Kanye West Ends Contract With Jay-Z's Tidal because He's Owed Money

According to TMZ, sources close to Kanye West say the rapper has left Jay-Z music streaming company over money he's owed, which is supposedly upwards of $3 million. Kanye's lawyers allegedly sent documents to Tidal over a month ago, claiming that the company was in breach of contract and that Kanye's obligations therein were terminated. Legal teams on both sides have tried to work things out behind the scenes, but to no avail.

The decision to leave Tidal reportedly predates all the Kanye bashing that goes on in 4:44, Jay's new album that is available only on Tidal until some point this coming week, where it will expand to other streaming services. Kanye claims that his album Life of Pablo resulted in more than a million people signing up for Tidal and that he was due a bonus that was never paid.

Samsung confirms launch of refurbished Galaxy Note 7s

Samsung Electronics said Sunday it would start selling a refurbished version of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone this week after an embarrassing recall over exploding batteries rocked the tech giant last year.

The recall of millions of Galaxy Note 7 devices cost the world's largest smartphone maker billions of dollars in lost profits and hammered its global reputation.

The refurbished device, made of recalled, unsealed Note 7 handsets and unused components are outfitted with new batteries, Samsung said in a statement.

The limited-edition phone -- the Galaxy Note Fan Edition (FE) -- will hit shelves in South Korea on July 7, Samsung said, adding it would only sell 400,000 units at home.

The firm said it would decide later whether to release the refurbished edition elsewhere, which is priced at 699,000 won ($611) domestically, far lower than the previous version that was nearly $1,000.

About three million Galaxy Note 7 handsets were returned to the firm last year, but campaign groups including Greenpeace have expressed concern that discarding the phones could harm the environment.

"The latest launch of the Galaxy Note FE... has a significant meaning as an environment-friendly project that minimised the waste of resources," Samsung said in a statement.

The recall -- the largest-ever by the South Korean tech giant -- was deeply embarrassing for Samsung, but it has just launched a new flagship device, the Galaxy S8, to positive reviews and strong orders.

In April Samsung posted its biggest quarterly net profit in more than three years, although the company has come under pressure on wider fronts.

Lee Jae-Yong, the Samsung group's vice-chairman and heir to its leadership, is on trial for bribery over his role in a massive corruption scandal that brought down impeached former president Park Geun-Hye.

Lee is accused of bribing Park and her confidante Choi Soon-Sil with millions of dollars to seek regulatory favours.

10 must watch movies this summer

 The most exciting movie to watch.
1. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2

2. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES

3. THOR: RAGNAROK

4. DESPICABLE ME 3

5. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

6. WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES 

 











 7. WONDER WOMAN 

8. BAYWATCH

 











9. CARS 3

10. THE MUMMY 

 

Wizkid ft. Drake - come closer Lyrics video

[Intro: Drake & Wizkid]
Go outside, big time forward, heh
Starboy dey here suh

[Verse 1: Wizkid]
Came into the game, no one replace me
Me love my Hennessy straight with no chaser
All of my guys know me all about me paper
Me got me girls all around me, me no chaser, yah
Starboy, call me number one
When me tune drop, the girls, they bounce along
Me no let nothing come between me and me paper
So when me come inna di place, me undertaker

[Chorus: Wizkid]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer

[Verse 2: Wizkid]
Me, me number one inna me city
Me steady repping, representing for me city, yo
African-born, me rep my ting, yo
Me come clean like me come inna me video
Me, me come through like a soldier
She give me tease and she pleasing my roja
She got the keys to my Porsche and my Rover
We in Miami livin' La Vida Loca, ayy

[Bridge: Wizkid]
Girl, you got that ting, I know
You got the body, I know
You make me sing, I know
You make me sing, I know, ay
Girl, you got that ting, I know
You got the body, I know
You make me sing, I know
You make me sing, I know, ay

[Chorus: Wizkid]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer

[Verse 3: Drake]
Too mix up in drama to go outside
Too mix up in drama to free my mind
Jealous people around me, I need to change my life
I just turn colder every time I try
What would I do without you, my chargie?
I don't feel that way with anybody
Tell me your secrets, I'm not messy
Steady it for me, girl, hold steady
I wanna put you in my life
Your hair smell like the tropics, your body look nice
One fuck cyaan hold me, we gotta go twice
I'm here for you, just tell me what you like
I wanna put you in my life

[Chorus: Wizkid]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Baby, come closer

 

50 Cent Punches Super Aggressive Fan | TMZ

Chance The Rapper's Birthday Party Will Be "Better Than Any Festival That Ever Existed"

In honor of his impending 24th birthday, Chance The Rapper is throwing a special “Chance The Birthday” party in the form of something his manager promises will be “better than any festival that ever existed.” The night is booked for this Sunday (April 16) at Chicago’s Paris Studio. Although the flier says the event is “featuring special guests,” none of those guests have actually been announced.

All proceeds are being donated to SocialWorks, a non-profit organization co-founded by Lil Chano that aims to “empower the youth through the arts, education and civic engagement,” according to its website.

“Chance The Birthday” follows last week’s Magnificent Coloring World 2 event, which was an invitation-only, top-secret performance only open to the 0.001 percent of Chance’s top fans on SoundCloud who were from the Chicago area. Speculation is swirling the show might end up on Netflix, but until then, fans can look forward to celebrating another revolution around the sun with their favorite rapper this weekend.

Tyga was arrested by Police Outside Hollywood Nightclub, checkout Why

Tyga was seen being hauled away in handcuffs by police after leaving Hollywood's Avenue Nightclub on Tuesday night.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department tells ET that during a traffic stop conducted in Hollywood, law enforcement noticed that the 27-year-old rapper's Mercedes G-Wagon had only paper plates. Officers also decided to conduct a field sobriety test upon stopping Tyga, born Michael Ray Stevenson, but due to the amount of paparazzi in the area, they instead put him in a patrol car and transported him to a local station, where he took a field sobriety test and passed.
Police then released Tyga and he was cited for a minor traffic violation.
While with police, the paparazzi asked Tyga if he thought they were racially profiling him. "'Cause I'm a good looking rapper," he responded.
An eyewitness tells ET that Tyga did not seem mad or upset.

Audi Announces Plans for Q4 and Q8 Production

Audi is making a big push for SUVs, both large and small. Today, the automaker announced production plans for two new models that will arrive near the end of the decade, the Q4 compact utility vehicle and the larger Q8.
In 2019, Audi will begin production of the Q4 in Gyr, Hungary. Here, it will join the Q3, which is destined to transfer from its current facility in Martorell, Spain in 2018.
Adopting the styling of a coupe, the Q4 will slot between the traditional Q3 and Q5 crossovers. Not much else is known about the mid-range model at this point.
Audi announced plans for the Q8 to enter production in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2018. The plant has produced the Q7 since 2005, and it currently makes the second-gen model including key variants such as the Q7 e-tron plug-in hybrid and a sporty S model.
The Q8 will serve as Audi's flagship SUV and will utilize a fastback design. A concept unveiled at the recent Geneva Motor Show hinted at a radical design for the model, and previewed a mild hybrid powertrain capable of producing 469 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque. Audi design chief Marc Lichte called the Q8 Sport concept 95-percent production ready.
In a statement, Audi production boss Hubert Waltl said the two new Q models will "increase our competitiveness in an extremely important segment." That's especially true in the U.S., where Audi's best-selling model last year by far was the Q5.

The 5 most annoying Android features

I’ve been an iPhone user since 2011. Back then, it was never really a question whether I’d choose iOS or Android as a smartphone platform. My friends had iPhones, my coworkers had iPhones—anyone who was anyone, really, had an iPhone.
But that was more than half a decade ago. Nowadays, Android is really on equal footing with iOS (and in fact, the two borrow, steal, and share “new” features so often you’d think they were teenage sisters sharing the same wardrobe). And after so many years on iOS, I felt the time was right to give Android a try full time. As a gadget writer and reviewer, I’ve sampled dozens of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices over the years, but I’d never truly given a non-iOS device a long-term trial. Until now.
Since December, I’ve been using a Huawei Nexus 6P running Android 7.1.2 (Nougat) as my main device. There’s a lot to love about it, but having been an iPhone devotee for so long, there are a handful of things that drive me crazy.

The 5 worst Android features

1) Mysterious notifications

Perhaps I simply need to clear out old notifications in a more timely fashion, but I have one consistent issue with my Android phone: I get mysterious vibration notifications, and I can’t determine what they’re from. My phone will vibrate, I’ll pick it up, check the notifications onscreen, and… they’re exactly the same notifications I saw the last time I checked my phone. I’ll check my texts, Google Hangouts, and email, and if there’s nothing new there, I just end up shrugging my shoulders and sitting my phone back down. Whatever notification I got clearly wasn’t important enough to garner further action than that.
I think the problem here is with the phone’s bundled notifications. While organized and convenient as you’re looking through all your notifications, if you haven’t cleared them out, they can hide recent notifications from other apps further down the list. (Luckily, if you do discover an app is sending you unwanted alerts, you can just press and hold that notification to adjust its settings.) 

2) The app drawer

Apparently, the app drawer is something most Android phone owners love, but I just can’t seem to get used to it. Old habits die hard, I suppose. I’d rather have my most-used apps on my main home screen, and my next favorite apps a swipe away to the right. Tapping the six-dot app drawer icon at the bottom center of the screen, then scrolling and hunting to find the app I’m looking for just doesn’t feel efficient.

3) The hardware camera shortcut

For a while, I was perplexed as to why sometimes I’d pull my phone out of my pocket and the camera would be open. (And in fact, said camera had snapped a handful of dark pictures from inside my pocket.) Turns out, with most recent Android phones, you can quickly access the camera, even if your phone is locked, by double tapping the power button. It’s a useful shortcut, for sure, unless you have a tendency to accidentally press the power button as you’re pulling your phone out—as I seem to do.
Luckily, by heading into the Settings menu there’s a way to switch this shortcut off. That was definitely the right move for me: Accidentally switching on the camera was definitely the culprit of some of those phantom vibrations I’d been so confused about.

4) Adaptive Brightness

To be fair, this feature drove me crazy on iOS too: Auto brightness. On Android, it’s called Adaptive Brightness, but it is seriously out of control. My dad, looking at a photo on my phone, asked, “Why is it doing this?” as the screen shifted darker, then brighter again. Sitting on a recent plane flight reading a book on my phone, the brightness distractingly and continuously shifted up and down. Perhaps the mild turbulence was changing the angle of my phone and how much light its sensor detected? Regardless, it was irritating. Whether in bright light, dim light, or any light situation really, with adaptive brightness enabled, the screen’s brightness level sporadically shifts for no apparent reason. I headed to Settings, Display, and I switched Adaptive brightness off. I’ll just manually adjust the phone’s brightness to my personally liking as needed.

5) Incompatibilities with iOS text messaging

I’m mostly OK with the fact that I know that I am a green bubble now. (That is, when I text with iPhone owners, my messages show up as green text bubbles, rather than the blue ones of fellow iOS users.) However, I wasn’t prepared for a few other inter-operating system incompatibilities.
For example, when iOS-using friends or family members send me a video, it is compressed beyond recognition. It doesn’t matter whether I’m connected to a data network or Wi-Fi network—the video is tiny, filled with artifacts, and barely watchable. I have to then ask that contact to email me the video so I can get a full resolution, watchable version on my phone.
Group text message threads are also an issue. I won’t receive messages at all from some iOS users but will receive messages from others. This results in a complete-enough message thread to know that I’m missing important pieces. Media sent on group threads is also typically missing.
I also miss the recent special effects that were introduced in iOS 10, like the ability to send virtual confetti along with a congratulatory message (or balloons, or laser beams). Both iOS and Android let you send stickers, but those full-screen message effects were fun.
On the whole, nothing about switching to Android has been a deal breaker, though. My main issues have simply been with a few default phone settings that just didn’t jive with my personal preferences. That’s, thankfully, very easy to fix—and easy to deal with.

Teen Takes Best Friend With Cerebral Palsy To Prom: 'She Wore Me Out on The Dance Floor'

Tahj Oliver knew he wanted to ask his close friend to go with him as soon as his heard about the special needs prom at East Oswego High School in Illinois.

Oliver, 18, befriended fellow senior Evelyn Araujo, who has cerebral palsy, when they were sophomores and the pair hit it off.

“It just started one day. I just said hi to her and that one day she could not stop smiling,” Oliver told InsideEdition.com.

They eventually began texting and became close. So when Oliver heard about the prom, he quickly started planning his “prom-posal” for Araujo.

The 18-year-old held up a giant pink poster bearing the words: 'Can I have a pass to prom?' as Araujo entered one of the school’s classrooms last month.

“I asked her. She was so surprised and super happy,” said Oliver

Oliver, who has cousins with special needs, said he knows how much the little things matter.

“I went to her house and I brought her flowers and I put on her corsage. We drove to the prom together,” Oliver said.

Oliver said the pair danced all night at the masquerade-theme bash on April 2.

“She wore me out on the dance floor,” Oliver said.

Araujo and Oliver had texted before the dance about what songs they might slow dance to and Araujo’s mom made it happen.

In a video posted to Twtiter, Oliver and Araujo slow dance as Araujo smiles brightly. "God bless this young man he invited her to prom and [danced] all night with her they had so much fun," Araujo’s mom, Selene, said on Twitter.

Hacker sets off all 156 emergency sirens in Dallas

Dallas city officials said Saturday that a hacker is to blame for setting off all the city's 156 emergency outdoor sirens, which wailed for an hour and half overnight.
Rocky Vaz, director of the city's Office of Emergency Management, said engineers determined an unidentified hacker somewhere in the Dallas area was responsible, but has not been tracked down.
The hacker tricked the system to send repeat signals activating each siren 60 times during the night, Vaz said. The sirens started sounding at 11:42 p.m. Friday and continued until 1:17 a.m. Saturday.
The blaring sirens, used primarily to warn of tornadoes and other severe weather, prompted anxious residents to call 911, clogging up that system. At one point, 911 calls were backed up for six minutes instead of the normal wait time of 10 seconds.
Dallas spokeswoman Sana Syed said the 911 system was bombarded with over 4,400 calls between 11:30 p.m. and 3:00 a.m., double the number for a normal, eight-hour period overnight.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said in a statement that the hack was an attack on Dallas' emergency notification system, and that the city will "find and prosecute whomever is responsible."
"This is yet another serious example of the need for us to upgrade and better safeguard our city's technology infrastructure," he posted on Facebook. "It's a costly proposition, which is why every dollar of taxpayer money must be spent with critical needs such as this in mind. Making the necessary improvements is imperative for the safety of our citizens."
Vaz said he expects the emergency siren system to be back in operation by Monday afternoon.
Locating the hacker, however, "is going to be a very long process if we do find out who actually did it," Vaz said. The Federal Communication Commission is helping in the investigation, he added.

Vin Diesel talks feud with The Rock

When superstars butt bald heads, the world shakes — especially when it is Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, two of the biggest stars in the world in every sense, working together on the $4 billion Fast & Furious franchise.
 That butting erupted in the final weeks of filming The Fate of the Furious last August, when The Rock took to Facebook and slammed unnamed male co-stars. "Some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don’t. When you watch this movie next April and it seems like I'm not acting in some of these scenes and my blood is legit boiling — you're right."
Diesel took the hit and then promised on Instagram, "I will tell you everything, everything."
Sure enough, Johnson's Hobbs does get plenty irate with Diesel's Dom, who goes rogue onscreen in Fate of the Furious (in theaters April 14).
But Diesel, 49, insists all is cool with the two stars during an interview with USA TODAY, saying Johnson, 44, is part of his family.
"I don’t think the world really realizes how close we are, in a weird way," says Diesel, who steered clear of the specifics of their disagreement. "I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don't think that was his intention. I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise. In my house, he’s Uncle Dwayne."
While there was creative tension on the set, Diesel says he takes the main blow at times as a producer.
"I protect the franchise. I protect everybody including Dwayne. I protected Dwayne more than he’ll ever know. And it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t have to know. But he appreciates it. He knows it," says Diesel. "Dwayne has only got one Vin in his life. Dwayne Johnson only has one big brother in this film world and that’s me."
So the two have have hugged it out and they're good?
"Always, always, always. I’m always rooting for Dwayne. I’m the first multicultural megastar in Hollywood. They didn’t exist," says Diesel. "To see another multicultural star come up is something I am very proud of. I’m always rooting Dwayne on."
The problem just might be the universe, much less a movie set, isn't big enough at times for the two massive personalities.
"It’s not always easy being an alpha. And it’s two alphas," says Vin Diesel. "Being an alpha is sometimes a pain in the (butt)."

Skype will now translate Japanese for you in real-time

Microsoft and Skype will now help you converse in real time with Japanese speaker — even if you don’t speak Japanese yourself.
Skype announced this week that it was adding Japanese to its real-time translation software, which it introduced in 2014.
In its announcement, Skype says:
Japan has also become a beloved destination for both tourism and business, and we’re excited for the potential benefit Skype Translator will bring to Japan, the community and our users.
In order to use it, click on the globe icon in your chat menu. If you’re using Windows 10, click the Skype translator button in the Preview app.
This isn’t just for Skype, though. Japanese is now available in all Microsoft Translation services.
Japanese is the tenth language in the Translator’s repertoire. The others are:
English

Spanish
Brazilian Portuguese
German
Arabic
French
Italian
Mandarin Chinese

According to the same post, Japanese was a tricky language to add. Skype hopes this will benefit native English speakers in particular, since Japanese is noted for being difficult for us to learn due to its different grammatical structure.

via Mashable

Hackers targeting banks in 18 countries, including Nigeria

A report by Russian cyber security firm, Kaspersky claims that a cyber security firm backed by the government of North Korea were targeting financial institutions in 18 countries including Nigeria.

Two international security experts, according to the hacking claims by the CNN, believe North Korea is likely spending the stolen funds on its nuclear weapons programme.

“Banks and security researchers have previously identified four similar cyber-heists attempted on financial institutions in Bangladesh, Ecuador, the Philippines and Vietnam,” the report read in part.

“But researchers at Kaspersky now say the same hacking operation, known as ‘Lazarus’, also attacked financial institutions in Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Poland, Taiwan, Thailand and Uruguay.”

The United Press International also reported that the hackers were traced to North Korea after Kaspersky detected a mistake, and a hacker from a group operation known as Lazarus connected from North Korea.

Reports say the hackers had previously routed their attacks from computer services in France, South Korea and Taiwan, a move which made it difficult for security experts to identify the origin of the breaches.

Ford adds the 2018 Expedition to its police lineup

Civilians won't be the only ones who can get a new aluminum Expedition. Soon law enforcement agencies around the country will also have the opportunity to add it to their fleets. The new version is now available for police who want lots of secure all-weather storage. For police duty, the SUV gets Ford's twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 coupled to a 10-speed automatic. Power then goes from that transmission to an electronic limited-slip differential with a 3.73 gear ratio.

The F-150 range is also updated. The same 5.0-liter V8 and 3.5-liter EcoBoost engine options remain, but they're now coupled to the 10-speed auto. The F-150 and Expedition also now feature engine stop-start functionality for improved gas mileage. The pickups are still available in extended cab and quad cab configurations with either two or four full doors.

Naturally, being police vehicles, both Expedition and F-150 feature vinyl upholstery and flooring in the rear for easy clean-up. They're also fitted with more potent 240-amp alternators to handle all of the electronic accessories police vehicles require.

Woman accused of choking girl for blocking view at Disney fireworks show

A Michigan woman was arrested Wednesday night, accused of choking a high school girl during a fireworks display at Disney's Magic Kingdom after the teenager and her friends wouldn't sit down and blocked her view.

Tabbatha Kaye Mature, 41 of New Baltimore, Mich., is accused of child abuse, a felony.

She was booked into the Orange County Jail and was released on $2,000 bond.

She did not return a phone call Thursday evening.

According to an Orange County Sheriff's Office arrest report, the girl and other students from her high school were at the Magic Kingdom, and when the nightly fireworks display began, they stood up.

Mature's family was behind them and insisted that they sit down.

Mature "became aggravated," according to the report, and the girl and her friends decided to leave.

As she walked away, the girl said she told Mature, "You can take our spot."

Mature's response?

"She wrapped both hands around my neck and began squeezing," the girl told a deputy.

When the student started screaming, Mature released her and said, "You don't want to mess with me," according to the girl.

The girl suffered no visible injuries, according to the report, but phoned her mother and both agreed to prosecute, the report said.

Apple Music For Android Has A New Update

A new version of Apple Music is being rolled out to Android devices. Version 2.0 of the Cupertino giant’s music app is — just like what its version code suggests —a more superior or advanced version of its old self.


On Tuesday, Apple released Apple Music 2.0 on the Google Play Store. The new version, which requires Android 4.3 and up to run, comes with an all-new design that melds clarity and simplicity together. The clean look makes Apple Music easier to navigate. The large, bold headers do not only enhance the interface stylistically, they also help in ensuring that the app provides users with a simplified experience.

The update also adds lyrics to the Now Playing page. When users play a song, they’ll see the Lyrics header and the Show button at the bottom of the screen. Tapping Show will display the lyrics on the screen, while the Show button changes to Hide in case users want to remove the lyrics from their view and just focus on the Now Playing page.

The Playlists section has been added to the Library, which now includes Downloaded Music or the section where users can view the tracks they have downloaded for offline jamming. Another change that the update brings is the relocation of the New section under Browse. Now the only sidebar options in the app are Library, Browse, For You, Radio and Settings.

The For You section presents users with recommendations for playlists, albums and more based on the songs they’ve been listening to. On the other hand, Browse is for when users try to look for new music and playlists for the first time. Meanwhile, Radio gives access to Beats 1 shows and other stations for any genre. While Apple Music 2.0 is a new version to Android devices, the update is already old news to iOS devices. Mobile Syrup reports the update was first launched to Apple users back in September 2016 alongside the launch of iOS 10.

Twitter’s new Lite app loads quickly and saves data on slow connections

In an effort to reach more users in countries with slow cellular networks, Twitter has launched a Lite version of its microblogging service, which works on any phone through the browser and promises to load quickly and save on data consumption.
Available at mobile.twitter.com, Twitter Lite offers a slightly pared down interface as compared to the company’s mobile apps. For example, it still lets you view and upload media in tweets, but you’ll miss features like photo editing and livestreaming.
There’s a Data saver feature that you can turn on in the settings menu to load lightweight previews of images and help you save up to 70 percent on data usage. Plus, you can add a shortcut to the mobile site to your Android home screen and enable push notifications to mimic the mobile app’s behavior as well.
The company explained that the 1MB app is essentially a JavaScript program that’s paired with a Node.js server for authentication and loading up the app shell. Once that’s ready, it connects to the Twitter API to deliver tweets and media content.
Even though I’m usually on Wi-Fi and 4G connections, I enjoy using Twitter Lite over the standard app simply because it’s a lot snappier. I also don’t use some of the features on the full-fledged app, so I’m fine sacrificing those for faster loading tweets.
Twitter’s offering for data-starved users comes two years after Facebook launched its own Lite app, which crossed 200 million users this February. Last March, the company added a feature to enable video playback on slow connections and even released a Lite version of Messenger.

Alcatel’s new Flash phone has four cameras

Alcatel unveiled its Flash phone today. It has four cameras. You know about phones with rear-facing, dual-camera systems. Even the iPhone has one. Old news. You’ve maybe even heard of dual front-facing cameras, like the one on the Oppo F3 and the LG V10. Again, old news. Well, how ‘bout this, you who have seen it all: dual rear-facing cameras and dual front-facing cameras together on the same phone. Yes, that means four total cameras. What do you think? Too much camera for one device, or just the right amount?

The rear-facing cameras both have 13-megapixel sensors. One is color while the other is monochromatic. One front-facing camera is eight megapixels, and the second is five megapixels.

We don’t have pricing or availability for the device, but we do know it runs Android Marshmallow (boo), has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, and is powered by the Helio X20 processor. Now that we’ve achieved this camera milestone, can we start working on triple-camera systems? What company will be first to get six on a phone?

Google's next smart speaker may double as a WiFi router

If you're Google and you want the next Home speaker to clearly one-up the Amazon Echo, what do you do? Stick another device inside, apparently. A source speaking to the Information claims that an upcoming Home model will include a built-in WiFi router with mesh networking. You wouldn't need to buy a separate router (like, say, Google WiFi) just to connect devices around your household. And even if you already have a router, this would improve Home's performance by giving it a stronger connection in weak coverage areas.

The tipster also maintains that the original version of Google WiFi had a microphone and speaker for Home-style interactions, but that Google axed it to avoid confusion. It's possible that this version would come back, the source says, but there don't appear to be any definite plans.

There's no mention of a launch date or a price for the router-equipped Home, and that last part is particularly important. If Google asks for no more than the $180 of the Echo, it could lure buyers who want more value out of a speaker or a router. If it's significantly more expensive, however, it might be a tougher decision. Do you really want to pay a premium just to get two devices in one? Google is building momentum for Home, but that doesn't mean that has the cachet needed to justify a higher price.

Spotify may bypass IPO and list directly on stock market

Spotify is reportedly considering an unconventional direct listing on a stock market that stops short of a full-blown initial public offering.

It could see Spotify register shares on a stock exchange and become a publicly listed company without raising new cash, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Shares would be traded on the day of listing, with the price based on supply and demand, rather than new investors buying shares the day before trading.

Spotify declined to comment.

A direct listing would save the music service the underwriting fees needed to launch an initial public offering (IPO), and would avoid diluting the value of existing stakes in the company.

It could also sidestep a surge in first-day trading that usually takes place after an IPO, which can signal that a company undervalued its newly issued shares.

The tactic, though rare, is usually used by smaller companies that do not expect high levels of trading in their stock.

Spotify, which last year issued a $1bn (£801m) convertible bond, was publicly valued at $8.5bn (£6.8bn) in 2015.

The Swedish firm was founded more than a decade ago and now has more than 50 million paying subscribers.

This week it also signed a new long-term licensing deal with Universal Music Group, the world's largest record label.

Spotify includes TPG and Goldman Sachs among its major investors.

Kendrick Lamar to Apparently Release New Album April 14

On his single “The Heart Part 4″ Kendrick Lamar warned the world to be ready on April 7, but it appears that his new album will be dropping a week later on April 14. A page for a new Lamar album—which may just be called ALBUM—appeared on iTunes late Thursday night, bearing an “expected release” date of April 14, 2017. The page also lists 14 songs, with the recently released “HUMBLE.,” as its eighth track, and a plain black cover with just a parental advisory sticker.

According to Pitchfork, U2 is credited as composers on the album, though it’s unclear if that’s because of a sample or a genuine collaboration.

A rep for Lamar has not yet returned a request for confirmation of the above details, but we’ll update this post if we hear back.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Wants to Keep Making 'Terminator' Films

"Terminator: Genisys" might have crashed and burned at the box office, but Arnold Schwarzenegger says that doesn't mean the end of the franchise, at least, not for him.
Speaking to Fandango, the actor said he'll shop the project around if Paramount won't continue making "Terminator" films and that the franchise is "never finished."
"I'm looking forward to doing another 'Terminator' movie, yes... I don't want to call it, like, fake news, like the president calls it, but I think people just write things -- I have no idea why. Just because Paramount doesn't want to pick up the 'Terminator 'franchise, you have 15 other studios willing to do it -- that doesn't mean the 'Terminator' franchise is finished, right? It just means they are on their way to negotiate with another studio, but I can't give you the details of that. They'll announce that. But, yes, the 'Terminator' franchise is never finished. And remember that after 2018, James Cameron is getting it back, and then it will continue on!"
In January, Deadline reported that Cameron was in early talks with Tim Miller of "Deadpool" to direct a new "Terminator" film after he regains the rights to the franchise.
But would they be reviving it just to film the final chapter? Deadline wrote that it would be "a reboot and conclusion of one of cinema's great science fiction tales."