In the 17th century, Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock, noticed a curious phenomenon. When two identical pendulum clocks are mounted next to each other on a wall, their swings eventually become synchronized, swinging in opposite directions. He called the effect “an odd kind of sympathy” in his letter to the Royal Society; these days it is often referred to as entrainment.
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It has now been 25 years since Mikhail Gorbachev, with his Soviet Union crumbling, decided to open the emigration gates and allow 1.6 million Jews to leave for Israel, Germany and the United States.
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Ayer Motorola desplegó todo el arsenal con el lanzamiento de tres nuevos teléfonos, los Moto X Play, Moto X Style y Moto G de tercera generación. No fueron sin embargo los únicos equipos que salieron a la luz. La firma, propiedad de Lenovo, también a…
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The Early Reviews For Windows 10 Are In
Windows 10 dropped this morning — should you put it on (in?) your computer?
July 29, 2015 at 01:41PM
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Today Sprint has unveiled two new smartphones for Boost Mobile, one of its prepaid brands. Both are made by Alcatel, and they're both going to be quite affordable.
First off we have the Alcatel OneTouch Conquest (pictured below). This comes with IP67 certification, being able to withstand being submerged into up to 1m of water for up to 30 minutes. Additionally, it's dust tight, completely protected against dust ingress.
It has a 5-inch 720p IPS touchscreen with Dragontrail glass, a 5 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP selfie cam, a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, 4G LTE support, a 2,500 mAh battery, and it runs Android 5.0 Lollipop.
The Conquest is available now from Boost Mobile for $129.99 plus tax, though sans any long-term contract requirement.
Moving on, the Alcatel OneTouch Elevate (pictured above) will become available at Boost in August for $99.99 plus tax. It has a 4.5-inch FWVGA touchscreen, a 5 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP front-facing unit, a 1.1 GHz quad-core processor, 4G LTE support, and a 2,000 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, rather surprisingly for such a low-end device.
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Los smartphones han alcanzado un punto en el que sin contar con las especificaciones, es difícil vislumbrar qué nos encontraremos pasados unos años. Referente a ello, algo que aún tiene margen de mejora y que pocos fabricantes aplican suficiente innovación es el porcentaje de pantalla en la parte frontal del terminal, que mayormente ni siquiera alcanza el 75 o 80 por ciento.
Pocos son los terminales que disfrutan de una pantalla sin apenas biseles. De los únicos fabricantes que sigue apostando por ello es LG, con resultados favorables como su actual buque insignia, el LG G4. A este, se le suma fuerte competencia como el Oppo R7 Plus y el ZTE Nubia Z9, claros ejemplos de cómo eliminar por completo los biseles y ofrecer algo distinto al público.
Al igual que HTC, Sony nunca ha destacado por conseguir unos biseles delgados y mucho menos descartados por completo, pero parece que están logrando interesantes avances en la fabricación del aspecto físico de sus terminales y un manual de instrucciones ha revelado el cuerpo del terminal y es cuanto menos sorprendente.
En la parte delantera encontramos, además de la espectacular pantalla que alcanza de izquierda a derecha sin ningún marco, una cámara frontal con flash para los selfies, un altavoz, el altavoz de oreja, sensor de proximidad y LED de notificaciones, todo lo habitual y visto en otros terminales. Sin ninguna novedad destacable.
Por el otro lado, en la parte trasera aparece la cámara principal con su flash, el área de detección del NFC, el logotipo del fabricante Sony y la gama Xperia. Y en los laterales una tapa que oculta el slot para nanoSIM y microSD, botones de volumen, desbloqueo y capturar fotografías desde la aplicación.
Respecto al resto de especificaciones hasta día de hoy aún son un completo misterio, pero basándonos en su antecesor, el Sony Xperia C4, apunta a ser un gama media pero con unos extras muy interesantes, cierta renovación del diseño y principalmente su espectacular pantalla sin biseles.
Esperaremos que se haga realidad y por supuesto, que este sea el nuevo diseño –al menos de la parte frontal– de los próximos buque insignia, que a corto plazo apunta directamente al rumoreado Sony Xperia Z5 que tendría lugar su presentación oficial en el IFA de Berlín.
¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Sony Xperia C5 Ultra luce espectacular con su panel sin biseles para dejar tu huella.
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Fifteen months later, we have no idea know what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. But we keep going back to a theory posited by a pilot Chris Goodfellow just days after March 2014 disappearance. Goodfellow thinks an electrical fire in the cockpit could have caused the loss of transponders and communications in the aircraft. […]
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Earlier this month we saw a new mobile app by Yahoo go live in the iTunes App Store in a few markets – namely Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Ireland. And now the company is ready to launch Livetext in five additional countries.
This is notable because the US and the UK are among those, as are Canada, Germany, and France. So for many people this will be the first time they can use the app. That said, intentionally limiting a new app's geographical reach like this is a bit baffling.
Livetext pairs one-to-one text messages with a video live stream, as showcased in the screenshots above and the video presentation below. You chat with your friends as you would in other messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Viber, or Facebook Messenger. But what's unique here is that the text is overlaid onto a live video stream from the person you're talking to.
Even more unique is that there's no sound associated with the video, nor is there an option for you to turn sound on. So you can't video chat with people using this app – the video part is just kind of there as a background for the text messages.
This is clearly a formula no one's ever tried before, but it does have shortcomings. Aside from the lack of sound, you don't get group messaging, at least not at this stage.
Livetext will be available in the iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store tomorrow in the aforementioned countries. It's unclear if Yahoo will release it to any other territories in the future.
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Goodbye, Android
“Don’t get me wrong. In many ways, Android is great. I love its open source ethos and the ability one has to customize it. But I can’t take it anymore for one simple, but really fundamental, reason.”
July 29, 2015 at 01:22PM
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No matter how many protections web users take, someone will find a way of tracking them. According to researchers, just using a keyboard, mouse and phone or laptop battery leaks enough information for snoops to have their wicked way. There are some solutions to this burgeoning problem, however…
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