If you have a whole Netflix account all to yourself (or just share with one other person) you may have a few extra profiles to play around with. Instead of letting them just sit there, unused, you should use them to create queues for each of your unique moods, as we all contain multitudes.
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India’s Zauba website reveals imports and exports of note (no pun intended) heading into and out of the country. Just the other day, a listing appeared for the import of a metal mask to be used on the production line for the SM-N935G. Considering that the Samsung Galaxy Note 6 (or will it be the Galaxy Note 7?) is the SM-G930, the model number listed on Zauba certainly could be for a Galaxy Note 6 edge. Keep in mind that the model number for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is SM-N920, the Samsung Galaxy S7 is SM-G930, and the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is SM-G935.
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We’ve been getting reports that the OnePlus 3 will come in a 6 GB variant for a while now. But when the handset passed through both the TENAA and FCC recently, all we saw in the specs was 4 GB of RAM. However, the TENAA listing has now been updated to show that the phone has 4 GB and 6 GB RAM variants.
It’s unclear how else the “bigger” model would differ. One could speculate that it will have 64 GB of internal storage, while the 4 GB RAM variant would only have 32 GB. However, the older listing, where we only saw the smaller RAM chip, still showed 64 GB of on-board storage, so combinations … – Source
Remember Funker? The Spanish company that launched Win10-powered W5.5 Pro back in February this year. Well, the firm is reportedly all set to launch another Windows 10 phone – dubbed W6.0 Pro 2.
The W6.0 Pro 2 is powered by Snapdragon 617 chipset, and sports a 6-inch full HD display with Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It has 3GB RAM and 32GB internal memory, and packs in a large 3,900mAh battery. The camera department offers a 13MP/5MP combo.
Measuring 160 x 82.3 x 7.9mm and weighing in at 176g, the handset comes with Continuum as well as 4G LTE support. There’s currently no…
Joanne Reitano is a professor of history at LaGuar dia Community College in Long Island City, Queens. She writes wonderful books about the history of the city and state, and has recently been spending many hours -sometimes all day -at her computer. – Source
Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android applications, games, and live wallpapers that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous 2 weeks or so.
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Android Police coverage: Google Releases Google Play Developer Console App In The Play Store
An app specifically for app developers – that makes sense, right?
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21 New And Notable Android Apps From The Last 2 Weeks (5/17/16 – 5/30/16) was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
So let’s say you own a Samsung branded Android phone and you haven’t installed the latest security update. What would it take for you to update your handset? How about a coupon good for 20% off pizza and bread at your nearby Dominos? One Reddit user received a digital coupon for this discount on his Samsung Galaxy J7 in the My Galaxy app. All you have to do to get the coupon is install the latest software update for your phone.
According to the instructions that are being sent out to certain of the manufacturer’s Android powered handsets, the update can be installed inside a Samsung Experience … – Source
Although you can’t argue that YouTube’s Android app is bad or lacking essential functionality, there oddly still are quite a few glaring omissions in it when compared to the service’s website. Not huge things, mind you, rather small features here and there that have the potential of improving the experience for users.
Thankfully it looks like at least one of these will be rectified in the near future, which is great considering that over half of all YouTube views now come from mobile devices. The enterprising folks over at XDA went digging through the APK for the latest version of the app…
We’ve known for a while that the Great Barrier Reef …
Asking for a raise can be tricky. You have to approach the conversation in the right way, and as Lee E. Miller, co-author of …
This year has already spawned a number of smartphones from the biggest names in tech, including the HTC 10 and Samsung’s Galaxy S7 duo. There’s yet more to come, though, and Apple’s next-gen iPhone is chief among the to-be-announced handsets en route to market. Devices such as those aforementioned have set the bar high, and Cupertino will need to bring its ‘A’ game if it’s to impress the fickle tech consumer. According to a purported researcher’s note, the fruit company may take the welcome step of ditching a 16 GB version of the so-called iPhone 7 and instead opt for 32 GB as a … – Source
Here’s a side of GPU to go with that new Cortex-A73 processor. The Mali-G71 makes the transition to a new architecture, Bifrost (the T880 it replaces and all the way to T6xx used Midgard, used as early as 2012 for the Nexus 10).
The G71 focuses on two things – Vulkan and VR. Vulkan is the new graphics API, which aims to provide high performance on both desktops and mobiles.
For VR, the new GPU supports the multiview API, essentially a fast, standardized way to render the scene twice – once for each eye. Since the difference in what each eye sees is small, there’s plenty of room for…
In partnership with TechCrunch, The Europas Conference & Awards, which I founded, has come up with a new kind of tech conference. Think of it as a relaxed, summer prelude to the heat of a Disrupt, followed by an all-out celebration of startups. Admittedly, its how we like to do things in Europe… The Europas includes a public vote to determine the industries favorites. Thus, voting in… Read More
The company’s giant battery manufacturing facility outside Reno, Nevada will be celebrating a grand opening in just two months’ time. – Source
Many companies, Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm included, like to rely on their own custom ARM CPU architectures for their chips, but the CPUs and GPUs that ARM itself designs for other companies to use are still important. They let commodity chipmakers like MediaTek and Rockchip offer chips with good performance for less money, and they serve as a sort of pace car for the rest of the mobile industry.
Enter the new Cortex A73 CPU architecture and the Mali G71 GPU. These are new high-end designs that target 2017’s flagship phones and tablets, but they’ve also been designed with virtual reality and augmented reality in mind.
Cortex A73: A new “big” core
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ARM’s Cortex A73 CPU.
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Cortex A73 is being positioned as a replacement of sorts for Cortex A72, which in turn replaced Cortex A57. Like its two predecessors, it’s a high-end 64-bit CPU design, and it can be paired with with “little” Cortex A53 or A35 cores that handle light or idle tasks to reduce power consumption.
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While many of us may be innately proficient in apps like
But that is not all the latest updates to these applications bring to the table. Word is also gaining the ability to merge and split cells. Meanwhile, Excel gets improved auto-complete, as well as the ability to expand or collapse grouped rows and columns. PowerPoint seems to be the only one getting no features, aside from Tell Me.
Tell Me is a very welcomed addition considering the popularity of these apps, as well as the fact that they are popular for being more complex and full. Keeping track of all these features can be challenging even to experts. Would you agree it’s a refreshing addition? Hit the comments to tell us if this is something you were hoping for.
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An American startup is hoping to overhaul the stuffy insurance industry with a couple of swipes.
On Monday, Trov launched its latest product in Australia: On-demand insurance for single items through its mobile app. Founded in 2012, the company’s free iOS and Android app previously allowed people to create a digital inventory of their possessions, but it’s now adding an extra level of service. The insurance offering is currently iOS-only.
SEE ALSO: Twitter is now a ‘news’ app in the Apple store
To insure an item, users simply load the details into the app, select it and swipe right to turn on protection. A toggle allows them to change the time period it is insured for and how much excess they’re willing to accept. …
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In some point in nearly every young millennial’s life, they will be ghosted. And not by sad dead bodies from the graveyard, but by idiot living ones from the Internet.
It can be heart-wrenching to realize that you — hilarious, successful you – can be ghosted by someone who lists the The Big Bang Theory as one of their favorite shows. You’re the one who reads books, packs their lunch for work. Nevertheless, here you are, abandoned — and there they are, texting someone hotter
SEE ALSO: The 23 things you think of the day before your period
Fear not, sweet Mashable reader, you’re not alone. Ghosting is a normal rite of passage, as is grieving. Once you’ve passed through all the stages of grief, you’ll be liberated from this pain — and on your happy way to being ghosted, again. …
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Earlier this month, it appeared that the HTC smartwatch would finally be unveiled after a few false starts. None other than Evan Blass (known in the past by his @evleaks Twitter handle) said that the timepiece would be unveiled during the week of June 6th. But once again, HTC has decided to delay the introduction of its wearable, according to a tweet from Blass. Now, it isn’t expected to see the light of day until the fall.
This has been the third or fourth time (we lost count, honestly) that HTC has reportedly been ready to introduce its smartwatch, only to have the unveiling delayed. In … – Source
It may slip our notice, but technological innovation is often reducible to an innovation in the marketing and conceptualization of technology. While there are undoubtedly many technological breakthroughs that can’t be reduced to linguistic and conceptual changes, it’s surprising how often apparent innovations depend on shifts in terminology and discourse. Read More
Enlarge / An artist’s rendering of SoundCloud and Landr’s new, free “auto-mastering” computer system at work. (credit: Sam Machkovech / Jason Scragz)
First, the robots came for our factory jobs, then for our fast-food jobs. Now, they’re aiming their laser-guided sights at… music-recording engineers?
On Thursday, the audio-processing company Landr (founded in 2014) announced its partnership with the hugely popular self-publishing music platform SoundCloud. SoundCloud users can now have their original tunes processed and “optimized” for free by Landr.
This news promises a different kind of audio-related snake oil than we’re used to at Ars. We’ve seen plenty of products advertising instant audio benefits, from cords to pre-amps to DACs, which largely target music consumers. Landr flips its sales pitch by targeting music creators.
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Remember the Samsung SM-A910F that was spotted on Zauba earlier this month? The device is alleged to be the international variant of the Galaxy A9 Pro (SM-A9100) that was launched in March. The latest news is that the phone has received Wi-Fi certification from the WiFi Alliance (WFA).
Not only the standard model, but a dual-SIM model of the device is also now Wi-Fi certified, effectively suggesting that their launch isn’t far off.
There’s currently no information on the pricing as well as exactly which regions will get the Galaxy A9 Pro, although Europe seems to be on list…
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A new crop of startups in the US is trying to make fuel sta tions obsolete. Tap an app, and they’ll bring the fuel to you, filling up your car while you’re at work, eating breakfast, or watching Netflix. Filld, WeFuel, Yoshi, Purple and Booster Fuels have started operating in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Nashville and Atlanta. But officials say driving around in a pickup truck with hundreds of gallons of gasoline might not be safe. – Source
Three women enjoying a quiet dinner in Santa Monica Thursday night went from their cheese platter to heroically thwarting an alleged date rape attempt.
One of the women, Sonia Ulrich, shared the incredible story on Facebook in a post that has since gone viral.
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Ulrich describes how she, along with friends Monica Kenyon and Marla Saltzer, were dining at the restaurant Fig at the Fairmont when Kenyon spotted a man at a nearby table putting something in his date’s drink without her knowing.
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Remarks made by the head of Australia’s peak science body in a secret recording will do little to assuage fears the country will lose much of its climate science capacity amid severe budget cuts.
The Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) was thrown into turmoil in February after reports that hundreds of climate scientists would be made redundant. The change is being led by the organisation’s new CEO, Larry R. Marshall, who has made little secret of his desire to concentrate on science that can be commercialised.
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During last week’s Display Week festivities in San Francisco, Samsung showed off its next generation smartphone display. The 5.5-inch screen is “VR ready” and features a resolution of 2160 x 3840. That works out to a pixel density of 806ppi, which is 44.7% higher than the pixel density found on today’s displays. Those who had a look at the screen commented on how bright and clear it looked, but noted that it ran at a slow frame rate indicating that more work needs to be done before the screen is released.
Don’t expect to see the display employed on the Samsung Galaxy Note 6 (or Galaxy … – Source
It’s an age-old debate: is the hot dog — a meat tube resting in a partially-sealed bread pocket — a sandwich?
Would-be sandwich arbiter Merriam-Webster thinks so. And the Internet is not pleased.
SEE ALSO: We taste tested convenience store food so you don’t have to
It all started with this haughty tweet, which purported to celebrate all the sandwiches we’ll eat over Memorial Day weekend.
But Twitter saw Merriam-Webster’s hidden agenda: to settle a debate that just isn’t ready to be settled.
Others brought other carb + meat combinations into the mix. What about a taco? A gyro? A quesadilla? …
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Health has become an important staple in Samsung‘s smartphone business model. They are one of the very few to use heart-rate sensors in their smartphones, as well as supporting Bluetooth blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitors, scales and more. It all gets recorded through the S Health app, which continues to get better and is getting a significant update today.
Likely the coolest improvement is that S Health is getting a little more competitive (though some of you may actually not like that idea). Users can now compare their step counts with friends, as well as put this data up against their own age groups. You can even challenge friends to reach certain activity levels. To make step counts more accurate, the app can now combine steps measured by multiple S Health-compatible devices and applications.
See also: 10 best health apps for Android8
Also improved is the ability to measure your heart rate. In essence, it is made easier with a feature you can turn on from the app. After it has been activated, one can go ahead and place a finger on the heart rate sensor, turn the device around and let the phone work its magic.
Users can now also export heart rate, blood pressure and glucose data as HTML, XLS and PDF files. In addition, it’s possible to sync data with the CareSens N Bluetooth glucose meter. And of course, there’s your usual bug fixes and performance improvements.
Go get your update from the Google Play Store now. And don’t forget to hit the comments to let us know how these new features are treating you! Will you be competing with your buds?
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In the world of mobile projectors, it seems every manufacturer is focusing on making their units more portable. This is great for those who really prioritize mobility, but size cut-downs do come linked with sacrifices. I have yet to see a mobile projector with good sound, for example; and lackluster battery life is another factor to consider.
Enter the Dashbon Flicks, a projector that might finally meet a hardcore road warrior’s standards. It is pretty large at 5.31 x 11.77 x 6.52 inches, so you can’t exactly throw this in a purse, but a backpack will probably work.
There’s a built in RGB LED-lit widescreen projection display in there, featuring Texas Instruments DLP technology. It has a 1280×800 resolution and 10000:1 contrast ratio. And a 100-inch projection can be achieved at only 8.4 feet.
See also: Best portable projectors5
Dashbon also managed to throw in two large, full-range speakers, as we as a subwoofer, making for what could be the best-sounding mobile projector in the market. Of course, this also means the unit can be a great standalone wireless speaker. It does feature Bluetooth 4.0 technology and can wirelessly connect to any compatible handset up to 33 feet away.
As for other ports, this speaker has anything any projector could need. You can take advantage of HDMI, microUSB, USB, a 3.5 mm audio jack and a power port. Oh, and that full-sized USB port is for charging other devices, like smartphones and tablets. It pretty much doubles as a massive portable battery.
Now, let’s talk about the most important factors: battery life and pricing. This may be one of the best mobile projectors around, but it’s also certainly not the cheapest. There are two models, one has a 140 Wh battery and costs $599, while the beefier 280 Wh unit goes for $699.
The smaller battery model offers 4 hours of projection or 28 hours of Bluetooth playback. Meanwhile, the 280 Wh iteration will keep you entertained for days with 8 hours of video or a whopping 56 hours of Bluetooth sound.
It is looking like a very tempting option, right? Are any of you signing up?
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Silicon Valley has traditionally been the startup Garden of Eden, but it’s no longer the only game in town. Utah — specifically Salt Lake City and its ecosystem — has become a formidable breeding ground for startups, even developing its own unicorn herd. Read More
The Apple iPhone 4s introduced us to Apple’s virtual voice-activated personal assistant Siri. And while Siri has certainly added a number of new capabilities since then, she (or he, depending on preference) is still virtual. However, in the world of comics, Siri can break away from her prison inside a device, and handle requests that she can’t do in real life.
A comic strip found on the Go Comic app called Thatababy shows how Siri could be used if only she were a physical entity instead of just a voice. The argument could be made that under those circumstances, Siri would be just like … – Source
Director Joe Dante made some of the most best-loved movies of the ’80s, including Gremlins and Explorers, so I was eager to ask him about how movies have evolved. This weekend, Dante will receive the very first Sierra Spirit Award at the Mammoth Lakes Film Festival. Shira Dubrovner, the festival’s executive director, said Dante was chosen for his persistently independent… Read More
“He won’t stop raping me. He told me not to tell anyone.”
In August 2011, teen-focused social change organization DoSomething.org received this startling text message. It wasn’t rare for the nonprofit to receive replies unrelated to the social causes it highlighted through its mobile platform — teens often looked to talk about issues such as bullying, questioning sexuality and substance abuse. But this text’s raw honesty was particularly jarring.
SEE ALSO: 4 myths that will change how you define bullying
After one of DoSomething’s digital engagement managers hesitated to answer, another message came through from the same number about an hour later: “R U there?” …
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For the first time, scientists have directly detected a crucial amino acid and a rich selection of organic molecules in the dusty atmosphere of a comet, further bolstering the hypothesis that these icy objects delivered some of life’s ingredients to Earth.
The amino acid glycine, along with some of its precursor organic molecules and the essential element phosphorus, were spotted in the cloud of gas and dust surrounding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by the Rosetta spacecraft, which has been orbiting the comet since 2014. While glycine had previously been …
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Has Google’s new Daydream VR platform caught your fancy? Are you waiting to try it on the smartphone you own? Well, sadly, you are out of luck as Google has said that existing smartphones will “most likely” not work with the Android-powered VR platform.
“I can tell you that there will most likely not be any retroactively Daydream-ready phones,” said the Mountain View, Califronia-based company’s VR division head Clay Bavor.
“We want to hold a very high quality bar, and for that to happen all of the components need to be just right. So, to VR fans, I would say, hold off for a few…
A report published today says that fitness tracker manufacturer Jawborne has stopped production of its UP2, UP3, and UP4 models. The company is supposedly selling the inventory to a third-party company that will resell the devices. The reseller agreed to the transaction, but only by paying an unknown discount. This way Jawbone gets some badly needed cash, and the third party reseller has the opportunity to turn a profit even if it sells the inventory at rock bottom prices.
Jawbone is also said to have stopped production of its Bluetooth speakers and is currently looking around for someone … – Source
Skrillex says he didn’t steal “Sorry” from anyone.
After singer-songwriter Casey Dienel — who performs under the name White Hinterland — filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against him, Justin Bieber and others behind the 2015 hit, the producer hit back Friday on Twitter, suggesting that her allegations the song samples her track “Ring the Bell” are false.
“SORRY but we didnt steal this,” he wrote. He shared a video detailing how he and songwriters came up with vocal riff — the one Dienel claims they ripped off of her 2014 track. He plays the raw vocals from the songwriting sessions and shows how they manipulated the vocals to create the riff themselves. …
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The official Google Photos Android app is about to receive an important update – from version 1.20 (this is the current one that’s available on Google Play) to version 1.21.
One of the novelties that Google is including in the updated application is free, unlimited cloud storage for photos and videos at original resolution – but only for owners of Nexus devices. At the moment, free unlimited storage supports images up to 16 MP and videos up to 1080p, so, for example, you can’t upload 4K videos and get unlimited storage space. But this will change with Google Photos version 1.21 – great … – Source
A report from Tech Insider says that Jawbone has already stopped producing its UP line of fitness bands and has already sold them to a third-party reseller. The same report says Jawbone has been struggling to sell its UP bands and needed to resell the inventory in order to stay afloat.
It has already been more than a year since Jawbone’s newest UP4 band was released and so far there hasn’t been any word of a successor to the UP4. Besides, we don’t know if Jawbone will keep making such fitness bands anymore.
To add insult to injury, the same report also states that Jawbone is…
Yikes. The National Toxicology Program just released the results from their multi-year, peer-reviewed study investigating a causal link between cellphones and cancer. The $25 million study is the largest experiment to date looking into this link, and what they found is more than a little disconcerting. Is there a link between , but none of these experiments have had anywhere close to the scale or thoroughness of this most recent one.
What are your thoughts regarding this definite link between cellphone radiation and cancer in male rats? Will this affect your smartphone usage? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
We guess many users have always looked forward to the Meizu Note lineup. The m1 note (also known as Blue Charm Note in China) started it all – it boasted a big screen and an overall great package for the price. The m2 note simply widened the LTE network coverage and enabled memory expansion. The latest Meizu m3 note builds upon that with a faster processor, a bigger battery and a more premium, all-metal design.
You can’t blame Neil Young for distancing himself from Donald Trump. The singer, who backed Bernie Sanders using “Keep On Rockin’ in the Free World” on the campaign trail, told Stephen Colbert that he disliked Trump “because of the misogyny and the racism.”
SEE ALSO: Bernie Sanders uses candy to teach Stephen Colbert never to give up
It turns out Young is extremely specific about who can use his 1989 anthem, because he denied Colbert the opportunity to use it in cat food commercials, dog food commercials and his own late-night talk show.
Sorry, Stephen. Keep on rockin’… um, in general.
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Creema is latest handmade marketplace in Asia to raise new funding. The Japanese startup announced this week (link via Google Translate) that it has received 1.1 billion yen (about $10 million) from Globis Capital Partners and returning investor KDDI Open Innovation Fund (the venture fund run by Japanese telecom KDDI). Read More
With snaking lines already forming for Saturday’s launch of Adidas’ much-awaited release of its new white NMD runners, Thai sneakerheads have one more hurdle to jump through — they have to show up in head-to-toe Adidas to buy a pair.
Adidas Thailand announced on Facebook that people keen on owning the sneakers must wear “at least three pieces” from the Adidas Originals clothing line, which includes dresses, tops, pants and shoes. Adidas sandals, however, don’t count, it said.
SEE ALSO: Adidas takes on Nike by buying a fitness app, Runtastic
The company’s policy, which isn’t being adopted by neighbouring Asian cities, has drawn criticism from commenters online. …
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Facebook and Microsoft on Thursday announced that they are teaming up to build a subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean.
In a blog post, Microsoft says that the goal of the cable is to “help meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services” for Microsoft, Facebook and others.
Construction on the new “MAREA” cable will start in August and is expected to be completed in October 2017. The cable system will be 6,600 km (4,100 miles) in length. Microsoft and Facebook say this is “the highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic.”
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Imgur has long served as the de facto image hosting platform for users on Reddit’s forums, but the popular website is looking to keep it in-house. – Source
Last summer, legendary baseball broadcaster Vin Scully announced that the 2016 season would be his final in the booth.
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Scully has been with the Los Angeles Dodgers for all 67 years of his career and has become a household name, becoming one of the most recognizable voices in all of sports, his dulcet tones covering the play on the field while effortlessly weaving in anything from stories about Jackie Robinson to Socrates.
So it’s fitting that, during his retirement victory lap, the iconic Scully be enlisted by Major League Baseball to read an equally iconic passage from the sport’s history: the “people will come” speech from Field of Dreams. …
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Earlier this month, a frightening report
warned of an antibiotic-resistant superbug which might kill as many as 10 million people worldwide by 2050. Now it looks like the first case of that superbug has been documented in the US.
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Huawei is so confident that its Honor sub-brand creates great phones that people don’t want to part with that it’s temporarily changing its returns policy on its European online store.
The store is available in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Switzerland – so if you’re in any of these countries you can buy an Honor direct from Huawei.
And if you choose the Honor 7 or Honor 5X by June 8, you’ll get a 60-day return window – but only in the UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. That’s much more than the usual 14-day period for…
Hey, dog, the game is over there!
Seattle Mariners fans have the pleasure of participating in Bark in the Park — a night where dog owners, who happen to love baseball, get to bring their precious pets to the game.
SEE ALSO: Majestic dog rides lawnmower like a king
However, it looks like some dogs, like this one, are more interested in snacks than watching a good game.
You’d think they’d at least be excited about the chance of catching a foul ball. But fries are also good.
Other dogs at the game also seemed distracted.
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BONUS: Toast the dog is your new favorite runway model
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SpaceX has been having an incredible run of rocket launches lately—the most notable part is that it’s been successfully landing its rockets on a barge in the ocean. Not easy. Today, it will attempt one of its most complicated landings yet. Let’s watch and see what happens at 5:40pm ET tonight.
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VR needs content if it’s to be more than a flash in the early adopter pan. But it’s pretty clear that in the short term at least it’s not going to have a whole lot of compelling content. And understandably so. It’s a new medium, after all, and figuring out how to create exciting ‘experiences’, as the VR pushers put it, is going to take time… Read More
The Samsung Galaxy C5 just burst on the scene and online stores in China are already accepting pre-orders (the actual sales are scheduled to start on June 6).
The Galaxy C5 is a slender metal mid-ranger, it’s just 6.7mm thick. It also has a 5.2″ Super AMOLED screen (1080p resolution) and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The Home button below the screen is a fingerprint reader.
Samsung Galaxy C5 in gold and rose gold
You get a better camera than the A5 (2016), a 16MP f/1.9 shooter on the back and an 8MP f/1.9 camera on the front. The chipset is fairly similar – Snapdragon 617…
As scheduled, HTC has officially announced its newest flagship smartphone, the 10, in India. The device carries a price tag of INR 52,990, which translates into around $790.
While HTC has already cleared the air on this, it’s still worth mentioning that the it’s the same global variant – which is powered by Snapdragon 820 and has 4GB of RAM – that has been launched in India.
For the uninitiated, after the device was officially unveiled by HTC early last month, there were reports that some regions – including India – will get a downgraded variant (dubbed HTC 10 Lifestyle)…
It’s the season of developer summits! Just last week, Google hosted its I/O 2016 conference, where an abundance of new services, products, and features were announced. Some of these actually appealed to us very much!
Well, it’s now Apple’s turn to show us what it’s been brewing on the software front… and possibly on the hardware one as well! After all, its WWDC16 (Worldwide Developers Conference) is about to hit us in a couple of … – Source
Earlier today, we speculated that billionaire Peter Thiel may have secretly financed a lawsuit to put Gawker Media out of business owing to a series of antagonistic stories about him written by Gawker’s now defunct Valleywag site nearly a decade ago. Thiel has since talked with New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin and confirmed that not only has he provided Hulk Hogan (legally… Read More
Fitness trackers are all the rage these days, but unless a tracker is making medical claims they aren’t put to the rigorous testing to make sure the sensors are accurate. And, that is the center of the troubles for Fitbit right now. Fitbit is in the middle of a class action lawsuit where the plaintiffs are claiming that Fitbit’s heart rate measurements are inaccurate. In order to test those claims, Dr. Edward Jo, assistant professor of Applied Physiology at California State Polytechnic University, and his colleague Dr Brett Dolezal were asked by the court to perform independent testing … – Source
Exactly 39 years ago Wednesday, a movie called Star Wars opened in a mere 32 theaters across the U.S. It soon became kind of a big deal. But who has the time to rewatch it? Even one of its stars, Mark Hamill, admits he hasn’t seen the two-hour original movie in nearly 20 years.
Lucky for those of us who need a refresher — or haven’t seen it at all — graphic artist and illustrator Martin Panchaud has created an epic infographic that tells the entire story of the original movie, later renamed Episode IV: A New Hope.
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The graphic includes every line of dialogue, every position every character is standing in, detailed schematics of the franchise’s iconic ships, and about 4,845 inches of scrollable information. It’s essentially one really, really long page. And as of Wednesday, it had been shared on social media nearly 40,000 times. …
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Soon to be unveiled in China is the first truly bendable phone made by a company whose name is written as Moxi. In Chinese, this is pronounced “mou-she.” In the language, it is short for the secret behind the phone’s flexability. That is the material graphene, which we told you last month “is the thinnest, lightest, strongest, most transparent, and most heat and electricity-conductive material known to scientists.” Thanks to graphene, the phone built by Moxi can be worn like a watch or a bracelet, and then stretched out to be shaped like a regular smartphone.
There is a caveat. The Moxi … – Source
There’s a newer, better Xbox One coming in 2017 that will make your games look sharper and run faster. Maybe.
Let’s rewind.
The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One both launched in 2013. We recently heard rumors about Sony planning a beefy upgrade to the PS4 hardware — the sort that would change the way your games perform — and now a new rumor suggests that Microsoft is on the same road.
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Sony’s rumored “Neo” project — which has been bestowed with the nicknames “PS4.5” and “PS4K” — is effectively a souped-up PS4. That means an improved CPU and GPU, and increased memory bandwidth. …
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ShoCard and SITA, the IT company for the air transport industry, have been working together on an interesting project. They’ve been looking at ways to store your ID details on the blockchain to manage traveler identification. More generally, ShoCard has been working on a seamless service that lets you store your identity onto the bitcoin blockchain. This way, anyone can retrieve and… Read More
After a few delays, it seems Nextbit finally came through and made good on its promise to release the Robin smartphone in India. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the cloud-focused device is now out for the general public – sales are expected to kick off exclusively on Flipkart on May 30 for INR 19,999 or about $297. This includes both the Mint and Grey color options. It is worth noting that the handset has already been available on Amazon for a few weeks with international shipping, so you can check that out if you live outside India.
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Advertising has always been a big deal, but with respect to Google, it’s literally a majority of income. According to Investopedia’s Eric Rosenburg, “The bulk of Google’s $66 billion revenue in 2014 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google AdWords. Of that revenue, 68 percent – or just over $45 billion – came from Google’s own websites.” Forbes, too, has pointed out how positively profitable advertising is to Mountain View. To this end, it should not be surprising that earlier today, Android’s maker published a post about some new changes being made to help the AdWords business model.
Of particular relevance to end-users however, is one of the changes that will appear in Google Maps. Starting now, some local businesses will have their own pins – complete with the company’s logo – that allow for easy and immediate visibility while looking for locations. Here is an example, for Walgreens:
As explained by Google:
We’re also investing in more branded, customized experiences for businesses on Google Maps — geared towards helping you increase store visits. First, we’re experimenting with a variety of ad formats on Maps that make it easier for users to find businesses as they navigate the world around them. For example, Maps users may start to see promoted pins for nearby coffee shops, gas stations or lunch spots along their driving route. Local business pages are also getting a brand new look — to encourage consumers to explore your store before they even arrive, we’re adding new features like special offers and the ability to browse product inventory.
The idea of on-going promotions offered by the retailer, as well as the ability to search and view the very items it’s selling are seemingly a great way for both the business itself to make things more visible, as well as for potential customers to save time – and potentially money – in the process. Here’s an example, for the aforementioned Walgreens location:
What do you think? Is this a major improvement to the Google Maps framework, or does the prospect of seeing more corporate advertising on your phone irritate you? Leave a comment down below and share your thoughts!
Today via their blog, Lyft announced its plans to add scheduled rides as a new option to its service. This gives Lyft a solid advantage over their main competition, Uber, which does not yet allow users to schedule rides in advance.
While on-demand rides are still the primary function of Lyft, they noted that this new development is in response to user feedback, and it is always nice to see a company taking such feedback seriously. In addition to giving users peace of mind that they will have a ride whenever they need it, this new feature also gives Lyft’s drivers a bit more of a steady, pre-scheduled way to make a little extra money.
The way it works is quite simple: when scheduling a ride, just tap the clock icon next to your pickup location and that will allow you to schedule a ride up to 24 hours in advance. This restriction is to prevent all the rides from being taken weeks in advance, which would defeat the purpose and spirit of Lyft. And you need not worry about missing your ride, because Lyft will send you a notification when your ride is en route.
Lyft’s scheduled rides will begin testing in San Francisco, and will roll out to other locations later in the summer. To Lyft users out there, is this something you are excited for? And to other on-demand ride users, is this enough to make you want to use Lyft or a competitor like Uber? Let us know in the comments.
We love minimal workspaces, but there’s something about these home office setups that look and feel more like a study than anything else that’s also really attractive. Redditor …
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When Charter purchased Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, federal regulators forced the company to agree to some conditions designed to boost competition in the Internet service market. Charter, now the nation’s second largest cable company behind Comcast because of the merger, is required to bring broadband of at least 60Mbps to at least 1 million homes and businesses where there’s already a provider offering at least 25Mbps.
This is known as “overbuilding,” something that happens infrequently enough that many Americans have only one choice for high-speed Internet. But when Charter fulfills the overbuilding requirement imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, it’ll apparently do so without actually competing against other cable companies. Instead, Charter will enter the territory of phone companies like AT&T or Frontier, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge said.
Why is that? Because Charter might want to buy more cable companies later. And the FCC is less likely to approve a merger between two companies competing against each other.
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Project Ara finally looks like it will be released to the public, but the modular phone from Google is not quite the same as what we originally thought. The most hardcore users may be disappointed by that, but Google is detailing the project to clarify what to expect and what not to expect from the first generation of modular phones.
Google answered questions from The Verge and some of the info was a bit disappointing, like the fact that not everything would be modular on an Ara device. Google confirmed that the display, processor and RAM would not be swappable, which puts … – Source
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Google’s Paris offices have been raided by hundreds of French investigators—the search giant is suspected of avoiding tax in the country to the tune of €1.6 billion (~$1.78 billion, £1.22 billion).
The French financial prosecutor’s office (Le parquet national financier, PNF) which carried out the raid in the early hours of Tuesday morning, confirmed that the searches were the result of a preliminary investigation opened in June last year into possible “aggravated tax fraud and organised money laundering.”
Google’s European headquarters are based in Ireland, which boasts a tiny 12.5 percent corporation tax—the lowest in the European Union.
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This little Bluetooth speaker floats—literally floats—and spins above your desk like a tiny Death Star, and…
Woomoo, the startup behind app prototyping tool POP, has been acqui-hired by Priceline. All six of the company’s employees have relocated from Taipei, where Woomoo was based, to Bangkok to work on app development for Agoda, the hotel booking website owned by Priceline. The deal’s terms were undisclosed. Read More
LeEco (formerly LeTV) has started sending out media invites for a product launch event set for June 8 in India. While the invite doesn’t say anything about the product(s) that’ll be launched, it’d be reasonable to expect that the Le 2 along with its Pro variant as well as the Le Max 2 are coming.
The phones were unveiled in China last month, and went on sale a week later. A total of one million units were up for grabs, and reportedly, the complete inventory was sold in just two hours.
The Le Max 2 is the leader of the pack. It is powered by Snapdragon 820 chipset, and sports a…
Streaming music platform Spotify sees revenue top 1.95bn euros ($2.2bn;£1.5bn) over the past year, but has yet to make a profit. – Source
Charity or opportunism? It’s so hard to tell, sometimes. In RideAustin’s case, it looks to be a bit of both. It’s a non-profit car-for-hire service that’s happy to abide by the city’s rules — and adds a layer of budget- and conscience-friendly features that may help it stay differentiated (and alive). Read More
Snapchat may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Snapchat is raising yet more financing at around a $20 billion valuation. Sources with knowledge of the deal say the social media giant is in the… Read More
Everyone loves a good love triangle, or even a love polygon. But at the end of the day, there can only be one winner.
That also goes for best YA series.
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We here at MashReads are known lovers of YA, reading the full YA spectrum, from Twilight to Rainbow Rowell and “everything everything” in between. And we’re not alone. Everybody has their favorite YA book that they’d drop everything for. That’s why we we decided to bring this question to the people: What is the greatest YA series of all time?
Inspired by the success of our ‘This Be Madness’ …
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Being a famous man — or a man at all — already gets you plenty in this world. Touching a woman without her permission is not one of those things.
The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams got real about the entitlement to women’s bodies people feel during a Vulture Festival panel discussing her podcast, 2 Dope Queens. Just the night before at the Peabody Awards, a famous actor decided it was within his right to put his hands on her.
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“All of the sudden, this guy, this popular actor comes up behind me and just grabs me and just pulls me in towards him,” she recalls. “I was literally talking to somebody, and was like, ‘What? What is happening? ‘And he was like, ‘Yeah, girl. You fine.'” …
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Penny, a personal finance bot we reviewed last fall, has raised $1.2M in seed funding from Social Capital. As a refresher, the app offers a chat-based interface that offers advice tailored to your personal finances. This advice includes things like how much you spend on food each week, how this month’s spending compares to last month’s, and even income graphs. One unique thing… Read More
Solar flares three times more powerful than what we’ve seen in modern times may have produced the chemistry needed for life to develop by pummeling the Earth with charged particles 4 billion years ago, a new study suggests.
By studying sunlike stars far from our own, scientists have learned more about the sun than they would have if they just looked at our nearest star
SEE ALSO: NASA captures magnificent 4K video of a flare erupting from the sun
Using data collected by the …
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Slither.io is an addictive little thing: you start playing for a few quick spins, and it quickly grows into a few hours of non-stop gameplay.
Once you get the basic rules of how to win at Slither.io, it’s relatively easy to get your snake/worm (let’s just call it a sworm) to 5,000 to 10,000 point length. The real challenge starts after that.
But if you are playing on your browser, be it on a tablet or a desktop, you might find it hard to do something that you can do right from the get-go in the iPhone and Android app: … – Source
London-based hairdresser booking app Rock Pamper Scissors has picked up £1.2 million in backing from U.S.-based 500 Startups and European pre-seed and seed investor Seedcamp, alongside various angel investors. The latter includes Tom Singh (the founder of New Look, and Just Eat’s former CMO Mat Braddy who is also a co-founder of Rock Pamper Scissors. Read More
While the new version of the Asus Zenfone Max features the same design as its previous version, it houses some bumped up specifications when it comes to the processor, RAM, and inbuilt storage. – Source
In recent years, worldwide tablet shipments have declined, one of the causes for this being the fact that many smartphones now offer giant screens of around 6 inches, or even more – so customers can buy a single device that kind of acts like a phone and a tablet at the same time. Nevertheless, there’s still a pretty healthy demand for traditional tablets, especially since plenty of slates are now very affordable.
In case you’re looking for the best affordable tablets that can be bought right now in the US, we’ve prepared a list that you’ll hopefully find useful.Check it out below … – Source
Dean Kamen, the man who gave us the Segway, has teamed up with Toyota to bring back another one of his most fascinating transportation devices: the iBot
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The iBot debuted back …
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Just in case you needed one last little fix before the official release date, Blizzard has dropped a fourth animated short starring Soldier 76. – Source
It’s official: Pink carpets have more fun.
The Billboard Music Awards rocked a bubblegum-hued runway Sunday night, welcoming celebrities to the award show that is like the Grammys with none of the prestige and the VMAs with more of the young people.
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But, it’s still a good time — we’d assume based on the glittery and barely-there outfits that walked the pink carpet in Las Vegas.
See all the looks here, and use them for your Monday outfit inspo.
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Filmmakers have come under fire before
for inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs and for using outdated science. A University of Toronto Mississauga paleontologist has another possible discrepancy to add to that list: some dinosaurs may have had lips.
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More employers are beginning to offer flexible work options to let employees work at a time that fits them best, rather than a strict 9-5 job. This is nice, but it can turn your schedule into chaos. Before that happens, build your schedule around your delivery dates.
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Garmin makes over 25 different fitness wearables that range from $99 to as high as $699. You can say this for Garmin—confusing as that lineup can be, the company has made a device for everyone.
The goal of its newly released $250 Vivoactive HR is to compete directly with the king of fitness trackers: Fitbit. With the same price and a nearly identical design, the Vivoactive HR and Fitbit’s Surge go head-to-head in nearly every respect. By combining smartphone notifications with numerous fitness and sport tracking features, Garmin’s new device is also stiff competition for other trackers like the Microsoft Band. The Vivoactive is neither the most expensive nor the cheapest product in Garmin’s line, but for hardcore fitness enthusiasts, it could be the one that provides the best value for your money.
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Microsoft has tweaked the specs requirements for Windows 10 Mobile, raising the maximum screen size it allows manufacturers to include on a device powered by the mobile OS. With the change, a Windows 10 Mobile phone or tablet can come with a screen as large as 9-inches. The previous limit was 8-inches.
If you’re an avid photographer (and Windows 10 Mobile fan), you’ll be happy to learn that Microsoft is requiring that manufacturers include auto-flash on Windows 10 Mobile devices. That might be considered an upgrade of sorts since the most popular Windows Phone handset of all time, the … – Source
A London-based study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology has found that taking anti-depressants during pregnancy affects the birth weight and also shortens the gestational period of the child. Mothers consume SSRIs because of anxiety also, the study found. – Source
Apple’s reluctance to manufacture iPhones in India is a good thing — provided the world’s most valuable company and one of the world’s largest supplier of software talent can work out a different arrangement. – Source
The gesture-tracking technology used by Tom Cruise’s pre-crime fighting police officer in Minority Report, the sci-fi movie set in 2054, has arrived a few years early. – Source
Did you know that there is a hidden message box on Instagram? You might find solicitations, or other messages that don’t matter to you. On the other hand, there could be some important missives that somehow ended up in the wrong place. To get to the box, follow these simple steps. First, you open the app. Got it? Let’s move on.
In the upper right corner there is an icon that looks like a physical in-box, similar to what you might find in an office. Tap on it. This is called Instagram Direct. If you have a hidden message, you will see a blue notification that says how many message requests … – Source
