The iPhone 6s and 6S Plus bring some eye-catching new features you won't find on another Apple device.
You can shoot 4K video and you can use Live Photos,
a feature that adds an extra couple of seconds of video and audio to
your still photos. Also new is 3D Touch, which makes the touchscreen
pressure-sensitive. Push in, and you can actually make new things
happen, like pulling up a shortcuts menu to save you clicks.
Though the features aren't a struggle to master, there are some
things you need to know to get the most of your new toy. Allow us to
give you a few pointers. How to record 4K video on iPhone 6S, 6S Plus:
The storage-hungry feature isn't enabled by default, and for good reason. Getting started with 3D Touch on the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus:
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Enlarge Image Apple's News app has been disabled in China.
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Apple has disabled its News app in China, according to the New York Times, apparently becoming the latest foreign tech company frustrated by China's tough censorship rules.
The
app, intended to be a personalized digital magazine and newspaper
viewer, launched to US users in June. Customers traveling abroad can
still access the app, according to the Times, but instead of seeing a
list of news stories, users in China are seeing a message that the app
is unavailable.
"Can't refresh right now. News isn't supported in your current region," reads the app's welcome screen
However,
a source with knowledge of the situation said the app, which has
launched only the US and is currently in beta in the UK and Australia,
isn't being blocked in China. The app has never functioned in the
country, preventing overseas handsets from using the app in China, said
the source, who requested anonymity.
China holds a place of great
importance in the tech world. The country's massive population of 1.35
billion and growing middle class have created a lucrative market for
companies like Apple, which has made significant progress in the
country, expanding its retail stores and pushing iPhone sales in the
country. In its April earnings report, Apple revealed that China is now its largest market in the world by revenue, topping the US for the first time.
China's
government-instituted censorship rules have long kept the country's
population from a range of US-based websites, limiting citizens' ability
to share information and opinions on sensitive subjects. Earlier this
year, China upgraded its Internet filtering to make its policies stricter and circumvention more difficult.
Tech
companies have also been stymied by the stringent rules, which require
companies to block sensitive information or content inside China.
Popular sites and services such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter have long
been blocked in the country.
After facing the government down on
censorship, Google in 2010 moved its China-based Web search operations
to Hong Kong, allowing the search company to operate outside the rules
and regulations placed upon it by the Chinese government.
Game
companies have also complained about China's censorship rules hurting
sales. Sony launched its PlayStation 4 gaming console in China in March
after the government revoked a longtime ban on gaming consoles last
year. But the launch was hobbled by a limited portfolio
of accompanying titles due to the country's rules on video games, which
prohibit sales or distribution of any title that promotes drug use, violence, gambling or obscenity.
Andrew House, the CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, remarked last
month that the company was "challenged somewhat" by China's "censorship
regime."
Certainly one of the fast rising gospel minister in Nigeria….fondly
called UCHEY, is set to release his debut album titled THE JOURNEY THE
GRACE.
If you remember the Song EBUBEDIKE, IDINMA REMIX Ft Okey SoKay, then
you will be familiar with the singer, songwriter and performer “Uchey”.
Uchey is one of the fastest rising gospel minister in Nigeria. The
Talented Artiste who is also an OAP with Gospotainment Radio who holds
down the Evening Cruise has never ceased to spread the gospel with his
music.
Right now Uchey is set to Launch his album titled “The Journey The Grace”, a long awaited album.
The young talented, energetic worship minister who rocked us with his
radio hit singles EBUBEDIKE, MORE THAN LIFE TO ME and newly released
IDINMA REMIX Ft Okey Sokay is dropping his album with the album launch
Concert featuring PASTOR J,EFE NATHAN, PITA,ONOS,FEMI
JACOBS,FOREVER,EKUNDAYO(Dbass),MAYOWA ADERENLE and ODUNAYO ABODERIN…. Date: 25th Of October Venue: RCCG (victory parish) 53/55 aguntasolo street,off omilani ijeshatedo,surulere, lagos. Time: Red Carpet – 3pm to 4pm Main Event – 4pm to 8pm.
you can’t miss this!!! Connect:
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Participants
in Samford University's Transhumanism conference, held September 24-26,
2015 and funded by The John Templeton Foundation and The Issachar Fund.
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Can
churches engage transhumanism, which may very well be the next big
science vs. religion battle, positively or should they absolutely resist
this movement, an academic institution in Alabama asked during a
multi-day event focused on whether Christianity and Transhumanism could
co-exist. Samford University's
Center for Science and Religion held the event, titled "Transhumanism
and the Church," which took place from Sept. 24-26 and featured 27
presentations with approximately 120 attendees for the opening lecture
alone.
Transhumanism is the theory that science and technology can
be used to advance the evolution of human beings beyond current
physical and mental limitations.
A spokesperson for Samford
directed The Christian Post to statements made by Professor Steve
Donaldson, program director in the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science and a senior fellow in Samford's Center for Science and
Religion.
"[Transhumanism's]
potential ramifications for the church are substantial. Can a climate
be created in which churches and people of religious faith engage a
transhumanist future positively or must the church resist? Is resistance
futile?" stated Donaldson.
"Recognizing that differences of
opinion on the merits of technological enhancement do not necessarily
depend upon religious orientation, can the church actually lead the way
toward common and beneficial perspectives?"
Donaldson also stated that he and the Center believed that "this is quite possibly the next big science and religion issue to face the church."
"
… this conference was meant to constitute an early step in developing a
coherent and forward-looking Christian approach to the relationship
between transhumanist endeavors and the church," continued Donaldson.
Keynote
speakers for the event included Donaldson; the Rev. Dr. Ron Cole-Turner
of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; Christina Bieber Lake, Ph.D. of
Wheaton College; and Arizona State University Professor Joel Garreau. Lectures on the conference schedule
included "Why Transhumanists Cannot Tell a Story to Save Their Lives,"
"Do Bigger Brains Mean Smaller Gods? Cognitive Science and Theological
Perspectives on Transhumanism and the Church," and "Nietzsche's Power
Ontology and Transhumanism: Or, Why Christians cannot be Transhumanists
and remain Christian."
(Photo: SAMFORD UNIVERSITY)
The "Transhumanism and the Church" conference was funded by The John Templeton Foundation and The Issachar Fund. According
to its website, the Templeton Foundation seeks to be "a philanthropic
catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose
and ultimate reality."
"We support research on subjects
ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity,
forgiveness, love, and free will," continued the Foundation's site. "We
encourage civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and
theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the
purposes of definitional clarity and new insights."
The Rev. Dr.
Christopher J. Benek, a Florida pastor who gave one of the presentations
during a concurrent session at the conference, told CP that he believed
the conference was "particularly important because church leaders and
laity need to become educated on these issues immediately."
"Such
an education will enable Christians to distinguish between tyrannical
transhumanism that advances Nietzschean principles verses Christian
Transhumanism that seeks to discover what it may mean to become more
human across the scope of what it means to be creatures made in the
image of God," said Rev. Benek.
"The conference did an excellent
job of addressing all sides of these issues in order to give the
participants the information that they needed to discern how God might
be calling them to engage advancing technologies in the future."
Benek
also told CP that he believed conferences like Samford's "will become
more and more prevalent throughout college campuses in the future."
"The
impact of such advancements on young adults will be that young
Christians who feel called to pursuits in science won't have to feel
like they have to sacrifice their faith in order to pursue their
vocational goals," continued Benek.
"It is important that young
people have opportunities to think critically as to how advancing
technologies will shape humanity's future."
Samford intends to post the conference lectures online free of charge at the Center's webpage within the next few weeks.
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