health Navigator is likely a stepping stone in achieving that goal.

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BBC fights censorship by launching news site on the dark web

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When accessing the internet using Tor, a person’s location and identity is obscured using layers of encryption. The browser can access regular websites more anonymously than other browsers, or it can access hidden sites which have the .onion suffix. Typically, the unlisted sites which comprise the dark web are associated with illegal activities, but Tor is also used by activists, journalists and regular people who want to bypass government censorship.

To access the alternative version of the BBC News site, Tor users can visit the URL bbcnewsv2vjtpsuy.onion. This address won’t work in a regular browser but it will allow Tor users to view the international edition of the BBC News website.

The BBC says its content available on the Tor site includes foreign language services such as BBC Arabic, BBC Persian and BBC Russian, but does not include access to the BBC iPlayer streaming service.

In its announcement, the organization specifically named China, Iran and Vietnam as countries in which BBC News content has been blocked. It also said that providing a way for audiences to access its content even where it was restricted was “in line with the BBC World Service mission to provide trusted news around the world.”

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Samsung says its new flagship processor is 20 percent faster

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The Exynos 990 follows the launch of the 980 in September — Samsung’s first processor and 5G modem in one– and last year’s Exynos 9820/9825. It supports a 120Hz refresh rate on phone screens, which means smoother gaming and scrolling. It can handle up to six cameras (although only three at once), and has enough guts to manage Samsung’s 108-megapixel image sensor, which was announced over the summer.

The company has also unveiled its Exynos Modem 5123, which works alongside the 990 to bring 5G connectivity to phones, boosting top speeds to 8.36 gigabits per second — a pretty marked improvement on the 3Gbps offered in its previous modem.

Finally, Samsung has announced that it’s started mass producing the industry’s first 12GB low-power double data rate 4X UFS-based multichip package (uMCP). Until now, high-end phones have carried 12GB of RAM through increased capacity chips — six 16Gb RAM chips for one 12GB chip. The new uMCP means only four 24Gb RAM chips are needed to make the same 12GB chip. What does this mean? Increased AI potential and more space for a larger battery, for a start, plus a cost effectiveness that’ll mean we’ll start seeing mid-tier phones getting more RAM in the coming year.

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Netflix launches its cheaper mobile-only subscription in Malaysia

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The service costs just RM17 ($4) per month, and allows subscribers to watch all Netflix content ad-free in standard definition on a mobile device. The app can be installed on multiple devices, but the plan can only be used to watch on one smartphone or tablet at a time.

The mobile subscription option is an addition to the existing options of Basic, Standard and Premium subscriptions available in Malaysia. Netflix added the new tier because, according to its statistics, 88 percent of Malaysians own a smartphone and 78 percent of users spend time streaming or downloading entertainment.

Netflix has been experimenting with cheaper subscriptions in international markets. Its mobile-only subscription first appeared in India, where it is now available for 199 rupees ($2.80) per month. With India’s large population and areas of poor connectivity, many people rely on mobile data for their internet access so an affordable mobile-only plan makes sense there. A similar mobile-only Netflix service in also available in the Philippines, according to Gadget Match, where it costs PhP 190 ($3.70) per month.

In its recent earnings call, Netflix shared that it had added 6.77 million subscribers but that this was slightly lower than the 7 million hoped for. Having to fight back against competition from Disney+ and Apple TV+, both of which are coming soon, the company announced it would be expanding its mobile-only plans to attract more international subscribers.

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Canon’s EOS 1D X Mark III will be a technological tour de force

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You’ll be able to shoot at those speeds for quite a while, as the 1D X Mark III will use CFexpress cards (with speeds up to 1,600 MB/s) and a buffer five times the size of the 1D X Mark II. As a reminder, that model let you shoot up to 170 RAW photos without stopping, so 1D X Mark III owners might be able to shoot 16fps or 20fps bursts for well over 30 seconds at a time. That kind of shooting burns through batteries quickly, but Canon said the 1D X III would eke better life out of the same LP-E19 battery used before.

Canon EOS-1D X Mark III full-frame DSLR development

Along with JPEG and RAW files, users will get a new type of format called 10-bit HEIF (high efficiency image file), with more dynamic range and a wider color palette than JPEG. It’s an option that’s much more compact than RAW, but easier to edit than JPEG. On the connectivity side, it comes with WiFi, Bluetooth LE, GPS, a built-in ethernet connection and an optional wireless transmitter.

Canon also revealed that the 1D X Mark III will be the most video-capable EOS camera it has ever built, with 10-bit 4:2:2 footage at up to 4K 60p, with internal Canon Log recording. It didn’t say whether 4K video would use the full width of the sensor and be supersampled, but the last model had a small 1.3 times crop factor.

As a pro model, it will have “phenomenal” weather-sealing and a very durable magnesium alloy body. Canon didn’t reveal the sensor resolution, price and other important facts, as it’s saving those for the official launch. As a reminder, though, the last model had a 20.2-megapixel sensor and $6,000 price tag.

In other Canon news, the company unveiled two new lenses that will complete its “holy trinity” full-frame EOS R RF-mount lineup. The $2,700 RF 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM is designed for sports, wildlife and event photography, but it’s 27 percent shorter and 28 percent lighter than the EF version. The other model is the $3,000 RF 85mm f/1.2L USM DS. It features a new Canon lens coating called Defocus Smoothing — a vapor-deposited coating on a lens element that improves the look of bokeh. Both of these models showcase the strengths (and high prices) of Canon’s RF mount system.

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Blood-based TB test will provide a low-cost option for developing nations

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The test was developed by researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and several other institutions. It works by analyzing the combined levels of four proteins and an anti-TB antibody in blood samples to identify the patients who are likely to have ATB and require advanced diagnostics and treatment.

Rushdy Ahmad, Ph.D., the fist author of the researchers’ paper published in Science Translational Medicine, said:

“Our test demonstrated 86 percent sensitivity and 69 percent specificity, which are very close to the WHO’s minimum requirements of 90 percent sensitivity and 70 percent specificity for an effective TB triage test. It also effectively identified the ATB signature in patient samples from three different continents, meaning it can detect many strains of the pathogen, and in both HIV-positive and HIV-negative samples, making it widely applicable to most ATB patients.”

The team started by analyzing the levels of blood proteins in 400 blood samples from people in Tanzania and the Philippines who had been diagnosed with ATB and conditions other than TB. They used a traditional microbiologic assessment for that part. They then analyzed the protein level data again using a machine learning algorithm, focusing on four proteins that were consistently elevated in the samples with ATB.

Based on that “ATB signature,” the algorithm was able to detect ATB in 86 percent of all the positive samples (sensitivity),and the absence of ATB in 65 percent of the negative samples (specificity). The algorithm was also able to identify ATB in all of the samples that were HIV positive. It cost the team $10 per test during the development process, but a $2 version could be created using less expensive materials.

Team member David Walt explained:

“Elevated levels of all four of the blood proteins we analyzed have been identified in a range of different diseases, but only when combined into a predictive algorithm do they have the power to distinguish ATB from other conditions.”

The researchers validated and improved their algorithm through a different set of 317 samples taken from patients in Vietnam, South Africa and Peru. While they still need to refine it further for accuracy and speed, the team believes that the test has the potential to reduce deaths due to undiagnosed ATB, as well as prevent the overuse of antibiotics and expensive diagnostics and treatments on patients who don’t actually have ATB.

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Downloaded Disney+ movies will keep working even if they leave the service

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While Disney leans hard on nostalgia for content from its vast archives to push its upcoming Disney+ package, one downside is that licensing deals signed years ago will mean some movies aren’t always available. In the past, it’s made limited availability of content part of the business model, rotating classics in and out of the Disney vault to encourage purchases while they’re available. As CEO Bob Iger explained during an interview at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit 2019, that shouldn’t be an issue — as long as people keep subscribing.

Asked about the availability of older movies (around 25 minutes into the video below), he referenced the three-hour “All Your Favorites” sizzle reel Disney released last week, and said that there is “some of it but very very little” that will be removed from the service at times. However, as long as someone is an active Disney+ subscriber, he said, they’ll be able to watch downloaded copies of those movies anyway. It’s not the perfect solution, but it may nudge some people to get — and keep — that annual subscription, even in future years if Disney ever raises the prices. Disney+ launches November 12th, with a $6.99 per month / $69.99 annual price tag.

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16-bit ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Lion King’ cartridges are returning in 2020

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If you’re not quite that interested in the original format, there will also be a physical Retro Edition of Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and Lion King for the Switch. It’ll be available in both Genesis- and SNES-style boxes, with a retro-like manual to match. It arrives on December 10th for $50, and pre-orders will start at the same time as for the Legacy cartridges, only this time on Best Buy. While the trip down memory lane won’t be quite the same, it may be the more realistic choice if you don’t have a ’90s console buried in your closet.

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