CuriosityStream is documentary heaven for $1.25 per month

Most people enjoy a good documentary. You learn interesting things, but you don’t have to read a book, and you often get stunning visuals.

If you know someone who particularly loves documentaries, CuriosityStream is the ideal Christmas gift. It’s an on-demand streaming service specializing in award-winning programming about science, nature, history, technology, society, and more.

Launched by the guy who founded the Discovery Channel, CuriostyStream has an unparalleled library of over 2,000 documentaries to choose from. You’ll find high-quality shows from some of the giants of the genre such as Sir David Attenborough and Professor Stephen Hawking.

There are even original documentaries exclusive to CuriosityStream, making it worth the signup fee alone. You can stream them to all of your devices of course.

CuriosityStream at a glance:

• Stream an unlimited amount of content every month
• Enjoy your content any time and anywhere via web browser, mobile app, TV, or tablet
• Explore more than 2,000 documentaries and shows, including award-winning originals
• Discover new favorites with personalized recommendations
• Browse collections and lists curated by CuriosityStream’s expert team

CuriosityStream normally costs $3 per month, or $20 per year. However, right now at Tech Deals you can pick up a two-year subscription for just $29.99. That’s just $1.25 per month, and you don’t even have to go shopping.

The deal expires in less than two days, so move quickly if you’re interested. The link below takes you to it.

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Huawei announces Pie-based EMUI 9.0 at IFA 2018 — find out what’s new here

Huawei has announced EMUI 9 at IFA 2018 in Berlin. The new software, which will launch on the Huawei Mate 20 in October, is based on the recently launched Android 9.0 Pie.

Huawei’s Wang Chenglu, president of software engineering, introduced the new software at a press briefing, outlining three core focus areas. With EMUI version 9.0, Huawei is aiming to deliver a system that is “Simple,” “Enjoyable,” and “Consistent,” setting out to achieve this with a few key improvements.

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Beginning with the settings menu – which, as anybody who has ever used EMUI will attest to, is a nightmare – Huawei wants to reduce the items found here from 940 in EMUI 8.0 to 843 in EMUI 9.0 (Samsung’s UX actually has more than 1,000 items in the settings menu, according to Chenglu).

Check out some of the screens from the new software below.

This seems like a smart move, so long as Huawei doesn’t lose some of the nuance when combining certain sub-menus: hopefully, this isn’t going to bury any important privacy or security settings.

Other features designed to improve usability include small additions like positioning menu tabs at the bottom of the display rather than the top. This should help make them easier to reach when using tall phones with one hand — something that’s going to be increasingly important as more 18:9 and 19:9 devices become available.

Huawei is targetting an immersive and intuitive experience thanks to new gesture navigations also. These will be peppered throughout the UI to allow users to “quickly navigate, multitask and [activate] AI assistant.”

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Smoother operation and quicker app start times should also arrive with EMUI 9.0. Chenglu noted a 12.9% improvement in system operation times and the likes of 11 percent and 12 percent decreases in Spotify and Instagram loading times respectively.

Huawei is rolling out the beta program for EMUI 9.0 today for the Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro, P20, and P20 Pro, as well as the Honor 10, Honor View 10, and Honor Play — get the details at consumer.huawei.com. The Chinese OEM should deploy the final version in the coming months.

Meanwhile, native Android Pie includes features such as AI-based battery optimizations in “adaptive battery,” digital wellbeing stats (coming this fall), and gesture navigation. You can read more about all the new features in our Android Pie review at the link.

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Source: Android Zone

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The HTC ship continues to sink as sales drop 55% in April

• HTC revenue dropped by over 55 percent in April 2018 as compared to April 2017.
• Revenue for Q1 2018 was over 43 percent lower than Q1 2017.
• If these drops continue, we could see HTC cease smartphone production altogether.

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Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC posted its first-quarter earnings for 2018. As one would expect, the news is not good: the company’s revenue for April 2018 is 55.4 percent lower than April 2017. The company only made 10.89 billion NT (~$365.3 million) in the first quarter of 2018, a 43.4 percent drop from Q1 2017.

Considering that 2017 was the worst fiscal year ever for the company, this is terrible news.

HTC has a new smartphone in the pipeline, the HTC U12 Plus, which will land sometime this month. The company also expects to see sales jump for its HTC Vive Pro virtual reality headset. With that in mind, it seems like Q2 earnings will likely be better for the company than Q1, but judging from today’s numbers, it’s hard to believe that revenue will top Q2 of 2017.

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The company stated that the HTC U12 Plus would be its only flagship smartphone of the year, which will allow it to consolidate its smartphone marketing and production to better match its revenue. With the drop in smartphone releases and the recent exodus of HTC engineers to Google, the day may soon come where we see HTC drop out of smartphones altogether.

HTC’s fall from grace is incredible when you think that only seven years ago it was the fifth-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world. Now it doesn’t even crack the top ten.

We’ll have to see how well the HTC U12 Plus does in this saturated smartphone market. If the company can’t turn itself around, the HTC U12 Plus may be HTC’s swan song.

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Source: Android Zone

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