A new portable power supply says it can store enough juice for three full phone charges in just 15 minutes. The ASAP Dash is looking for $30,000 on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. And if it works as well as it says it does, it could be a must-have gadget for people who find themselves consistently low
How do you follow up one of the most buzz-worthy documentaries in years? If you’re Crystal Moselle, director of The Wolfpack, a shockingly entertaining doc about a family of film-loving shut-ins, you use your platform and prestige to bring attention to a cause you care about. For her follow-up, Moselle teamed up with her friend Fazeelat Aslam, producer of the 2012 Academy Award-winning Saving Face, to film a three-part series of documentary shorts that profile women affected by the water crisis in Haiti, Kenya, and Peru. What makes this project different: It was funded by a brand. Specifically: Stella Artois beer, as part of its “Buy A Lady A Drink” campaign, done in partnership with water.org. To dig in deeper, I chatted with Moselle about her new project, and how working with brands to create content could be the future of advocacy-oriented filmmaking.
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When Your Neighbor’s Drone Pays An Unwelcome Visit
I felt sorry for those tormented by their neighbor’s annoying little copters. “How rude and intrusive,” I thought. And then it happened to me.
NVIDIA has proven repeatedly that it wants to be the driving force in Android gaming, and between the SHIELD Tablet and the SHIELD Android TV, it definitely has the hardware to back it up. The other piece of the puzzle is, of course, the games, and NVIDIA is constantly working to both secure exclusives and curate excellent games for both its own GeForce Now service as well as Android. Today, NVIDIA has organized a winter sale that includes a number of excellent titles in both stores.
It’s not specifically part of this sale, but in case you missed it, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV is still 50% off as part of its introductory sale, but like the rest of these offers, that deal will come to an end this Sunday, January 31st.
The GeForce Now titles are exclusive to SHIELD devices and, with the exception of OlliOlli, that is true for the Android titles as well. If you own any of the SHIELD devices, this is a great chance to load up your games library on the cheap!
Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap of new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games that you can start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know in the comments section if you have any suggestions for next week’s post.
Flick Quarterback
Description: BE THE QUARTERBACK. Call the shots, pass to receivers, dodge blitzing defenders, score touchdowns and throw amazing trick shots. You are the MVP.
Description: Come see why over 80 million users worldwide have played this legendary series! Prepare yourself to be drawn into the action. Strategically assemble your army and destroy the opposing tower. Use your Arrow Launcher to defend your castle from incoming enemy units.
Description: Super Awesome RPG is an anime-themed CCG-style combat system designed especially for playing on the go. It offers a twist on the RPG genre with a CCG-style gameplay wherein actions come from what equipment your heroes wear, and executing attacks is done through a tactical scratch-card like mechanic.
Description: Welcome to a game so mouth-watering you should probably play with a bib on. This is World Chef, a place where the kitchen never closes and the waiters always have big smiles on their faces.
Description: Blade: Sword of Elysion is an infinite epic action RPG. Slash through dungeons and annihilate all evil forces. Evade and raid other heroes in a bloodstained, action-packed arena. Engage in fierce PvP battles and show no mercy!
Description:Bounce your way to glory in this endless arcade! Featuring : Super realistic physics, Silky smooth swipe control, Fast paced or relaxing depending on how you play, and 100 handcrafted levels set in 20 worlds.
Description: Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. Your goal is clear, but how you get there depends on whether you want to legitimately climb the rankings, or take the more ridiculous, shady route.
Description: Craft, battle, and quest your way through Crashlands, an outlandish, story-driven Crafting RPG overflowing with sass! Learn recipes from the local sentient life, make new friends, uncover ancient secrets and deadly bosses, tame everything and build yourself a home-away-from-home as you learn to thrive on planet Woanope.
Description: Set in a world at war with experimentation gone awry, humanity must fight against what they had created! Discover the story behind the madness as you set off to defend your fellow compatriots. Their future is in your hands!
Description: Downwell is a curious game about a young boy venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him. Make your way further and further down into the darkness filled with nasty creatures and mysterious secrets to collect the spectacular red gems scattered about the rocks.
Social networks are constantly changing and evolving to keep up with the the demands of today’s fast-moving society. One social media trend that’s taken off over the past year is live video streaming. Meerkat and Periscope spent a few months duking it out to see who could expand more quickly, with Periscope ultimately taking the top spot in live video streaming.
But Periscope isn’t getting exclusivity on the live video streaming market. Facebook is entering into the live video streaming market with its aptly-titled Live Video. The company began testing the feature in December and today announced that it was rolling the feature out to all iPhone users within the US. Global expansion will follow in the coming weeks.
Android users will have to wait a bit longer, as Facebook has said no more than that Live Video for Android is coming “soon”. With that vague of a timeframe, it’s safe to assume that the wait will be closer to weeks and months rather than days.
Utilizing Live Video is simple. You can simply tap on “Update Status” and then tap on the Live Video icon. Before streaming begins, you can write a quick description of what you’ll be streaming as well as choosing the audience that you want to share with. Once you end the live stream, the video will be saved to your timeline and can be watched and replayed by you and your friends.
Here’s a question for you: how many of you actually use live video streaming? Will you be trying Facebook’s Live Video?
Como es costumbre el equipo de Linux Mint a través de su líder, Clem, ha presentado sus cuentas mensuales y han aprovechado para presentar algunas novedades que traerá la próxima versión de Linux Mint, Linux Mint 18. X-Apps es el nombre del nuevo proyecto y de las nuevas aplicaciones que el equipo de Clem desarrollarán para la nueva versión.
Las X-Apps serán aplicaciones básicas construidas a partir de GTK3 que cubrirán las necesidades básicas de toda distribución. X-Apps permitirá que cualquier escritorio pueda cogerlas y adaptarlas a sus necesidades sin tener que depender de lo que proyecto Gnome.
X-Apps será el nuevo proyecto de los desarrolladores de Linux Mint
X-Apps y este cambio por parte de Linux Mint responde a la situación actual que existe entre la base de Linux Mint y el desarrollo de Gnome. Linux MInt 17 se basa en Ubuntu 14 que tiene como escritorio base a Gnome 3.10 mientras que Ubuntu 16.04 tendrá Gnome 3.20 y en medio numerosos cambios que el equipo de Linux Mint tienen que realizar. Por ello, los desarrolladores han optado por crear unas apps básicas que sean independientes del desarrollo de cualquier escritorio. Así X-Apps serán compatibles con Cinnamon, MATE y Xfce entre otros.
También Clem ha confirmado un cambio drástico en el artwork de la distribución pero aún no sabemos nada de ese artwork, sólo que el usuario podrá elegir entre el nuevo y el viejo artwork, éste último para los más nostálgicos.
Personalmente no llego a entender del todo este anuncio y decisión de Clem y su equipo pues en vez de crear las X-Apps o crear parches, los desarrolladores de Linux Mint pueden hacer como otras distribuciones y crear sus propias aplicaciones a partir del código fuente. Sin embargo parece que una vez más que innovarán e intentarán crear aplicaciones de marca blanca, pero ¿ eso es posible?
El joven empresario ha generado importantes ganancias con Facebook y sus adquisiciones recientes; la red social cumplirá en febrero 12 años, en una fecha que Zuckerberg llamará “friends day”.
Tomorrow will mark the two-year anniversary of Lenovo’s announcement that it would purchase Motorola Mobility. Since the two companies became one, Motorola has continued to function much the same as before. But change may be in the works. Just weeks ago, Lenovo announced that the Motorola brand would be phased out. Future devices created by the Motorola branch of Lenovo will be sold under the Lenovo name and the Moto brand which has been popularized with phones such as the Moto X and Moto G.
The first of those new Moto phones may not be too far in the future. In a recent interview, Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang said that the company would be launching a “more innovative, [and] more attractive” Moto device in July. This device will launch in the US and will be an attempt to strengthen the foothold that Motorola has in the country.
Lenovo’s own mobile brand doesn’t yet have a presence in the US, so at present, the company is leveraging the Moto brand as a means to pave the way for the launch of Lenovo’s personal brand within the US. Within developing countries, however, Lenovo has plans to snatch up some of the newly available market share. In particular, Yang mentioned the markets of India, Africa and the Middle East.
As a whole, Lenovo sees the mobile market as a means to help guide customers towards Lenovo’s PCs. Even with global PC sales declining, Lenovo is of the opinion that consumers will soon begin to shift back to more capable PCs. If the company can secure customers in the mobile market, it has a much higher likelihood of persuading those customers to purchase Lenovo PCs over competitor brands.
Whether or not Lenovo’s prediction will come to pass remains to be seen, but we look forward to seeing what the company brings to the table in the mobile market.
Cada vez hay menos smartphones que incluyen la capacidad de ampliar su memoria mediante tarjetas microSD, y aunque al parecer hay algunas compañías que quieren volver a implementar esta funcionalidad, hay otras muchas que prefieren suprimir esta característica con el fin de que el futuro usuario se gaste más dinero en un dispositivo de mayor capacidad antes de que pueda ampliar su memoria de una manera más barata.
Aunque hace ya casi 3 años que LG y Google unieron sus fuerzas para lanzar el Nexus 5, este popular dispositivo sigue dando guerra incluso en 2016, pues parece que según un post en Phandroid, un usuario ha conseguido añadir una de las características que le faltaban a este dispositivo, la capacidad de ampliar la memoria mediante tarjeta microSD. ¿Quieres saber cómo lo ha hecho?, te lo contamos a continuación.
Añadiendo memoria al Nexus 5 original
Este usuario ‘manitas’ ha conseguido soldar un pequeño y barato lector de tarjetas en la placa del dispositivo, para ello, ha tenido que cambiar la distribución de los altavoces y de algunas antenas. Y el resultado, es el que vemos en la imagen anterior.
La desventaja de realizar esta modificación en nuestro dispositivo, es que la carcasa trasera no encajará de nuevo en el terminal, para remediarlo, podemos colocar una funda trasera de TPU o silicona, y así poder tapar los circuitos electrónicos del interior del smartphone.
Lo más sorprendente de esta modificación, es que el sistema operativo ha reconocido la tarjeta microSD directamente sin necesidad de instalar ningún MOD o aplicación de terceros, una medida que, junto a la implementación de la nueva versión de Android, Marshmallow, que nos permite utilizar la tarjeta microSD como memoria interna, puede dar una nueva vida a este antiguo dispositivo aumentando sustancialmente la capacidad de aplicaciones y datos que podría almacenar.
¿Qué te ha parecido esta modificación?, ¿te atreverías a llevarla a cabo en tu Nexus 5?
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