It *is* rocket science: Oppo N3 will be made from “aerospace grade metal”
Just when you think manufacturers have run out of ideas of what to make devices from, something always comes up that surprises. The source of this particular surprise is Oppo, who has teased their latest phone, the Oppo N3, with the above teaser and the phrase “Built for what may come”. The teaser image was posted on Oppo’s Weibo page and says that the N3 will be constructed from “aerospace grade metal”.
Presumably this is a step up from the typical “aircraft grade aluminium” we see from time to time and apparently Oppo has seen fit to make its latest phone out of it. Whether this means the N3 will be able to survive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere remains to be seen, but we should find out more when Oppo holds its teased announcement in Singapore sometime in October. We’re still not entirely sure what the N3 is going to look like after multiple leaks appear to depict different devices, but we’re expecting the device to re-visit the swivel camera mechanism that was so prominent on its predecessor, the Oppo N1.
What do you think about Oppo making its Oppo N3 out of “aerospace grade metal”? Let us know your thoughts.
Source: Weibo via TalkAndroid
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will be available in 140 countries before the end of October
Samsung has confirmed today that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will be available in 140 countries by the end of October, as well as mentioning that the phone will go on sale first in its native Korea on September 26th. This is a significant jump over the 100 countries that got access to the Note 3 on launch day, and it will need to be a big release if the Note 4 is to have any hope of stemming the flow of people migrating to the similarly large Apple iPhone 6 Plus.
Of course, the Note 4 isn’t without help in its plight with help coming from other related Samsung products, chief among these the Samsung Gear VR, Samsung and Oculus’ collaboration on a virtual reality headset. Of course, there is also Samsung’s latest Tizen smartphone, the Gear S, as well as the Note 4′s curvaceous stable mate, the Note Edge. Being Samsung’s second flagship of 2014, the Note 4 almost sells itself: powered by a Snapdragon 805 processor (or Exynos 5433 in some regions), the Note 4′s pride and joy is its 5.7-inch AMOLED Quad HD display which continues the tradition of Samsung’s great displays. We can’t wait to see more of the device after it releases into the wild.
Are you going to get the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 when it releases in your country? Let us know your thoughts.
Source: Samsung Tomorrow via SamMobile
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Xbox One’s new Comedy Central app delivers ‘South Park’ and ‘The Daily Show’
Not going to be home to catch the South Park season premiere this week, lack a DVR but have an Xbox One? We realize those conditions might narrow the field just a bit, but you shouldn’t worry either way: the Comedy Central app is now available for Microsoft’s newest gaming console. With it comes access to current shows the day after they air and a trove of past seasons and catalog programming, too. The Daily Show network notes on Xbox Wire that there’s a bunch of stand-up specials and digital shorts available on the app (similar to its Xbox 360 counterpart) as well. The difference between this and Hulu Plus, of course, is that accessing the shows is free with your existing cable subscription. It’s even more of a deal in the wake of Microsoft not requiring an Xbox Live Gold membership to access media apps. With enough time, the Xbox One could even start to pay for itself — assuming you only watch Comedy Central, that is.
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Xbox Wire
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Tilt Brush is a virtual reality app that lets you paint with light
We’ve seen some pretty nifty uses for virtual reality since the Oculus Rift hit the scene (bird-simulator, anyone?), but nothing quite like Tilt Brush. At its core, the app is a 3D painting program. Boiling it down to that is a little disingenuous, though. Making art with the Rift looks absurdly cool and you aren’t limited to making a two-dimensional scene with Roy G. Biv — Tilt Brush allows for painting with light, smoke and stars too. As The Creators Project points out, you can even export your masterpiece as a GIF. We aren’t entirely responsible for the one above, that actually came from the video we’ve embedded just after the break. Considering that Oculus recently released the source code from its first development kit to the public, we can only hope more excellent VR applications like this are on the horizon.
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Home Entertainment, HD
Via: Kotaku
Source: Tilt Brush
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Adobe Unveils Photoshop and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac
Adobe today released new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, its lower-cost photo and video editing software aimed at consumers. Both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 have gained several new features, focusing on improved editing tools, additional guided techniques, and Elements Live, a new portal that offers tips and tricks directly within each app.
“Our customers don’t always have the time or the know-how to get the results they desire,” said Shanmugh Natarajan, senior director, engineering, core technologies and products at Adobe. “In Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13, we focused on developing tools that automate the process or guide customers through the steps to create the photos they’ll love and want to share.”
Photoshop Elements 13, Adobe’s image editing software, includes updates that Adobe says were inspired by customer request. One of the main new features is the Photomerge Compose tool, which is used alongside the Refine Selection Brush to allow users to seamlessly copy people or objects from one image to another with just a few clicks.
There are new tools to create matching Facebook cover and profile photos, customizable with text and graphics, plus there are new guided edits available for creating black and white photos with hits of color. Guided edits are Adobe’s interactive tutorials, which offer step-by-step instructions on completing various tasks in app.
Photoshop Elements 13 also gains new Effects Variations, offering extra options for each existing effect to give users up to 50 filters that can be applied with a click, and there are impressive new cropping tools that include crop suggestions. The Intelligent Crop Suggestions tool analyzes faces and photo composition to select the four best crops for a particular image.
Premiere Elements 13, Adobe’s video editing software, introduces new tools to minimize the time that users spend editing their footage. Favorite Moments can be used to mark the best spots in a video, which can then be automatically assembled into a short movie, and Video Story assembles various clips, adds in transitions, music, and applies a theme for a particular occasion like a birthday party. Simple themed slideshows can also be created.
Premiere Elements 13 offers improved shake stabilization to improve the look of videos shot with hand-held devices like smartphones, and there are new Guided Edits to help users add motion to movie titles and improve dramatic effects in one area of a scene using masking techniques.
Elements Live, available in both Photoshop and Premiere 13, includes content curated by Adobe, tips, tricks, and tutorials. It also lets users see what other people are using the software to create.
Both Photoshop Elements 13 and Premiere Elements 13 for Mac and Windows can be purchased separately on Adobe’s website for $99.99 each, with bundles available for $149.99. Existing users can upgrade for $79.99 or $119.99 for the bundle.
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If this were the ’90s, Apple’s latest acquisition would be a Kinko’s
Want to make a digital magazine but Apple’s iBook Author app just doesn’t offer what you want? Then perhaps Cupertino’s latest buy could signal a coming change that’ll help you out. The iPhone company has purchased Prss, the digital publishing outfit behind Trvl, which TechCrunch notes was the first iPad-only newsstand publication way back in 2010. Prss’ niche is that it allows you to make snazzy-looking iPad mags without needing to know any coding. The news started as an anonymously-sourced report from Dutch iOS blog, iCulture, but Apple confirmed the vowel-averse company’s acquisition to TC, stating that it buys smaller tech firms from time to time and “generally do [does] not discuss our [its] plans or purposes.” Here’s to hoping that this pick-up is a bit less tumultuous than Tim Cook’s last purchase.
[Image credit: AFP/Getty Images]
Filed under: Tablets, Software, Mobile, Apple
Source: iCulture (Dutch), TechCrunch
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Photoshop and Premiere Elements 13 deliver more easy editing
Adobe has been diligent to announce updates to its Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements offerings in late September, and this year is no different. With the arrival of version 13 of both bits of software, there are even more easy-to-use editing tools for both photos and video clips. In Photoshop Elements 13, Photomerge Compose allows you to quickly snag objects from one snapshot and place them in another, blending color and lighting to make for a realistic final product. The app will also suggest a smattering of crop options to fine-tune compositions, offer Guided Edits, allow you to “nudge” selection boundaries and it serves up a handful of options when a single effect is selected. To boost your video efforts in Premiere Elements 13, Video Story lends a hand with editing footage from major life events. There’s also quick clip selection, Shake Stabilizer to make the most out of shaky action cam footage and Guided Edits to help with titles and effects. Mobile device syncing got a boost across the board as well, and Elements Live provides tutorials, support and inspiration from right inside the apps. Adobe is set to ship Photoshop and Premiere Elements 13 in Q4 2014 with a $150 price tag.
Filed under: Software
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New Apple Print Ad Shows Off iPhone 6 and 6 Plus ‘Actual Sizes’
Apple has begun rolling out a new print ad on the back of magazines like Rolling Stone showing off how big the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are compared to older iPhone models, as noticed by The Mac Observer.
The ad simply depicts both of the new iPhones at actual size with the tagline “Actual Sizes”, and could likely tempt users of older iPhones to compare their current model to the new ones to see the size differences between the phones. Below the iPhones, the ad includes copy that briefly talks about the new features of the phones.
Stunning Retina HD display. Amazing new iSight camera. Powerful 64-bit A8 processor. The most advanced iOS yet. All in an ultraslim design. The new iPhones are bigger than bigger.
Apple has made the larger sizes of the new iPhones one of the cornerstones of its marketing for them, also debuting a TV ad starring Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake that talks about how “huge” the new phones are.
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Dead Man Zero will let you blow the whistle beyond the grave
Head’s up, whistleblowers: you’re only as good as your backup plan, and one service has set up shop on the dark web to help you spill the beans in case you’re “hurt, jailed, or even killed for trying to render a genuine and risky service to our free society.” Meet Dead Man Zero. For the low, low price of 0.3 Bitcoins (at time of writing, that works out to just over $130), you can have digital dead man’s switch to make sure that word gets out about what you were working on… and just maybe who may have been behind your disappearance or demise.
Don’t log in and punch in a password within a certain period of time? Your payload goes public, with copies sent to all the parties you defined when you signed up in the first place. You can’t withdraw or put a lid on that data, either — if you’re not dead and just forgot to fire up Tor that week, you’ve got a maximum of about 15 minutes to get your act together before all your stuff starts hitting inboxes. To be clear though, DMZ doesn’t actually store any of your files (as far as they’re concerned, that just makes them another target). Instead, you zip, encrypt and store your stuff online – the link to the file and the credentials needed to open it are what DMZ is really interested in.
There’s just one potential hitch, here: the people you actually give your information to. The beauty of a literal dead man’s switch is that when your body heaves a final time, there’s a sort of physical immediacy to the switch being triggered — there’s no intermediary. To use Dead Man Zero is to trust the faceless people who put it together, to take them at their word that the system works as it should and that your hard work and findings don’t just disappear along with you. When you’re onto something big, trusting someone (especially some faceless randos on the dark web) ain’t an easy thing to swing. That hasn’t stopped users from taking a shot on the service, though: The system currently plays host to some 411 archives are just one bad day away from being released into the wild.
Via: Motherboard
Source: Dead Man Zero (.onion)
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Samsung’s no-phone-necessary Gear S watch is coming to the US this fall
Samsung gave us a glimpse at its next smartwatch (there have been a few) during IFA, and tonight there’s news that, surprise, you’ll be able to buy and use the Gear S in the US this fall. This one is special because unlike most other watches, it can connect to 3G data by itself when the wearer’s phone isn’t around. There’s little in the way of details, but it’s coming on all four major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile — and the company promises more information “soon.” You can check out our experiences at typing out emails on its two-inch AMOLED screen right here, and decide if it’s worth picking up this Tizen OS device instead of the Apple Watch (or any of the other wearables either coming soon or already here).
Filed under: Wearables, Wireless, Mobile, Samsung, Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile
Source: Samsung
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