We saw the first teaser for Oliver Stone’s upcoming true-to-life spy thriller Snowden almost a year ago
. But the first official trailer gives us a more complete look at what Oliver North has done to the true story of this decade’s most infamous whistleblower.
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Twitter has a bit of a love/hate relationship with mobile platforms and Android in particular. On the one hand, it’s so aggressively possessive and wants an exclusive relationship devoid of any third-parties, on the other it updates its apps at a nice pace and adds new features to them. Oh well, it did let Android users hang behind iOS more than once, but we’re not holding grudges.
After adding a share button to send tweets as Direct Messages, Twitter is working on another feature to make DMs easier to use in its app: Direct Share support on Marshmallow.
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Twitter Supports Direct Share On Marshmallow: Send DMs To Your Last Contacts With One Tap was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
While SpaceX’s own rockets get bigger, two of the company’s founders are betting big on smaller launches. – Source
Google has pushed out a new update to its YouTube mobile apps that throws a new coat of paint on Home as well as brings along a new recommendation system. The update is available for both Android and iPhone.
“Starting today, when you open the YouTube app on your iPhone or Android phone, you’ll experience a redesigned Home, with a clean and simple format that invites you to discover and enjoy,” the Mountain View, California-based company said in a blog post.
As for the new recommendation system, it’s based on deep neural network technology, and aimed at showing more relevant…
Twitter’s latest earnings results have disappointed investors, coming in below expectations as the firm struggles with weak growth in users and advertising. – Source
Wood glue is designed to hold strong and create long-lasting wood joints, but it takes awhile to dry. Hot glue, on the other hand, hardens almost instantly. The combination of the two makes for a perfect method of building sturdy wood joints.
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Twitter reported its Q1 earnings today, and they’re not great. On the back of 310 monthly active users, the company reported revenues of $595 million, with Q1 GAAP diluted earnings per share of ($0.12) and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.15. This is a big miss on revenues but a beat on EPS. Analysts’ expectations for non-GAAP EPS averaged out at $0.10, while the average… Read More
Enlarge / The arrow points to the very faint moon near Makemake. (credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Parker)
Today, NASA announced that images it has been sitting on for a year show a moon orbiting a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt. The moon, formally known as S/2015 (136472) and going informally as MK 2, is in orbit around Makemake, a dwarf planet two-thirds the size of Pluto that spends most of its time more than 40 Astronomical Units away from the Sun (1 AU is the typical Earth-Sun distance).
MK 2 is more than 1,300 times fainter than the planet it orbits, largely because it has a very dark surface compared to Makemake’s icy white color. It also appears to orbit within the plane of the Solar System, which means it’s indistinguishable from Makemake for much of its orbit—Hubble managed to catch it when it was more than 20,000km from the dwarf planet. Estimates are that MK 2 is about 160km across compared to Makemake’s 1,400km.
Early observations show that the orbit takes at least 12 days, and the shape of the orbit is roughly circular. This data suggests that MK 2 formed from debris liberated from Makemake by an impact; passing objects that are captured by planets typically have eccentric orbits. Detailed observations of MK 2’s orbit will allow us to determine the density of Makemake, which will then tell us something about its composition, so NASA will continue observing the new body.
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