What’s on your HDTV: Mayweather/Pacquiao, NFL Draft, ‘Powers’ finale

This weekend sports dominates the TV landscape, with the big fight on pay-per-view, the Kentucky Derby and the NFL Draft. Meanwhile, The Last Man on Earth is readying its season finale, along with PlayStation Network’s Powers. After a long development period, Broken Age: The Complete Adventure is arriving on various gaming platforms, and Inherent Vice is out on Blu-ray. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).

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LG Leon LTE and LG G Stylo are making their way to T-Mobile this spring

Earlier today T-Mobile announced that it would carry the brand new LG G4 starting in June, but that’s not the only new LG device making its way to the carrier’s lineup. T-Mobile will also carry the LG G Stylo phablet and LG Leon LTE starting sometime this spring. So far there is very little information regarding when the two handsets will come to the carrier or how much they’ll cost, but T-Mobile says it will have more information for us in the future.

Announced less than a week ago, the LG G Stylo is a new mid-range device that boasts decent specifications for the price point. It has a 5.7-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720 x 1280, a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage and MicroSD expansion up to 128GB. Additionally, it’s running Android 5.0 Lollipop, has an 8MP rear camera, 5MP front camera and a 3000mAh battery. Of course, it also has a rubber-tipped stylus, which works in conjunction with the software features LG incorporated into Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Read more: Hands on with LG’s new mid-range smartphones

Also making its way to the Un-carrier is the LG Leon LTE, a small device that was announced back at MWC 2015 a few months ago. We went hands-on with this device and three others, and you can check out our full first impressions post here.

The Leon LTE has a 4.5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 854 × 480, a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of on-board storage and MicroSD expansion up to 32GB. It’s also running Android 5.0 Lollipop, has a 5MP rear-facing camera, a VGA front camera and a removable 1900mAh battery. The handset may not be the best on the market, but considering you’ll get a 4G LTE-capable device running Android 5.0 Lollipop for a very small price tag, we think you could do much worse than this one.

We’ll be sure to update you as we hear more about these two handsets.

NASA’s shape-shifting plane wings pass initial flight tests

After six months and 22 flights at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA has announced the successful completion of testing for its morphing airplane wing design. Known as Adaptive Compliant Trailing Edge (ACTE) flight control surfaces, they replace a plane’s conventional, rigid flaps with a flexible composite material. Not only are they designed to significantly reduce an aircraft’s weight (as well as the noise it generates during flight), these flaps could save the industry millions of dollars annually in fuel savings. In tests, the wing’s curve remained set anywhere from -2 to 30 degrees but it can be adjusted as needed, even in midflight. Eventually, flexible wings can make for lighter, more fuel-efficient planes as well as quieter takeoffs and landings.

“The completion of this flight test campaign at Armstrong is a big step for NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project,” said ERA project manager Fay Collier in a statement. “This is the first of eight large-scale integrated technology demonstrations ERA is finishing up this year that are designed to reduce the impact of aviation on the environment.” The ACTE results are to be integrated into future design trade studies conducted by NASA’s Langley Research Center.

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Source: NASA

Europe is making in-car emergency calling standard by 2018

More than 25,700 people died driving on european highways last year. In an effort to reduce these incidents, the European Parliament has voted to outfit every new passenger car and light truck in the EU with an auto-dialing system that rings 112 (Europe’s 911) in the event of a major accident. Known as eCall, it will be “a public service, free of charge for all citizens, irrespective of the type of vehicle or its purchase price,” MEP Olga Sehnalova explained in a statement. They’ll also be standard options for all new vehicles sold after March 31st, 2018.

The program was originally pitched in 2012 but was delayed as regulators worked out a balance between utility and privacy. The eCall system in its current form prevents authorities from tracking vehicles prior to a crash and only sends basic information–vehicle type, location and number of passengers–when a wreck does occur. “The information is transferred only at the moment a serious accident occurs and airbag are sensors set off,” Sehnalova continued. “Then a standard set of information is sent to the rescue services.”

These devices are expected to reduce emergency crew response times by 40 percent in urban areas and halve them in rural communities. As such, the European Commission estimates the program will reduce driver deaths by a whopping 10 percent–2,500 lives annually. The device is expected to add only around $100 to the total price of a new vehicle.

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Via: Phys.org

Source: European Parliament

App of the Day: FreshFeed.

It is scary to think about how much Facebook probably knows about us. From the kind restaurant that we like to eat at, to the type of clothing we wearing. Now, you might be thinking “Juan, you super awesome person you, you are crazy!” While I do agree I can, at times, be super awesome, stop and think for a minute. Most of us have usually liked a store brand here and there, checked into restaurants when we arrive on Facebook, and so on. We are going to only like pages that interest us, after all. So Facebook now has a great database of our likes and preferences, all just sitting there (hopefully it is just sitting there) with no real purpose. Well, our App of the Day has decided to tap into all of that unused information and at least make it useful to us.

“Developed by a team of physicists, mathematicians and psychologists, FreshFeed uses a unique discovery engine, using your “likes” as fuel and generates your unique “Personality Wheel.” Are you more of an activist than you thought you were (let’s say 8%), or a musician, or a foodie? Find out! “

Introducing FreshFeed, the content app that tailors what it show you based on the data it gathers from your Facebook! Made by some really smart people, at least that is what the bio states, FreshFeed uses all of the information that you have been giving Facebook for years and uses it to decide what kind of content you are currently more inclined to seeing. Let’s say you have been a very vocal advocate for kitten rights these past few years on social media. FreshFeed would see that from Facebook and use it to give you more content that is focused on kitten right and similar content. Now, it does not just stop there, of course, as the app will deliver on whatever it feels like you are most interested in at that time. The neat part of FreshFeed is that it promises unlimited content that is relevant to you, and only you. Now you don’t have to waste your time searching for kitten news since it will hopefully be right there when you open the app!

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