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The Galaxy S8 will be Samsung’s biggest test ever

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You know what’s coming tomorrow, you’ve known and waited for it for months now. Samsung’s 2017 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S8, will be officially announced, and one of the most critical periods in the company’s history will begin. The phone Samsung launches on Wednesday will carry greater expectations and have to prove a lot more than usual. Even as the world’s biggest smartphone maker, Samsung’s mobile credibility was deeply shaken by the Galaxy Note 7 snafu, so it now needs to reassert its reliability while also rebooting its technological advantage. Here’s a rundown of the biggest challenges facing Samsung as it prepares to take the wraps off the Galaxy S8.

The battery

Of course. The bad jokes about « explosive Samsung news » haven’t subsided even now, half a year after the Note 7 was recalled. The first thing everyone wants to see from Samsung is a phone they can trust won’t spontaneously combust in their pocket or hands. That may seem like a low threshold for Samsung to pass, but the company will have to do it with zero tolerance for failure. Practically every smartphone in history has had examples of overheating batteries, but most are treated as isolated events and freak accidents — except in Samsung’s case, even one malfunctioning Galaxy S8 battery would result in a deluge of negative press. The optimistic way to look at things? If Samsung does the right thing, the new Galaxy S8 devices will have the most robust and durable batteries we’ve ever seen in a smartphone.

There is, however, another aspect of the battery that will be a cause of intrigue with the S8. Per the latest leak over at WinFuture, the smaller S8 is set to have a 5.8-inch display paired with a 3,000mAh battery. That’s 0.7 inches more screen than the 2016 Galaxy S7 model, but the same battery capacity. Samsung got itself in trouble by trying to force the biggest possible battery inside the Note 7, but will it fall behind in the endurance stakes with the more conservative combination it has in its latest phones?

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The home button’s demise and the screen’s elongation

Every leaked image of the Galaxy S8 shows it dumping Samsung’s signature home button in favor of an entirely software-based interface and the smallest screen bezels in Samsung’s history. What’s lost with that physical home button is not only a familiar and tactile method for returning to the starting screen; it also housed Samsung’s fingerprint sensor, which is being relegated to an off-center position on the rear of the phone. Will we all successfully adapt to that change? Probably. But it’s another question mark around Samsung’s new release — using this phone will not be an instantly comfortable experience for longtime Galaxy users.

The other aspect of Samsung’s big change up front is the extension of the display itself. It’s shaping up to have teeny-tiny bezels at the top and bottom and an aspect ratio of 18.5:9. Even more elongated than the LG G6’s simpler 2:1, this display will have to show itself at least as useful as the more traditional 16:9 ones. We don’t yet have a good idea of how the Android interface will scale to such a peculiar shape, and we don’t know how well Samsung has optimized its software to make use of the extra space. Will the new display be beautiful and futuristic to behold? Absolutely. But will it work well in daily practice? That will be one of the things Samsung’s Galaxy S8 will have to prove.

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The camera

If you want to know the catalyst of Samsung’s ascent to being considered on the same plane as Apple’s iPhone, it was a combination of improved design and having the best camera. Over the course of multiple generations, Samsung separated itself from the rest of the Android competitive field, outdoing rivals like HTC, LG, and Sony with the best optics and image processing available outside the iOS stable. Both the Galaxy S6 and S7 could make legitimate claims to being even better than the corresponding iPhone of their time. But times have changed now, and today’s best mobile camera can be found on Google’s own-brand Pixel smartphone. Samsung will want to reclaim its imaging crown.

With the derailment of Samsung’s plans caused by the Galaxy Note 7 battery issues last fall, much of the company’s reputation now sits in disrepair. If the Note 7 had been the success it initially seemed like it would be, Samsung could take it easy today, reissue much of the same hardware, and be content that it’s keeping momentum going. But momentum is exactly what Samsung lacks, and the quickest way to build it back up is by having the most impressive cameraphone on the market again.

Everything else

Beyond the three crucial hardware components of the battery, display, and camera, Samsung will also try to establish unique selling points for the Galaxy S8 with its new Bixby voice assistant and anticipated DeX desktop functionality. Software is traditionally Samsung’s weak point, so these new ventures will have to overcome years of mediocre S Voice and TouchWiz history to wow new users. But Samsung is a company with deep resources and renewed determination, and its past misfires aren’t a reason to write off its latest initiatives.

Samsung’s plans for Bixby and DeX extend beyond just the phone, which highlights another important consideration with the Galaxy S8: its halo effect. Flagship phones are known as such because of their outsize influence on the sales of other devices from the same company. Many people who might aspire to own the top-tier Galaxy S8 will likely end up with a midrange Samsung A series handset that’s more suited to their budget. But that aspiration and the concordant expectation of high quality both need to be built up in consumers’ minds first. More than anything else, it is that trust for reliable quality that Samsung lost when it suffered its Galaxy Note 7 calamity.

The Galaxy S8 represents Samsung’s biggest test to date, but as with every challenge, that also gives the company its biggest opportunity. Conscious of the need to have an unequivocal success with which to erase the bad memory of the Note 7, Samsung will push its engineering teams to their absolute limits (but not beyond, because, well, that’s how we got the Note 7 in the first place). What it means for us, as consumers of technology, is that we’ll get a company with zero complacency and an overwhelming imperative to present a cutting-edge product with totally assured reliability. If that doesn’t sound like an enticing proposition, I don’t know what is.

China’s Tencent takes 5 percent stake in electric-car maker Tesla

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Tesla Inc (TSLA.O), the California-based electric carmaker, said Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) acquired a 5 percent stake for $1.78 billion.

The purchase, revealed in a U.S. regulatory filing, pushed Tesla’s stock higher in early trading, making it the second most valuable U.S. auto company ahead of Ford Motor Co (F.N) but behind General Motors Co (GM.N).

The deal gives Shenzhen-based Tencent a growing presence in the rapidly expanding future mobility sector, with investments in U.S. and Chinese startup companies that provide ride sharing services and are developing self-driving electric vehicles.

Tencent’s investment also provides Tesla with an additional cash cushion as it prepares to boost production volume and launch its new Model 3. Tesla’s shares were up 2.6 percent at $277.19 in early trading.

Founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Ma Huateng, Tencent is one of Asia’s largest tech companies, best known for its WeChat mobile messaging app. With a market capitalization of about $275 billion, it is roughly six times the size of Tesla, whose $46-billion market cap on Tuesday topped that of 114-year-old Ford.

Tencent and fellow Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) and Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) have invested billions in mobility startups. The services being developed by those newcomers promise to transform the global transportation landscape while providing significant new revenue streams to providers of mobile services.

Tencent was an early investor in NextEV, a Shanghai-based electric vehicle startup which since has rebranded itself as Nio and whose U.S. headquarters in San Jose is not far from Tesla’s Palo Alto base. Tencent also has funded at least two other Chinese EV startups, including Future Mobility in Shenzhen.

In addition, Tencent has invested in Didi Chuxing, the world’s second-largest ride services company behind Uber, and in Lyft, Uber’s chief U.S. rival.

Baidu has invested in Nio, as well as in Uber and Velodyne, a California maker of lidar sensors for self-driving cars. Alibaba’s mobility investments include Didi and Lyft.

As Tesla is doing, many of the mobility startup companies backed by Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba are developing self-driving systems that eventually could be introduced in commercial ride sharing fleets in the U.S. and China after 2020.

Tencent maintains a U.S. office in Palo Alto, in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. Beijing-based Baidu and Hangzhou-based Alibaba also maintain offices in Silicon Valley.

Tencent owns about 8.2 million shares in Tesla, the carmaker said. Tencent is now the fifth-largest shareholder in Tesla, behind Elon Musk and investment companies Fidelity, Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price.(bit.ly/2nvNeMI)

Elon Musk-led Tesla raised about $1.2 billion by selling common shares and convertible debt earlier this month.

Musk is Tesla’s top shareholder, with a stake of about 21 percent as of Dec. 31.

(Reporting by Rishika Sadam in Bengaluru, Sijia Jiang in Hong Kong and Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

Trump administration sought to block Sally Yates from testifying to Congress on Russia

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The Trump administration sought to block former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying to Congress in the House investigation of links between Russian officials and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, The Washington Post has learned, a position that is likely to further anger Democrats who have accused Republicans of trying to damage the inquiry.

According to letters The Post reviewed, the Justice Department notified Yates earlier this month that the administration considers a great deal of her possible testimony to be barred from discussion in a congressional hearing because the topics are covered by the presidential communication privilege.

[Read the letters from Sally Yates’s lawyer ]

Yates and other former intelligence officials had been asked to testify before the House Intelligence Committee this week, a hearing that was abruptly canceled by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). Yates was the deputy attorney general in the final years of the Obama administration, and served as the acting attorney general in the first days of the Trump administration.

President Trump fired Yates in January after she ordered Justice Department lawyers not to defend his first immigration order temporarily banning entry to United States for citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries and refugees from around the world.

As acting attorney general, Yates played a key part in the investigation surrounding Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign aide who became national security adviser before revelations that he had discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador to the United States in late December led to his ouster.

Yates and another witness at the planned hearing, former CIA director John Brennan, had made clear to government officials by Thursday that their testimony to the committee probably would contradict some statements that White House officials had made, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The following day, when Yates’s lawyer sent a letter to the White House indicating that she still wanted to testify, the hearing was canceled.

A White House spokesperson called the Post article “entirely false” and said, “The White House has taken no action to prevent Sally Yates from testifying and the Department of Justice specifically told her that it would not stop her and to suggest otherwise is completely irresponsible.”

The Justice Department had no immediate comment.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said the panel was aware that Yates “sought permission to testify from the White House. Whether the White House’s desire to avoid a public claim of executive privilege to keep her from providing the full truth on what happened contributed to the decision to cancel today’s hearing, we do not know. But we would urge that the open hearing be rescheduled without delay and that Ms. Yates be permitted to testify freely and openly.’’

[Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation]

In January, Yates warned White House counsel Donald McGahn that statements White House officials made about Flynn’s contact with the ambassador were incorrect, and could therefore expose the national security adviser to future blackmail by the Russians.

In a March 23 letter to Acting Assistant Attorney General Samuel Ramer, Yates’s attorney David O’Neil described the government’s position. O’Neil, who declined to comment, noted in the letter that Yates is willing to testify, and that she will avoid discussing classified information and details that could compromise investigations. The correspondence was later shared with the Intelligence Committee.

“The Department of Justice has advised that it believes there are further constraints on the testimony Ms. Yates may provide at the [Intelligence Committee] hearing. Generally, we understand that the department takes the position that all information Ms. Yates received or actions she took in her capacity as Deputy Attorney General and acting Attorney General are client confidences that she may not disclose absent written consent of the department,’’ the lawyer wrote.

“We believe that the department’s position in this regard is overbroad, incorrect, and inconsistent with the department’s historical approach to the congressional testimony of current and former officials,’’ the letter continues. “In particular, we believe that Ms. Yates should not be obligated to refuse to provide non-classified facts about the department’s notification to the White House of concerns about the conduct of a senior official. Requiring Ms. Yates to refuse to provide such information is particularly untenable given that multiple senior administration officials have publicly described the same events.’’

Scott Schools, another Justice Department official, replied in a letter the following day, saying the conversations with the White House “are likely covered by the presidential communications privilege and possibly the deliberative process privilege. The president owns those privileges. Therefore, to the extent Ms. Yates needs consent to disclose the details of those communications to [the intelligence panel], she needs to consult with the White House. She need not obtain separate consent from the department.’’

Yates’s attorney then sent a letter Friday to McGahn, the White House lawyer, saying that any claim of privilege “has been waived as a result of the multiple public comments of current senior White House officials describing the January 2017 communications. Nevertheless, I am advising the White House of Ms. Yates’ intention to provide information.’’

That same day, Nunes, the panel’s chairman, said he would not go forward with the public hearing that was to feature Yates’s testimony.

Read more:

The web of relationships between Team Trump and Russia

Who is Sally Yates? Meet the acting attorney general Trump fired for ‘betraying’ the Justice Department.

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Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas

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President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions.

The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump. Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.

“All Americans, regardless of their political views, can recognize that government stagnation has hindered our ability to properly function, often creating widespread congestion and leading to cost overruns and delays,” Trump said in a statement to The Washington Post. “I promised the American people I would produce results, and apply my ‘ahead of schedule, under budget’ mentality to the government.”

In a White House riven at times by disorder and competing factions, the innovation office represents an expansion of Kushner’s already far-reaching influence. The 36-year-old former real estate and media executive will continue to wear many hats, driving foreign and domestic policy as well as decisions on presidential personnel. He also is a shadow diplomat, serving as Trump’s lead adviser on relations with China, Mexico, Canada and the Middle East.

[Jared Kushner proves to be a shadow diplomat on U.S.-Mexico talks]

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, center, arrives for a Feb. 15 event at the White House with wife, Ivanka, left, and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, right. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

The work of White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon has drawn considerable attention, especially after his call for the “deconstruction of the administrative state.” But Bannon will have no formal role in the innovation office, which Trump advisers described as an incubator of sleek transformation as opposed to deconstruction.

The announcement of the new office comes at a humbling moment for the president, following Friday’s collapse of his first major legislative push — an overhaul of the health-care system, which Trump had championed as a candidate.

Kushner is positioning the new office as “an offensive team” — an aggressive, nonideological ideas factory capable of attracting top talent from both inside and outside of government, and serving as a conduit with the business, philanthropic and academic communities.

“We should have excellence in government,” Kushner said Sunday in an interview in his West Wing office. “The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”

The innovation office has a particular focus on technology and data, and it is working with such titans as Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk. The group has already hosted sessions with more than 100 such leaders and government officials.

“There is a need to figure out what policies are adding friction to the system without accompanying it with significant benefits,” said Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the investment firm Blackstone Group. “It’s easy for the private sector to at least see where the friction is, and to do that very quickly and succinctly.”

Some of the executives involved have criticized some of Trump’s policies, such as his travel ban, but said they are eager to help the administration address chronic problems.

President Trump, center, talks with IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty, left, and senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, before speaking to business leaders at the White House on Feb. 3. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

“Obviously it has to be done with corresponding values and principles. We don’t agree on everything,” said Benioff, a Silicon Valley billionaire who raised money for Democrat Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

But, Benioff added, “I’m hopeful that Jared will be collaborative with our industry in moving this forward. When I talk to him, he does remind me of a lot of the young, scrappy entrepreneurs that I invest in in their 30s.”

Kushner’s ambitions for what the new office can achieve are grand. At least to start, the team plans to focus its attention on reimagining Veterans Affairs; modernizing the technology and data infrastructure of every federal department and agency; remodeling workforce-training programs; and developing “transformative projects” under the banner of Trump’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, such as providing broadband Internet service to every American.

In some cases, the office could direct that government functions be privatized, or that existing contracts be awarded to new bidders.

The office will also focus on combating opioid abuse, a regular emphasis for Trump on the campaign trail. The president later this week plans to announce an official drug commission devoted to the problem that will be chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). He has been working informally on the issue for several weeks with Kushner, despite reported tension between the two.

Under President Barack Obama, Trump advisers said scornfully, some business leaders privately dismissed their White House interactions as “NATO” meetings — “No action, talk only” — in which they were “lectured,” without much follow-up.

Andrew Liveris, chairman and chief executive of Dow Chemical, who has had meetings with the two previous administrations, said the environment under Trump is markedly different.

After he left a recent meeting of manufacturing chief executives with Trump, Liveris said, “Rather than entering a vacuum, I’m getting emails from the president’s team, if not every day, then every other day — ‘Here’s what we’re working on.’ ‘We need another meeting.’ ‘Can you get us more input on this?’ ”

[Inside Trump’s fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations]

Kushner proudly notes that most of the members of his team have little-to-no political experience, hailing instead from the world of business. They include Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council; Chris Liddell, assistant to the president for strategic initiatives; Reed Cordish, assistant to the president for intergovernmental and technology initiatives; Dina Powell, senior counselor to the president for economic initiatives and deputy national security adviser; and Andrew Bremberg, director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and Kushner’s wife, who now does her advocacy work from a West Wing office, will collaborate with the innovation office on issues such as workforce development but will not have an official role, aides said.

Powell, a former Goldman Sachs executive who spent a decade at the firm managing public-private partnerships, also boasts a government pedigree as a veteran in George W. Bush’s White House and State Department. Bremberg also worked in the Bush administration. But others are political neophytes.

Liddell, who speaks with an accent from his native New Zealand, served as chief financial officer for General Motors, Microsoft and International Paper, as well as in Hollywood for William Morris Endeavor.

“We are part of the White House team, connected with everyone here, but we are not subject to the day-to-day issues, so we can take a more strategic approach to projects,” Liddell said.

Like Kushner, Cordish is the scion of a real estate family — a Baltimore-based conglomerate known for developing casinos and shopping malls. And Cohn, a Democrat who has recently amassed significant clout in the White House, is the hard-charging former president of Goldman Sachs.

Trump’s White House is closely scrutinized for its always-evolving power matrix, and the innovation office represents a victory for Wall Street figures such as Cohn who have sought to moderate Trump’s agenda and project a friendly front to businesses, sometimes in conflict with the more hard-line conservatism championed by Bannon and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.

[Inside Trump’s White House, New York moderates spark infighting and suspicion]

The innovation group has been meeting twice a week in Kushner’s office, just a few feet from the Oval Office, largely barren but for a black-and-white photo of his paternal grandparents — both Holocaust survivors — and a marked-up whiteboard more typical of tech start-ups. Kushner takes projects and decisions directly to the president for sign-off, though Trump also directly suggests areas of personal interest.

There could be friction as the group interacts with myriad federal agencies, though the advisers said they did not see themselves as an imperious force dictating changes but rather as a “service organization” offering solutions.

Kushner’s team is being formalized just as the Trump administration is proposing sweeping budget cuts across many departments, and members said they would help find efficiencies.

“The president’s doing what is necessary to have a prudent budget, and that makes an office like this even more vital as we need to get more out of less dollars by doing things smarter, doing things better, and by leaning on the private sector,” Cordish said.

Ginni Rometty, the chairman and chief executive of IBM, said she is encouraged: “Jared is reaching out and listening to leaders from across the business community — not just on day-to-day issues, but on long-term challenges like how to train a modern workforce and how to apply the latest innovations to government operations.”

Trump sees the innovation office as a way to institutionalize what he sometimes did in business, such as helping New York City’s government renovate the floundering Wollman Rink in Central Park, said Hope Hicks, the president’s longtime spokeswoman.

“He recognized where the government has struggled with certain projects and he was someone in the private sector who was able to come in and bring the resources and creativity needed and ultimately execute in an efficient, cost-effective, way,” Hicks said. “In some respects, this is an extension of some of the highlights of the president’s career.”

Gunman in fatal shooting on Las Vegas Strip surrenders, police say

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A man on a bus headed down the Las Vegas Strip pulled out a handgun and began firing Saturday morning, killing one person and wounding another before he surrendered hours later to police, officials said.

The unidentified suspect was described by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police as a local resident in his 50s. Assistant Sheriff Tom Roberts said the man behaved as if he had “some mental issues” as SWAT team negotiators tried to coax him out of the bus after most of the passengers had streamed off it.

“We found that very evident when we talked to him,” said Roberts, who said terrorism had been ruled out as a motive.

The initial shooting, which occurred around 11 a.m., forced the closure of parts of the Strip to vehicle traffic for about seven hours; it was reopened just before 6 p.m.

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1 dead, 14 injured in shooting incident at Cincinnati nightclub

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One person is dead and 14 injured, following a shooting incident at a Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday morning, police said.

« There was a shooting here this morning around one o’clock in the morning, » Cincinnati Police Department Sgt. Eric Franz told ABC News of the incident at Cameo Nightclub. « It’s a large and complicated homicide scene. »

Sgt. Franz added, « At this point we have multiple witnesses we’re interviewing and we have nobody in custody. »

At least two shooters were involved, Capt. Kimberly Williams told reporters early Sunday morning.

She said the motive for the shooting is unknown, but added, « I don’t want to make speculations on what happened, but just keep an eye on your young people … I don’t know if this had to do with an argument or neighborhood issues or what. Just, I’m asking parents … know what your young people are doing. »

Capt. Williams said the shooting occurred inside Cameo, and that « chaos » ensued as people fled from the venue.

« We’ve got a really large scene at multiple hospitals, » Sgt. Franz said of the victims.

Kelly Martin, a spokeswoman for University of Cincinnati Medical Center, told ABC News that it admitted 8 people early this morning, but she did not specify if those individuals were connected to the shooting.

A spokesman for Bethesda North told ABC News it admitted two patients related to the shooting.

And a spokeswoman for The Christ Hospital told ABC News it admitted two individuals with minor injuries from the shooting.

On its Facebook page, Cameo says it provides « excitement and entertainment to the tri-state, » adding that Saturdays at the venue are « grown and sexy night. »

ABC News’ Andrew Evans, Matt Foster, Devin Villacis and Brendan Rand contributed to this report.

Online video marketing for mobile devices

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