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11/11/2016 - Asus G53SW Battery

As you'd expect from a modern smartphone, the S6 is extremely slim (6.8mm) and light (138g), and it feels surprisingly compact in the hand, especially considering there's a 5.1in display up front.In our view, the S6 delivers the perfect compromise between screen size and one-handed comfort – in fact, it's slightly smaller overall than the Samsung Galaxy S5 – and it combines that with impressive build quality and attention to detail. Even the volume, power and home buttons feel like they've been upgraded: everything about this phone feels perfectly on point. There are some downsides to the design, however. First, in order to produce such a gorgeous work of art, the removable rear panel, replaceable battery and microSD slot for storage expansion have been consigned to the dustbin.Second, neither the S6 nor the S6 Edge has an IP rating, so they're not not water and dust resistant like last year's Samsung Galaxy S5 was.

And third, the glass rear of the phones picks up fingerprints like they're going out of fashion. It's easy to clean, but if you own one of these phones, you're going to be spending a lot of your time wiping it on your jeans or the hem of your T-shirt to keep it spotless.Imagine showing up at work tomorrow to find a black box under your desk monitoring your every move. Big Brother is now your boss. But this isn’t some dystopian future – it’s now. That very scenario happened to bewildered Telegraph journalists this week, who quickly uncovered the purpose of the mysterious boxes and complained enough that management backed down.

Such a move won’t enamour workers to their bosses, but it could have further psychological effects beyond adding to your list of reasons to dislike upper management. Indeed, academics agree that while electronic monitoring might seem the right step to boost productivity, the demotivation it causes could undo any benefits.But just what sort of tech is available for your employer to buy, and how much surveillance can they legally use? Here we answer those questions and look at what it all means for the inside of your skull.The black box Telegraph journalists discovered under their desks was OccupEye – a heat- and motion-sensing device designed to log how often an employee sits at their desk. Generally it’s used to see how well space is used in an office – as in, how many more people can be crammed in.Of course, it’s not only Telegraph workers being monitored. Companies have long kept an eye on employees via laptop logins and keystrokes, GPS to track trucks or delivery cars, call recording, or just the traditional security camera in the break room. But thanks to advancements in sensors, algorithms and other tech, much more can now be monitored.

Australian miners, drivers and more are wearing brain-scanning SmartCaps to watch for fatigue and boost safety, while an app from Plasticity Labs surveys workers throughout the day to track their happiness and try to boost their wellbeing. NCR’s software watches for a high-number of voided sales in shops and restaurants, a sign of possible theft, and BP in the US gave Fitbit trackers to staff as part of a health campaign. Even telematics in trucks are used to keep watch on driver behaviour, letting bosses send a message nagging them to buckle up; while insurer AIG is investing in Human Condition Safety, which makes safety vests that aim to prevent injuries with sensors.

That may all seem more like Concerned Mum than Big Brother, but there are others: companies can even use GPS on work smartphones to see where out-of-office staff have wandered off to. While an extreme use of the technology, this Wall Street Journal article about a pest-control business owner who used GPS to track and fire drivers who slacked off on the job will give pause to any office-hours cheaters.Not surprisingly, emails sent between employees on the company server are fair game, but your boss can do much more than that. According to the Citizens Advice Bureau, employers “have the right to monitor your activities in many situations at work”, listing the ability to open mail or email; record phone calls; see what websites you visit; and record you on camera.

“Big Brother bosses don’t get the best out of employees. Staff who are being snooped on are less productive and less healthy.”
The European Court of Human Rights this week ruled that a company can read private messages sent during work time. The case surrounds a Romanian engineer who argued that his employer breached his right to privacy by accessing his Yahoo Messenger. The court disagreed, believing the company’s claim that since the account was initially set up to speak to professional contacts, the company should be able to access it the same as work email, even though the worker was also using it for private conversations.That doesn’t mean your boss can access your personal Gmail account simply because you check it from work now and then, but if your company has a policy against personal communication during work hours, you could still lose your job over it, as unreasonable as that clearly is.

Indeed, Trades Union Congress general secretary Frances O’Grady warned companies not to see the ruling as a green light to snoop on workers’ emails. “Big Brother bosses don’t get the best out of employees,” she told the BBC. “Staff who are being snooped on are less productive and less healthy.” And academics agree.The stick-based PC is not a new concept. Intel started it with the Compute Stick, and plenty of other manufacturers have joined in since, including Hannspree with its Micro PC – a device we wanted so much to love, but couldn't quite recommend. The Asus Chromebit is different. Unlike the Intel and Hannspree devices, it runs Google's lightweight Chrome OS, which seems to make more sense for the form factor.

So, who is this tiny machine for? It is here we strike our first problem. Even Asus doesn't seem to know, mentioning in the same marketing breath families, businesses, schools and buyers in the market for digital signage. Can it really have something for all these target markets? And is it any different from the Windows-based sticks?Physically, the answer to the latter question has to be no; the same limitations that hold back the Windows-powered sticks are present on the Chromebit. There's only one full-sized USB port and a power connector, and that's your lot. Bluetooth 4 is also included, but you'll need a Bluetooth-compatible keyboard and/or mouse to take advantage of this.Alternatively, you can use a conventional wireless keyboard-and-mouse set, one that comes with a single wireless adapter, but that will eliminate your ability to connect any other USB peripherals to the Chromebit. It all starts to get a bit unwieldy when you add on a USB hub, rather defeating the portability the Chromebit offers. If you're going to need a USB hub, you might as well buy a mini PC instead.

Inside, the Chromebit is powered by an ARM-based Rockchip RK3288C processor. This is a quad-core chip that runs at up to 1.8GHz, and it's paired with 2GB of 1,066MHz LPDDR3 RAM. It isn't a powerhouse by any stretch of the imagination, but as is so often the case with Chrome OS, things aren't nearly as bad as they could be. Google Docs runs smoothly and I never had any issues working on multiple documents and switching between windows.However, things were a little slower working with larger Google Sheets spreadsheets, and copying and pasting between them took a little longer than I'd have liked. As a demanding user, I found myself feeling slightly hamstrung most of the time, but I wasn't overly frustrated. I got everything I needed to do done, just a little slower than usual.

Multimedia- and ad-heavy web pages tended to lag and stutter when I scrolled down them, and loading times weren't exactly lightning quick. But it's all acceptable for an £80 PC. I was particularly impressed with the performance of Polarr, the free online photo-editing program. Manipulating 20-megapixel images, the sort of resolution you can expect to find from some high-end smartphones, was quick and easy, thanks to the 600MHz ARM Mali-T760 graphics chip. I also attempted to play a few web-based Flash games, but these websites' penchant for huge ads meant most games were unplayably laggy.The GPU handled 1080p video without a hitch, making it a viable media streamer if you want to plug it into the back of your TV. If you plug it into a device capable of a resolution greater than 1,920 x 1,080, however, your desktop will be stretched: the HDMI connector on the Chromebit only supports Full HD resolution.

The Chromebit also comes with only 16GB of onboard storage, and there's no microSD slot to expand this further. With Chrome OS installed, there's just under 10GB of free space to play with. That's not much, but since Chrome OS is heavily focused on using the cloud for data storage, pulling stuff down to your device as and when you need it it shouldn't be a huge problem.It's a completely different way of thinking versus the traditional store-everything-locally-and-sometimes-back-things-up that many people are used to. With internet speeds getting faster all the time (in most places) and Google's web-based applications improving, working on files that never really exist on your local device is starting to feel like the norm. You can also work on documents offline using a Chrome extension if you find yourself taking the Chromebit somewhere with a dodgy or non-functional internet connection.


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