Apple Watch ‘Spring forward’ liveblog
We’re on the ground at Apple’s Spring forward event at Yerba Buena in San Francisco!
That’s right, it’s time for the Apple Watch and maybe more! Show starts Monday, March 9, at 10am PT, 1pm PT. You can watch Apple’s live stream and follow along here for all the color, commentary, analysis, and chat you know and love!
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The Big Picture: A young star poses for its close-up
The Hubble Space Telescope spots a lot of stars, but some of them are seemingly more eager to pose for snapshots than others. Take the star you see above, for example. That’s V1331 Cyg, a young stellar object that’s conveniently sending a jet of gas directly toward Hubble, providing a clear (and rather dramatic) view that isn’t clouded by interstellar dust, like its neighbors. Astronomers don’t mind that V1331 is hogging the spotlight, though — this scene offers an ideal way to look for signs of planetary formation and other phenomena that would otherwise be hard to detect. This could be much, much more than a pretty picture if it helps scientists understand how stars grow up.
Filed under: Science
Source: NASA
The Weather Channel app for Windows Phone removes redundant pivot
This morning The Weather Channel app for Windows Phone has hit version 1.2. Although the old changelog is still listed from the big redesign a few weeks ago, we have gone through and noticed a few alterations to the app.
One of the largest and most welcome changes is the removal of secondary locations by swiping left or right. One issue with this old method was redundancy if you only had one location the app would still show a second place to the right.
HTC has a plan to get you to purchase a One M9 over the iPhone
It looks like HTC has a plan to tackle the high-end smartphone market. As we all know, HTC has been working hard at building a gorgeous phone over the last few years and with general success at doing so. Even so, HTC hasn’t been able to chip into the Apple/Samsung dominated smartphone market and as such HTC must show how the One M9 differentiates itself from both Android phones and the iPhone 6. Well, HTC Americas president Jason Mackenzie seems to to know this and has hinted that HTC has a plan in place to do so.
In a Business Insider interview at MWC this year, Mackenzie teased an upcoming announcement that will come in ahead of the M9 launch later this spring that will help HTC push the One M9. It’s an announcement that we’ll get later this month. Here’s what he said.
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UC Berkeley 3D prints an artsy pavilion using dry powdered cement
Here’s a project that could pave way to structures both unique and affordable. A team of researchers from the UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design has unveiled the Bloom Pavilion, which they call “the first and largest powder-based 3D-printed cement structure.” It measures 9 feet high, 12 feet wide and 12 feet deep, with a traditional Thai floral motif design. The pavilion is not the first 3D-printed building, to be clear. A Chinese company built 10 houses in under 24 hours last year and finished a whopping 5-storey apartment block in January using 3D-printed parts. Plus, there’s that 3D-printed castle in Minnesota. However, it was created using dry powdered cement, whereas other 3D-printed buildings were made by extruding wet cement through a nozzle.
According to team leader Ronald Rael, they “are mixing polymers with cement and fibers to produce very strong, lightweight, high-resolution parts on readily available equipment; it’s a very precise, yet frugal technique.” The pavilion will be shipped to the team’s sponsor in Thailand to be displayed for several months, before being exhibited in other places around the world.
Filed under: Misc
Via: Inhabitat
Source: UC Berkeley
Release date and pricing leak for Verizon Nexus 6, will be available March 12th
We know Verizon’s Nexus 6 is coming, and probably fairly soon, but some new promotional material has leaked that confirms some of the rumors we’ve already heard. The official launch date of the device will be March 12th if you’re willing to order it online, and the Nexus 6 will be offered in stores on March 19th.
As far as pricing goes, you’ll be able to snag a 32 GB variant for $249 on contract, $29.16 per month if you opt for Verizon’s Edge installment plans, or $699 if you plan on purchasing it outright. According to this info, though, it doesn’t seem like the white color will be available, and you won’t have any options besides 32 GB. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing.
The Verizon Nexus 6 is definitely going to be launching on Android 5.1, so there’s a chance we’ll see the update make its way to other Nexus devices within the next two weeks, but worst case scenario, the official release to AOSP won’t trail far behind that March 12th launch. There’s also a 6 month Google Play Music promo bundled with the device, although that’s hardly a first for Google.
Still interested in buying a Nexus 6 on Verizon, or have you changed your mind to some of the other devices that have been announced?
source: Phandroid
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BerryFlow Upstream Podcast – Slide
With Mobile World Congress all wrapped up and this being the first BerryFlow since then, it’s time to go ahead and discuss some of the announcements such as the BlackBerry Leap, the BlackBerry Slider, BES12 Cloud, BBM and much, much more. If you weren’t able to tune in live, go ahead and check out the video, audio as well as the full discussion and guest list below.
10 Android photography tips for beginners
Make the most out of the camera you have with you
There’s an old saying about there being no such thing as a bad camera, only a bad photographer. While we aren’t going to go that far, we can say that most any Android phone has a camera that can take great pictures — once you learn how things work and take a little time to do them.
Getting a good action-shot as it happens is an art to itself, but for those times when you want to take a few minutes and get the best picture possible we’ve got a handful of tips that can help.
How would you change Motorola’s Droid Ultra?
Sometimes, a musician tied down to a long contract will fire out a sub-par record to fulfill a contractual obligation to their label. In some ways, Motorola’s Droid Ultra felt like an exercise in contractual obligation rather than a handset in its own right. After all, the Ultra was, more or less, the Moto X in another body, and since the X was also available on Verizon, our Brad Molen felt that the Ultra had no reason to exist. We wager, however, that plenty of you bought this handset, so why not hop over to the forum and tell us why you did?
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Google
Source: Engadget Product Forums
AT&T beats T-Mobile in JD Power Network Quality Report
J.D. Power released a report containing the results of the big four carriers in the realm of lost calls, slow downloads, failed texts, and other network issues. Verizon took first place as usual, but T-Mobile fell out of second this year, being pushed from its former silver medal spot by its archrival, AT&T. T-Mobile was making gains in certain regions of the US last year, most likely because of its massive expansion in 2014. However, due the added customers in 2015, T-Mobile has seen some added network issues that caused them to become 3rd. As usual, Sprint is in last place in all regions except one.
If it’s any consolation to the Uncarrier, T-Mobile is still highly rated in the realm of customer service and customer satisfaction, due to its new policies and industry-changing moves.
Source: JD Power
Via: GigaOm
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