What’s on your HDTV: World Cup final, The Raid 2, The Strain, Hemlock Grove
This is it. This week the World Cup comes to an end (assuming you’re still paying attention after the USMNT was knocked out) with semifinals, 3rd place game and the final match Sunday afternoon before Brazil, Germany, Netherlands or Argentina takes the trophy. Of course, that’s not all there is to watch this week, as CBS premieres its new summer show Extant. That show stars Halle Berry as an astronaut who, after a year of isolation in space, returns home to her husband and robot son to find out that she’s pregnant. Another new entry for the summer is The Strain on FX, which looks to continue a string of excellent TV shows(Fargo, Louie, The Americans) with a horror series from filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. On Blu-ray, we’re looking forward to The Raid 2, highlighting Indonesian martial arts once again in an incredible action movie, while Netflix is ready with season two of Hemlock Grove. Check after the break for a list of what’s new this week plus a few trailers, and drop a note in the comments if you see any highlights we’ve missed.
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Blu-ray, Streaming movies & Games
- The Raid 2
- The Time Machine
- Bad Words
- Point Blank
- Southern Comfort
- Lake Placid (Collector’s Edition)
- Kid Cannabis
- Jodorowsky’s Dune
- Bad Grandpa .5
- Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition (PS3, PS4)
Monday
- Switched at Birth, ABC Family,8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus, HBO, 9PM
- 24: Live Another Day, Fox, 9PM
- Beauty and the Beast (season finale), CW, 9PM
- The Fosters, ABC Family, 9PM
- Major Crimes, TNT, 9PM
- Under the Dome, CBS, 10PM
- Murder in the First, TNT, 10PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 10PM
- Longmire, A&E, 10PM
- Mistresses, ABC, 10PM
- Cee Lo Green’s The Good Life, TBS, 10:30PM
Tuesday
- FIFA World Cup Semifinals: Brazil vs. Germany, ESPN, 3PM
- America’s Got Talent, NBC, 8PM
- Pretty Little Liars, ABC Family, 8PM
- Time Scanners, PBS, 8PM
- History Detectives Special Investigations, PBS, 9PM
- Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM
- Chasing Life, ABC Family, 9PM
- Royal Pains , USA, 9PM
- Deadliest Catch, Discovery, 9PM
- Top Gear (US), History, 9PM
- The Wil Wheaton Project, Syfy, 9PM
- Finding Carter (series premiere), MTV, 10PM
- Inside The Walking Dead, AMC, 10PM
- Drunk History, Comedy Central, 10PM
- Perception, TNT, 10PM
- The Night Shift, NBC, 10PM
- Tyrant, FX, 10PM
- Covert Affairs, USA, 10PM
- Nathan for You, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Sullivan & Son, TBS, 10PM
Wednesday
- FIFA World Cup Semifinals: Netherlands vs. Argentina, ESPN, 3PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Rogue, DirecTV 101, 8 & 9PM
- Young & Hungry, ABC Family, 8PM
- So You Think You Can Dance, Fox, 8PM
- Mystery Girls, ABC Family, 8:30PM
- Extant (series premiere), CBS, 9PM
- 60 Minutes Sports, Showtime, 9PM
- Suits, USA, 9PM
- Dual Survival, Discovery, 9PM
- The Bridge (season premiere), FX, 10PM
- Wilfred, FXX, 10PM
- Taxi Brooklyn, NBC, 10PM
- Motive, ABC, 10PM
- Catfish (season finale), MTV, 10PM
Thursday
- Black Box, ABC, 8PM
- Defiance, Syfy, 8PM
- E! True Hollywood Story: Duck Dynasty, E!, 8PM
- Mythbusters (summer premiere), Discovery, 9PM
- Welcome to Sweden (series premiere), NBC, 9PM
- Rectify, Sundance TV, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Rookie Blue, ABC, 9PM
- Dominion, Syfy, 9PM
- The Sixties, CNN, 9PM
- Working the Engels (series premiere), NBC, 9:30PM
- Gang Related, Fox, 9PM
- Ridiculousness (season premiere), MTV, 10P<
- NY Med, ABC, 10PM
- Last Comic Standing, NBC, 10PM
- Maron, IFC, 10PM
- Comedy Bang! Bang! (summer finale), IFC, 10:30PM
Friday
- Hemlock Grove S2, Netflix, 3AM
- WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
- Cold Justice, TNT, 9PM
- Almighty Johnsons (series premiere), Syfy, 10PM
- Crossbones, NBC, 10PM
- Kurt Metzger: White Precious, Comedy Central, 11PM
Saturday
- FIFA World Cup 3rd Place game, ESPN, 3:30PM
- Bad Teacher, CBS, 8 & 8:30PM
- Presumed Dead in Paradise, Lifetime, 8PM
- Bet On Your Baby, ABC, 8PM
- IndyCar Series @ Iowa, NBC Sports, 8PM
- Power, Starz, 9PM
- Boxing: Canelo vs. Lara, Showtime PPV, 9PM
- Almost Royal , BBC America, 10PM
Sunday
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ New Hampshire, TNT, 1PM
- FIFA World Cup Final, ESPN, 2:30PM
- Wipeout, ABC, 8PM
- Yankees/Orioles, ESPN, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Last Tango in Halifax, PBS, 8PM
- Ray Donovan (season premiere), Showtime, 9PM
- Reckless, CBS, 9PM
- Endeavour, PBS, 9PM
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, CNN, 9PM
- True Blood, HBO, 9PM
- The Last Ship, TNT, 9PM
- The Musketeers, BBC America, 9PM
- Rising Star, ABC, 9PM
- Catching Hell, Weather Channel, 9PM
- MLS: Sounders vs. Timbers, ESPN, 10PM
- The Strain (series premiere), FX, 10PM
- Masters of Sex (season premiere), Showtime, 10PM
- The Leftovers, HBO, 10PM
- Falling Skies, TNT, 10PM
- The Hunt, History, 10PM
- Halt and Catch Fire, AMC, 10PM
- Unforgettable, CBS, 10PM
- Vicious, PBS, 10:30PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11PM
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Build your own Game Boy with a Raspberry Pi, SNES pad and 3D printer
What’s a maker to do when they don’t have access to a classic Game Boy but happen to have a 3D printer and a few other parts laying around? Craft their own, no Legos required, of course. With some patience, you too can build a copy of Nintendo’s 25 year-old handheld using an Raspberry Pi, Super NES controller (for its buttons and circuit board) and a few other bits and bobs. Adafruit has print-files for the iconic portable’s case as well as step-by-step instructions for how it all goes together, but, as 3DPrint points out, it likely won’t be easy and the project requires a decent grasp on soldering and circuitry. Emulated games run off of an SD card, and the DIY-Game Boy can even play any classic Nintendo ROMs you might find online too. We’ll leave wading through the legalities of that whole process up to you, though.
Via: 3DPrint
Source: Adafruit
The US is getting Hollywood’s help building a real Iron Man battle suit
The US hasn’t had much success building mechanized battle suits that move quickly and stop bullets, but Hollywood has been dreaming up these concepts for years. Don’t they already know a thing or two about designing high-tech armor? Apparently, the US military thinks so — it’s enlisting the help of Legacy Effects, which has built suits for Iron Man and RoboCop, to shape its TALOS (Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit) project. The company is both designing and 3D printing prototype pieces that will give a feel for what the armor is like in the real world.
Of course, the result won’t be anywhere near as slick as what Alex Murphy or Tony Stark wears in the movies. Legacy Effects is bound by the limitations of modern technology, which will likely make this early suit very clunky; think of the makeshift suit near the start of the original Iron Man. Ekso Bionics is hoping to develop a powered exoskeleton, but it could be both heavy (around 400 pounds) and power-hungry. It may end up using a drone engine for power rather than an array of batteries. A Canadian firm, Mawashi Protective Clothing, is developing an unpowered substitute inspired by the natural protection of armadillos and insects.
The US doesn’t expect a fully functioning, independent suit until July 2018, and that’s assuming there are no big setbacks. However, it believes that the time and expense (estimated at $80 million) will be worth the effort. Soldiers only have so much protection with current armor, and they frequently shoulder heavy loads that slow them down. TALOS may never have sci-fi features like flight or repulsor weapons, but it could both save lives and help troops get around war zones with more agility than a vehicle allows.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: Wall Street Journal
The Big List of Android Wear Apps
So you’ve got yourself an Android Wear device and now you’re looking for apps and games. Where to go to find them? Well, as of right now Google isn’t doing anything all that formal to track apps with Wear in mind. Sure, there’s the “Apps for Android Wear” category tucked away in the Google Play Store,… Read more »
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Google Play encryption bug is blocking paid apps from using Android Wear
If you ordered one of the Android Wear devices Google showed off last month, you’ll want to keep an eye out for updates: the wearables aren’t playing well with paid apps. Normally, Wear apps are downloaded from Google Play alongside an app’s handset component, installing automatically over Bluetooth to a paired Wear device — but the wearable component of paid apps just aren’t transferring. According to Android Police the problem lies in Google’s app encryption measures, a sort of copy-protection system enacted to keep pirates at bay. For whatever reason, Android Wear devices simply aren’t able to find Wear apps in encrypted packages. It’s a small bug but it’s also a major issue, effectively blocking all paid apps from taking advantages of Google’s new platform. Hopefully Mountain View will issue a fix before too long.
Filed under: Wearables, Mobile, Google
Source: Android Police
Google Project Tango smartphones heading to space this week
Google is no stranger to having some of its devices up in space, what with the Nexus S and One each taking on different missions in years past. Up next: Project Tango. The search giant’s smartphone, which packs 3D sensors that allow it to track and map just about anything around it, has been playing a role in NASA’s Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellite program, otherwise known as SPHERES. As Reuters notes, these spherical satellites could one day “take over daily chores for astronauts or even handle risky duties outside of the vessel.” Accordingly, on July 11th, NASA and Google are doing good on the promise to launch Project Tango smartphones into orbit, where they be will be used as “the brains and eyes” of the bowling ball-sized, hovering robots at the International Space Station.
SPHERES Project manager, Chris Provencher, told Reuters they had been looking to add better processing power, cameras as well as a slew of sensors to the robots, and smartphones were the way to go. “This type of capability is exactly what we need for a robot that’s going to do tasks anywhere inside the space station,” he said about Tango possessing the right attributes to meet the program’s needs. “We wanted to add communication, a camera, increase the processing capability, accelerometers and other sensors. As we were scratching our heads thinking about what to do, we realized the answer was in our hands [smartphones].”
[SPHERES image credit: NASA]
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Robots, Alt, Google
Via: VentureBeat
Source: Reuters
Target Offering Gift Cards Up to $100 With Purchase of iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch [iOS Blog]
As part of a new July promotion, Target is offering Target gift cards with the purchase of any iOS device, including the iPad Air, the Retina iPad mini, the 32 GB iPod touch, and the iPhone 5s/5c.
Customers who purchase a $499 iPad Air or a $399 Retina iPad mini in any storage capacity (WiFi and WiFi + Cellular) will receive a $100 gift card, while those who buy a $249 32 GB iPod touch will receive a $30 gift card.
Target has discounted its 16 GB iPhone 5c to $30 and its 16 GB iPhone 5s to $100, and is also offering a $20 Target gift card on top of the discount.
Target customers can also get an additional five percent off of their purchases when using the Target REDCard. Target’s gift card with purchase deal will last through July 12.
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LG G Pad 10.1 begins global roll-out this month
LG’s G-Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition tablet from LG was a pretty kick-butt tablet. Too bad it is no longer available on the Play Store for purchase. LG continues to bring more G-Pads to market though. They announced a trio of tablets would become available and the talk was surrounding similar specs in all three sizes with the screensize being the variable. LG’s next big tablet adventure has been formally announced by LG with the release of the LG G Pad 10.1. The latest G Pad in the LG line of tablets is the largest to date and brings some of the LG G3 features and functions to the larger tablet side of things.
Spec wise you are looking at a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 display that is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm snapdragon processor and 1GB or RAM. It packs in 16GB of on-board storage with a removable miscro SD card slot for added storage. The rear camera is 5MP and the front facer pulls off 1.3MP. The tablet launches with Android 4.4.2 KitKat and is powered by a 8,000 mAh battery. While the over all specs aren’t high-end, top grade, need a credit card and a mortgage to purchase, the LG G Pad 10.1 has some interesting things about it. It will use the newer LG UX overlay, supports the Knockcode security options as well as QPair 2.0, which is probably one of the cooler features in my book. QPair is an app that pairs your phone to your tablet so you answer calls and texts from your tablet.
“Consumers use tablets differently from smartphones and we wanted to highlight the important role of entertainment in the new LG G Pad 10.1,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of the LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Tablets are increasingly being used as companion devices, which is why we made connecting the LG G Pad 10.1 to other devices so easy and convenient and why LG G Pad 10.1 offers the best core technologies of our G series smartphones.”
LG states the G Pad 10.1 will be available in the United States first, followed by other markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America this month. No price is mentioned as each retailer will be announcing pricing and specific dates on their own.
Via LG News Room
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