Daily Archives: July 29, 2015

Razer to pay OUYA’s debts to developers despite not having to

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When Razer bought OUYA, the company basically acquired the team, the platform, and the assets of OUYA. This did not include anything else, like OUYA’s Free the Games initiative. This is where the problems began.

The Free the Games initiative sought to pay developers $1 million in total to encourage them to deliver for the OUYA, which a lot of developers jumped on. Unfortunately, OUYA still owed $600k of that money to developers who were working to meet all the criteria. When Razer purchased the company, the money stopped flowing.

Thankfully, Razer is handling it in a fantastic way. The details are still not concrete, but the CEO Min-Liang Tan said Razer will pay the amount owed to those developers as long as they keep developing for the Razer Forge TV, which is also powered by Android, which means that not much will change. Razer did not have any obligation to pay, but it’s great to see the company taking care of the developers.

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Más de 750.000 reservas del OnePlus 2

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OnePlus 2

A principios de esta semana, tras una larga espera plagada de filtraciones y rumores, el OnePlus 2 finalmente fue presentado. El segundo teléfono inteligente de la startup asiática por fin ha visto la luz, pero ¿cuántas unidades habrá?

Cuando el OnePlus One llegó al mercado la demanda por hacerse con una unidad sobrepasó de largo las espectativas de los chicos de OnePlus que se vieron literalmente desbordados por las solicitudes. Y parece ser que el OnePlus 2 va por un camino semejante: ya se han inscrito más de 750,000 personas para hacerse con un OnePlus 2.

750.000 usuarios han solicitado una invitación para comprarse un OnePlus 2

OnePlus 2

El equipo de OnePlus ha vuelto a apostar por un sistema de invitaciones, veremos cómo les funciona esta vez y si han aprendido la lección de errores del pasado, pero lo que está claro es que el ajustado precio y la calidad técnica del Oneplus 2 han hecho que el nuevo flagship killer vuelva a ser deseado por cientos de miles de posibles compradores.

A día de hoy puedes inscribirte sin demasiados problemas para solicitar una invitación, aunque luego tendrás que esperar a que llegue tu turno. Por ahora no sabemos a qué ritmo irán llegando las invitaciones, pero si tenemos en cuenta que a partir del próximo 11 de agosto comenzarán a distribuirse las primeras unidades, no creo que tardemos mucho en salir de dudas.

Y es que era de esperar que repitieran éxito, más si vemos las características técnicas del Oneplus 2. Recordemos que el nuevo titán de OnePlus contará con dos versiones cuyas diferencias se centran en memoria interna y RAM.

OnePlus 2

En cuanto a la versión más completa del OnePlus 2, nos encontramos con un teléfono con una pantalla de 5.5 pulgadas que alcanzará una resolución 1080p, además de contar con un procesador Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, eso sí la versión mejorada sin problemas de sobrecalentamiento.

La cámara trasera está formada por una lente de 13 megapíxeles gran angular con un foco f/2.0, además de contar con una cámara frontal de 5 megapíxeles. Sus 4 GB de memoria RAM y 64 GB de almacenamiento interno prometen un rendimiento más que notable. ¿Su precio? 399 euros.

En cuanto al modelo más sencillo, destacar que cuenta con las mismas características que su hermano mayor, menos por el hecho de contar con 3 GB de memoria RAM y un almacenamiento de 16 GB. Teniendo en cuenta ue cuesta 339 euros, yo optaría por el modelo OnePlus 2 con 4 GB de RAM y 64 GB de almacenamiento. Recordemos que estos teléfonos no cuentan con ranura para tarjetas micro SD.

El artículo Más de 750.000 reservas del OnePlus 2 ha sido originalmente publicado en Androidsis.

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Remote Control Biology

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Here at Lux we are approached on a weekly basis by PhDs looking to leave academia and enter industry. The first question I ask them is “How much time do you have left before graduating?” What I’m really asking is “How much time do you have left to network the hell out of industry?” There’s a lot of downtime in science, and that downtime is invaluable if your mind is made up that professorship is not for you.
Growing bacterial clones? Inoculate the liquid media, place flask in a shaker at 37 degrees, and wait 3-6 hours.
Trying to get an understanding of gene expression? Add DNA to master mix, distribute at infinitesimally low volumes in 384-well plates, place in PCR machine, input settings and wait 2-3 hours.
Want to visualize protein expression? Grow cells (at least 1 day), fix cells to dish (hours), add antibody to cells and wait overnight.
Running gels, growing bacteria, transfecting cells, enzymatic reactions, sequencing, PCR, breeding mice, sectioning, staining and imaging tissue it all takes time. And there’s a lot of waiting. Now for the PhDs that aren’t long for academia, that time can be spent researching their next career move. But there’s another movement that is specifically looking at that downtime, and further to the entire process of biological experimentation and thinking that science research can get a whole lot more efficient – at Lux we call them the biological hackers.

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OnePlus 2 invites have already been requested by more than 760,000 people

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Love it or hate it, the OnePlus invite system is here to stay. The Chinese company will apply it for the launch of the OnePlus 2 as it did for the OnePlus One last year. So in order to buy a OnePlus 2 you'll need an invite.

Certain things have changed, though, with OnePlus promising it will make it a lot easier for people to get invites for its second smartphone, compared to its first.

And a big part of this is OnePlus' own invite signup page. Over there anyone can go and request an invite for the OnePlus 2 – no more need to hunt down invites on social media and forums.

It looks like this has been an incredibly successful thing to do for OnePlus, as more than 760,000 people have already used the page to signup for an invite.

Now this obviously doesn't guarantee that all of those people will actually buy a OnePlus 2 when they receive their invite, but even if only a small percentage of them do OnePlus will still have a big seller on its hands.

Keep in mind that the company has sold 1.5 million OnePlus Ones in a year, so moving a few hundred thousand units of the OnePlus 2 at launch (or as fast as it can produce them) would certainly be a step up.

To learn more about the OnePlus 2, make sure you go through our hands-on first…

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