The fringe explanation of ‘Alien Megastructures’ was just one possibility, with comets as the leading theory. Now that they’ve been ruled out, is it time to reconsider the fantastic?
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How To Survive Your Hoverboard Fire
So you got a hoverboard this holiday season. That’s great. But what do you do when it spontaneously bursts into flames?
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UK’s HTC One M8 to get Marshmallow by Wednesday, One M9 ‘to follow shortly’
HTC is a few hours away from releasing the Android Marshmallow update for the HTC One M9 in Canada, but the company is also prepping the update for the HTC One M8 in the UK later this week. HTC UK announced on Twitter that the One M8 will be getting a taste of Android Marshmallow within the next 48 hours. The update for the One M9 is nearly ready as well, with HTC stating that it will “follow shortly.”
With the UK update on its way, we suspect the One M8 and One M9 in mainland Europe will see the update within the next 5 to 10 days. There’s no guarantee, but it looks like HTC will have Android Marshmallow delivered to most unlocked and carrier-branded versions of the HTC One M8 and One M9 before the end of January.
Great news! We’ll be rolling out the Marshmallow update for the HTC One M8 over the next 48 hours. One M9 to follow shortly.
— HTC UK (@HTC_UK) January 18, 2016
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Huawei prepara un portátil híbrido para competir con Xiaomi
Huawei es el fabricante asiático que más éxito está teniendo. Actualmente es la empresa que más teléfonos vende en China, aunque Xiaomi le pisa los talones. Y parece que Huawei se prepara para coontratacar, pero en otro mercado.
Y es que nuevos rumores apuntan a que Huawei está trabajando en un ordenador portátil. Sí, llevamos tiempo sabiendo que Xiaomi pondrá a la venta un portátil a lo largo del presente año, y parece que Huawei no se quiere quedar atrás.
El nuevo ordenador de Huawei sería dual boot, ejecutando Windows y android
Por ahora sabemos más bien poco de este nuevo dispositivo de Huawei, aunque lo único que podemos asegurar es que el nuevo ordenador portátil se Huawei se podrá utilizar como tablet y además vendrá de serie con opción dual boot, pudiendo ejecutar Windows o Android en función de nuestras necesidades.
Si tenemos en cuenta que el ordenador que lanzará Xiaomi al mercado es un ordenador portátil normal y corriente, parece que la guerra será bastante interesante. ¿Cuál de los dos se alzará con la victoria? Habrá que esperar a la presentación de ambos productos para dar con la respuesta.
Lo que sí está claro es que el gran beneficiado vamos a ser nosotros, los usuarios. El hecho de que dos pesos pesados como Huawei y Xiaomi entren en el mercado de los ordenadores portátiles ya es una magnífica noticia de por sí.
Más si tneemos en cuenta que estos fabricantes abogan por una norma muy clara: ofrecer dispositivos con acabados y prestaciones de gama alta a precios de gama media. Y la posibilidad de tener un ordenador portátil por 100 o máximo 200 euros me parece una idea realmente interesante.
Además, si se confirma el rumor que apunta a la posibilidad de que el próximo ordenador portátil de Huawei cuente con dual boot, el hecho de poder alternar entre dos sistemas operativos tan diferentes como son Android y Windows me parece una idea realmente interesante: ¿qué tienes que trabajar con documentos? Nada mejor que Windows y su potente herramienta de ofimática. ¿Quieres jugar al último juego disponible en la tienda de aplicaciones de Google? Pues para eso tan solo tienes que cambiar el sistema de arranque y hacer que el nuevo ordenador portátil de Huawei cargue el sistema operativo del equipo de Mountain View.
Y a vosotros, ¿qué os parece el hecho de que Huawei y Xiaomi hayan decidido adentrarse en el mercado de los ordenadores portátiles? ¿creéis que sus dispositivos tendrán éxito en el mercado, teniendo en cuenta que pesos pesados como Lenovo dominan el sector con puño de hierro?
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How To Break the Information Age Trance of ‘Continuous Partial Attention’
How To Break the Information Age Trance of ‘Continuous Partial Attention’
By 2020, there will be approximately 9.7 billion displays on Earth serving up over 5,000 ad-views per day per urban-dwelling person, a 25 percent increase from 2015. This figure doesn’t even include displays found on appliances or in cars. The situation, is one of “continuous partial attention.”
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M 4.8 – 162km ESE of Taron, Papua New Guinea
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- 2016-01-18 16:26:35 UTC
- 2016-01-19 02:26:35 +10:00 at epicenter
- Location
- 5.202°S 154.299°E
- Depth
- 138.62 km (86.13 mi)
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Rebel Scum: un corto hecho por y para fans de Star Wars
En caso de que hayas visto ya varias veces ‘Star Wars: El despertar de la fuerza’ en el cine y ya no sepas cómo matar el tiempo hasta que llegue ‘Rogue One’ (ya sabes, el spin-off de la saga), tenemos una recomendación que hacerte: qu…
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All OnePlus orders above $100 get free shipping
OnePlus has just announced that it will be offering free standard shipping on all orders $100 and up. The number (and consequently, value) varies by country and is 100 or £60, for example.
In effect, what this means is that every order containing a smartphone (One, 2 or X) will be eligible. If you’re only shopping for accessories, though, you’d need to purchase a whole bunch of cases and/or backs, or team up with a similarly inclined friend.
Priority shipping will also get a price cut. For a single OnePlus 2, shipped to the US, that means $9.63 instead of the $17.63 it was until now. To the EU, the savings are 8 flat, the service now costing 16.49, instead of …
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WhatsApp is dropping the subscription fee, and will let businesses reach out to users
With one billion users across multiple platforms, WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps in daily usage — even if it technically requires a subscription to use after a set period of time. But apparently that wasn’t working out for the service, so some big changes are coming down the line.
First and foremost, WhatsApp has confirmed that it will be dropping all subscription charges from the service, making it a free-to-use app across all of its platforms. Up until this change, WhatsApp was free for only the first year. After that year was up, it cost $0.99 per year to keep using the service.
According to the official announcement, WhatsApp became aware that many of its users didn’t have access to a credit or debit card to pay for that yearly fee. As a result, they’re changing the model completely.
The switch to the free service will take some weeks, but WhatsApp is currently undergoing the process.
To accommodate this change, WhatsApp is making other key decisions, including allowing businesses and other groups to reach out to users of the messaging service. WhatsApp says that these will only be from groups and businesses that you want to hear from, though, so it will be interesting to see what that means when the changes start rolling out. The company also confirmed that there won’t be any ads within the app.
If you use WhatsApp, what do you think of the changes?
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Sony sending out invites for its MWC 2016 press conference
There are still quite a few weeks separating us from the beginning of Mobile World Congress 2016, but Sony’s getting a jump on the invitation game anyway. The company, which just announced fingerprint reader-less versions of its Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact for the United States, is now sending out invitations to its press conference scheduled to take place at this year’s MWC.
Sony’s conference will take place on February 22, at 08:30 AM CET (2:30 AM ET). Interestingly enough, the conference will take place at Sony’s booth. The invitation doesn’t really give anything away, either, showing just a big “#SonyMWC” hashtag and the date and location of the conference. There haven’t been any leaks pointing to a new flagship, and it’s been a couple of years since Sony used a Mobile World Congress to unveil a flagship, so that’s not looking likely.
What do you think Sony will announce?
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