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KIEV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian government is halting its military operation against Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine for 24 hours so that international investigators can reach the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 for the first time since the jetliner was shot down two weeks ago.
“We have taken a decision not to conduct military operations on this so-called ‘day of quiet,’” military spokesman Oleksiy Dmytrashkivsky told AFP on Thursday.
Deadly clashes between government forces and the rebels in the embattled Donetsk and Luhansk regions had kept the team of police and forensic experts from reaching the site, which spans three villages and more than 30 square miles Read more...
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Huawei Ascend Mate 3 is out in the open again but still not official. A few days ago we saw its back panel and now we get confirmation of the rumored specs from an AnTuTu screenshot. The Mate 3 maintains the traditional for the series 6.1" screen but makes the jump to 1080p resolution. The Ascend Mate lineup in the past has traditionally included mid-range phablets - but that was obviously only until now. It seems that the latest model will be moving towards a higher-end position. The Ascend Mate 3 is powered by a HiSilicon Kirin 920 chipset (four Cortex-A7 plus four Cortex-A15 cores), with 2GB or 3GB RAM and it runs Android 4.4.2. It's the same chipset used in the Huawei Honor 6, Huawei bragged about it beating Snapdragon 805-based competition when it announced that. The camera is the same as on the Ascend Mate2 4G, a 13MP main camera with 1080p video capture and a 5MP selfie camera. When the back panel photos leaked it wasn't perfectly clear but the new rumor suggests that the panel is made of metal. That still leaves the question what the second hole on the back is for (a fingerprint scanner?). Source (in Chinese) |...
Samsung earnings were as bad as the company had predicted, and the future isn't looking great, either.
Its second quarter earnings marked Samsung's smallest profit in two years, bringing in $6.1 billion on sharply declining smartphone sales
The South Korean conglomerate still has the largest individual share of the global smartphone market at 25.2%, but that number is markedly lower than the roughly 32% it logged in 2013
Competition from both ends of the price spectrum have nipped at Samsung's businessApple's iPhone sales have proven resilient in the high-end marketChinese smartphone makers are moving in on Samsung's place among more frugal consumers. Read more...
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Welcome to Throwback Tunesday, where Mashable amplifies the echoes of music past. With genre trends and throwbacks, we synthesize music and nostalgia.
Twenty-one-year-old Charli XCX is accomplished beyond her years. The British alt-pop star wrote the chart-topping “Fancy” with Iggy Azalea — which held the number-one spot on the charts for seven consecutive weeks. Her infectious single “Boom Clap,” currently number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, was featured in the highly anticipated film The Fault in Our Stars. She'll be releasing her second album by the end of this year, and will be headlining a U.S. tour in the meantime. And those are just a few of her most recent accomplishments Read more...
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Twitter released its biannual transparency report on Thursday as part of the company’s ongoing efforts to hold governments and copyright holders accountable.
The report, which includes government information requests, government removal requests and copyright notices from January through June 2014, shows how governments around the world increasingly use Twitter to get information about its users.
A rise in government information requests
The first half of 2014, for instance, saw a rise in information requests from governments, which Twitter says typically come in connection with criminal investigations. Read more...
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