Google’s latest science camp for kids starts on July 13th
If you want your kids to learn something while they’re out of school but would rather not ship them to some distant summer camp, Google is about to come to your rescue. It’s kicking off the latest edition of its annual Camp Google on July 13th, and this year’s virtual educational event promises themed weeks that might just sate your young ones’ curiosity on big scientific subjects. They’ll learn what the ocean is like through underwater panoramas, for example, and watch live video chats with astronauts. The whole shebang is free, so it won’t hurt to tune in if you want your children to go back to school knowing more than they did when they left.
Filed under: Science, Internet, Google
Source: Camp Google
Army scientists build smaller, tougher, cheaper solar cells
Army researchers at the Redstone Arsenal have announced a significant breakthrough in solar energy production. They’ve created a photovoltaic solar panel that is smaller, more robust and less expensive to build and operate than any other panel currently available. Virtually every solar panel currently in existence relies on a pure silicon construction, however the band gap (the wavelength of light that it can actually be absorbed and converted into electricity) of single crystal silicon is exceedingly narrow compared to the full spectrum shining down from the Sun. Not only does this mean that conventional panels are missing out on potential power, the ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths actively damage the panels by causing them to heat, warp and crack.
The Army’s panel, on the other hand, sandwiches super thin layers of metals like silver and gold between the semiconductor layers. With these added layers, the panels offer a wider band gap for energy generation and can be tuned to reflect the harmful rays as well. What’s more, the Army’s panels generate the same amount of energy regardless of the angle that sunlight is hitting it. That means they don’t have to be affixed to expensive and motorized Sun-tracking stands.
The technology is still in its very early stages, explained Wayne Davenport, Optical Sciences Function Chief of the Weapons Development and Integration Directorate, in a statement. “As with many basic research projects, the near-term benefits are sometimes yet undefined but are clearly worth the investment,” Davenport continued. “The Army’s research laboratories at AMRDEC continue a legacy of high quality research projects and I expect to see many more of these type projects transition to the Warfighter in the future.”
[Image Credit: AFP/Getty Images]
Filed under: Science
Source: US Army
‘Hacking Team’ Data Breach Confirms Firm’s Ability to Infiltrate Jailbroken iPhones
Cybersecurity firm Hacking Team experienced a data breach earlier today, resulting in 400 GB of its documents being leaked onto the Internet, reports The Guardian. The documents confirm Hacking Team’s ability to infiltrate and monitor jailbroken iPhones on behalf of government law enforcement agencies like the NSA, as noted by Macworld.
Much has been speculated before and after Edward Snowden’s release of a trove of National Security Agency (NSA) documents in 2013 about the capabilities of the United States’ agencies as well as those of allies and enemies. The Hacking Team dump reveals quite a bit more about the routine functions of third-party suppliers into that ecosystem, including specifically enumerated capabilities.
iOS users should therefore take note that the long-running concern that jailbroken iPhones and iPads were susceptible to vulnerabilities that could include access by so-called state actors appears to be confirmed by the data breach.
Hacking Team’s software would need to be installed on a jailbroken iPhone, but the firm has the ability to jailbreak and infect a phone with its software via a malware-infected trusted computer the phone is connected to. In the firm’s pricing list [PDF, requires Chrome], it’s revealed hacking an iOS device costs €50,000 ($55,242) and includes “features” like Skype, WhatsApp and Viber chats, location, contacts and lists of calls. However, this service also includes a prerequisite of a jailbroken iPhone.
Hacking Team uses a legitimate Apple enterprise signing certificate, which is used by corporations to create software that can easily be installed on employee devices, combined with jailbroken iOS devices to bypass iOS app installation protections. Additionally, Hacking Team developed the ability to create a malicious Newsstand app that could capture keystrokes and install monitoring software.
Last year, researchers working independently of each other at Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab discovered components of Hacking Team’s tools and how they were used by government agencies to steal data from mobile devices, but the full extent of the software hadn’t been confirmed until now.
Data breaching software and Apple devices have been in the news before, most famously in last year’s celebrity iCloud data breach, where it was discovered that hackers were using ElcomSoft Phone Password Breaker, software intended for government and law agencies, to steal usernames and passwords to access iCloud backups.
While much of the discussion around government agencies and citizen data has revolved around mass collection, Hacking Team’s software is designed to attack individual devices rather than a vast network. It’s likely that the exploits detailed in Hacking Team’s documents will be addressed and patched up in future iOS and Mac software updates.
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Man makes his own Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Iron Man edition
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Many of you may know that Samsung recently released the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Iron Man edition into the wild, and frankly, it might be the biggest nerdfest a comic book and Android fan could ever ask for. Unfortunately, for those of us who don’t want to pay potentially stupid amounts of money (read: a “Tony Stark” amount of money), there may be a simpler do-it-yourself solution, which one man has taken to spruce up his device. Buying himself some appropriately coloured 3M film, one user created his own Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Iron Man edition, and we have to say the end result is pretty damn awesome. Take a look:
Topped off with an Iron Man wallpaper, it definitely fits the bill. Sure, it’s not quite the same finish as Samsung’s version of it, but if you’re keen to get your hands dirty, this might be a way for you to live out your dreams.
What do you think of this guy’s Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Iron Man edition? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Galaktyczny via SamMobile
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What’s on your HDTV: ‘The Strain’, Shark Week, Hannibal Burress
Shark Week is in full swing on Discovery, as the network tries to find even more shark-related programming it somehow hasn’t covered yet. (The answer, apparently, is to just make stuff up — we won’t be fooled again by Alien Sharks and Ninja Sharks.) Still, Sunday night is packed, with the return of Ray Donavan, Masters of Sex and The Strain. On streaming Netflix is bringing a new Chris Tucker comedy special, and will also post Monsters: Dark Continent this week. Comedy Central has more Key & Peele, plus the debut of Hannibal Burress’ new show Why? It’s a sequel to the movie Monsters, which if you saw it, you probably also saw on Netflix streaming. In gaming, Rocket League is coming to PC, and on PS4 as a PlayStation Plus game. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Blu-ray & Games & Streaming
- House of Cards (S3)
- The Cell
- Joe Dirt
- Robot Jox
- Virtuosity
- Maggie
- Woman in Gold
- Rocket League (PS4, PC)
- Skullgirls 2nd Encore (PS4)
- Pneuma: Breath of Life (PS4)
- Monsters: The Dark Continent (Netflix, 7/9)
Monday
- Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season premiere), CW, 8PM
- The Fosters, ABC Family, 8PM
- American Ninja Warrior, NBC, 8PM
- So You think You Can Dance, Fox, 8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- Shark Week: Return of the Great White Serial Killer, Discovery, 9PM
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?, CW, 9PM
- Chasing Life (season premiere), ABC Family, 9PM
- Major Crimes, TNT, 9PM
- Shark Week: Alien Sharks: Close Encounters, Discovery, 10PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 10PM
- Murder in the First, TNT, 10PM
- Making of the Mob: New York, AMC, 10PM
- The Island (season finale), NBC, 10PM
- The Whispers, ABC, 10PM
Tuesday
- America’s Got Talent, NBC, 8PM
- WWE Tough Enough, USA 8PM
- Deadliest Catch, Discovery, 8PM
- Shark Week: Bride of Jaws, Discovery, 9PM
- Bullseye, Fox, 9PM
- Zoo, CBS, 9PM
- Teen Wolf, MTV, 9PM
- Rizzoli & Isles, TNT, 9PM
- Stitchers, ABC Family, 9PM
- Shark Week: Tiburones: Sharks of Cuba, Discovery, 9PM
- Inside Amy Schumer (season finale), Comedy Central, 10PM
- Hollywood Game Night, NBA, 10PM
- Royal Pains, USA, 10PM
- Scream, MTV, 10PM
- Clipped, TBS, 10PM
- Proof, TNT, 10PM
- Tyrant, FX, 10PM
- The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Comedy Central, 12:30AM
Wednesday
- Operation Wild, PBS, 8PM
- Melissa & Joey ABC Family, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Unsung: Xscape, TV One, 8PM
- Baby Daddy, ABC Family, 8:30PM
- Shark Week: Super Predator, Discovery, 9PM
- Suits, USA, 9PM
- Jim Rome, Showtime, 9PM
- Bullseye, Fox, 9PM
- Key & Peele (summer premiere), Comedy Central, 10PM
- Why? With Hannibal Burress (series premiere), Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Catfish (summer premiere), MTV, 10PM
- Shark Week: Ninja Sharks, Discovery, 10PM
- Extant, CBS, 10PM
- Mr. Robot, USA, 10PM
- The Game, BET, 10PM
- The Ultimate Fighter, Fox Sports 1, 10PM
Thursday
- Food Fighters, NBC, 8PM
- Boom!, Fox, 8PM
- Beauty and the Beast, CW, 8PM
- The Astronaut Wives Club, ABC, 8PM
- WWE Smackdown, Syfy, 8PM
- Shark Week: Shark Planet, Discovery, 9PM
- Dates (series premiere), CW, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Aquarius, NBC, 9PM
- Wayward Pines, Fox, 9PM
- Mistresses, ABC, 9PM
- Dominion (season premiere), Syfy, 10PM
- Lip Sync Battle (summer premiere), Spike TV, 10PM
- Rectify (season premiere), Sundance, 10PM
- Under the Dome, CBS, 10PM
- Graceland, USA, 10PM
- Rookie Blue, ABC, 10PM
- Hannibal, NBC, 10PM
- Maron, IFC, 10PM
- One Bad Choice (series premiere), MTV, 11PM
Friday
- Chris Tucker Live, Netflix, 3AM
- Masters of Illusion (season premiere), CW, 8PM
- Shark Week: Sharks of the Shadowland, Discovery, 9PM
- Defiance, Syfy, 8PM
- Killjoys, Syfy, 9PM
- Shark Week: Shark Clans, Discovery, 10PM
- American Greed, CNBC, 10PM
- Dark Matter, Syfy, 10PM
Saturday
- Lethal Seduction, Lifetime, 8PM
- The Millers, CBS, 8 & 8:30PM
- Shark Week: sharksanity 2, Discovery, 9PM
- Atlantis, BBC America, 9PM
- The McCarthys (series finale), CBS, 9 & 9:30PM
- 7 Days in Hell, HBO, 10PM
- Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, BBC America, 10PM
- Bridgett Everett: Gynecological Wonder, Comedy Central, 12:30AM
Sunday
- Shark Week: Shark Island, Discovery, 8PM
- 2015 MTV Fandom Awards, MTV, 8PM
- Miss USA 2015, Reelzchannel, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Ray Donavan (season premiere), Showtime 9PM
- The Ultimate Fighter (season finale), Fox Sports 1, 9PM
- Battlebots, ABC, 9PM
- True Detective, HBO, 9PM
- Humans, AMC, 9PM
- The Last Ship, TNT, 9PM
- Masters of Sex (season premiere), Showtime, 10PM
- The Strain (season premiere), FX, 10PM
- Ballers, HBO, 10PM
- Falling Skies, TNT, 10PM
- Halt and Catch Fire, AMC, 10PM
- Naked & Afraid, Discovery, 10PM
- Brink, HBO, 10:30PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11PM
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
NASA’s latest Pluto images actually show a planet
At last, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is sending back images of Pluto that look (slightly) better than brown blobs or pixel art. The probe has delivered a new batch of images from between 7.8 million to 9.2 million miles away, or close enough that the dwarf planet is starting to reveal some meaningful detail. There’s still no explanation for those giant spots, but it’s evident that there’s a “continuous swath” of dark ground near the equator. And if you’d like pictures that are better than fuzzy, you might not have to hold out for too much longer. New Horizons should be considerably closer when it recovers from its recent glitch, and the expected July 14th flyby should produce a ton of extra detail.
[Image credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI]
Filed under: Science
Source: NASA
In these new cars, your phone gets its own air conditioner
By Kim Lachance Shandrow, Entrepreneur Staff
Smartphones don’t play well with hot cars. If you’ve ever received the dreaded temperature warning on your phone’s home screen after leaving it in a sizzling vehicle for too long, you know exactly what we’re talking about. And so does General Motors.
The struggling American automaker knows your phone needs to cool out in the dog days of summer, too, just like you. If it doesn’t, if the temperature around your iPhone, Android or, fine, your BlackBerry, exceeds about 95 degrees, the high heat can shorten its battery life and potentially slow down its processor. Double bummer. Worse, permanent damage could occur and, in rare cases, the gadget you can’t live without could completely go kaput.
Terrifying, right? Well, GM, in a bid to “find new roads” and connect with tech-savvy younger drivers, doesn’t want any of the above to happen to your precious phone either. That’s why the 107-year-old company is adding a fancy new smartphone air-conditioning feature to some of its 2016 Chevy models, a modern move its hailing an “industry first.”
Finally, your phone can chill out in its own, personal “Active Phone Cooling” cubby, basically a nook outfitted with a plastic a/c vent nozzle. That is if you get behind the wheel of a wireless-charging equipped 2016 Chevy Cruze, Impala, Malibu or Volt.
GM says its engineers stumbled upon the idea while testing a smartphone wireless charging feature. “They noticed some smartphones would suspend charging or shut off all together after only a few minutes in high temperatures inside a car’s cabin,” a statement from the Detroit-based company reads. To combat the problem, they simply directed an air vent connected to the car’s a/c and ventilation system at the “charging bin where the phone rests.” And — easy, breezy — cooled air helps keep your phone from frying like an egg. Crisis averted…or so they say.
“Innovation doesn’t mean reinventing the wheel,” Impala engineer Dan Lascu says. “Sometimes simplicity offers the most elegant solution to a problem.”
Simple — or just plain silly — we see this thing catching on, given ‘Murica’s incurable addiction to smartphones. Someday, probably sooner than later, maybe smartphone a/c will come standard in all vehicles, even the ones we won’t drive. Either way, here’s to hoping better backseat a/c routing rolls out first to keep other precious cargo — like living things, pets and kids — cool.
For more on how the chill new feature works, check out this video:
Related:
- In These New Cars, Your Phone Gets Its Own Air Conditioner
- Google Pilots Carpooling Program That Could Challenge Uber
- The Future of Mobile Payments Awaits Your Fingerprint
- Texting and Driving? Not So Fast — General Motors is Watching You
- GM Open to Working With Google on Developing Self-Driving Cars
- This Handy Gadget Is Like Google Glass For Your Car
- Proceed With Caution: Should Smartphones Come With a Warning?
Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation, Mobile
Deal: unlocked Samsung Galaxy S6 only $499.99 on eBay!
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is definitely one of the best smartphones around, but it’s by no means cheap. In fact, it happens to be one of the most expensive phones in the market, making it seem like that super thin profile is a knife cutting right through your pocket. Thankfully, here at Android Authority we are always on the lookout for great deals to share with you. Today might be your lucky day, because eBay’s latest offer is hot!
The Samsung Galaxy S6 is currently being sold for only $499.99 on eBay. This is a pretty awesome deal considering the device is new to the market and usually goes for $600 at the lowest. Essentially, you get a $100 discount, but that is not the only treat buyers would get.
This phone is unlocked and new. Not refurbished or used… completely new. To make matters even better, the eBay seller is allowing you to choose between a bevy of available colors, including black, white, gold and blue. Oh, and shipping is completely free in the USA.
I would seriously jump all over this deal if I was looking to get an off-contract, unlocked, high-end smartphone. My only gripe with the Samsung Galaxy S6 is its ridiculous battery life, but if you can get past that issue it’s one hell of a phone. It has top-notch specs, an insanely good camera and the build quality we have been begging Samsung for.
You can go ahead and read our Samsung Galaxy S6 review to see what this phone is all about. You can’t really beat this price! Have a blast purchasing it and hit the comments to let us know if you are signing up for this deal. Is it what you were looking for?
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Apple Working to Add Home Sharing for Music in iOS 9
With the release of iOS 8.4 and the new built-in Apple Music service, Apple removed Home Sharing for music on iOS devices, a move that many Home Sharing users have been upset about.
It was unclear if Home Sharing for music would be re-added in the future, but according to iTunes chief Eddy Cue, Apple is planning to add Home Sharing to iOS 9. In response to a tweet about the removal of Home Sharing for music, Cue tweeted “We are working to have Home Sharing in iOS 9.”
Wording in the release notes for the last iOS 8.4 beta suggested that Home Sharing and Genius Mixes were “not currently available,” hinting that the features could return at a later date, and it appears that is indeed Apple’s plan.
While Home Sharing for music has been removed in iOS 8.4, the feature is still available for video. Home Sharing for music also remains available on the Mac and the Apple TV. It is unclear when Home Sharing for music will be introduced in iOS 9, but the next beta is expected later this week.
In recent weeks, Apple has been embracing social media, with Eddy Cue answering several questions about Apple Music and related services. Cue also used Twitter to announce Apple’s plans to pay artists during the Apple Music free trial after an open letter from Taylor Swift, and he informed users about an upcoming iOS 9 beta seed that will add Apple Music to the new operating system.
Apple Stores to carry third-party accessories in custom boxes
Apple is well-known for being very particular about its packaging… and it apparently cares about other companies’ packaging, too. According to 9to5Mac, the tech giant is telling retail staff that it will soon sell third-party accessories in boxes co-designed by Apple… and possibly only in those boxes. Yes, that familiar minimalist look would soon spread to just about everything in the store. The move would ostensibly help you find what you’re looking for and make sure that it works with your devices. Many of the familiar brands in Apple stores are reportedly on board with the idea, including Incase, Mophie and Logitech.
If the leak is accurate, you could see this change spread to all stores next week. Apple’s recently opened Upper East Side store in Manhattan might already serve as a good preview, in fact. Whether or not you’ll like the shift is another matter. It could save you from having to explore confusing packaging to see if a case will work with your iPhone, but it could also introduces a not-so-helpful sameness — is the iPad keyboard you want in this modest white box, or that modest white box? Also, the implication is that you may lose easy access to some products whose manufacturers can’t or won’t partner on new packaging. This wouldn’t be a surprising move for a company that cares a lot about its image, but it might not help if it forces you to visit multiple stores to get everything you want.
Filed under: Peripherals, Apple
Source: 9to5Mac
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