“When one of our guys came up with the idea that our purpose should be to make banking joyful, I nearly threw him out of the room,” said Piyush Gupta, CEO of DBS Group, who runs Singapore and Southeast Asia’s largest bank.
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The secrets of success aren’t always obvious. Sometimes, they’re even counter-intuitive. For Nacho González-Barros, founder of MailTrack, an email tracking system, keeping the concept simple has helped him acquire more than half a million users and funding totalling more than $1M.
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In 2015, we saw record-setting technology M&A – at extremely high valuations (which reminds me of the other dot.com valuation bubble).
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The Martian was one of the biggest movies of 2015. If you set aside the epic cultural revolution of the Star Wars franchise, The Martian would be the number one sci-fi movie of the year. In celebration of the release of The Martian for home audiences, I had an opportunity to speak with the author of the book, Andy Weir.
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Gionee’s Marathon series of big-battery-packing smartphones was just expanded with the addition of the Marathon M5 Plus and the Marathon M5 Enjoy. Launched today in China, the two smartphones address one notable omission from the original Marathon M5’s specsheet – the fingerprint sensor.
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus
The Gionee M5 Plus sits on top of the series and leans towards a higher segment of the midrange. The smartphone comes with a significantly more powerful (though not record breaking) Mediatek MT6753 chipset with an octa-core CPU. There is 3GB of RAM on board, same as the M5, but built-in storage has been doubled to 64GB, and you can further expand it by up to 128GB via microSD.
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus in Gold
Trading-off cell capacity for screen size, the new Plus-size model comes with a 6-inch FullHD AMOLED display and “only” 5,020mAh worth of juice, where the M5’s specsheet reads 5.5 inches, 720p, and 6,020mAh. The smartphone measures 160.9 x 81.2 x 8.4mm, which is reasonably compact for the screen and battery size, and weighs in at 208g – 3g lighter than the 5.5-inch M5.
The 13MP primary camera on the back comes with phase detection autofocus and a single LED flash, while the front-facer is a 5MP unit. There’s a fingerprint sensor on the front in place of the capacitive home key of other Gionee models. Fast charging is supported and is done via a reversible Type-C connector, though it only adheres to the USB 2.0 standard.
Gionee Marathon M5 Plus in Silver
The smartphone supports multi-band 2G/3G and LTE, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop with the company’s Amigo OS overlay on top, in its 3.1 incarnation. Priced at CNY 2,499 ($385), the Gionee Marathon M5 Plus is available for purchase right now.
Gionee Marathon M5 Enjoy
Alongside the M5 Plus, Gionee announced the Marathon M5 Enjoy – a smartphone similarly specced to the original M5. However, you better be careful when choosing between the two, as different compromises have been made, potentially affecting user experience.
Gionee M5 Enjoy
For starters, the M5 Enjoy’s display is a TFT unit, whereas the M5 had an AMOLED panel, though both are 5.5-inch 720p units. Battery capacity is in favor of the M5, as the M5 Enjoy comes with a 5,000mAh power pack, and not 6,020mAh. And instead of the 13MP primary camera, the M5 Enjoy only comes with an 8MP snapper. Where the new model trumps the old one is the inclusion of a fingerprint scanner.
There rest is mostly the same – a Mediatek MT6735 chipset with a quad-core CPU, 3GB of RAM and Android 5.1 Lollipop. Internal storage has been sliced halved to 16GB, but is still expandable. The Marathon M5 Enjoy is more modestly priced, compared to the Plus, and goes for CNY 1,999 ($310).
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It’s another Monday morning, but you can ease into the week with this one with an excellent deal on the Motorola Nexus 6. Amazon currently has the Nexus 6 listed at some extremely low prices: The 32GB Nexus 6 is available for just $249.99 in color options of Midnight Blue or Cloud White. If you need a bit more storage, you can move up to the 64GB model, which is selling for $299.99 and is available only in Cloud White.
These are some of the lowest prices we’ve seen for the Nexus 6, and they make the Nexus 6 an incredible deal, particularly noting that the phone was still selling for upwards of $600 not too long ago. If you need a last-minute holiday gift, this could be perfect, particularly considering that today is the last day for two-day Prime shipping before Christmas. As a Nexus, the device is guaranteed speedy updates, and you’ll receive a minimum of another year of Android updates in the Nexus 6, with the possibility for even more.
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Bluboo se ha colado en el panorama de smartphone haciéndose un nombre desde el primero momento. Su Bluboo Xtouch ha sido un terminal que sobre el papel, y con un precio de escándalo, ha conseguido encandilar a muchos usuarios por una relación especificaciones/precio dificilmente superables. Ahora se atreven con el Bluboo X9, un terminal muy bonito por fuera, y muy equilibrado por dentro.
Como siempre, nos gusta empezar por el apartado estético del terminal, ese primer contacto con su diseño, su estilo y lenguaje visual que marcará ese primer acercamiento al dispositivo. Nos encontramos con un Bluboo bonito, donde lo que más llamará la atención es sin duda su marco lateral metálico que podremos adquirir en diferentes tonalidades y que nos darán esa experiencia de estar delante de un terminal más premium en acabados de lo que realmente podemos esperar. No es el terminal más delgado del momento, con 7,9 mm, pero ello unido a un diseño interesante puede hacer las delicias de muchos usuarios.
Su pantalla es de 5 pulgadas con tecnología IPS JDI y resolución Full HD. Ello nos dará una densidad de píxeles más que correcta y con unos ángulos de visión que esperamos estén a la altura dada las dos tecnologías con las que está fabricado su panel. Además cuenta con el formato 2,5D, lo cual unido al marco lateral nos da una sensación de tener un movil más curvado que la media de terminales actuales.
En su interior nos encontramos con un clásico en cuanto a configuraciones, como son un Mediatek MTK6753 de 64-bits unido a unos nada despreciables 3 GB de memoria RAM y 16 GB de memoria interna que podremos ampliar mediante tarjetas microSD. Sus cámaras de 13 y 5 megapíxeles están fabricadas por Omnivision, el tercer fabricante más extendido en sensores para cámaras móviles y que poco a poco va ganando enteros en términos de calidad. Además contará con un sensor de huellas dactilar para el cual no será necesario tener activada la pantalla, sino que podremos entrar directamente simplemente colocando nuestro dedo en la parte trasera de su chasis. Le acompañan 2.500 mAh de batería.
Por último, su software llega con Android 5.1 Lollipop prácticamente puro, sin ninguna modificación por parte del fabricante, lo cual si unimos que ello implicaría una mayor rapidez a la hora de actualizar, y que Material Design estará en todo su esplendor, puede acabar siendo la decisión más acertada.
El precio es a día de hoy la principal variable que los usuarios usamos para decantarnos por unos u otros productos. En esta ocasión, los 140 euros que en tiendas como Gearbest podremos encontrar este Bluboo X9 es un precio verdaderamente interesante. Un terminal que destaca por diseño, pantalla, potencia e innovaciones en estos precios como el sensor de huella datilar de calidad. ¿El mejor smartphone a día de hoy? No, pero sí un terminal que puede cumplir con 2 o 3 cualidades imprescindibles para muchos usuarios a día de hoy.
¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Bluboo se atreve con un nuevo terminal bonito y completo, el Bluboo X9, ¡conócelo! para dejar tu huella.
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Is a Real Lightsaber Possible? Science Offers a New Hope
A Fermilab senior scientist runs through a real-life Jedi’s (limited) options.
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Ubisoft’s The Division is poised to be one of the biggest games of the spring after it was delayed out of 2015 (which is probably for the best, given the slate of games out this holiday). It recently just finished up a short closed alpha test on Xbox One, one that was so closed players were under an NDA not to share footage, or even impressions of the game to the public.
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