Apple Adds Five New Videos to ‘Shot on iPhone 6’ Gallery
Apple today updated its “Shot on iPhone 6” site to add five new videos to the film section of the gallery. First added to the site in early June, the gallery showcases videos that were created using the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, incorporating camera features like Slo-Mo, Time-Lapse, and more.
Shot on iPhone 6 video taken in Papua New Guinea
In addition to featuring these videos on its site, Apple also uploads them to YouTube and shows them on television. At least one of the videos added to the site today was previously used in a television commercial. Videos that Apple uploads come from iPhone users around the world, and today’s videos are from Bolivia, Alaska, Hawaii, and Papua New Guinea, with two videos coming from the last location.
The first video features a car racing across salt flats in Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, while the second depicts a train in Anchorage, Alaska. All of the videos have music playing in the background, which is listed in the videos description, and they each end with the tagline “Shot on iPhone 6.”
A third video features a massive wave cresting in Haleiwa, Hawaii, while two videos from Papua New Guinea depict a Time-Lapse sunrise and an underwater shot of a school of fish near a coral reef.
Apple’s Shot on iPhone 6 series has been running since March and has featured photographs and videos from more than 70 photographers in 24 countries. The image have been used in print media, transit posters, billboards, and television commercials around the world.
Just recently, Apple’s Shot on iPhone 6 campaign won an Outdoor Lions Grand Prix award in advertising during the Cannes Lions International Festivity of Creativity, with one of the judges saying, “It’s not just a great idea. It’s a game changer. It’s really opening a new way of doing things and changing behavior.
Android M Developer Preview 2 arrives!
Last year’s Android L Developer Preview marked the first time Google had ever let the general public take part in testing out new versions of Android before they were ready for final release. One thing L didn’t have, however, is regular updates.
Thankfully, with Android M Google announced it would be continually updating the test builds between the first release and final commercial version. And now the very first update has arrived! Android M Preview 2 images are now available for your flashing pleasure. For those that already installed the first preview and are willing to wait, Google also says an over the air update will be making its way over to your device in the next few days.
As for what’s new? In addition to bug fixes and performance tweaks, Google’s official blog post also mentions the following highlights:
- Modifications to platform permissions including external storage, Wi-Fi & Bluetooth location, and changes to contacts/identity permissions. Device connections through the USB port are now set to charge-only mode by default. To access the device, users must explicitly grant permission.
- API Changes:
- Updated Bluetooth Stylus APIs with updated callback events. View.onContextClickListener and GestureDetector.OnContextClickListener to listen for stylus button presses and to perform secondary actions.
- Updated Media API with new callback InputDevice.hasMicrophone() method for determining if a device microphone exists.
- Fixes for developer-reported issues:
- TextInputLayout doesn’t set hint for embedded EditText. (fixed issue)
- Camera Permission issue with Legacy Apps (fixed issue)
So what are you waiting for? To grab the update and manually flash, click on one of the following links:
For those that have already flashed, any noticeable (major) changes in terms of features or performance?
T-Mobile gains 2.1 million subscribers in Q2 2015, urges Sprint CEO to “stay in the kiddie pool”
T-Mobile has been doing a great job at shaking up the wireless industry as of late, and it looks like the company’s hard work is paying off. The Un-carrier has just released a report stating that it gained 2.1 million total net customers in the second quarter of 2015, which is a 41% increase year-over-year and marks the carrier’s ninth consecutive quarter with over 1 million additions.
Additionally, the company is boasting over 1 million branded postpaid net customer additions, which is also up 11% year-over-year and marks the fourth consecutive quarter with over 1 million additions. T-Mobile also added 760,000 branded postpaid phone net customers (a 31% year-over-year increase) as well as 178,000 branded prepaid net customer additions, which marks a 75% year-over-year increase.
T-Mobile has been the fourth-largest mobile carrier in the United States for some time now, but that may all change sometime soon thanks to the carrier’s impressive Q2 numbers. Back in May, Sprint, currently the nation’s third-largest carrier, said that it had 57.1 million subscribers, compared to T-Mobile’s 56.8 million at the time. With the addition of T-Mo’s 2.1 million, we may end up seeing T-Mobile surpass Sprint in total subscriber count in the next few weeks. We’ll be sure to let you know if we hear anything more on this in the future.
As T-Mobile slowly works its way up in the ranks, John Legere, the company’s CEO, took part in an interview this morning on CNBC that may have just added some fuel to the Sprint/T-Mo rivalry.
Not too long ago, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure took to Twitter to fire some shots at the Un-carrier, explaining that he’s tired of T-Mobile’s “Un-carrier bulls**t.” We assumed that it would only be a matter of time until John Legere fired back at Claure, and it looks like we’re finally seeing what the edgy CEO has to say.
Legere’s response aired this morning on CNBC, following T-Mobile’s big announcement that it will now allow 4G LTE and voice calling to Canada and Mexico at no extra charge. In response to Claure’s rant, Legere says that Sprint is “diving in the deep end of the pool, and Marcelo should stay in the kiddie pool.” Legere goes on to take a few more cuts at Sprint, Verizon and AT&T, which is quite entertaining.
T-Mobile is expected to give many more announcements over the next few weeks as part of its new Un-carrier Amped! initiative, and we’re certainly excited to see just how the carrier plans to shake up the industry next.
The LG G4 is a jack of all trades, yet master of none
Ask people what they want in a phone and the LG G4 would probably fulfill all of those requirements. Yet people are looking at Samsung and Apple offerings for their next device.
Something has to be putting LG at a disadvantage, right?
The LG G4 has a sharp display with Quad HD resolution, micro SD card slot for additional storage, removable battery to extend usage, professional-like camera, Dual Window functionality, Smart Bulletin, LG Health, and plenty of other features. The list goes on and on. All this in a relatively small form factor considering the screen itself is much larger than most of the competition. The only real complaint would be build quality, but the leather back option does make it look much nicer. However, the biggest problem with creating a product that tries to do everything is it ends up being for no one specifically. All the features that everyone said they wanted so much no longer seem that great once they are all together.
The reason for this is exactly why Apple and its iPhone are so successful. The company based in Cupertino focuses on key features that users really want and use, then proceed to work until the product is (seemingly) perfected. When you overload the product with tons of ‘stuff’, the overall experience suffers rather than improves.
Samsung is another great example of this. In the past, the Galaxy line was absolutely flooded with features that many users ended up never using and grew to dislike.
With the release of the Galaxy S6, we are seeing a new and improved Samsung. They have cut features that were not all too useful and redirected resources to make the hardware and software worthy of a consumer’s attention. Even with half the features the G4 has, the Galaxy S6 is widely regarded as the best Android phone ever made.
HTC, at one point, also made phones that were good but lacking distinct features. The company went back to the drawing board and came out with the One (M7), a device applauded for its great design and premium speakers. Now, years later, if someone tells you they love watching movies and listening to music, but are unsure of what phone to buy, you know exactly what to recommend. Instantly, the first phone that comes to mind is the One M9. There is nothing else on the market that sounds as good. HTC has successfully positioned itself for a certain consumer.
The iPhone just works, the Galaxy S6 Edge has curved edges, the One M9 sounds unbelievable, and the Galaxy Note 4 has a versatile stylus. What is that one feature LG really worked into the G4 to make it stand out from the rest? The display’s resolution is matched by other top devices. The inclusion of a microSD card slot is still common even if it is slowly on the decline. And the slightly curved display is bested by LG’s own G Flex 2. There is nothing that only the G4 has that makes it stand out.
I strongly considered buying the LG G3 last year as it had a high-end display that was not only large, but much sharper than anything else on the market. It had something that really stood out from the best of the best. The G4 on the other hand has added more while not being very unique. Its personality is missing.
The G4 is a great phone that most consumers would be happy to own, but I really hope LG starts to consider how it wants to identify in the mobile industry. The company has a great base, but it needs to expand upon that. LG is missing that one feature that everyone wants and is only available on the G4.
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BlackBerry and Google team up to make Android more business-friendly
BlackBerry and Google have joined hands to make Android devices more secure and business-friendly. As part of their enterprise-focused partnership, the two companies will integrate BlackBerry’s BES12 enterprise device deployment service with Android 5.0 Lollipop’s latest security features.
BES12 that already supports Android has many device management features in addition to advanced data encryption and application wrapping features. Now, the company is going to integrate Google Play for Work, which will increase security and smoothly deploy enterprise-related apps on Android devices.
“New features are now available through Android and BES12 that enable organizations to further secure enterprise and personal data on Android devices, set new levels of hardware based encryption, and ensure tight integration with Google Play™ for Work, for increased application management, while delivering a consistent end-user and management experience across their Android fleet,” a post announcing BlackBerry’s partnership with Google read.
Now that the two companies have decided to work together, the probability of BlackBerry launching an Android-powered device (something we all want to see) certainly goes up.
Source: BleckBerry
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Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan
Just a day after releasing a new set of developer builds for iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, Apple today launched its public beta program for both upcoming operating systems. Apple had announced at WWDC last month that it would launch the public betas in July, and a new support document published yesterday regarding changes to two-factor authentication hinted a launch was imminent.
iOS and Mac users interested in trying out the public betas can sign up on Apple’s beta software program page.
We’ll be looking for any changes specific to the public beta versions, but they are almost certainly essentially identical to the developer seeds released yesterday.
iOS 9 is the first major version of Apple’s mobile operating system to see a public beta release, as the company did not initiate the program for iOS until iOS 8.3 earlier this year. OS X users may already be familiar with the public beta process, as a similar program was in place for OS X Yosemite last year.
Facebook says it has ‘no plans to go into music streaming’
Yesterday, it seemed like Music Ally blew the lid off of Facebook’s next big project: a streaming music subscription service the likes of which could rival Spotify or Apple Music. It all seemed to make so much sense, but the company says it’s not happening. “We have no plans to go into music streaming,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Verge. Instead, it’s reportedly working on something unique and new.
According to Music Ally’s original report, that “new” service is probably a robust video sharing service, complete with YouTube-like Content ID matching, competitive stream rates and, presumably, something musical to follow the social networks recent talks with major music labels. “We have all been really utilizing it in internal testing,” an insider source told Music Ally. “It is way, way ahead of YouTube.” That at least meshes well with Facebook’s track record–but for now, it’s just a rumor.
[Image credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images]
Filed under: Internet
Source: Verge
HP won’t ship products for almost a week in August
We hope you weren’t dead set on getting that shiny new HP laptop in early August. HP is warning partners that it won’t ship any orders to customers and resellers between August 1st and August 6th due to a “shipping transition” necessary for its upcoming split into two companies. You can still order whatever you like during that limbo period, but it won’t start moving until August 7th at the earliest. It’s an unusual gap, to put it mildly, but likely important given that HP is orchestrating one of the biggest tech splits ever. Just don’t put off ordering that back-to-school PC — you don’t want corporate maneuvers hurting your academic pursuits.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, HP
Via: Register Channel
Source: CRN
BT goes on the offensive against Sky’s pay-TV dominance
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom is currently taking a long, hard look at BT and its subsidiary Openreach, which is responsible for managing the company’s broadband infrastructure. Ofcom’s deciding whether it’s in everyone’s best interests to split the two completely, a move championed by several of BT’s broadband competitors, Sky in particular. Recently, Sky published a report to further this agenda, using various stats to support its claim that Openreach provides an inadequate service that reflects badly on the companies using its network for their broadband products. It appears that BT has grown tired of being permanently on the defensive, and has today called for Ofcom to investigate Sky’s dominant position in the pay TV market, which BT claims is lumbering Brits with unfairly high prices.
John Petter, CEO of BT’s Consumer Division, has accused Sky of using the BT/Openreach debate “as a “smokescreen” designed to obscure the real market failings in pay TV.” BT says that Sky customers are paying roughly £50 more each year for premium TV services than the EU average, and can be charged over £75 more than the average if they plump for additional sports and movie channels. Given these discrepancies, BT says that Ofcom needs to broaden its review of the UK telecoms market to “address competition concerns in pay TV.” Petter patted Ofcom on the back for “delivering positive outcomes for consumers and businesses” with its approach to regulating telecoms, but asked that it “apply the same degree of rigour” to the pay TV market, where Sky has a seriously dominant 64 per cent market share.
Petter claims there is currently “a large unserved part of the population unable to pay the high prices demanded by Sky,” evidenced by the 2.4 million BT Sport viewers who weren’t Sky Sports subscribers. He also said that Sky increasing its prices following the launch of BT Sport was “based on a calculation that customers don’t have anywhere else to go.” Noting that the rate of customer movement in the pay TV market is 50 per cent lower than the switching rate for broadband, Petter says “it is clear we just aren’t seeing the right levels of competition for Sky,” and that Ofcom should “give the UK a competitive pay TV market this is fit for the next decade.”
[Image credit: DaGoaty/Flickr]
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: BT
Antimicrobial silver coatings could be hindering your chemo
Hospitals around the world use a silver coating on their chemotherapy equipment, such as IV catheters, because the noble metal prevents microbial growth. However, it turns out that this germ killing coating could be damaging chemo drugs that flow over it and harming patients. A team of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology‘s (NTNU) Department of Physics revealed this effect in a study recently published in the journal 2D Materials. “We wanted to find potential problem sources in the tubes used in intravenous catheters…Chemotherapy drugs are active substances, so it isn’t hard to imagine that the medicine could react with the silver,” Justin Wells, associate professor of physics at NTNU, said in a statement.
The team employed x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) via the MAX IV synchrotron lab in Sweden to look at the surface structure of 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu), one of the most commonly administered chemo drugs around. The results were shocking: the silver coating wasn’t just breaking down bacteria; it was also breaking down the 5-Fu and releasing hydrogen fluoride, a harmful gas. So not only was the effectiveness of the chemo treatment reduced, this reaction was actively generating a dangerous byproduct. “Reactions between chemotherapy drugs and other substances that the drugs come in contact with have, as far as we know, never been studied like this before,” Wells says.
The team then ran the same tests using a graphene-based coating. And, given the non-reactive nature of the graphene molecule, the team found that the 5-Fu remained intact. This revelation could lead to the development of graphene-based coatings and more effective cancer treatments.
[Image Credit: Brian A. Jackson – Getty]
Filed under: Science, Internet
Via: Phys.org
Source: 2d Materials
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