Wearables had a varied year in 2015, with a lot of hype and a few big winners streaking ahead of the field, leaving plenty of also-rans struggling to stand out. It’s fair to say that the entire category is yet to prove whether it offers lasting utility or mere faddish novelty… Read More
Cybercorns are companies that have surpassed the magical $1 billion valuation. Several of these extraordinary ventures are Okta, Sophos, Tanium, Palantir, FireEye, Splunk, Zscaler, Lookout, CloudFlare, Illumio and AVAST. But in a world where technology is changing rapidly, and in which attackers are agile and focused, which of these unicorns will survive? What is the half-life, perhaps measured… Read More
Take a mental stroll back to the year 2000, when reality shows like Survivor were still groundbreaking and Shia LaBeouf was just that goofy kid on the Disney Channel.
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Though the sun has since set on many of the best shows turning 16 in 2016, others inexplicably continue on. We’ve compiled a list of the best of both categories, from beloved shows gearing up for reboots to reality competition standbys.
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The entrance to the World Magic Cup, hosted at the Fira de Barcelona.
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BARCELONA—England hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to World Cups in the last few years. In the Football World Cup, England went out in the group stage, not winning a single game. In the 2015 Cricket World Cup, England won a couple of matches but failed to advance to the knockout stage. And of course, earlier this year, at the Rugby World Cup hosted in England, we didn’t even manage to get past the group stage. It’s all been a bit embarrassing, to be honest.
Which is why I was excited when Wizards of the Coast invited me to the World Magic Cup in Barcelona. All four of the home nations—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—had qualified for the last major Magic: The Gathering event of the year. Here was a World Cup that we actually had a chance of winning.
Or so I thought.
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Kanye West just dropped his outsized version of a brag-filled New Year’s Eve Facebook status — a new track called “Facts”
For the second year in a row, West chose New Year’s to release new music, but it’s unclear if the three-and-a-half minute track will appear on his forthcoming album Swish, expected sometime in 2016
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The new track opens with a sample of “Dirt and Grime” by Father’s Children before West lists off some of his biggest achievements of the past 12 months
“Yeezy, Yeezy, Yeezy, they line up for days… I ain’t dropped the album but the shoes went platinum,” he says taking multiple swipes at Nike while praising his own …
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In a bid to raise awareness about the importance of cow and horror of cow slaughter, an NGO in Kolkata has come up with a novel idea of organising a “selfie with a cow” contest in the city.
Have you ever wished that you could create new random wallpapers for your Android phone (or tablet) at any time? Well, you actually can do that, thanks to an app called Tapet – Infinite Wallpapers.
Tapet uses math to generate wallpapers that automatically fit your device’s screen resolution. All images are generated on your device, and most of them seem to draw inspiration from Google’s Material Design – which is a good thing if you’re fan of abstract wallpapers.
As an app, Tapet is very simple to use: swipe up to generate a new wallpaper, swipe down to generate the previous one, … – Source
According to a patent application released by the USPTO, Apple is working on giving its iMessage app the ability to make peer-to-peer payments. Transactions could also be made using voice calls, texts, chats, emails and more. The patent application shows an image of an iPhone being used for an iMessage chat when the subject of a repayment comes up. In the upper right corner of the screen is a “Make Payment” button that apparently shows up at the discretion of the party that is owed the money.
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The company joins Google, Facebook and others in disclosing when users of email and other services have probably been targeted by hackers working on behalf of governments.
We actually had some fun last week going over some of our best Android customization posts from the year, it reminded us some of the fun we’ve had. It’s almost the new year now, and forgive me for stretching here, but I am inspired to think of time. Before we really dive into root stuff, let’s do one more lazy Tasker project, a clock.
The idea is simple, we’re building a type of cuckoo clock, but silent. Every hour, on the hour, we’ll make your phone vibrate one tick for each hour of the current time. Simple enough, at 4pm, your device will vibrate four quick spurts (or 16 if you use the 24 hour clock like I do) and there is no need to pull your phone out to check the time.
Hey, it’s the end of the year, let’s have some fun. Truth is, I was planning to give you a big project here today, we were going to use Tasker to act as a musical instrument, to play Auld Lang Syne. Feel free to check out MIDI and all the magic and horror it can bring, or hold on, perhaps I’ll get this thing working at a later date.
Before we begin
Tasker – Google Play StoreYou’ve seen these words before, you’ll need a modern Android device, one with a vibration motor, and Tasker installed. Tasker is $2.99 in the Google Play Store.
Silent cuckoo clock
There are a few steps in this tutorial, but we’re going to work with a simple For Loop instead of properly creating an array variable. No time for that level of crazy brain usage this holiday season, let’s just make some noise.
No delay’s, let’s just get into this. Also, I’ll leave it to you to go back and check out previous tutorials to learn how exactly to do some of these things. I’ll leave links for you along the way.
Fire up Tasker, head into the Tasks tab and fire up a new Task, I’ll name mine “SilentClock”.
First up, a few variables.
How to: variables in Tasker
How to: variable Split in Tasker
Create a new Variable. Name: “%timetoalert“. To: “%TIME”
That gives you the current time in format 4.48, (or 16.48,) for example. So we will now split the variable to get just the hour.
Variable Split. Name: “%timetoalert“. Splitter: “.” and feel free to Delete Base, we won’t need it.
Now we will use a For Loop to handle the next part. As mentioned earlier, the proper thing to do would be to build an array with the vibration times saved in ms. We’re keeping it simple, we’ll just loop as many times as the hour count, that’ll be four times, for our example.
How to: For Loop with Tasker
Add a new For Loop, Tasks -> For. Then Variable: “%arrtime“. Items: “1:%timetoalert1“.
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Is George Lucas having regrets about selling his Force-filled empire to Disney? He says no, but the Star Wars creator seemed slightly bitter about his space opera in an interview with Charlie Rose at the Skywalker Ranch that aired over Christmas but is just starting to make its way around the Internet. In the interview, Lucas called the first six episodes his “children” and referred to his separation from the Star Wars franchise as a “breakup.”
He also didn’t seem entirely pleased with the new film, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which borrowed plot points—and brought back original characters—from his films.
“The first three movies had all kinds of issues,” he told Rose. “[Disney] looked at the stories, and they said, we want to make something for the fans. I said, all I wanted to do is tell a story of what happened, it started here and went here… it’s a family soap opera, ultimately. We call it a space opera, but people don’t realize it’s actually a soap opera, and it’s all about family problems. It’s not about spaceships.”
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A Huawei Watch owner has passed along his experience with a test build of Android Wear 1.4.0, running on Android 6.0.1. Posting on Reddit under the handle ThirdTime Caller, the owner of the watch said that he received an OTA update which took a long time to download and install. With this in mind, he believes that others owning the timepiece won’t receive the update until it is more stable. It appears that the particular Huawei Watch that received the update is enrolled in a special test group.
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