Periodico101: Mar 17, 2016

Mar 17, 2016

Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo” is the first SaaS album

In the technology industry, we would call “The Life of Pablo” a minimum viable product. Read More

Kanye West’s “The Life of Pablo” is the first SaaS album

Nike's self-lacers limited to app users

Nike unveils a range of self-lacing shoes that will go on sale this year, but says only users of its fitness tracking app can buy them. – Source

Nike's self-lacers limited to app users

Oppo R9 and R9 Plus official: 16MP front-facers on both

The Oppo R9 and R9 Plus were just officially announced in China. The smartphones share the same design language, but under the hood there are plenty of differences.

Oppo R9

The R9 is the smaller of the two, which doesn’t at all mean it’s actually small – it’s a phablet with a FullHD AMOLED 5.5-inch display. Oppo is proud of its accomplishments in bezel size, citing a minimal 1.66mm on the sides, and the whole thing measures 151.8 x 74.3 x 6.6mm.

The R9 is powered by a Mediatek Helio P10 chipset with four of its Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.0GHz, the other four at…

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Oppo R9 and R9 Plus official: 16MP front-facers on both

Chinese women are showing off their thin waists behind a sheet of paper

It seems like the never-ending quest for the “ideal” body has resulted in a series of bizarre memes.

In recent months, we’ve seen people posting pictures of their thigh gaps, belly buttons and pens under their boobs, causing us to wonder who even came up with these challenges in the first place.

Now, it looks like the Internet has gone one step further to pressure women to prove that they have tiny midriffs with the “A4 waist challenge.”

SEE ALSO: Girls are growing up thinking that how they look is more important than how they feel, and an advertising exec wants to change that

For the challenge, women are required to take photos of themselves with a piece of A4 printer paper in front of their waists. …

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Chinese women are showing off their thin waists behind a sheet of paper

Frank Sinatra Jr. dies at 72 from cardiac arrest

The son of a singing icon, Frank Sinatra Jr., died from a cardiac arrest on Wednesday. He was 72.

Sinatra Jr. continued his father’s singing legacy, having a musical career of his own that lasted throughout his life. He died while on tour in Daytona, Florida, according to a short statement on the Sinatra family’s website. He was due to perform on Wednesday at The Peabody in Daytona Beach as part of his “Sinatra Sings Sinatra” tour.

Frank Sinatra Jr. sings the national anthem before a baseball game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants on Sep. 22, 2014.

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Husband accidentally throws away wife's $400,000 wedding ring

Bernie Squitieri is thanking his lucky stars after a $400,000 goof.

The 51-year-old Missouri man felt the relief of his life on Monday when a heroic sanitation worker found the 12.5-carat wedding ring he’d accidentally thrown in the trash.

Yes. The trash.

SEE ALSO: Canadian grocery store is in hot water over pre-peeled avocados

Squitieri told ABC News that his wife, Carla, had left the ring, worth a whopping $400,000, on a paper towel on the kitchen counter.

When Squitieri heard the morning garbage truck arrive, he quickly snatched up the paper towel, threw it in the trash, then took the trash out to the truck just in time for pickup. …

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Husband accidentally throws away wife's $400,000 wedding ring

Deal: Moto G (Gen 3) going for $150 on Amazon, B&H

As part of their deals of the day program, Amazon is selling the Motorola Moto G (3rd Generation) for the all-time low of $149.00. You can have any color you want as long as it’s black, and this device is compatible with either AT&T or T-Mobile (although with T-Mobile it has limited 4G availability).

See also: Moto G review: a phone for every man and every woman49

Not to be outdone, B&H has dropped their price on this mid-range smartphone to match, but they’re also sweetening the deal quite a bit. If you spring for the Moto G with B&H, you’ll get a 32GB microSD card and a $20 gift card on the house. Not too shabby!

The Motorola Moto G is far from a flagship device, but for the price, you’re really getting a ton of bang for your buck. It runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and has a 5-inch LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720. It’s LTE ready, Bluetooth enabled, and it lugs around a 2470 mAh battery that can last all day long. Cameras are solid on front and back, and the OS out of the box is Android 5.1 Lollipop. This version only comes with 8GB of internal storage, which is part of what makes B&H’s deal so alluring, and it only has 1 gig of RAM. The 16GB version of the device sports twice as much RAM, but no promos are currently going on for this variant of the device.

All in all, it’s a midrange smartphone that definitely has the feel of a more upper-tier device. A solid purchase for someone just getting into the smartphone game or for someone looking for a secondary device. If you’re an owner of the Moto G (3rd Generation) let us know what your experience has been like so far. Would you recommend our readers jump on this deal? Tell us in the comments!

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Deal: Moto G (Gen 3) going for $150 on Amazon, B&H

307 million-year-old “monster” fossil identified at last

Reconstruction of the Tully Monster as it would have looked 300 million years ago, swimming in the Carboniferous seas. Notice the jointed proboscis, the multiple rows of teeth, and the dorsal eye bar. (credit: Sean McMahon/Yale University)

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The “Tully monster,” a mysterious animal who swam in the inland oceans of Illinois over 300 million years ago, left behind a tantalizingly detailed map of its body in a well-preserved package of fossils. Unfortunately, nobody could figure out what the creature was for half a century—until now.

Francis Tully found the remains of the tiny beast (it’s only about 10 centimeters long) in Illinois in 1958 and gave it the whimsical scientific name Tullimonstrum (nickname: Tully monster). A long stalk extends from the front of its body, which ends in a toothy orifice called a buccal apparatus. Its body is covered in gills and narrows down into a powerful tail that it probably used for propulsion. Its eyes peer out from either end of a long, rigid bar attached to the animal’s back.

The Tully monster lived during the Carboniferous period, when the north American great basin was an enormous inland sea. Trees were colonizing the land for the first time, transforming the soil and filling the atmosphere with higher levels of oxygen than Earth had known before or since. Giant arthropods like the 8 foot-long millipede known as Arthropleura crawled through the new forests. It was a good time to be a weird animal, and the Tully monster probably fit right in.

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307 million-year-old “monster” fossil identified at last