The Academy Awards can get pretty long and tedious, which is why unexpected moments stand out so much. See how well you remember the most bizarre happenings in Oscars history.
How well do you know your strange Oscars moments? Take our quiz - CNET
Feb 27, 2016
How well do you know your strange Oscars moments? Take our quiz - CNET
How well do you know your strange Oscars moments? Take our quiz - CNET
How many Oscars should Leonardo DiCaprio have actually won by now?
Leonardo DiCaprio is going to win his first Academy Award on Sunday night. You might as well get used to that, because it’s going to happen. It’s not like he ate raw liver and slept inside a horse carcass for fun, right?
The Revenant is like a big middle finger to the Academy. When you’re willing to debase yourself to this extent — and act so hard while you’re doing it — you pretty much can’t lose. Expect Leo’s acceptance speech to go something like this: “I have literally crawled through the muck on hands and knees for you people. F*ck off.”
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Baseball's best app, At Bat, gets annual Spring Training update
If you love baseball, At Bat is the one app that needs to be on your phone or tablet. In 2015, it was the top grossing sports app in the U.S. for the seventh straight year. It also was the top grossing sports app in 97 countries. Fans used the app for 8.4 million minutes in 2015, and Apple Watch started supporting At Bat early last season.
This year, At Bat gets quite a new features for the Apple iPad including portrait and landscape orientation, multitasking split view, and picture-in-picture for live video and highlights on some iPad models. The redesign of the app for iOS devices adds … – Source
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The People Who Made The 'Monotune' Android Commercial Recorded An Entire Album, And It's Free On Google Play Music
Google’s “Monotune” Android commercial is pretty cool. The musical analogy is interesting (and it ties in well with Google’s “be together, not the same” marketing campaign), but there’s an impressive technical aspect to it as well. The producers modified a grand piano so that all 88 keys were turned to middle C, so that pianist Ji-Yong Kim could really play the music using a single note. As cool as that commercial is, they might have taken things a bit too far with the latest promotion: an entire album of music played with that one-note piano.
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Is 3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution?
It was in 1909 when Henry Ford, master of efficiency and standardization, famously said that a “customer can have a car painted any color…so long as it is black.” While the First Industrial Revolution introduced machines to replace hand labor, Ford helped usher in what was ultimately the principle of mass production; using those machines to produce large quantities of… Read More
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Modder improved cooling for Nexus 6P, warranty voided undoubtedly
Senior XDA member Gorgtech performed a hard modification to his warranty-less Nexus 5 and 7 so decided to do the same to his Nexus 6P whose warranty was voided as well.
An XDA thread shows the tedious and difficult disassembly of the Nexus 6P, starting with carefully heating and removing the camera glass, which takes a steady hand and lots of patience.
Gorgtech then removes the entire rear panel which looks even more difficult than the camera hump’s glass. Once the more problematic parts were out of the way, screws and clips hold the boards in place.
The post shows you where to add thermal paste to improve the cooling ability of the Nexus 6P, ultimately reducing the amount of thermal throttling of the roaring Snapdragon 810 chip.
Head over to the XDA thread if you’re feeling indubitably adventurous. I’ve repaired and ruined a bunch of devices in my day, but I will not likely try such a modification. Maybe if I still have the phone after my factory warranty expires, I MIGHT consider it.
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Modder improved cooling for Nexus 6P, warranty voided undoubtedly
Samsung Flagships now receiving February security patches
Last year, Google made a promise to provide regular security updates to keep their major Nexus devices safe. Seeing the sense in this, Samsung took a similar oath, and has so far been good on their word. That means if you’ve got a device that was launched as a flagship smartphone, you can expect to get the latest security patch Over The Air sometime very soon.
Unfortunately, the whole “flagship” title is a little bit fluid. We’re not exactly sure what Samsung officially considers their flagships, but generally any high-end model from 2014 and beyond seems to fit the bill. We can look to past updates to get a good idea of which models should see this security patch. The Galaxy S4 didn’t make the cut, it seems, but Galaxy S5 and all variants of the Galaxy S6 did. The Note 4 and Note 5 are on the list, as are the Tab S and the Tab S2. If you’re running any of these devices, we’d be surprised if Samsung skipped you for this delivery.
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The OTA we’re expecting will include everything Google listed on February’s bulletin, but it will also cover memory corruptions and buffer overflow attack vulnerabilities that are specific to Samsung. We also expect that a number of non-disclosed bugs or safety concerns will be patched and made public after the fact.
What are your thoughts regarding Samsung and Google’s commitment to maintaining the security of high end devices, even years down the road? In the comments below, let us know if there are any particular vulnerabilities or issues that you hope to see fixed in this update.
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What's Chris Rock trying to say with this cryptic Oscars tweet?
Chris Rock is up to something.
The comedian and Oscars host posted a rather mysterious tweet early Friday. It’s just a 15 second video of TV static, with this caption: “See you Sunday… #blackout #oscars.”
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The message is likely a reference to the recent #OscarsSoWhite controversy — but judge for yourselves:
What does it mean? What does it mean?
The Oscar host has been teasing out his gig for a while now, doling out scant hints about what he’s got in store. He recently tweeted a photo of himself, Kristen Wiig and J.J. Abrams, …
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