Deal: Pick up a pair of MMOVE Bluetooth Stereo Earbuds for a massive 78% off
Going for a run? Commuting to work? Don’t let troublesome headphone cables slow you down. If you’d like to listen to your music worry-free while you’re on the go, you may want to try the MMOVE Bluetooth Stereo Earbuds – currently 78% off in the AA Deals Store.
Since these are Bluetooth-enabled, you no longer have to worry about accidentally pulling your earbuds out of your ears while you’re being active. But just because they’re Bluetooth headphones, doesn’t mean you’re skimping out on quality, either. They feature isolated sound with CVC 6.0 Noise Reduction for distraction-free listening, and you can even listen for up to 6 hours at a time on a single charge. They also have a durable, sweat proof design that allows you to control volume and song choice, take or reject calls and more with the convenient on-ear controls. The earbuds also come with three different sized eartips, comfort fit earhooks, and active fit earhooks, so you won’t have any problems fitting them in your ears.
Right now, the Android Authority Deals Store is offering these earbuds for just $31.99, which is a massive 78% off the suggested retail price. Don’t miss out on this awesome deal! Head to the link below if you’re interested.
MediaTek based Chromebooks to arrive near the end of 2015
Having released a selection of new SoCs for smartphones and tablets, MediaTek is now setting its sights on the laptop market. The company has confirmed that it is developing a new mobile chip for use in low-cost Chromebooks.
Mediatek will be aiming to sell its Chromebook processor to multiple existing manufacturers and will apparently be powering various next generation products. However, the company was also keen to point out that its market share would start out small. Worldwide Chromebook sales are expected to reach 7.3 million units in 2015, a 27 percent increase from 2014, according to Garnet Inc. Acer is currently the largest player in the market, so we’ll be eagerly watching to see if MediaTek can pick Acer up as a client.
The new, currently unnamed, chip is expected to arrive on the market by the end of 2015 or in early 2016, according to MediaTek President C.J. Hsieh. This move will put MediaTek in direct competition with Intel, which provides the processors for a number of existing Chomebook products.
MediaTek appears keen to go above and its current mobile products next year. The company is also developing a SoC for use in a 4K TV running Google’s Android TV service, a chip designed specifically for the wearables market, as well as a processor for home audio streaming.
ZTE Blade S6 users will soon be able to unlock their phone with their “eyeprint”
One of the cooler features of the ZTE Grand S3 is the ability to unlock the device simply by looking at it. Now this Eyeprint ID feature is coming to the Blade S6, via an OTA scheduled for this summer.
Launched in February, the Blade S6 is a capable mid-ranger featuring a 5-inch HD display, a Snapdragon 615 processor, a 2,400-mAh battery, and a 13MP rear camera. Our Lanh liked that the Blade S6 snaps great images, is fast, and runs Lollipop, though the uninspiring design and somehow cheap build quality held the device back.
Though ZTE can’t do a lot about the hardware, the Chinese company can add new software features and improve existing ones. Case in point, the addition of Eyeprint ID, a novel technology that makes it possible to unlock your device just by looking at it. Developed by EyeVerify, a maker of biometric security solutions, Eyeprint ID uses a phone’s front camera to scan the user’s eye, identifying blood vessels patterns that are unique to each individual. EyeVerify promises an accuracy of 99.99%, unlock times of under a second, and proper security. This is a different solution from iris scanning, which a number of Android OEMs are currently experimenting with.
For a look at Eyeprint ID in action, check out our hands-on with the ZTE Grand S3 from MWC 2015, starting around the 2:05 mark.
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As you can see in the video, the feature is a bit slow, but according to ZTE, recognition speeds should improve as you use the device. For users who demand the highest level of security, Eyeprint ID could be a better choice than password-, PIN-, or pattern-based locking.
Eyeprint ID will hit the Blade S6 over the air sometime this summer. ZTE also announced that the Blade S6 is now widely available in UK, Germany, and Spain, and coming coon in Scandinavia. In Asia, the device now sells in Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia, while India and Thailand will follow in the next two months.
The Acer Predator 8 gaming tablet uses Intel’s new Atom x7 and rocks four speakers
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Gaming tablets are somewhat of a rarity in the Android world – NVIDIA’s SHIELD Tablet does seem quite lonely sometimes – but it seems there is another challenger. Announced today at Computex 2015, the Acer Predator 8 is a mean, lean, gaming machine and to help it in its plight for ultimate gaming glory, it rocks the new Intel Atom x7 processor and has four front-facing speakers. Yes, four.
In case you were wondering, the Atom x7 is the same processor that comes in some of the new Windows Surface 3 tablets, which means this tablet has decent gaming chops, for an Android device at least. Furthermore, it just looks like a badass tablet with its sharp edges and angry colours, which again, is another rarity in the Android world. Despite all this, the Predator 8 is still going to be a bit of a niche product, but it’s good to see more of these devices emerging to give Android gamers an option should they want one. Unfortunately we don’t have much in the way of details just yet, but hopefully we will in the near future.
What do you think of the Acer Predator 8 gaming tablet? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Thync’s mood-changing wearable arrives for $299
How eager are you to calm down (or psych yourself up) at a moment’s notice? If the answer is “enough to buy a fairly expensive gadget,” your solution is now within reach. Thync has launched its namesake mood-changing wearable at the hefty price of $299. That’s a lot to pay simply to feel different, but the company is betting that its funky, triangular neurosignalling device is just the ticket if you tend to be stressed or lethargic at inopportune moments. Use the phone-controlled device and it should either relax or revitalize you for up to an hour, with “carry-over impacts” lasting for hours longer. The hardware worked well enough in our early hands-on, so it might be worth giving Thync a shot if you’re often out-of-sorts — it may well beat drinking coffee or beer to achieve the same effects.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: Thync
Vodafone expands 4G roaming to the Carribean and beyond
With its Feel at Home free roaming perk, Three is undoubtedly the most jetsetter-friendly carrier in the UK, but Vodafone’s not too far behind. It’s WorldTraveller add-on lets you use your usual call, text and 4G data allowances abroad for a £5 daily fee, and from June 15th, it’ll cover an extra 22 foreign destinations. That’s a slightly misleading figure, however, since many of the new destinations are the small island nations peppered in and around the Caribbean, with Bermuda, El Salvador, Guyana, Panama and Suriname making up the numbers. Still, it means you won’t have to pay through the nose to post hotdog leg snaps from a Caribbean beach this summer holiday.
The last Pirate Bay co-founder has served his jail time
For years, authorities had played a game of cat and mouse with the co-founders of Bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. The long game eventually paid off, with Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Warg and Fredrik Neij all being sent to prison within a six month period. Sunde and Warg have since walked free, leaving Neij as the final site founder still serving a custodial sentence. At least until now. TorrentFreak reports that the 37-year-old has been released after serving two-thirds of what should have been a ten-month stretch.
Since their arrests, The Pirate Bay’s founders have moved to distance themselves from the site. One month after his release, Peter Sunde admitted he would prefer that The Pirate Bay stay closed following a major raid. He noted that it had moved away from what it was supposed to represent and was plastered with ads that when he felt couldn’t get “more distasteful, they somehow ended up even worse.” With Neij serving his time in a Swedish prison, it’s likely that he will now return home to Laos to rejoin his wife and children.
[Image credit: Daniel Mott, Flickr]
Source: TorrentFreak
Google boosts employee diversity but is still mostly white guys
As of the start of this year, 53,600 people work for Google full-time. Too many of those workers, according to the company’s detractors and its own assessment a year ago, are male, and white or Asian. In order to counter this gap, Google has looked for ways to boost female and minority hiring. Per its just updated diversity report, 21 percent of the company’s technical hires last year were female. However that translates into just a 1 percent increase in the total number of women hired to technical positions. Women in general constitute just 30 percent of Google’s employees. Additionally, the onboarding rates for both Black and Hispanic hires increased faster than the company’s overall growth for the year but still only constitute 2 and 3 percent of the company’s entire workforce, respectively.
Those numbers don’t sound like much progress because, well, they aren’t. Google called the results “early” and points to the efforts it’s undertaking, like spending millions to increase the number of technologists, change the corporate culture and recruit from a more diverse pool of sources. The company says it will keep working to “build a workforce more reflective of the diversity of people we serve”, even if the results haven’t shown up on the stat sheets just yet.
[Image Credit: Getty Images]
Source: Google Diversity Report
Corning unveils its improved Lotus XT Glass
Corning has announced its latest glass substrate for high performance LCD and OLED displays named Lotus XT Glass. Lotus XT Glass is the next generation of Corning’s Lotus Glass, which was unveiled back in 2011.
The company boasts increased brightness, higher resolution and lower power consumption for devices making use of its new Lotus XT Glass. This has been accomplished by Corning’s focus on to maintaining its glass’ total pitch variation performance in a wide range of manufacturing temperatures. The glass is said to maintain its performance with both low-temperature and high-temperature LTPS and oxide TFT processes.
Pitch Variation is essentially the distance that display components, such as color filters, move during heating. These have to be lined up with the backplane transistors and glass that varies too much has to be discarded. Corning says that variation is improved by up to 60 percent over its competition. Production yields should be improved thanks to these changes, which should help device manufacturers reduce their costs. You can see more about the improvements in the video below.
While Corning’s well-known Gorilla Glass is used to protect a wide range of smartphone displays from scratches and shattering, Lotus Glass is used within the display themselves, nestled closely to the backplane transistors and light emitting components. Improved yields will reduce the costs currently associated with higher resolution, high quality displays.
Lotus XT Glass is now commercially available for manufacturers to make use of, although we’ll have to wait and see which device manufacturers are the first to make use of Corning’s new glass.
Second-generation composition features host of new capabilities
CORNING, N.Y., May 16, 2013 – Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today announced the commercial launch of Corning Lotus(TM) XT Glass, a second-generation glass substrate specially formulated for high-performance displays. The company will feature its latest specialty glass innovation – alongside its other advanced glass technologies – in its booth (#801) at the Society for Information Display’s (SID) Display Week in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 21 – 23.
Lotus XT Glass features best-in-class total pitch variation, which is integral to efficient panel manufacturing. Essentially, total pitch – usually measured in microns or parts per million (ppm) – is the distance features move during panel processing.
“If you can predict the amount the glass shifts, then you can account for this movement. Deviation – or variation – from this predictable movement can ultimately result in yield loss,” said John P. Bayne, vice president and general manager, Corning High Performance Displays. “Lotus XT Glass is designed to have improved thermal and dimensional stability over higher temperatures, generating higher yields for our customers.”
The Corning Lotus Glass platform enables organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and liquid crystal displays (LCD) that use either low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) or oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) backplanes. The result is an energy-efficient, immersive display device that features high resolution, fast response times, and bright picture quality.
In addition to Lotus XT Glass, the Corning booth will feature each of its advanced glass technologies, including: Corning EAGLE XG® Slim for a-Si displays; Corning® Willow(TM) Glass, the company’s ultra-slim, flexible glass; and Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3 with Native Damage Resistance(TM). Corning experts will provide daily demonstrations of Gorilla Glass 3, the industry-leading, damage-resistant cover glass. Attendees should consult booth staff for exact times.
Display Week attendees will also have the opportunity to hear several of Corning’s technology experts deliver presentations at the conference.
“Display Week is a time to take stock of the industry and its future,” Bayne noted. “The industry is changing, and Corning believes each of its innovative glasses helps solve tough technological challenges – advancing displays even further.”
For additional information about Corning’s presence at SID Display Week 2013, please visit http://www.corning.com/SID2013.
LG showing off its latest display technology at SID 2015
The technology conference season is in full swing, and today we’re bringing you news from SID 2015.
The Society for Information Display (SID) conference in San Jose is the foremost event of the display industry, an opportunity for the biggest players to show their wares to prospective clients and partners. Among them, LG Display always has a big presence, and this year is no exception.
The display manufacturing arm of LG is showing off LCD and OLED panels for devices ranging from smartwatches to 4K TV sets, across a keynote address and 20 presentations.
This year, LG Display’s main attractions are large OLED panels for TVs, including this crazy bendable panel the thickness of a credit card that you can literally stick to a wall mount with magnets.
Another highlight is a flexible OLED panel that can bend at a radius of three centimeters without suffering any damage. This industry-first 18-inch flexible panel is another stepping-stone towards devices that bend, fold, and roll. Of course, manufacturers will need to adapt other components as well, but research on flexible batteries, circuit boards, and other components is well underway.
Other OLED panels that LG will show at SID include a 1.3-inch circular panel for smartwatches (probably the same display used on the G Watch R and Watch Urbane), a 5.5-inch curved panel (similar to G Flex 2), a 6-inch active bending panel (for flexible products?), and a 12.3-inch automotive display. LG will also be promoting its Advanced In-Touch and AH-IPS Plus technologies. The former offers a 20 to 30 percent improvement in transmittance, allowing for lower power consumption at the same resolution.
Stay tuned for more info on new display technologies from the SID 2015 conference, starting today.
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