A finales del año pasado Huawei nos puso los dientes largos (muy largos) con el anuncio de su Mate 8, un potente smartphone presentado en China del que no conocíamos más datos sobre su futura disponibilidad. Hoy por fin podemos…
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Hay ocasiones en las que merece ser la pena un early adopter. Y Oculus acaba de demostrarlo, ya que ha anunciado que enviará de manera gratuita el modelo final de Rift a todos aquellos usuarios que apoyaron el proyecto en sus inicios de Kick…
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Arch Linux tiene nueva versión para estrenar el año 2016. La versión 2016.1.1 tiene la versión del kernel actualizada a la 4.3.3, la cuál es la última versión estable hasta el día de hoy
Si utilizas habitualmente Arch Linux, sabrás que por su política de actualizaciones Rolling Release, Arch Linux tiene nueva versión cada mes. Ésta vez le ha tocado el turno a la primera versión del año que entra, es decir del 2016.
El sistema de actualizaciones Rolling Release se diferencia de las actualizaciones normales en que se realiza más a menudo y en que como se va actualizando poco a poco, no requiere formatear el sistema, teniendo además un equipo siempre actualizado.
La versión 2016.1.1 tiene cambios bastante importantes,el más destacable de todos es el paso a la versión del Kernel de Linux 4.3.3 lo cual sin duda es una gran noticia para los usuarios de Arch Linux, ya que es la versión más avanzada que hay ahora mismo del Kernel a falta de que salga la futura versión 4.4.
Además ésta actualización trae como viene siendo habitual la corrección de los errores encontrados por los usuarios en la versión anterior. Además trae actualizado todo el software que normalmente trae a la última versión, como por ejemplo el navegador Mozilla Firefox. Por último destacar la compatibilidad con PHP 7, el cual también es la última versión.
Ya hemos hablado muchas veces aquí de Arch Linux, un sistema operativo compatible con un montón de escritorios y totalmente personalizable al dispositivo. Arch es un sistema que se adapta a tus necesidades , ya que lo puedes ejecutar tanto en un PC de sobremesa potente, como en una Raspberry Pi utilizando RaspArch.
Si ya eres usuario de Arch Linux, recuerda que deberás ejecutar el comando pacman -Syu para actualizar el sistema a ésta versión(y hacerlo una vez cada mes para estar siempre actualizado evidentemente).
Si por el contrario eres nuevo y te animas a probar éste fantástico sistema operativo, acude a la página oficial de Arch Linux y descarga la última versión.
El artículo Primera versión de Arch Linux del 2016 disponible ya ha sido originalmente publicado en Linux Adictos.
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Many people object to the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics on the grounds that all the extra “universes” seem too complicated. That’s a misunderstanding of a metaphor, though; looked at properly, it’s the simplest, most elegant game in town.
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The rise of digital has revolutionized how business work and serve their customers, but it has also added new dimensions of risk for financial services firms. Five out of every six large companies – those with more than 2,500 employees – were attacked in 2014, a 40 percent increase over the previous year. The costs of digital attacks are also increasing; the average annual cost per company of successful cyber-attacks increased to $20.8 million in financial services last year. And many incidents go undetected for long periods of time, so the true scale of the problem is even greater.
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Yesterday, the rumored deal between Activision and MLG was finally officially announced to the public. Activision’s $46M acquisition of the North American-based eSports organization was scooped by eSportsObserver over the weekend, and confirmed by both companies on Monday. With it, came a myriad of hopefully announcements from all parties involved. One in particular caught my eye, from none other than Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, via the New York Times.
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Who will your startup rely on in 2016 to do all the everyday jobs that keep the business running? Interns? Skilled workers? How about robots? While you’re no doubt familiar with the concept of robots taking over tasks humans may not particularly want to do (Roomba, anyone?), the idea of robots
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ZTE has launched a new website today under its Nubia subsidiary brand for selling Nubia products directly to consumers.
The website is currently live with several compatible languages, with European sales slated to go live before expansion to other countries. According to Nubia Co-founder and SVP Felix Fu, there are “at least eight new countries on the horizon.” Right now, Nubia is promoting the Z9, Z9 mini and My Prague, but that product portfolio should expand.
Head on over to Nubia.com now to check it out.
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Lenovo has announced an interesting little accessory today that turns your Windows computer into a control center for your Android device.
Compatible with any Windows 7, 8 and 10 machine, the Lenovo Link is a 32GB flash drive looking device that connects to a USB 3.0 port and then your Android phone to provide a picture-in-picture view of your Android device on your PC. Your phone is completely accessible in this mode, allowing you to use a mouse and keyboard on your phone, drag and drop files, copy and paste text, and more.
The Lenovo Link will be available this March for just $39. Not bad, eh?
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While they aren’t grabbing headlines as frequently as some of the more powerful wearables on the market, Fitbit continues to be the leader in this now crowded space.
At present they are still best known for simpler fitness bands like the Flex, Charge and Charge HR that are geared towards those with solely fitness in mind. Last year’s Fitbit Surge, started to blur the lines between smartwatch and fitness band with a number of notifications possible, but despite recently getting the nod from Obama as his wearable of choice, at $249 the Surge may be flying too close to full smartwatch prices.
Well Fitbit is back today to take another crack at consumers that aren’t ready to take the plunge on a full blown smartwatch, but would like to get a little more out of their fitness wearable.
Enter the Fitbit Blaze, available for pre-order today at fitbit.com and due out in March. The Blaze is launching at a more palatable $200 and maintains the strong fitness first focus, but has upped its game a bit on the smartwatch side.
Fitbit is still definitely ceding the smartwatch game to others and goes out of its way to identify this as a smart fitness watch rather than a smartwatch. The Blaze is the first Fitbit to feature a color screen and it has added custom clock faces. As far as connectivity with your smartphone it can pass through info on calls, texts and calendar updates. You can accept or reject calls from the Blaze and control your music playback. There is not an app store for the Blaze however, so the baked in functionality will be all you get. Time will tell whether this is Fitbit knowing or underestimating the desires of its customer base.
On the fitness front the Blaze has also learned a new trick. Along with the expected step, sleep and heart rate tracking is FitStar.
FitStar offers guided workouts on your Blaze with animated images to show you what to do and exists entirely on the Blaze, so no need to have a smartphone along with you.
If you do have your smartphone along for your workout the Blaze can take advantage of its GPS to give you pinpoint accuracy on the distance of your workout.
Another feature that was added to some existing Fitbit devices (Charge HR and Surge) late last year and found on the Blaze is SmartTrack which automatically identifies what kind of exercise you are doing in order to properly credit you with that exercise rather than reducing everything to steps.
Fitbit also learned from the positive response to the interchangeable bands of the Apple Watch and is offering similar functionality for the Blaze. You can easily swap between steel ($129), leather ($99) or elastomer ($29) straps. I sincerely hope we see more companies cluing into this one in the next year as these devices that are to be worn all day have to be able to morph with our needs.
Battery life is a definite advantage for the Blaze over virtually every smartwatch out there, save for the Pebble line, with 5 days between charges.
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