Galaxy Note 4 Specs Leak?! Moto 360 Release Date Septemember 5th? – ManDroid Daily
Happy Thursday folks. The ManDroid Daily is here. Seems an Indonesian retailer outed the Galaxy Note 4 specs, which is not the first time that has happened with a new phone.The Moto 360 might have a release date FINALLY. September 5th might be a happy day for us nerds that want a circle on our wrist. All articles down below, and enjoy the video as well.
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You can carry a privacy-minded wireless hotspot in your pocket
Devices like the Safeplug can deter companies and governments from snooping on your devices at home, but they’re not much good when you’re on the road. That’s where the PORTAL (Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty) project comes into play. Load the customized firmware on to certain travel hotspots (some TP-Link models and their clones) and you can maintain strong privacy anywhere you have internet access, without using special software; think of it as an anti-surveillance tool in your pocket. It not only puts you on the Tor anonymity network that spies hate so much, but supports connection masking add-ons that prevent your Tor data from being blocked. You can visit China without worrying that you’ll have to use an insecure, heavily censored connection just to get online.
The catch? It’s not all that easy to set up. You have to be comfortable with loading unofficial code like OpenWRT, for a start. It’s also “highly recommended” that you use a modified router; there isn’t enough room on stock devices to load PORTAL without plugging in a USB drive, robbing you of the chance to use a cellular data stick. The team behind the firmware is working on simplifying the install process, though, and any headaches you deal with might be worthwhile if they curb anxiety later on.
Filed under: Wireless, Networking, Internet
Via: Ars Technica, Geek
Source: Portalmasq.com (PDF), GitHub
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The next industrial revolution will be robot-based (video)
You’re probably getting tired of hearing that robots will take your jobs (and, ugh, ours) in the future over and over again. But, here’s the deal: perhaps it’s necessary keep repeating it so it sinks in, because there’s a huge chance that it’ll actually happen. The video after the break explains how the event mirrors the industrial revolution, when machines replaced a lot of manual laborers. See, those robots that are supposed to put us all out of jobs are already here: some of them (general-purpose robots, like Baxter in the image above) still need quite a lot of work, but others such as driverless cars are really close to deployment. Even white-collar workers, creatives and professionals aren’t safe now that more and more sophisticated software and hardware emerge, including IBM’s Watson, which can diagnose patients like a doctor. We’re like horses, says video creator CGP Grey, horses that were replaced by automobiles back in the day.
Okay, so we admit that all those points make the video sound depressing as hell, but that’s not actually its intention: Grey merely wants to point out that robots taking over everyone’s workplace is an inevitable development. We need to start thinking of what to do when that happens, because unlike our equine friends, we actually have the power to plan for the future.
[Image credit: Rethink Robotics]
Filed under: Robots
Via: The Verge
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Harvard provides a glimpse at how the robot plague will overrun us all
Think that fancy 3D printer of yours is a technological marvel? Well, it’s got nothing on these tiny coin-sized robots. Computer scientists at Harvard University have built an army of 1,024 bots that collaborate to create various shapes, much in the way ants link to form bridges or birds fly in formation. The Kilobots, as they’re called, communicate using infrared light, moving from one precise location to another based on issued commands. To form each object, four robots mark the origin, then each secondary Kilobot very slowly moves into place based on the transmitted image — the short GIF above represents several hours of work. Of course, that’s simplifying the process significantly, so head on over to Harvard’s site for all the juicy details.
Filed under: Robots
Via: Ars Technica
Source: Harvard University
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New Xbox One features now rolling out to preview members, all owners in coming months
Remember those new Xbox One features Microsoft announced at Gamescom this week? They’re available right now — at least to members who are part of the company’s preview program. Major Nelson just announced that Xbox Live users that have access to preview updates will be able to download the new features today. This includes the updated Friends section announced earlier this week as well as SmartGlass TV streaming, the system’s new boot to TV mode and the long awaited Media Player app. The announcement also revealed a host of previously unannounced updates, including tweaks to the Party app and Xbox One’s GameDVR.
For the most part, the new features are about getting organized: the Party app has been retooled to give specified “party leaders” more control over the group and the entire interface has been tweaked for clarity. The GameDVR allows users to select and delete multiple files at once, too — which should make it easier to keep your console’s hard drive clean. Finally, the update will reorganize a few sections of the Xbox One’s settings menu and bring “Xbox On” voice functionality to Australia, French Canada, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico. All in all, not a bad set of updates. Not part of the preview program? Don’t worry, the update will roll out to you (and the rest of the community) in the coming months. In the meantime, you can check out a quick walkthrough of the upcoming Media Player below.
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Source: Xbox
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Grade-school gamers test the foundation of DARPA’s next training software
Inside the University of Washington’s Center for Game Science (CGS), there’s a department that is making video games for children, and it’s funded mostly by DARPA. If you’ll recall, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is the part of the US Department of Defense that looks into emerging tech and its potential use by the armed forces — things like robots, for example. But in order to gauge software components, the educational titles developed at the CGS cultivate “adaptive learning” tech that could be employed for military training. With tools that foster school-age students’ STEM skills, researchers can test a game’s adaptive teaching abilities and potential for use in other learning scenarios. Developers examine how AI that changes to suit education level could be leveraged for real-world use, which moves beyond the DOD to include science and biochemistry queries. In fact, it was the CGS’ game Foldit that crowdsources scientific research through protein puzzle solving that caught the attention of DARPA in the first place. You can have a look at that particular title on the other side of the break.
[Photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images]
Filed under: Gaming, Robots, Science, Software
Source: Vice
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My new default file browser: Tomi File Manager
Sometimes, I’m just not satisified with what my phone comes with my default, such as the messaging app or the file browser. When I first heard about Tomi File Manager, I saw the pictures and was impressed with an app that looks to take file browsing to the next level. Not only was it actually… Read more »
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Apple CEO Tim Cook, Phil Schiller Take On ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ to Promote Awareness for ALS
Apple CEO Tim Cook today took the “Ice Bucket Challenge,” which is designed to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, also commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
The challenge asks people to pour buckets of ice water over their heads (documented on film and shared on social media sites) and then tag three friends to do the same. Friends unwilling to complete the challenge are asked to donate money towards ALS, but as noted by The Verge, many participants have chosen to participate and donate money to the cause.
According to Instagram and Twitter photos, Tim Cook had a bucket of ice water dumped on him at Apple’s Cupertino campus this afternoon during the company’s weekly beer bash, after being challenged by Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller yesterday.
Image courtesy of Instagram user world_of_possibilities
Phil Schiller, who dumped a bucket of ice water over his head at a beach in Half Moon Bay, also challenged actor Chris O’Donnell. Cook has gone on to challenge Apple board member Bob Iger, musician Michael Franti, and Beats co-founder Dr. Dre.
Phil Schiller takes the challenge
Many notable celebrities and tech industry leaders have completed the ice bucket challenge in recent weeks, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. As of August 12, the challenge has raised more than $4 million in donations.
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The gaming industry is booming and Sony’s lead is growing
Earlier this week Sony announced that it’d sold over 10 million PlayStation 4s to date, but that isn’t the half of it: the company’s latest gaming console is once again dominating the sales charts overall. As Sony tells it, July marks the seventh consecutive month that the PS4 outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One. Hardware isn’t the only area Sony is trumping its rival either, as The Last of Us: Remastered led software sales last month by a “considerable” margin ahead of number-two-seller Minecraft on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The gaming sector as a whole is incredibly healthy, too. The NPD Group reports that even though software sales are down overall for July (something it attributes directly to the lack of an NCAA Football release this year), hardware is picking up the slack. Comparing life-to-date numbers of the PS4 and Xbox One to their predecessors, the new consoles are outselling the PS3 and Xbox 360 by almost a whopping 80 percent. That puts this July ahead of last by 13 percent in terms of total money spent in the area, according to NPD.
Nintendo seems to be doing pretty well, too, despite that massive $97 million loss. The outfit says that Mario Kart 8 has now sold over a million copies in the US alone, and the Wii U has increased year-to-date sales by 60 percent compared to 2013.
What about Microsoft? Well, Redmond’s lack of a formal announcement should speak for itself. When we reached out for a comment, a company spokesperson reminded us that the Xbox One sales numbers more-than doubled in June (still no word on what they doubled from) and that “this momentum” continued into July. And, well, that’s about it. When you look at how many Xbox One software-bundled systems that Microsoft is releasing this fall, just how far behind the company is to its main competition (Sony) should be pretty apparent — the firm’s desperate and essentially giving away some of its biggest games in the hopes that people will buy an Xbox One.
Filed under: Cameras, Gaming, HD, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo
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Rocket recycling: watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 fly back to Earth
Back in mid-July, one of SpaceX’s two-stage Falcon 9 rockets blasted off from Cape Canaveral to deposit a series of 6 Orbcomm satellites in low earth orbit. In case you’re not terribly familiar with how these things work, it’s the rocket’s first stage (and its 9 Merlin 1C engines) that does most of the heavy lifting, and SpaceX hopes that these expensive boosters can be recovered and reused. We caught a glimpse of that particular Falcon 9′s first stage splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean thanks to a camera mounted on the rocket itself, but SpaceX posted a video today that gives us a look at the events from a different angle — specifically, from a chase plane coming along for the ride. Sadly, the plane lost sight of the first stage just as it tipped over and fell into the water, but the rest of rocket’s journey was well documented. Hitting the water compromised the booster’s hull, though the data collected gave SpaceX confidence that it’ll ultimately be able to land one of these things safely on dry land.
Filed under: Science
Source: SpaceX (YouTube)
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