A Sunset On Mars, As Captured By The Curiosity Rover
While certainly not as spectacular as those we see on Earth, it’s still pretty amazing to think about all those Martians out there, watching the same sun we do, thinking about how they’re going to spend the rest of their Martian days.
February 24, 2015 at 05:24PM
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Hot on the heels of the leaked press renders earlier today, a series of HTC One (M9) promo videos also made the rounds on the web. In line with past leaks, the videos leave nothing to imagination.
The first from trio of clips showcase the design of the upcoming smartphone, as well a number of its hardware highlights. Key features of HTC One (M9) include metal body with two-tone finish, UltraPixel front-facing camera, 20MP main snapper, and BoomSound speakers with Dolby Surround.
The remaining two videos focused on the Sense-d Android 5.0 of the device and its brand new camera. HTC has added a number of improvements to its latest custom UI like improved BlinkFeed and the ability to create your own theme among others.
HTC One (M9) will debut this Sunday, on March 1 in Barcelona. Be sure to tune in to find out everything about the Taiwanese manufacturer’s new flagship.
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Portland Now Generates Electricity From Turbines Installed In City Water Pipes
You’d be forgiven if the phrase “Portland goes green with innovative water pipes” doesn’t immediately call to mind thoughts of civil engineering and hydro-electric power.
February 24, 2015 at 04:38PM
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The LG G Flex 2 is now being offered on pre-order in the UK. We knew this would happen, but we were expecting pre-orders to debut on February 28, which is this Saturday. However, Carphone Warehouse has decided to jump the gun on this one.
The well known retailer is giving you the opportunity to pre-order the G Flex 2 with contracts from Vodafone, O2, and EE.
The handset can be yours for free with plans starting at £34.50 per month. For that amount Vodafone will give you 600 any network UK minutes, unlimited texts, and 1GB of 4G data.
Obviously though, there are many more options, going as high as £58.50 per month. That particular plan is also at Vodafone, and it brings you unlimited minutes and texts along with 10GB of 4G data each month.
If you pre-order a G Flex 2, Carphone Warehouse is throwing in the LG P7 Bluetooth speaker and Circle case for free. This bundle is apparently a £150 value.
Pre-orders are currently expected to start shipping during or before the week commencing on March 16. So you still have some waiting to do if you're after the G Flex 2 in the UK.
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The scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015 by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover’s robotic arm. The pale “Pahrump Hills” outcrop surrounds the rover, and the upper portion of Mount Sharp is visible on the horizon. Darker ground at upper right and lower left holds ripples of wind-blown sand and dust.
An annotated version, Fig. A, labels several of the sites Curiosity has investigated during three passes up the Pahrump Hills outcrop examining the outcrop at increasing levels of detail. The rover used its sample-collecting drill at “Confidence Hills” as well as at Mojave, and in late February was assessing “Telegraph Peak” as a third drilling site.
The view does not include the rover’s robotic arm. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic’s component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic. This process was used previously in acquiring and assembling Curiosity self-portraits taken at sample-collection sites “Rock Nest” (http://ift.tt/12SNjYb), “John Klein” (http://ift.tt/1iFLQAx) and “Windjana” (http://ift.tt/1vwpWGg).
Curiosity used its drill to collect a sample of rock powder from target “Mojave 2” at this site on Jan. 31, 2015. The full-depth, sample-collection hole and the shallower preparation test hole beside it are visible in front of the rover in this self-portrait, and in more detail at http://ift.tt/1DDxW7C . The Mojave site is in the “Pink Cliffs” portion of the Pahrump Hills outcrop. The outcrop is an exposure of the Murray formation, which forms the basal geological layer of Mount Sharp. Views of Pahrump Hills from other angles are at http://ift.tt/13Erb9G and the inset at http://ift.tt/1EO3HMa .
The frames showing the rover in this mosaic were taken during the 868th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars (Jan. 14, 2015). Additional frames around the edges to extend the amount of terrain included in the scene were taken on Sol 882 (Jan. 29, 2015). The frames showing the drill holes were taken on Sol 884 (Jan. 31, 2015).
For scale, the rover’s wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. The drilled holes in the rock are 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter.
MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project’s Curiosity rover.
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Samsung is working on successors for its Galaxy Tab S 8.4 and Galaxy Tab S 10.5 tablets, as we've told you before. There will be two devices in the Tab S2 line too, but they will have different sizes – because Samsung has this time around opted to use 4:3 aspect ratios, favored by Apple for all of its iPads, and by Google recently for the Nexus 9.
So far we've only known that the new Tab S devices would have Super AMOLED touchscreens just like their predecessors, and that they are going to be thinner than any iPad ever. Now though we have a pretty complete list of specs for the bigger, 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S2.
This is because someone testing such a device has decided to run a benchmark on it. And that benchmark stores information about the products that run it.
So the bigger Tab S2 will sport a touchscreen with 2,048×1,536 resolution (like recent iPads and the Nexus 9), 3GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in storage, an 8MP rear camera, and a 2MP front snapper.
Ignore the 9.6" listing for screen size, as this particular benchmark can get that wrong sometimes. It also likes to underreport camera resolutions, which is why it says the rear unit in the Tab S2 is 7MP. As for RAM and storage, we assume it gives us free space.
The Tab S2 runs Android 5.0.2 at the moment, and it's powered by one of Samsung's own Exynos chipsets, which has a big.LITTLE CPU configuration, with four Cortex-A57 cores and four Cortex-A53 ones. The maximum clock speed is 1.9 GHz. The GPU is a hexa-core Mali-T760MP6.
So the SoC has been updated from the Exynos 5420 in the original Tab S tablets, which had older Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 cores. Meanwhile, the RAM amount has stayed the same, as have the cameras.
The Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 will reportedly have a metal frame, and it's rumored to weigh just 407g, and come with the following dimensions: 237.1 x 168.8 x 5.4 mm. That would make it smaller than the iPad Air 2 in every respect, and lighter too.
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Hacía unos días que parecía que Pebble podría estar preparando su nuevo smartwatch y finalmente hoy todo ha visto la luz, en concreto se llama Pebble Time, un smartwatch con pantalla a color que por ahora no podremos comprar porque se encuentra en período de financiación, igual que sucedió con el modelo original.
El proyecto empezó con una recaudación necesaria de 500.000 dólares, y ahora mismo ronda los 5 millones de dólares de recaudación, sin duda Pebble lo ha vuelto a hacer al igual que hace unos años con el primer modelo. La compañía solo ha necesitado unos minutos para superar esa cantidad y es que el buen trabajo realizado en el modelo original da bastante confianza a la hora de invertir.
Este nuevo Pebble, conocido a partir de ahora como Pebble Time, contará como principal novedad con pantalla a color, con tecnología e-paper, un panel similar al original pero a color, lo que le permitirá tener una autonomía mucho mayor que la inmensa mayoría de relojes inteligentes del mercado, llegando hasta los 7 días de uso, según el fabricante eso sí y una visión en exteriores superior a la de paneles de otra tecnología.
Como no es oro todo lo que reluce, este tipo de panel e-paper tiene una limitación muy grande frente a sus rivales y es que frente a los miles de colores de los Motorola Moto 360, LG G Watch R o Sony Smatwatch 3, este panel solo interpreta 64 colores.
El apartado del diseño lleva un pequeño lavado de cara, ahora contamos con un diseño algo más circular además de ser un 20% más delgado y contamos con detalles tales como correa estándar de 22 mm, resistente al agua, tres botones de control y tres colores disponibles, rojo, blanco y negro. Pese a todo esto tengo que decir que el diseño se me sigue haciendo muy similar al original, quizás porque me sigue sin parecer un reloj y me parece más un producto tecnológico.
Podremos controlar el nuevo Pebble Time mediante control de voz y parece que el software va a sufrir una profunda renovación, está claro que la llegada de Android Wear al mercado ha cambiado mucho la situación, ha sido un antes y un después para todos los relojes inteligentes del momento.
Como siempre lo bueno de Pebble es que será compatible con Android a partir de la versión 4.0 –siempre que cuenten con la conexión Bluetooth correspondiente– y con iOS 8 a partir del iPhone 4s. Todas las aplicaciones de la tienda actual serán compatibles con este nuevo Pebble Time.
En principio el nuevo Pebble estará disponible para los participantes en Kickstarter a partir del próximo mes de mayo del 2015. Pero por ahora no se conocen fechas exactas para su lanzamiento al gran público. En este momento el crowdsourcing más barato de 159 dólares ya no está disponible y el más barato es de 179 dólares, aún así 20 dólares más barato de lo que será el precio oficial de 199 dólares. Existen más posibilidades de pago con mayores cantidades en la inversión para según que casos.
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By FARHAD MANJOO
The Sense sleep tracker works well enough, but it is a reminder of how fundamentally useless these devices can be.
Published: February 25, 2015 at 06:00PM
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Reddit changed its privacy policy to prohibit posting nude photos or videos of people engaged in sex acts without their prior consent to do have it posted.
Published: February 23, 2015 at 06:00PM
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Yesterday Verizon announced that it would start selling the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime on February 26, which is this Thursday. Now it turns out that it won't be the only new device launching on that day, as it will be joined by the BlackBerry Classic.
The smartphone with a physical QWERTY keyboard and that 'classic BlackBerry' form factor (hence the name) is already up for grabs at AT&T, and now Verizon is getting ready to release it too.
The Classic will cost $99.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) with a new two-year contract at Big Red. If you don't want to shell out anything upfront, there's also the option of using Verizon's Edge installment plans, if you're eligible.
Do note that the February 26 launch is only valid for online purchases. The BlackBerry Classic will be in stock in physical Verizon stores starting on March 5.
The phone has a 3.5-inch 720×720 touchscreen, an 8MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2MP front-facing unit, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage (expandable via microSD), and a 2,500 mAh battery. At the helm is a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, and the device runs BlackBerry OS…
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