Sky Sports News HQ app comes to Now TV boxes
Following Sky’s big Sky Sports News rebrand, it was only a matter of time until the updated channel made its way to the broadcaster’s Now TV set-top box via an app. Already delivering breaking news on smartphones and tablets, the new Sky Sports News HQ app comes to the £10 streamer today, offering 24/7 access to sports updates, breaking news and highlights. While access to the app isn’t free, there are a couple of easy ways unlock it, as long as you subscribe to Sky’s existing Now TV packages. One way is to buy a Sky Sports Day Pass or the new Sky Sports Week Pass, which will allow you to access the channel for up to 30 days after your current pass has expired. Sky’s making it available to Entertainment or Sky Movies pass holders too, meaning that if you’re already putting money down to catch up with the Lannisters or watch Sandra Bullock float around in space, you’ll be able to follow all of the latest player movements come Transfer Deadline Day.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Sky
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Experimental app can detect jaundice in newborns with just a snapshot
Want to make sure your newborn baby’s jaundice-free? There’s an app for that! A team of researchers from the University of Washington have developed an app that can diagnose jaundice among infants just by taking their pictures. Since the condition’s typically diagnosed by the excessive yellowing of one’s skin, it’s not too odd to develop a tool that can detect it with just a snapshot, just like that app that can spot skin cancer through a smartphone. You simply place a color calibration card (which helps the software determine lighting and flash conditions, as well as account for the baby’s skintone) on the baby’s tummy, take a picture and then upload it to the cloud for analysis. The algorithm quickly does its job, and you get the results and the baby’s bilirubin levels almost instantly.
Bilirubin’s the yellowish byproduct of red blood cell breakdown that’s usually processed by the liver. Since newborns’ livers don’t function like adults’, over 60 percent of infants experience elevated levels of bilirubin, or in other words, jaundice. While some babies can rid of the excess bilirubin themselves, others need treatment and medication, as jaundice left untreated for a long time could be lead to brain damage or to a serious disease called kernicterus. Although blood tests are still more accurate, the team’s goal it to replace other types of screening techniques with their diagnostic tool, and to make it work on babies of every ethnicity. Before that happens, though, they still have to test it on 1,000 infants, especially those with darker skins — and hope that it gets FDA clearance in the future.
Filed under: Science
Source: University of Washington
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All this ping pong table needs to throw a rave is a strobe light
Your souped-up table tennis setup for Saturday night beer pong sessions would tremble in shame in the presence of Stiga’s new Studio table if it could. This is one fancy table, you see, with its own 2,800W sound system that features eight 6 x 9 speakers, subwoofers, an amplifier and Bluetooth connectivity so you can blast songs about owning a dozen Lamborghinis and making money rain from your phone or tablet. It even has LED lighting and mic input for those days you want to go all out hosting parties. Crazy, right?
Here’s what the table’s PR says:
Handmade in the United States, the STIGA Studio Table is a stunning masterpiece that is the perfect storm of design, entertainment and performance. The STIGA Studio Table’s 2800-watt sound system delivers unparalleled sound quality through its powerful 360-degree free-standing audio – featuring a QSC CXD series professional processing amplifier, two Kicker 12″ Solo-Baric L7 Subwoofers and eight Kicker KS Series 3-way 6×9 speakers. Compatible with smartphones and MP3 players using Bluetooth Technology, the STIGA Studio Table perfectly projects amplified sound in all directions. To complement its sleek, visual design, the STIGA Studio Table features vibrant LED down-lighting – providing endless combinations of electrifying color that can be set to integrate with the audio system to react to the beat of the music in real-time. The STIGA Studio Table also includes a microphone input with separate volume control allowing users to sing over music delivering the most thrilling karaoke experience.
Of course, you need to spend some serious dough to get this 700-pound entertainment center to your home. The company will ship it for free and provide premium installation service, because this table will cost you, oh, just $14,900. Availability’s apparently very limited, though, and those burning to spend 15 grand on a ping pong table (we’re not judging) will have to contact Stiga through its website or by phone (800-467-1421).
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Source: Stiga
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Apple Granted Patent for Fifth Avenue Glass Cube Store Design [Mac Blog]
Apple has been granted a patent for the design of its iconic glass cube Fifth Avenue retail store, reports Patently Apple.
The decision comes four years after Apple applied for a trademark related to the store’s design, which is still currently pending. The panted granted today was originally filed on October 15, 2012 and credits eight inventors including former Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Apple’s Fifth Avenue store opened on May 19, 2006 and was designed by architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Due to a structural overhaul that took place in 2011, the location currently uses 15 panes of glass as opposed to 90 used in the original cube. The renovations on the newer cube also did away with nearly all of the hardware that previously held the original panes together, resulting in a “seamless” design.
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Researchers working on nanobots that directly attack tumors to cure cancer
For all the advancements we’ve made with technology and medicine, a cure for cancer still eludes us. But maybe that’s because we haven’t enlisted nanoparticles to attack tumors just yet. New research from the University of California’s Davis Cancer Center, spotted by PhysOrg, suggest that could be a reality sometime soon. By attaching a tumor-recognition module to a nanorobot, doctors would be able to both diagnose a cancerous growth and inject drugs directly into the carcinoma. This would effectively target only the malignant cells and leave the surrounding areas unharmed — taking things a few steps further than, say, the nanodiamonds we’ve heard of. It’s a stark contrast to how chemotherapy treatment typically works, too, which is a blanket attack on all of a certain type of cell that often inflicts as much collateral damage as it does good. Who knows, a world where cancer patients don’t have their hair or bone marrow destroyed during treatment might not be too far off after all.
[Image credit: Shutterstock / StockLite]
Via: PhysOrg
Source: Nature
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AllCast’s media streaming app is coming to iOS ‘slowly but surely’
Envious of Android’s stream-wrangling AllCast app, but not ready to switch mobile platforms? You’re in luck: the app’s creator just teased the iOS version of the app on his Google+ page. A pair of screenshots (featured above) shows the work-in-progress, punctuated only with developer Koushik Dutta’s brief commentary: “Slowly but surely.” The port was apparently sparked by a handful of new iOS8 APIs that it possible to cast from other apps besides AllCast. So, when will it be here? Dutta says he hopes to release the app in a few weeks, possibly the end of September.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Apple
Source: Google+
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Scientists catch Schrödinger’s cat with quantum physics
Schrodinger’s cat, the good ole thought experiment that’s been twisting (non-Quantum physicist) brains for decades. Scientists might have just caught it. Or not. Typical. What you see above is a combined image where a stencil was bombarded with cosmic rays photons, but the photons that generated the image actually never interacted with the stencil — stay with us. It was separate photons (which shared the same quantum state as the ones that hit the camera) which arrived at the stencil. The science goes that when two separate particles are entangled, their physical properties appear to correlate and they share a single quantum state.
Researchers at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna created yellow and red pairs of entangled photons. While yellow photons were fired at the cat stencil, the red photons were sent to the camera. Quantum entanglement could offer a huge array of benefits, including highly advanced data security and quantum communication, which sounds equal parts complicated and futuristic.
Source: New Scientist
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Olympus’ newest mirrorless camera is built for selfies
Even Olympus can’t resist the allure of selfies, it seems. The company has just unveiled the PEN E-PL7, a retro-tinged mirrorless camera whose centerpiece is a 3-inch flip-out LCD that makes those trendy self-portraits a little easier. When you swing out the display, it kicks into a “Selfie Mode” which lets you tap the screen to capture a slightly time-delayed (and hopefully, better-prepared) shot. There’s a selfie interval option to snap successive photos in different poses, and powered zoom lenses will automatically kick into a wide-angle view to make sure your pretty face is in the frame.
It’s not just about stroking your ego. The E-PL7 still has a 16-megapixel sensor like the E-PL6, but it carries both the E-M10′s three-axis image stabilization and a fast 81-point autofocusing system that can shoot a moving subject at up to 3.5 frames per second (8FPS in regular bursts). And you’ll be glad to hear that WiFi has finally reached the mid-tier PEN line — you can both share pics through your phone or control the camera from a short distance away.
If you’re tempted, the E-PL7 won’t cost too much when it ships in late September. Spending $600 will get you the body alone, and $700 bundles a 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 standard zoom lens. The accessories don’t arrive until October, although there are two that will be worth waiting for if you’re going diving: a $700 underwater shell will keep your camera safe, while a matching $500 flash will illuminate darker waters.
Filed under: Cameras
Source: Olympus
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Microsoft explains how it’s getting rid of fake Windows Store apps
You may have heard that the Windows Store has a serious problem with counterfeit apps; for every legitimate title, there’s seemingly a horde of fakes meant solely to take your money and run. At last, though, Microsoft has detailed what it’s doing to cull these scams from its shop. To begin with, it recently toughened up the requirements so that app categories, icons and names reflect what you’re really getting; hopefully, you’ll see less junk going forward. The folks in Redmond are also scouring the existing catalog, and have pulled 1,500 apps so far. There’s still a long way to go (search for “iTunes” and you’ll see plenty of copyright abuse), but this represents a good start.
For some, the biggest solution may be what Microsoft isn’t doing — namely, paying developers for every app they publish. A promotion the company ran last year gave $100 per finished app no matter how much work was involved, which actually punished those who took the time to write top-notch software. The strategy suggested to some that Microsoft was obsessed with catching up to the quantities of apps in Apple’s App Store or Google Play, quality be damned. Both the crackdown and the end to those pay-per-app promos should go a long way toward changing this reputation, but it will only be successful when you can safely assume that most Windows Store apps are the real deal.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Software, Microsoft
Source: Building Apps for Windows
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Smartwatch Mania with ASUS, LG, and Samsung! – ManDroid Daily
Welcome to Smartwatch Mania! Wow. Passed couple hours have been very intersting indeed, folks. ASUS, LG, and Samsung all teased new smartwatches today that will be officially unveiled at IFA. Not bad designs for these smartwatches. I kind of dig LG’s new design with that circular face. Let us know which watch will be landing on your wrist, or will you still go with the Moto 360. Enjoy the Daily!
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