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Is this the end of valued smartphones from LG? The Korean company is considering a withdrawal from the market

Each of us has our favorite or hated companies. This applies to every aspect of our lives – food, clothes, games, cars, computer components and consumer electronics. In each of these market branches, however, there are companies that have been present in stores for many years and it is difficult not to associate them. In the case of smartphones, one of such entities is cheebol in the form of LG, which offers devices from various price and performance segments. However, according to the latest information, we can say goodbye to Korean phones soon. After years of losing out in this segment, Asians are considering options, one of which is to exit the phone market altogether.

The Polish branch of LG denies the reported reports, while the foreign branch of LG confirms them. So the situation is still unclear.

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LG Wing test – smartphone with gimbal function and rotating screen

As reported by the Korean newspaper The Korea Herald, Kwon Bong-seok (LG CEO) sent an internal message to employees on Wednesday, including that “As competition in the global mobile device market becomes increasingly sharper, it is time for LG to take a cool judgment and make the best choice. “and” The company is considering all possible measures, including selling or reducing the smartphone division or withdrawing completely from this market. “At the same time, the CEO stressed that” Regardless of changes in the smartphone business, employment will be maintained, so there is no need to worry. “And it is hard not to believe these assurances, considering the size of the Korean company and how many different things it produces.

LG Gram Test 17 2020 – The lightest 17 – inch laptop in the world

The reason for the changes in the company’s smartphone division is the fact that the total loss of LG Electronics over the last five years is around 5 000 000 000 000 Korean won (~ 4 544 425 500 dollars). Although the situation in the third quarter 2020 was much better than in the first and second quarter, it is still not colorful. The speech was about operational loss “only” 148, 4 billion won, decreasing from consecutive 206 and 237, 8 billion won (Q2 and Q3 2020). LG confirmed in an interview with the foreign portal The Verge that such a message had actually been sent, although the company has not yet made any final decision. On the other hand, LG Polska completely denied these reports in an interview with us. We must admit, however, that similar rumors were already appearing earlier this month.

LG introduces OLED, NanoCell and QNED Mini LED Smart TVs with Google Stadia and NVIDIA GeForce NOW support

Well, there is nothing else but to wait for the situation to develop further. In my opinion, the lack of LG on the smartphone market would be a noticeable loss. This is one of the few companies that should be valued for originality. For example LG G4 from 2015 of the year with leather backs; the newer LG Wing with two screens and a built-in gimbal or the futuristic LG Rollable with a sliding screen announced for this year. What’s more, Koreans have always offered good DACs and cameras in their flagships, without removing useful solutions such as a jack socket or a memory card space like Samsung or Apple. A lot of positive things were also heard about specific Nexus / Pixel models, which were just made on behalf of the Americans by Koreans.

Source: The Verge, The Korean Herald, LG Polska,

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New payment methods for private sales on eBay

From now on, private sellers will gradually be given the opportunity to move payment processing to the eBay payment platform. This goes hand in hand with new ways of getting the money from buyers.

Add to the previously usual ways of cash payment for collection, bank transfer and PayPal Payment methods such as credit card, online direct debit or instant transfer are also available. After deducting all fees, the sellers receive their money directly into their current account; eBay carries out the transaction itself. According to eBay’s press release, it doesn’t matter whether it’s an online auction or a sale on the online marketplace. With this step, the company is finally replacing its former subsidiary PayPal.

This is how the new eBay payment works According to the eBay seller portal, private eBay users will receive a message as soon as they can switch their account to the new payment method. According to the online help, in order to take part in the process as a seller, you have to identify yourself in a similar way to commercial sellers and store a current account connection in your eBay account. eBay wants to check the information within two working days. If the check fails, the service asks for a current account statement. EBay has also provided more detailed information on account verification in the online help. The company names the credit and debit cards from Visa, Mastercard and American Express as well as PayPal, online direct debit (SEPA), Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna Sofortüberweisung as supported payment methods.

The activation of the new Payment platform for private sellers is the last step in the reorganization of the payment process on eBay. It began with the separation from PayPal in the year 2015, which then became an independent, listed financial service provider. At the beginning 2018 eBay announced a cooperation with Adyen, a Dutch Payment Service Provider (PSP), which was to become the new primary payment service provider. EBay began the conversion for commercial sellers in September 2019, private sellers should use the new payment platform at the latest in the course of the year 2022 are available.

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Linux has been ported to run on Apple’s M1 Macs

A new Linux port allows Apple’s M1 Macs to run Ubuntu for the first time. Corellium, a security firm that offers a virtualized version of iOS for security testing, has successfully ported Ubuntu over to M1 Macs and released a tutorial for others to follow. The modified version of Ubuntu boots into the regular user interface and includes USB support.

The team at Corellium have detailed exactly how they managed to get Ubuntu running, and it’s a good in-depth read if you’re interested in the details. While a number of M1 components are shared with Apple’s mobile chips, the non-standard chips made it challenging to create Linux drivers to get Ubuntu running properly.

Apple hasn’t designed its M1 Macs with dual-boot or Boot Camp in mind. Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Virtualization seems to be Apple’s preferred method, but that hasn’t stopped people from making their own ports.

Linux is now completely usable on the Mac mini M1. Booting from USB a full Ubuntu desktop (rpi). Network works via a USB c dongle. Update includes support for USB, I2C, DART. We will push changes to our GitHub and a tutorial later today. Thanks to the @CorelliumHQ team ❤️ pic.twitter.com/uBDbDmvJUG

— Chris Wade (@cmwdotme) January 20, 2021

Hector Martin, a developer who regularly gets Linux running on a variety of hardware, is also porting Linux to M1 Macs. Developers seem to be enticed by the performance benefits offered by Apple’s M1 chips, and the ability to run Linux on a silent ARM-based machine. “I’ve been waiting for an ARM laptop that can run Linux for a long time,” said Linux creator Linus Torvalds back in November. “The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS.”

Corellium CTO Chris Wade describes this new port as “completely usable” on a Mac Mini M1, and it works by booting the full Ubuntu desktop from USB. You will need a USB-C dongle to get networking working, though, and the process to get the port running will require some familiarity with Linux and custom kernels. Corellium has posted a tutorial on the process, if you’re interested in trying this beta project out.

Corellium has some experience in working around Apple’s operating system protections. Corellium offers security researchers a virtual iPhone to help with vulnerability exploration. It’s a process that has angered Apple enough to file lawsuits against Corellium. Apple lost an early challenge against Corellium late last year, after initially filing a lawsuit against the company on copyright grounds back in August 2019. Apple later alleged DMCA violations in January 2020, and a judge dismissed the copyright infringement claims in December. A ruling on the separate DMCA allegations has been deferred.

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Gigabyte unveils the RTX 3080 Gaming OC WaterForce WB graphics card

João Silva
10 mins ago
Featured Tech News, Graphics

Gigabyte is getting ready to launch a new RTX 3080 card with a waterblock. The Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC WaterForce WB is the second RTX 3080 graphics card of this type launched by the manufacturer, but while the first one belongs to the Aorus series, this one is part of the Gigabyte Gaming series.

According to VideoCardz, the upcoming RTX 3080 Gaming OC WaterForce WB comes with 3x DisplayPorts 1.4a and 2x HDMI 2.1 ports. The card is covered by a small acrylic window with RGB lighting surrounded by a black and grey shroud. Featuring a 2-slot design, the card is powered by 2x 8-pin power connectors.

Image credit: VideoCardz

There are fewer video outputs on the Gigabyte Gaming WaterForce compared to the higher-end Aorus Xtreme WaterForce GPU. The card itself is also smaller, with a smaller PCB design and cooling block, although it does still cover the full card.

In terms of clock speeds, you can expect an 1800MHz boost speed on the GPU core out of the box, meanwhile the memory offers 19Gbps speeds. Pricing and availability details for this GPU aren’t available yet but we should hear more in the next few weeks.

KitGuru says: Are you planning on building a new system with a custom water loop? Would you consider adding a Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC WaterForce WB to it?

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