Mandarins are providing a much-needed source of income for citrus growers in South Australia amid a tough season.
Key points:
A Riverland citrus company says they can’t keep up with demand for mandarins
Flooding on the east coast and cold weather has affected citrus supply
Domestic demand has fueled sales for fruit unable to be shipped overseas
With flooding affecting many areas on the east coast, mandarins from the Riverland region have been filling supermarket shelves across the country.
Venus Citrus managing director Helen Aggeletos said demand had been outstripping supply.
“Mandarin volumes in general have been lower this year, both from Queensland and in the southern states as well, except for the Afourer variety,” she said.
“Basically we’re packing as much as we can.
“The only time there was a bit of a low was during school holidays, because mandarins are a bit of a lunch box fruit.”
The high demand for the fruit was fortuitous as it came after 14 outbreaks of fruit fly infestation in the Riverland and disruptions to the shipping industry.
So, Venus Citrus was able to redirect mandarins to the domestic market.
Ms Aggeletos said mandarins had also escaped albedo breakdown which unusually cold conditions had caused in oranges, making the skin softer and able to rot more easily.
“[Mandarins have] been good, and that’s probably been one of the positives in the scheme of things,” she said.
Citrus appeal during cold winter
Citrus Australia chief executive Nathan Hancock said the cold weather had helped drive sales.
“Of all the fruits out there at this time of year there’s plenty [of citrus] for Australian consumers to get their hands on,” he said.
“And it’s also really closely associated with boosting your immune system during winter.”
The end of lockdowns has coincided with an increase in winter citrus sales.(Rural ABC: Cherie von Horchner)
Mr Hancock said more people back in the office and at school after COVID restrictions had also helped the industry.
“Lots of citrus is used in hotels and restaurants and even juice bars that during [the] COVID-19 [pandemic] were really badly affected,” he said.
“So lemons, limes, grapefruit all suffered during that time because there just wasn’t the market for them.
“People are going out for dinner, and going to bars, [where they are] having a couple of slices of grapefruit, limes, or lemons in their cocktails and beers. And that’s really kickstarted those markets again, which is great.”
Twitch star Zack “Asmongold” provided his thoughts on the MMORPG that is currently being developed by Riot Games.
During a recent livestream on his alternate Twitch channel Zackrawrr, the content creator reacted to lore videos related to the League of Legends universe, and was left bedazzled after watching a CGI video titled “The Call | Season 2022 Cinematic.”
Following this, Asmongold provided his opinions on the massively multiplayer game that is in development at Riot Games and claimed that the latter has “everything that they need to succeed.” He said:
“I hope that the… I hope it’s good. I think this is like one of those situations where it’s like, everything is in their, in like, they have everything that they need to succeed.”
Asmongold compares World of Warcraft to Riot Games’ upcoming MMORPG, and provides his thoughts
Zack has regularly been streaming on his alternative Twitch channel over the past few days and has spent recent broadcasts playing the newly launched open-world multiplayer game Tower of Defense.
At the three-hour mark of his August 12 stream, Asmongold reacted to some of the most viral League of Legends content and came across YouTuber Necrit’s titled videos “The World of Riot’s MMO is Already Done.”
Fans then asked the World of Warcraft gamer to view the CGI cinematic trailer produced by Riot Games, which was released earlier this year. Zack commented on the game’s hype after noticing that the video had garnered more than 135 million views:
“Okay, let’s see it. By the way, like, for the amount of hype that this game has, this came out f***ing seven months ago, it has a 138 million views. If you compare that to the Dragonflight ( World of Warcraft’s upcoming expansion) announcement, it has two million views.”
Timestamp: 03:58:24
The OTK co-founder was impressed after watching the cinematic video and hoped that the upcoming MMORPG would do well. He stated that Riot Games has everything needed for the game to succeed and said:
“They have a tremendous, massive existing fan base, they have an apparently gigantic, f***ing world, that I didn’t even really know, like 95% of. They have a like… a huge company. So , because it’s a huge company, they can spend a tremendous amount of money. They don’t have a history of games that have pay-to-win, and that.”
Asmongold cited Valorant and League of Legends as examples to highlight Riot Games’ huge success:
“So, it’s like, every single time, like, you know, one of these games comes out and people worry about, and it seems like, you know, they have the foundation, they have the resources, and also like, they have come success too. Valorant is a great game, League of Legends is a great game. Everybody hates League of Legends, but they still do play it.”
He continued further by saying:
“So, it’s like, I feel like they’ve made very, very good games, and they’ve cupped up with those good games.”
The discussion came to a close when Asmongold confirmed that he would play Riot Games’ MMORPG once it releases.
Fans react to the streamer’s initial thoughts on Riot Games’ MMORPG
The YouTube comment section featured more than 1,000 fan comments, and here’s a snippet of some of the most relevant ones:
Fans in the YouTube comments section reacting to the streamer’s thoughts (Images via Asmongold Clips/YouTube)
For some reference, Riot Games confirmed that they’re currently developing a new MMORPG set in the League of Legends universe in February 2021.
Aside from this, the American game developers also stated that they’re simultaneously working on a fighting game codenamed Project L, and an action-adventure game codenamed Project F.
It’s taken more than 40 years, and a chance encounter, for a Victorian woman to find out what her family name really is.
Heather Ahpee’s husband Robert’s great-grandfather left China for Victoria around the time of the gold rush.
“My family name is Ahpee, which is bastardised Chinese,” she said.
“Like so many Chinese names in Australia, it’s not a proper Chinese name.
“It’s not even [Robert’s great-grandfather’s] family name. It’s his given name, and it means “peace”.
Ms Ahpee says she and her husband had to abandon the search after being stonewalled by family.(Supplied)
“We decided when the kids were little, so in the late ’70s, that we’d like to find out but unfortunately [Robert’s] father already passed away.”
The couple then approached other family members, but to no avail.
“We went to his aunties… but they didn’t want to tell us anything” Ms Ahpee said.
“They obviously suffered quite a bit of trauma, I think, [and] discrimination when they were young, and they didn’t want to recognize that they were part Chinese.”
With nowhere to go, the Ahpees abandoned the search.
Summarizing the search
Ms Ahpee returned to the task of tracing the family’s genealogy in 1999 through her work at Ararat’s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre.
The center wanted to exhibit local families who were descendants of Chinese migrants who had arrived during Victoria’s gold rush.
But the only written record she could find was the Ahpees’ marriage record from 1875, where he simply marked his name with a cross because he was illiterate.
But a chance discovery in 2019 changed things.
A slate headstone bearing a Chinese characters of Ahpee’s real name was found underneath a butcher store.(Supplied: Avoca and District Landcare)
The Avoca and District Landcare group was preparing to build a highway rest stop at Avoca Lead on land that had been donated by a family in the area.
They discovered a slate headstone.
It was sandwiched between two timber boards and bore a Chinese inscription.
It also happened to be a known location of a butcher shop owned by the Ahpee family.
While the building was no longer there, Ms Ahpee said the headstone was well-preserved underneath concrete that had a hollow in it where blood from livestock could drain and be made into blood pudding.
“Finding it in Chinese characters was a real breakthrough,” she said.
Ms Ahpee had the inscription translated, which revealed Ahpee’s name in Chinese characters to be Gong Pei, and that he came from a small village in southern China called Panyu.
Unfortunately, Ms Ahpee said her husband had died in 1995, before the surprise discovery.
“He would’ve been so pleased,” Ms Ahpee said.
The Chinese characters found on the headstone have been translated into Mandarin.(Supplied)
Overcoming linguistic and cultural hurdles
Historian and curator Sophie Couchman is all too familiar with the challenges of tracing Chinese genealogy dating back to the 19th century.
She said not only were records in Australia often incomplete, but handwriting styles also changed, and certain letters looked ambiguous.
“S and T can look similar, so you have to go back and see what the writing style of those letters was like at the time,” Dr Couchman said.
“And some people’s handwriting is just atrocious.”
An adjunct senior fellow at La Trobe University, she said cultural and linguistic differences added another layer of complexity to tracing Chinese ancestry.
Dr Couchman said one challenge was that Chinese names were written with the surname first, which meant that recorded names would be flipped.
Dr Couchman says Australian records are an approximation because Chinese names can’t be captured in English.(Supplied)
She said Chinese languages were also tonal, so they could not be written in English.
The classic example, Dr Couchman said, was mā, má, mǎ, mà.
“If you were to write any of those sounds in English, you would write, ‘ma’ but that could mean four different things,” she said.
“When a Chinese person came to Australia, they couldn’t write their name in English or Roman letters, so what you ended up with was an approximation.”
The multiple dialects within the Chinese language was another obstacle.
Dr Couchman explained that while Chinese characters remained the same, the name could be pronounced differently depending on where the person was from and the dialect they spoke, and vice versa.
Nicknames unintentionally recorded
Different pronunciations across the dialects could change how a person’s name might be written.
Moreover, she said a person’s nickname was often unintentionally incorporated into historical records rather than their formal name.
For example, names could be written as “Ah Tan” or “Ah Lim”.
“The ‘Ah’ is something that makes the ‘Tan’ or the ‘Lim’ a more friendly or familiar name,” Dr Couchman said.
“In English, you might refer to someone as Frank, but if you want to be more familiar, you call them Frankie. John becomes Johnny.”
She said it was a common thing among Cantonese people, which was a common dialect among Chinese migrants during the gold rush.
Dr Couchman says ‘Ah’ often gets unintentionally incorporated into official records, like on gravestones.(ABC Wimmera: Gillian Aeria)
“You probably wouldn’t be recording somebody’s name using [‘Ah’ in China],” Dr Couchman said.
“But in Australia, they are sometimes used and then end up in the official record. And through the generations, it can be incorporated into people’s surnames.”
She said finding an ancestor was not impossible but just needed creativity.
“The Chinese characters almost become irrelevant because [the approximation] becomes their name in Australian records, so you search by that name, and then you search for slight variations on that name,” Dr Couchman said.
“If the name is Chong, you might try Cheong, you might try Cheung… you start to learn the ways in which officials misspell that name, so you’re able to trace those people through the records.”
downplaying heritage
Sometimes people deliberately tried to hide their ancestry because of discrimination and the stigma attached to being Chinese.
Ms Ahpee said that when her in-laws got married, her mother-in-law’s side of the family did not attend the ceremony because she was marrying a “Chinaman”.
But over time, she said, the Ahpees were able to overcome those perceptions because they were quite well-respected in the Ararat community for their “legendary” charitable deeds.
Over time her mother-in-law’s mother even came to live with the couple.
Ms Ahpee’s father-in-law, Eric, (right) said there were some racial tensions in his family to overcome.(Supplied)
Ms Ahpee said tracing her family history had been a long journey.
“By the time I started, I was 50-odd years old,” she said.
“… And by the time there was nobody left. The older ones who would’ve had knowledge were already dead.”
And while she now has the characters of her last name — 江 — the name of her husband’s great-grandfather, and the name of a village in China where familial records can date as far back as 700 years, she feels her journey ends here.
“I’m probably getting a bit old to start doing that stuff now, maybe one of the grandchildren might do it,” Ms Ahpee said.
Digital Foundry has given Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered a go on PC, and to help you get the best experience, a chart featuring recommended Optimized Settings was provided.
If you head over through the link, you will see the chart, as well as a breakdown of how each setting affects the game for good or ill.
On PC, Marvel’s Spider-Man features ray-traced reflections with varying quality levels, one of which is a new, higher-quality ray-traced mode that offers even more city detail.
The game supports Nvidia DLSS and Nvidia DLAA, the latter of which is an AI-based anti-aliasing mode for GeForce RTX gamers with GPU headroom to spare.
There are several display ratios to choose from, including ultrawide 21:9, panoramic 32:9, and Nvidia Surround multi-monitor setups. You can also choose other rendering systems such as SSAO, texture filtering, LoD quality, shadows, and more. The game supports windowed, full-screen, and exclusive full-screen rendering modes.
In addition to PC graphical features, there are multiple peripherals and customization options. You can use a PlayStation DualSense wireless controller, mouse and keyboard, and Steam Input with plenty of remapping options available.
Read over the minimum and recommended specs here.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered released for PC on August 12, and Miles Morales will come to PC this fall.
A proposed hiking and bike trail near the tourist town of Denmark has environmentalists and mountain bike riders engaged in fierce debate.
Key points:
Environmentalists and mountain bike riders are debating a proposed walk and bike trail
Green groups have slammed the idea as potentially destructive to the bushland
Other towns in the south have experienced a growth in visitors since constructing bike trails
While mountain bike riders have welcomed the proposal to provide family-friendly recreational trails in the Mount Hallowell area off Ocean Beach Road, green groups have slammed the idea as potentially destructive to the bushland.
Denmark Environment Center conventionor Bart Lebbing said the Mount Hallowell area was a “very unique area in that it has had very minimal disturbance”.
Mr Lebbing made a submission to the Shire of Denmark recommending the project, part of the Great Southern Regional Trails Master Plan, not go ahead.
“We have got animals like small marsupials and black cockatoos using that area,” he said
“And we feel that if that country is cut up into trails or cut through there, it will be an avenue for feral animals to go in. It will have an impact on the natural fauna and flora.”
Environmentalists say many people do not want the trail plan to go ahead.(ABC Great Southern: Mark Bennett)
Mr Lebbing said the feedback he received from the community was that “a lot of people don’t want this to go ahead”.
“I have talked with numerous [Indigenous] elders. They don’t want this to go ahead. They feel that it is a desecration of their sites,” he said.
Mr Lebbing is concerned about habitat loss for native fauna.(ABC Great Southern: Mark Bennett)
Hundreds of submissions to council
Denmark Shire received more than 380 online submissions and 500 emails and letters during the public consultation phase, which closed last week.
Shire chief executive David Schober said while the project was still at the concept stage, he expected the debate would continue for some months over where the network of trails would eventually be built and how it would be funded.
Shire of Denmark chief executive David Schober.(Supplied: Shire of Denmark)
“We started the process in earnest more than 12 months ago, but the conversation around mountain bike trails has been one dating back almost four years,” he said.
“There is a lot of very passionate people in Denmark on both sides looking at the environment and conservation, and equally as many passionate people in terms of driving the future growth of Denmark and looking for opportunities, particularly for families and young families wishing to move to the area.”
The town’s debate about creating its first shared recreational space for walkers and riders came after many small communities in the South West had successfully established similar trail networks.
Increasing visitors to bike trails
Margaret River, Dwellingup, Nannup, Pemberton, and Collie have experienced a growth in visitor numbers since they built multiple-use trails near their towns.
Experience Nannup project manager Mark Hudson said Nannup benefited enormously from the two mountain bike parks it built with help from the state government.
“It’s really positive,” Mr Hudson said.
“The state government is spending large amounts of money on trails, it’s not just mountain bike trails, it’s multi-use trail runners, horses, bushwalking.
“So, there’s new strategies are out there to encourage people to get out.
“They’ve got different distances, short and medium and longer distance, obviously, the success of the Munda Biddi trail, the Bibbulmun track, have been very, very positive for the communities.”
Nathan Devenport runs a local bike shop and supports the trail.(ABC Great Southern: Mark Bennett)
Nathan Devenport runs Denmark’s bike shop Monkey Rock.
“I’m hearing a lot back from the community, to be honest,” he said.
“Obviously, there’s been quite a lot of negativity within the public eye, newspapers and that sort of thing. But that’s not really the consensus I’m getting from the public.
“I think they are really craving something for our youth, I think they feel that they’ve missed out on a bit over the years.
“And this is something that’s a free asset for them to use once it’s established. And it’s just a good wholesome activity.”
Mr Devenport said people had approached him in the main street who had nothing to do with mountain biking who thought the plan “was an absolutely brilliant idea”.
Submissions to the council were now closed, and Mr Shober said the shire’s officers were working to deliver the initial report on the project at September’s council meeting.
Florida [US]August 14 (ANI): A team of researchers who worked with an Adobe team has suggested that personalized font recommendations can improve the accessibility of digital information and enhance individual reading experiences.
The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2022’.
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“The future of readability is a device watching humans read and using their performance to tailor the format so that they read at their best,” says Ben Sawyer ’14MS ’15PhD, the director of the Readability Consortium and UCF’s Virtual Readability Lab. look forward to the day when you can pick up a device, read and receive information in a way that uniquely suits your needs.”
Sawyer and Zoya Bylinskii, an Adobe research scientist, were involved in the conception of the research and provided guidance throughout the study. Tianyuan Cai, an Acrobat.com machine learning engineer, led the FontMART study.
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The study used the Font Preference Test featured on UCF’s Virtual Readability Lab’s website to provide baselines for evaluating FontMART’s recommendations.
The consideration of font preference is important since people’s preferred fonts often differ from the font that can best improve their reading experience and performance. The discrepancy between a reader’s preferred font and the fastest font has been demonstrated in previous readability research.
Study results indicated that the FontMART model can recommend fonts that improve reading speed by matching reader characteristics with specific font characteristics.
How the Model Works
The FontMART model learns to associate fonts with specific reader characteristics. FontMART was trained with a remote readability study of 252 crowd workers and their self-reported demographic information. Interviews with typographers influenced the selection of the eight fonts used in the study. The final font selection included fonts from both the serif (ie, Georgia, Merriweather, Times, and Source Serif Pro) and Sans Serif (ie, Arial, Open Sans, Poppins, and Roboto) families.
The effect of font varies by readers, researchers found.
FontMART can predict the fonts that work well for specific readers by understanding the relationship between font characteristics and reader characteristics like font familiarity, self-reported reading speed and age, according to the FontMART study. Among the characteristics considered, age plays the largest role when the model determines which font is recommended for readers.
For instance, font characteristics like heavier weight benefit the reading experience of older adults because thicker font strokes are easier to read for those with weaker and variable eyesight.
More research is needed and may include broader age distribution of participants to be more representative of the general population, evaluating the model’s effectiveness for other reading contexts like long-form or glanceable, and expanding the languages and associated font characteristics to better accommodate reader diversity.
Continued collaborations and research will help expand the characteristics explored to improve the FontMART model and enhance individual reading experiences.
UCF’s Readability Consortium and Virtual Readability Lab address how personalization can improve reading efficiency and speed. Sawyer also leads LabX, an applied neuroscience group focused on human performance, and he is an associate professor in industrial engineering and management systems. Sawyer received a doctorate in human factors psychology and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from UCF. I have completed his postdoctoral studies at MIT. (ANI)
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Richards Marles has reaffirmed Australia’s commitment to the one-China policy as Canberra moves towards “stabilizing” its relationship with Beijing.
Speaking with Sky News Australia’s Kieran Gilbert on Sunday, the Defense Minister and acting Prime Minister said Australia’s main motive was to see a “de-escalation of tensions” in the region.
“What we want to see is a return to normal peaceful behavior which underpins that, from Australia’s point of view, is not wanting to see any unilateral change to the status quo across the Taiwan Strait,” he said.
“That means we have a one-China policy that’s been the status quo in Australian policy, and indeed for the United States and other countries, for a very long period of time.”
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Under Australia’s version of the one-China policy Taiwan is acknowledged as a province of China and is not recognized as its own country, however, the policy allows for unofficial contact including visits from MPs on parliamentary delegations.
Mr Marles said he did not believe Australia’s stance on Taiwan would hinder the repair of bilateral relations between Canberra and Beijing but said he wanted to see the relationship in a “better place”.
“We talk about a stabilizing in the relationship and in doing that we acknowledge there are going to be challenges in the relationship with China,” he said.
“What we have sought to do is really change the tone in the way in which we are engaging with the world but that includes the way in which we engage with China.
“We’re not going about things with chest beating we are really trying to speak with a considered voice in a manner which is professional, which is sober, and which is diplomatic.”
Beijing ended diplomatic communications with Canberra in January 2020 and slapped sanctions on barley, beef, wine and other goods after then-prime minister Scott Morrison called for an inquiry into the emergence of COVID-19.
He said the Albanese government’s approach would be “professional” and “respectful” in its approach without compromising Australia’s national interest.
“We want to engage professionally and respectfully but we will absolutely be articulating our national interest,” he said.
“There are going to be challenges going forward at the same time we acknowledge they’re our largest trading partner and we value a productive relationship with China.
“We do want to see our relationship in a better place but we’ll continue to articulate our national interest and we’ll see how far down this road we can walk.”
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 series is here, and if you’re in the market for a new Galaxy Watch, you might find yourself wondering if it’s worth shelling out for Samsung’s latest addition, or whether you should stick with the Galaxy Watch 4. differences between the two might not be immediately obvious, so we’ve done the leg work and compared the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 vs. Galaxy Watch 4 across several categories to help you decide which one is the best buy for you.
Specs
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4
display size
40mm: 1.2 inches
44mm: 1.4 inches
SapphireCrystal
40mm: 1.2 inches
44mm: 1.4 inches
body size
40mm: 40.4 x 39.3 x 9.8mm (1.59 x 1.55 x 0.39 inches)
44mm: 44.4 x 43.3 x 9.8mm (1.75 x 1.70 x 0.39 inches)
40mm: 40.4 x 39.3 x 9.8mm (1.59 x 1.55 x 0.39 inches)
44mm: 44.4 x 43.3 x 9.8mm (1.75 x 1.70 x 0.39 inches)
Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, NFC, LTE (select models), GPS/GLONASS/Beidou/Galileo
Depth
9.8mm
9.8mm
Accelerometer
And it is
And it is
gyroscope
And it is
And it is
Ambient light sensor
And it is
And it is
heart rate sensor
And it is
And it is
Barometer
And it is
And it is
gps
And it is
And it is
water resistance
Yes (5ATM + IP68)
Yes (5ATM + IP68)
Battery life
40mm: 284mAh
44mm: 410mAh
Up to 50 hours (based on Samsung laboratory measurements)
WPC-based wireless charging
40mm: 247mAh
44mm: 361mAh
Up to 40 hours (based on Samsung laboratory measurements)
WPC-based wireless charging
Price
From $280
From $200
Availability
Samsung
Samsung, Amazon, Best Buy
DT review
hands-on
4 out of 5 stars
Design and display
1.
Galaxy Watch 4
two.
Galaxy Watch 5
When it comes to design, Samsung has opted for repetition over reinvention here. Both watches look pretty similar and share virtually identical physical characteristics. Neither has a rotating bezel — you’ll need to grab the Watch 4 Classic if that’s your preference — but the digital alternative provides a contemporary, streamlined look.
The Watch 5 sports a modern, minimalist design and comes in two sizes, 40mm or 44mm, weighing 28.7 and 33.5 grams, respectively. The Watch 4 comes in the same sizes, again weighing in at 25.9 grams and 30.3 grams, respectively. There’s no difference between dimensions here, but the Watch 4 is ever so slightly lighter, if that’s important to you.
Whichever watch you go for, there’s a 1.2-inch or 1.4-inch Super AMOLED display on board, with the same resolution of 396 x 396 or 450 x 450 across the board too, depending on which size you choose. Everything looks sharp and clear. Samsung claims the Watch 5’s sapphire crystal lens provides a 60% harder outer layer than the Watch 4 series, but both watches have the same durable Armor Aluminum body.
The Galaxy Watch 5 40mm comes in Graphite, Pink Gold, or Silver with a Bora Purple strap designed to perfectly match the Galaxy Z Flip 4. The 44mm variant comes in Graphite, Sapphire, or Silver. You can pick up the Galaxy Watch 4 in Silver, Black, or Pink Gold with a choice of bands.
As you can see, the differences here are fairly minimal, so it may not be worth paying more for the Watch 5 if you’re considering upgrading — unless the new colors and sapphire crystal lens tempt you to trade in. As such, we’re calling this round a tie.
Winner: tie
Fitness and health-tracking features
Galaxy Watch 5 44mmAndy Boxall/Digital Trends
There are some subtle differences between these two devices when it comes to fitness tracking. Both feature Samsung’s BioActive Sensor, but the Watch 5 has an enlarged surface area to improve the accuracy of readings. The sensor includes a Bio-Electrical Impedance (BIA) sensor, electrocardiogram (ECG), and PPG heart rate sensor so you can monitor sleep, body fat levels, blood-oxygen level, and blood pressure (the latter is only available in some countries , however).
The Watch 5 has a few new features, including GPX, available for the first time on a Galaxy Watch, so you can download or display routes as well as record new routes and share them with friends. There is also turn-by-turn directions to help keep cyclists and runners on track, and the new trackback feature, which takes you back the way you came, great for long walks or hikes. While you’ll find these features on most Garmin and other multisport watches, they’re not usually included on flagship smartwatches, so this is a pretty neat addition. These new features ensure the Watch 5 is an excellent choice for runners, hikers, and long-distance walkers.
The main new feature on the Watch 5 is the temperature sensor, which uses infrared technology for accurate temperature monitoring, even if the temperature of your surroundings changes. This could be used for period tracking or as an early sickness indicator, but Samsung plans to work with developers to explore new ways to use this in the “near future,” so we could be waiting a while before there’s actually a use for it.
Both watches also offer advanced sleep tracking that monitors sleep stages, snore detection, and body oxygen levels. On the Watch 5, you also get Sleep Coaching, a tailored month-long guided program designed to help improve your sleep habits.
Both the Watch 4 and Watch 5 can track over 100 different workouts with automatic workout detection, plus the familiar digital running coach and VO2 max data, which lets you know how much oxygen you’re using during your training and is a good indicator of aerobics. fitness.
So which watch wins this round? We’re giving it to the Galaxy Watch 5, but it’s a close one as most of the health and fitness tracking features on the new Watch 5 can also be found on the Watch 4. The added GPX features, that new temperature sensor, and improved sleep tracking just push the Watch 5 into the lead here.
Winner: Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
Battery life
Joe Maring/Digital Trends
Battery life is one of the key differences between these two watches. The 40mm variant of the Galaxy Watch 5 packs a 284mAh battery, compared to the 247mAh battery powering the 40mm Galaxy Watch 4. Meanwhile, the 44mm is powered by a 410mAh battery, compared to the 361mAh battery on offer in the 44mm Galaxy Watch 4. Samsung promises a battery life of up to 50 hours with the Watch 5 and 40 hours with the Watch 4, though this will depend on your usage.
Faster charging is on offer with the Galaxy Watch 5 too, with Samsung claiming you can top up from zero to 45% in just 30 minutes. If you use your watch for sleep tracking, you might be interested to know Samsung also says that eight minutes of charging will give you eight hours of battery life, so there’s no need to worry about your watch dying halfway through your sleep cycle.
There’s a clear winner here, and it’s the Watch 5 with its beefier battery and faster charging. This could change once we’ve spent more time with Samsung’s latest, though, so watch this space.
Winner: Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
special features
1.
Galaxy Watch 5
two.
Galaxy Watch 4
Neither watch has a rotating bezel, so if that’s a must-have for you, the Watch 4 Classic is the watch you’re looking for.
In terms of special features, both watches offer comprehensive sleep tracking, but the Watch 5 adds sleep coaching that tailors a guided program based on your sleep tracking metrics to help improve the quality of your sleep. Both watches also work with compatible smart devices and the Samsung SmartThings app to control lights, TVs, and air conditioners to improve your sleeping environment. With the Watch 5, you’re also getting that infrared temperature sensor, though it may be a while before we start to see compatible apps.
Both watches run WearOS 3 and Samsung’s One UI Watch. The Watch 5 ships with One UI Watch 4.5, with new accessibility features, an improved typing interface, and dual-SIM support. With Wear OS 3 you get access to Google Assistant from your watch, and features coming soon include being able to use voice navigation in Google Maps, plus music apps like Deezer and SoundCloud.
You’ll also find the same IP68 and 5ATM water (and dust) resistance ratings across both the Watch 4 and Watch 5.
There’s not enough here to differentiate between the two watches, as both pack similar special features, so ultimately, whether or not you want to spend more for an infrared temperature sensor and sleep coaching may be the deciding factor here.
Winner: tie
Price and availability
The Galaxy Watch 5 is available to until August 25. Pricing starts at $280 for the 40mm Bluetooth version and $330 for the 40mm LTE variant. Pre-orders also get a free Wireless Charger Duo, $75 off when you trade in an eligible smartwatch, and $50 of Samsung credit to spend on accessories. The Galaxy Watch 5 retail sales open August 26.
The Galaxy Watch 4 is from Samsung, Amazon, Best Buy, and other major retailers. Pricing starts from $200 for the 40mm Bluetooth variant and $250 for the 40mm LTE version.
Overall winner: Samsung Galaxy Watch 5
We’re crowning the Galaxy Watch 5 our overall winner, though we’d like to point out this was a very close run. Both watches are so similar across the board in terms of design, specs, and fitness tracking features that, for most people, the incremental upgrades simply aren’t enough to warrant the extra $80-plus cost of Samsung’s latest wearable. That said, if you’re buying your first Samsung Galaxy Watch, we’d wholeheartedly recommend the Watch 5. If you’re considering upgrading from the Galaxy Watch 4, there’s not a lot new here unless you’re into long-distance walking or hiking and need those GPX features, simply must have a bigger battery and faster charging, or you really want an infrared temperature sensor on your wrist.
Some of South Fremantle’s most popular bars and cafes have been forced to close this weekend after a rogue bolt of lightning destroyed a nearby power pole.
** MUST CREDIT WA INCIDENT ALERTS ** Power line after being struck by lightning on South Terrace, Fremantle. Posted Saturday afternoon WA Incident Alerts Credit: WA Incident Alerts/WA Incident Alerts
At around 1pm on Saturday, during another one of Perth’s latest storms, lightning struck a transmission pole in front of Running With Thieves on South Terrace.
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The bolt split the high voltage pole and spread debris across the road and footpath as well as causing some lines to drop- exposing motorists and pedestrians to dangerous electrical currents.
Western Power has been working to resolve the incident since yesterday afternoon, blocking off the road to oncoming traffic, but the location of the pole has caused some issues for the electrical company.
“The pole is right near water and gas pipes so it’s important that they take care not to damage any of those pipes while fixing the pole,” a Western Power spokesperson said.
Many local cafes and bars closed once the power went out, and despite the weather bringing crowds of people out to enjoy the sunshine – they were forced to keep their doors shut.
La Cabana was forced to close due to the power outage. Credit: Indigo Lemay-Conway/The West Australian
La Cabana took to Instagram to tell their loyal customers the bad news Sunday morning.
“Unfortunately we’ve had to make the call to keep our doors closed today!” the post read.
“Yesterday a power pole a few doors down was struck by lightning and the end of South Terrace has been without power ever since!
“A freak incident and one that’s been totally out of our hands. We appreciate your understanding and apologies to everyone that planned to come down last night or today!”
A sign on the door of Madalenas Bar on Sunday. Credit: Indigo Lemay-Conway/The West Australian
Madalena’s Bar also made a similar post on Instagram.
“Closed today, no power in South Fremantle. See you next week!”
But despite the lightning strike happening directly outside of their venue, Running With Thieves remained open, so those craving an alcoholic beverage at the southern end of South Fremantle were still able to quench their thirst.
Western Power was unable to give an estimated restoration time for when the power will be turned back on, but have said their customer service team will keep the 290 affected customers up to date throughout the process.
Valve appears to have quietly added a Steam feature that people have been asking about for a long time now: the ability to add a game to your library without having to download it. That may seem like a small thing (and it is, really), but it’s something players have only been able to do in the past via workarounds that didn’t make for the most convenient methods. It’s a feature that’s pretty much only useful whenever you’re downloading free-to-play games, but it does seem to have a few uses outside of that, too.
This new Steam feature wasn’t publicized in any sort of patch notes for Steam this week, so this stealthy feature was only noticed by people who shared news of it online after their discoveries. Twitter user RobotBrush, for example, screenshotted the option in the image below (which you may have to expand) that shows the usual “Play Game” button besides a new one that says “Add to Library.” Fellow Twitter user Morwul contextualized this for those who might not have understood what was going on from the first tweet alone.
Steam has added “add to library” button without needing to start installation process. At long long last. https://t.co/rO5ywsJHLo
As others pointed out in the replies there and in other threads where this feature was discussed, this Add to Library option was already available to a degree. There wasn’t a dedicated button for this action, and to achieve a similar effect, players could end the download of a game at the first confirmation window that pops up to have the game added to your library but not downloaded at that time. That workaround has essentially been condensed now into the one button you see pictured above.
For paid games, this won’t really be helpful seeing how you’d have to purchase the game anyway before adding it to your library. But considering the prevalence of free-to-play games nowadays with no end to that monetization method in sight, this feature will only be more useful as additional free-to-play games release. It’ll also be useful when claiming free DLC for a game you already own.
One caveat to this is that it doesn’t appear to be an option available on the Steam site at this time and is only found within the Steam app itself. It’s also unclear if this Add to Library button is present on games that are temporarily free-to-play or free-to-own seeing how there aren’t any games being promoted that way on Steam at this time, but those offers are never far apart from one another, so we’ll see soon if the button does indeed work that way, too.
