Monthly Archives: July 2015

Seasteading Institute aims to build floating city by 2020

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Seasteading Institute aims to build floating city by 2020
The Seasteading Institute says the development of floating cities is the first step in fulfilling what it calls the “8 Great Moral Imperatives,” which include feeding the hungry, enriching the poor, curing the sick, cleaning the atmosphere, restoring the oceans, living in balance with nature, powering civilization sustainably and and putting an end to fighting.

July 7, 2015 at 09:56PM
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Sprint to sell the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime from July 10

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The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime made its debut in the US back in April at Cricket. Now though it looks like another carrier is getting ready to sell it. We're talking about Sprint, which is apparently going to offer the Galaxy Grand Prime to its customers starting on July 10, which is this Friday.

This information has been leaked through the image you see below, which is purported to be a shot of an internal Sprint system detailing the upcoming device.

The same document helpfully lists pricing for the Galaxy Grand Prime too. If you want to pay full price for it, you'll need to shell out $240. Otherwise, you will be able to use Sprint's Easy Pay scheme to get it with $0 down, followed by 24 monthly payments of $10.

The Galaxy Grand Prime will support Sprint's Spark high-speed 4G LTE network, and will run Android 5.1 Lollipop from day one. It's also going to have a 5-inch 540×960 touchscreen, a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP selfie snapper, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, Bluetooth 4.0, and Wi-Fi…

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Vivo V1 and V1 Max get announced for the Indian market

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Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has announced a couple of brand new devices for the Indian market today. They are the Vivo V1 and the V1 Max.

As you can see, the looks are shared, but the V1 Max is obviously bigger than the V1. With these handsets, Vivo aims to have decent mid-range offerings on sale in India, both in the 'normal' size class as well as in the phablet space.

The Vivo V1 comes with a 5-inch 720p HD touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 5 MP wide-angle front snapper with f/2.0 aperture, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, and a 2,300 mAh battery.

The SoC used is Qualcomm's 64-bit Snapdragon 410, boasting a 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and an Adreno 306 GPU. The V1 runs Android 5.0 Lollipop, with Vivo's FunTouch OS on top. It has dual-SIM functionality, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

Oddly enough, Vivo decided not to unveil any specs for the V1 Max at this time. Though if we go by the almost identical looks, we assume the innards will be shared with its smaller sibling as well – for those that make sense. As the screen is bigger, it may be higher-res too, and we should hopefully see a bigger battery inside.

Both the V1 and the V1 Max are going to be in the INR 15,000 to 20,000 price range ($236-314), and they will be out in India before the end of July. It's unclear if Vivo plans to launch them in other markets after…

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Watch Opportunity Rover’s 11 Year, 26 Mile Journey In 8 Minutes

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Watch Opportunity Rover’s 11 Year, 26 Mile Journey In 8 Minutes
This compilation of images from hazard-avoidance cameras on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity between January 2004 and April 2015 shows the rover’s-eye-view of the Martian marathon covering 26.2 miles(42.2 kilometers) from its landing location. A map of the rover’s path is on the right.

July 7, 2015 at 05:40PM
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Manjaro Linux 0.8.13 actualiza los escritorios Cinnamon, MATE y KDE

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Manjaro es un proyecto muy interesante del cual hemos hablado en algunas ocasiones aquí en Linux Adictos; se trata de una distro basada en Arch Linux pero que no sigue el esquema rolling release sino que se basa en snapshots estables y actualizaciones no tan frecuentes (y de menor tamaño) sino más espaciadas. En las últimas horas se produjo la llegada de Manjaro 0.8.13, con actualizaciones a los escritorios Cinnamon, KDE Plasma y MATE.

En esta versión, Manjaro trae herramientas actualizadas como manjaro-tools 0.9.10 -la cual trae una característica de automontado de entornos chroot- o KDE-Apps 15.04.3, LibreOffice 4.4.4 y drivers Nvidia con mejoras para la versión (legacy) linux318. Pero quizá lo más importante para el usuario final, por las mejoras que estos escritorios ofrecen, es la llegada de Cinnamon 2.6.12, KDE Plasma 5.3.2 y MATE 1.10.0.

Junto con lo anteriormente mencionado llegan Mea 10.6.1 y gcc5 5.10, pero otro aspecto interesante de esta distro es el soporte para varias versiones del kernel de Linux en forma simultánea, y así es como tenemos la posibilidad de utilizar Linux 3.10.83, Linux 3.12.44, Linux 3.13.11, Linux 3.14.47, Linux 3.16.7, Linux 3.18.18, Linux 3.19.8, Linux 4.0.7 y Linux 4.1. Y por si todo esto no fuera suficiente, llegan actualizaciones en Python y varias herramientas internas, además del cliente Steam-manjaro.

Los usuarios de versiones anteriores de Manjaro pueden actualizar directamente desde el sistema, y para quienes utilicen otra distro pueden descargar el Live CD y probar (e instalar luego desde allí).

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