Forget the clearance-rack heart shaped boxes and unsold strings of Christmas lights. The big holiday treat lingering forlornly on shelves this month is one that avid fans lined up for just two years ago: pumpkin ales. Shocking everyone in the craft beer trade, brewers have watched sales of their once-precious seasonal style grow sluggish and remain in stores and bars long past Halloween.
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Scientists in Basel have recently devised a new method of optimising the efficiency of the materials used for artificial photosynthesis.
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Google’s Self-Driving Car Caused Its First Accident
In an accident report made public on Monday, Google disclosed that its self-driving car had caused a crash earlier this month — the first known crash caused by one of its fleet.
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You may remember the Android “Monotune” ad that recently came out. It featured a pianist playing songs on a regular piano, then playing the same songs on a piano modified to only play the middle C note. It had the tagline “Be together. Not the same.”, which showed off Android’s variety of devices that all work together, in contrast to everyone using the same phone.
For some reason, Google decided to release an album based on the ad with the same name. It’s an album full of songs played on the piano that only has the middle C note, so it’s quite a monotonous album. Thankfully it’s free, so you can give it a listen for fun. At least it’s funny.
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Una de las grandes quejas entre los consumidores de un smartphone Android es la poca probabilidad de que el mismo se vaya actualizando al software más reciente según vaya pasando el tiempo, y es que tan sólo los buques insignia (y no siempre) de las compañías son los escogidos para estar durante un buen tiempo totalmente actualizados.
Por suerte, existen siempre formas para intentar que esto no sea siempre así, ya que con Android los programadores tienen la libertad de probar a hacer todo lo que quieran con el sistema. Una de esas cosas ha sido crear las exitosas Custom ROM como Cyanogen, gracias a la cual daremos a muchos hoy una buena noticia.
La gran noticia de hoy es que gracias a esta Custom ROM ya es posible actualizar algunos modelos de Sony del 2011 a la última versión del sistema de Google. Muchos de estos dispositivos se quedaron en la versión 4.1 Jelly Bean y 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich, con lo que jamás se hubiera pensado que volvieran a renacer de esta forma.
Los modelos que se pueden actualizar con Cyanogenmod son los siguientes:
Xperia Arc/ Arc S
Live with Walkman
Xperia Neo V
Xperia Neo
Xperia Pro
Xperia Mini Pro
Xperia Neo L
Xperia Active
Xperia Mini
Xperia Ray
Xperia Play
Todas ellas están basadas en la Cyanogenmod 13, que es la ROM basada en Android Marshmallow. Una cosa importante es que hay unos requerimientos mínimos para poder actualizar tu terminal, y es que el mismo deberá poseer como mínimo la versión de Ice Cream Sandwich 4.1.B.0.587 antes de instalar la nueva, además de necesitar una tarjeta SD bastante rápida (de clase 10 o superior), al menos según nos comentan desde Android Community.
Es un gran paso que por fin los móviles más antiguos puedan ver mejoras en su software, aunque es una verdadera pena que tenga que ser gracias a desarrolladores libres. ¿Eres tú uno de los afortunados que podrá actualizar su móvil?
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Motorola is currently running a promotional offer for the 16GB version of its 3rd generation Moto G smartphone. This is available to you if you’re in the US and use Motorola’s official online store to purchase the handset (and customize it using MotoMaker if you want to).
The 16GB Moto G (3rd gen) is being sold for just $199.99 until 10:59 am CT on March 7. This is $20 less than what the smartphone’s normal price is. And obviously there are no carrier contracts to sign here, as the unit you buy comes unlocked.
The device has 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch 720p touchscreen, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410 SoC at the helm (with a 1.4 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU), a microSD card slot, a 13 MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, a 5 MP selfie cam, and a 2,470 mAh battery. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow (following an update that should pop up right when you turn the phone on for the first time).
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A Google self-driving car was involved in a collision with a public bus this month, and it could be the first time one of the company’s autonomous vehicles was to blame for an accident. Google is proud of the fact that since it started road testing its self-driving cars in 2012, none of them have caused an accident. They’ve
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Earlier today a teaser confirmed that Oppo is getting ready to launch the R9, a possible successor to the R7 duo from last year. One thing that hasn’t so far been clear is when exactly the new device will be announced.
Thankfully, that’s now been revealed thanks to Oppo itself. The Chinese company has plastered a very large number of ads all over subway and bus stations in China, ads that look like this one:
The ads state that there will be an event on March 17, during which Oppo will out a handset that has “9” in the name. So that pretty much settles it.
Unlike its predecessors, the R9 is rumored to sport some very high-end specs. It should be marketed as Oppo’s top camera phone, and may include support for the company’s recently unveiled Super VOOC fast charging.
The Oppo R9 will allegedly have a 6-inch QHD touchscreen, a 21 MP rear camera, a 13 MP selfie snapper, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chipset, 3 or 4GB of RAM, 64GB of expandable storage, and a 3,700 mAh battery. It should run Android 6.0 Marshmallow from day one, and could look almost identical to Apple’s iPhone 6s…
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Video streaming services are the new hot thing in Africa, after the launch of Netflix throughout the continent in January, which itself followed ShowMax, the video on-demand (VOD) service from emerging market giant Naspers last year. While these charge low monthly subscription fees, one app-based streaming service is hoping its value proposition – for free – will prove popular. Called Tuluntulu, which means “continuous stream” in Zulu, it has quietly been growing its user base, and now has 375,000 downloads of its Android app, says its founder and CEO Pierre van der Hoven.
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If a recent Facebook tease is any indication, AMD is preparing to release an external Graphics Card dock for gaming on the go.
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