It’s hard to imagine how the game is going to feel the same. I’ve liked what I’ve seen of Halo 5: Guardians so far. The campaign has the tinge of the semi-religious epic scale that Halo is known for, the story already seems more contained than the lorefest that was Halo 4, and the new Warzone mode is one of the best shakeups to the multiplayer I’ve seen yet. But there’s one all-important feature that Halo 5 won’t have: split-screen multiplayer. This eliminates the possibility of all those local co-op and multiplayer moments that have defined the series thus far, and it’s a blow. There have been all the usual change.org petitions, waves of tweets, comments and pleads, but it’s just not happening. 343 Franchise DEvelopment Director Frank O’Connor reminded us of this fact over twitter recently when a fan asked to bring split-screen back:
Google’s Project Ara is one of the company’s more interesting creations. It’s a push by Google to create a modular phone that can be customized by customers, allowing them to swap out nearly all of the components including the camera, display and more. Not only would it allow a customer to create their perfect phone, but it can also save money for customers by allowing them to simply replace one broken component rather than the entire device.
Project Ara was scheduled for a pilot in Puerto Rico beginning later this year. Those plans have now been tossed and the pilot will occur in 2016 and this time, it’ll be within the US, though a specific location hasn’t yet been announced. The delay is reportedly due to a lot more iterations than the team planned for, which has led to a slowdown in development. The team also noted that the news doesn’t mean that Project Ara won’t come to Puerto Rico in the future, it just won’t be home to the pilot.
We’ll keep you posted on further updates regarding Project Ara.
Stephen Hawking’s speech program is now open source and available to anyone
The impressive technology that lets the paralyzed British physicist communicate has been open-sourced, meaning that anyone can use and change it as they see fit.
While the “brick” style of smartphones has taken the world by storm as of late, there are still flip phones out there. And now Samsung is shoving some powerful specs into their latest model.
The new device is called the G9198 (you miss these phone names, right?) and it’s a flip phone with a 3.9-inch AMOLED touch screen on the outside of the handset, as well as another similarly-sized screen on the inside, with the resolution of both being 1280×768. The camera on the back is of the 16-megapixel variety, and features an aperture of f/1.9, and there’s a 5-megapixel front-facing camera for good measure.
Inside, the G9198 offers a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor with 2GB of RAM, and the battery is measured in at 2020mAh. There’s 16GB of built-in storage, with a microSD card slot for expandable storage, Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and 4G LTE connectivity.
It’s probably not likely that we’ll ever see the G9198 out of China, unfortunately.
Google Introduces Project Sunroof, A ‘Treasure Map’ Of Solar Energy
As they put it, “Project Sunroof uses information that’s in Google Maps to figure out how much sun falls on a roof…then it uses those measurements to figure out how many panels you’d probably need and how much you could save on your electric bill… and then send your estimate to installers in your area.
What Happens To Your Checked Luggage At The Airport
We’ve all wondered what our luggage is up to before it hits the automated carousel thingy. Is it being scanned for bombs? Are there luggage gnomes casting spells on them? Now’s your chance to see!
Después de muchas especulaciones, ya sabemos que Android 6.0 Marshmallow será el nombre oficial para la nueva versión de Android, lo que en español conocemos más como nube –de gominola– o malvavisco, entre otras acepciones. Una actualización que ya llevamos probando unos cuantos meses a base de previews, que hasta ahora eran dos, y decimos hasta ahora, porque ya tenemos entre nosotros Android M Developer Preview 3, o lo que es lo mismo, la última previa antes de Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Esta versión final de Android M Developer Preview ya incluye el SDK oficial de Android 6.0**, un SDK que ya podemos descargar desde el SDK Manager junto a las últimas APIs y herramientas disponibles.
Cómo instalar Android M Developer Preview 3
Android M Developer Preview 3 es compatible con los Google Nexus 6, Google Nexus 9, Google Nexus 5 y Google Nexus Player, y podemos instalarla por dos vías distintas. Si ya tenemos una previa de Android M funcionando en nuestro dispositivo, la actualización por OTA –Over-the-air– debería llegar en cuestión de horas o días de forma automática, y simplemente tendríamos que darle a aceptar cuando nos saltase el aviso.
Pero si no queremos esperar ni un segundo más, solo tenemos que ir a la página de descargas de Android Developers, y descargar la que corresponda a nuestro equipo. Cuando la tengamos, debemos seguir estos pasos:
Una vez hayamos descargado la imagen, tendremos que descomprimirla donde queramos. Copiamos todos los archivos descomprimidos en la carpeta platform-tools del Android SDK.
Apagamos el dispositivo en cuanto hayamos copiado todos los archivos al directorio platform-tools. Encenderemos el terminal manteniendo presionados los botones de encendido, subir volumen y bajar volumen para iniciar el modo Bootloader.
Conectamos el terminal al PC mediante el cable USB.
Ejecutaremos el archivo flash-all.bat si estamos usando Windows o flash-all.sh si utilizamos Linux.
Esperamos a que el ordenador haya terminado de ejecutar todos los comandos. Cuando termine el teléfono se reiniciará y ya podremos desconectarlo del PC.
Así es la bootanimation de Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Entre los muchos cambios que Android 6.0 Marshmallow traerá respecto a Android 5.0 Lollipop, se encuentra el de la animación de arranque, que como no podía ser de otra forma, vuelve a sufrir un lavado de cara.
As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications, they’re finding they’re dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything they’ve encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there’s no longer an up-front installation, followed by tech support as needed. Instead, the relationship is more akin to a marriage in which the spouses not only live together, but also work together all day long — 24×7. That means a highly co-dependent relationship. So cloud consumers need to expect their providers to have well-functioning data centers, running in top form at all times.
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