As the Dow Futures pointed to a 500-point drop just prior to the U.S. stock market opening this morning, I tweeted out the following:
#BlackMonday, next financial crisis, global meltdown… Are the money pundits’ histrionics on Twitter fueling the sell-off?— Peter Himler (@PeterHimler) August 24, 2015
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Tim Cook made a rare comment on Apple’s iPhone business in China to Jim Cramer at CNBC. I believe it is time to buy the stock.
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Testing the Anki Overdrive robot cars and clip together track sparked a circuit building obsession in my family.
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A mass grave discovered by a farmer in Turkey may be Roman in date.
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Investigating a murder is how startup Body Labs got its start, according to the opening sentence from Issie Lapowsky at Wired. Computer vision expert, Professor Michael Black from Brown University, was asked by police to help solve a murder. The article explains in detail how Black and the founding team figured out how to estimate or guess the shape of the human body from just a few measurements.
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The fact that Microsoft would bring Cortana to Android was announced back in May, and last month a leaked build surfaced. That happened because up until today the app was in closed beta.
Not anymore, though. From now on anyone can use Microsoft’s assistant on Android, provided they don’t mind beta software. The beta has gone public, but you need to be in the US to actually get it.
If you’re interested, here’s the download link. You have to agree to become a beta tester before you’ll see the app in the Play Store.
Cortana for Android has most of the functionality seen in Windows 10 or Windows Phone. You can set and get reminders, search the Web, track flight details, and start and complete tasks across all of your (Cortana-running) devices. It’s even possible to set Cortana to show up when you long press the Home button, if you feel the need to replace Google Now from that spot.
There are still certain things Cortana for Android doesn’t do. It doesn’t toggle settings or open apps, and you can’t invoke it by simply saying “Hey Cortana”. These features may arrive in future updates…
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Sin previo aviso y para nuestra sorpresa inesperada, el fabricante surcoreano LG se ha pronunciado en su página oficial con su último producto. Presentan su nueva tablet, la LG G Pad II 10.1, que será vista en el próximo IFA 2015 en Berlín y seguro que no dejará indiferente a nadie. Le hacen mención como el perfecto compañero para el ámbito multimedia en Android. La nueva LG G Pad ofrece un perfecto equilibrio entre rendimiento y precio para satisfacer las necesidades de productividad, entretenimiento y multimedia de los consumidores.
La sucesora de la actual LG G Pad 10.1 trae consigo unas especificaciones técnicas de los más llamativas:
Sus componentes harán que todos ellos ofrezcan un rendimiento digno de cualquier terminal gama alta y capaz ante cualquier tarea más exigente.
Por otro lado, encontramos que está cargado de interesantes añadidos como el modo lectura, que permitirá reducir la luz azul de la retroiluminación de la pantalla, demostrado por estudios que causa fatiga ocular y visión borrosa en sesiones prolongadas, ideal para la lectura de libros o documentos. Y para impulsar la productividad, viene pre-cargada con Microsoft Office para tablets Android y 100 GB de almacenamiento en el servicio cloud OneDrive durante dos años.
No conocemos su precio, pero aseguran que no será muy elevado incluso con sus características, y que lo conoceremos en la misma presentación que tendrá lugar entre los días 4 y 9 de septiembre en la feria IFA en Berlín.
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Las imágenes de comidas subidas por usuarios servirán para recomendar restaurantes en Maps; la idea surgió de un experimento dirigido a los amantes de las foodies, el cual no se concretó.
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So, another flagship killer means a) the original left some unfinished business or b) OnePlus ran out of smart taglines. It would’ve made little sense to OnePlus to revise the job description but, while the OnePlus 2 is clearly superior it lacks one thing the original had, the benefit of surprise…
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The Xbox One is coming into this fall in a less than enviable spot. One the one hand, it’s doing just fine as a product: it’s selling well, it’s selling better than the Xbox 360 was, and it’s becoming a more and more important part of Microsoft’s broader plans for Windows 10 across platforms. On the other hand, all success comes in comparison to Sony’s PS4, which has dominated current-gen console sales since day one and looks like it’s going to keep doing so for the forseeable future. But that underdog position has made Microsoft hungry, and the tech giant has been using its considerable resources to invest into exclusive games from both first and third party developers in an attempt to recover from the disastrous reveal that it’s still reeling from. Last week, gamesindustry.biz had an interesting interview with Xbox executive Kudo Tsunoda, who hammered home the point that Xbox One, despite overwhelming similarities to the PS4, is continuing to evolve and add functionality.”
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