Lara Croft GO will arrive on Android on August 27th
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The spiritual sequel to the surprisingly good Hitman GO mobile game, Lara Croft GO, will be coming out on August 27th for Android and iOS, announced at Gamescom today. Lara Croft GO will follow similar format to Hitman GO, allowing you to take control of the game’s protagonist, Lara Croft, and move her like a chess piece through mindboggling puzzles and mazes. If that sounds a bit trivial, check out this trailer for a bit of a better feel:
Ok, so that’s not the best example since it’s only the reveal trailer that was unveiled just over a month ago, but hopefully there will be some gameplay footage coming out of Gamescom for us to share. All you have to know that I am extremely excited for it, and so should you.
What do you think about Lara Croft GO coming out on August 27th? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Kotaku Australia
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[Deal] Become a cable cutter with the 1byone Digital HDTV Antenna
It’s been a pretty good week for deals here at AndroidGuys. Since it’s Friday, we are bringing everyone one more deal to wrap out the week. Today’s deal is for those cable cutters out there. If you’ve cut the cable, but still want to get your free digital TV, we have a great deal for the 1byone Digital Indoor HDTV Antenna.
This antenna plugs into the coax cable in the back of your TV, and then you simply place the antenna wherever you want. Well, wherever you get the best signal. It’s not as bad as the rabbit ear days where you had to put tin foil on them to get better reception. Nor do you have to worry about holding it mid-air just to get the quality you want.
- Place the antenna anywhere (high on the wall, flat on a table, etc.) w/ no power required
- Connect from up to 25 miles away from the closest tower
- Easily & quickly set up in three steps: unwrap, plug in, and scan channels
- Watch crystal clear digital & HD shows
- Never pay for TV again & avoid contracts
- Use even if your TV is far from a window thanks to the ultra-long included cable
- Receive free broadcast HDTV signals (such as ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS & Fox)
The 1byone Antenna allows you to connect you to any broadcast tower within a 25 mile radius, so you can get all your local channels. This would be the perfect addition for the cable cutter who wants to be able to watch their local football teams, just in time for the kickoff of the NFL season.
If you’re interested in picking up the 1byone Digital HDTV Antenna, you can grab one today for only $12.99. Normally priced at $36, you’ll be saving over 60% by grabbing the 1byone HDTV Indoor Antenna. So be sure to head over to our Deals Page and grab this awesome deal today!
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Researchers program robot to run from kid bullies
What happens when you leave a robot with packs of unsupervised kids? Researchers from the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Osaka University, Ryukoku University and Tokai University in Japan have decided to find out — and the answer isn’t pretty. They unleashed a Robovie 2 at a shopping complex in Osaka as an experiment and caught groups of Satan’s hellspawns mischievous little angels kicking, hitting and even verbally abusing the robot. The machine was programmed to politely ask humans to step aside if they’re in the way, but kids refused to move and blocked it on purpose in many instances. That’s why the researchers’ next move was to develop an “abuse-evading algorithm.”
They programmed the robot to be able to assess the “probability of abuse” when people approach it. When small humans below 4 feet 6 inches in height (and unaccompanied by an adult) walk towards it, the probability rises; kids approaching in packs means even higher probability. If it senses that children are going its way, it quickly changes directions… or approaches adults in hopes that they’d prevent the kids from hurting it. But then again, adults don’t always know better. Remember Hitchbot’s tragic end? Yep, done in by an ostensibly fully grown man. This is how the robot revolution starts, folks.
The Robovie 2 can help the elderly with chores or shopping and looks quite a bit like Wall-E. If we continue developing robotic technologies, there’d be more machines like it roaming around on their own in the future. Not to mention, a lot more companies might start using them as customer service reps and servers for hotels and other establishments. The team conducted the study to get a glimpse of how these “social robots” might be treated. Things could change when we’re more used to seeing them in the wild, but if they don’t, well, that algorithm sounds like it would be mighty useful.
PS: Wondering why the kids in the experiment kept abusing Robovie 2? The team published a second study entitled “Why Do Children Abuse Robots?” in which they discussed the connection between empathy (or lack thereof) and bullying. Ryukoku University has thankfully provided an English copy of the paper, which you can read right here (PDF).
Filed under:
Robots
Source:
IEEE Spectrum
Tags: japan, research
Microsoft has iOS devs building the ‘bridge’ for Windows 10 apps
It’s no secret — even with its fast start, Microsoft needs more apps on Windows 10, across PCs, tablets and phones. Many of the most popular ones are already built for Android, iOS or even older versions of Windows, but supporting another platform can be tricky. To solve that problem, in April Microsoft announced “Windows Bridge” tools to make it easy for those developers to reuse already written code in new Windows apps. Now it’s ready to live up to that promise, and is releasing an early look at the bridge for iOS today. More importantly, it’s even opening up the source code (Github) for the Bridge tool itself so the people who will use it can help make it better. If you’d rather use apps than make them, then this doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll see ported over iPad or Android apps simply running on your PC, just that developers won’t have to change so much of the stuff in the background to make them work.
If you speak Objective-C (the language many iOS apps are coded in) then the SDK is ready for you to take a look, although there’s no mention of whether Microsoft will make a similar tool available for the Swift language Apple is moving developers to. An Android version is available by invite only, with a public beta planned for the fall. The bridge for Classic Windows apps won’t arrive for public testing until 2016.
Filed under:
Software, Apple, Microsoft, Google
Source:
Github, Building Apps for Windows Blog (1), (2)
Tags: Android, apple, bridge, google, iOS, microsoft, Objective-C, opensource, SDK, Windows10
T-Mobile’s new ZTE Obsidian costs just $99.99
T-Mobile has announced a new affordable smartphone – the ZTE Obsidian. The handset costs just $99.99 off-contract, making it one of the cheapest Android smartphones available in the US.
Of course, for such a low price we’re not looking at top of the line specifications. The handset features a 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 480×854, resulting in a PPI of 224. Unusually for a US handset, the smartphone is powered by a MediaTek MT6735M SoC, which is a quad-core CPU clocked at 1GHz and it compares quite favorably with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 410.
The Obsidian also comes with 1GB of RAM, a 5 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front facing camera, 4G LTE data connectivity, and a 1,980mAh battery. There’s a limited 4GB of flash memory available to store your stuff on, but this can be expanded through a microSD card slot. The phone also runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. The specifications might not be as high-end as ZTE’s new Axon smartphone for the US market, but there’s everything you’ll need if you’re on a budget.
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At just $99.99, the cost effective smartphones stacks up relatively well with the similarly priced Moto E (2nd gen). T-Mobile is also offering the smartphone on a payment plan of just $4.17 per month over 24 months. The ZTE Obsidian will be available from August 13th through T-Mobile online and hardware stores.
Still playing Fruit Ninja? Game gets biggest update yet to celebrate 5th anniversary
Fruit Ninja has been around for so long that it almost feels as old as Android. Much like Angry Birds (which just got its first “real” sequel), Fruit Ninja was the first game – or even the first app – for millions of users.
Countless slices later, Fruit Ninja is still around, and still quite popular. To celebrate the game’s 5th anniversary, developer Halfbrick Studios has given Fruit Ninja a makeover and a big update.
The update gives you access to a new game mode called Festival, which offers a Tournament mode and six mini-games that allow you to win in-game currency you can use to unlock bonuses, as well as tickets for the Tournament. Throughout the Tournament you will compete against six opponents for the Golden Ember Blade, which lets you “trap fruit in a fiery blaze and then slice again for epic high scores.” Nifty.
Overall, this is a new take on the old recipe that made Fruit Ninja so popular. If you’re still a fan of the game, you will find new ways to entertain yourself. If all the slicing and dicing is old news for you, this update might still pique your interest, even if it’s just for a little while.
Halfbrick’s other games have been updated to celebrate the “game that started it all” – you can now get various Fruit Ninja-themed items, weapons, extra levels, and events in games like Jetpack Joyride, Monster Dash, or the just released Radical Rappelling.
Premier League club badges come to Twitter ahead of new season
Twitter’s hashflags have encouraged colourful conversations around the general election and Wimbledon already this year, and right on time, the social network has issued a new set for fans of the UK’s most popular spectator sport. Launched ahead of start of the Premier League footy season tomorrow, every squad now has its own hashflag that’ll add the team’s badge to tweets whenever used. So, whether you’re cheering on your own 11 or calling out rivals for their highly developed diving skills, you’ve now got emoji to drive the point home. Let’s try and keep the discussions civil though, yeah? After all, it’s only a game.
Fan of a #BPL club? Picking your #FPL team? It’s time to show your colours… pic.twitter.com/dQiQvY0hKz
— Premier League (@premierleague) August 7, 2015
[Image credit: Tom Dulat/Getty Images]
Filed under:
Internet
Via:
@FourFourTweet
Source:
Twitter
Tags: BarclaysPremierLeague, football, hashflags, PremierLeague, soccer, twitter
Firefox has a new security hole, but you can already patch it
Yesterday, someone noticed that an ad from a Russian news site was exploiting a serious vulnerability in the Firefox browser. According to a Mozilla security post, the attacker was able to bypass the browser’s “origin policy” (its front line of security), inject a malicious javascript script and download sensitive local files to a server in the Ukraine. Mozilla said the attack was “surprisingly developer focused for an exploit launched a general audience news site,” as it sought things like browser and FTP configuration files. It added that the “exploit leaves no trace that it has run on the local machine.”
The organization said the malicious scripts can affect PC and Linux computers, but not Macs. Apple users are still advised to update, though, as hackers could develop a different attack script for OS X. Luckily, the person who spotted the flaw was security researcher Cody Crews, who immediately notified Mozilla. It has patched the flaw with Firefox version 39.0.3, so now would be a good time to get it.
Filed under:
Internet
Source:
Mozilla
Tags: Firefox, Flaw, javascript, Mozilla, Security, Vulnerability
Samsung is testing an 18.4-inch tablet
Whenever I hear the word phablet, Samsung is the brand that instantly pops to mind. The South Korean manufacturer has been at the top of the oversized smartphone market for as long as I can remember and now it looks like they’re set to be the first to create a tablet that’s bigger than most laptops currently available.
Earlier today, an unidentified ‘Sample Samsung Tablet PC’ entered India purely for testing and evaluation purposes. The device was transported from Samsung’s hometown by Delhi Air Cargo and has simply been described as an 18.4-inch slate that must be destroyed after all the relevant testing has been done.
So as it stands, it would appear that the company is working on a tablet that’s bigger than any of Apple’s current MacBook offerings. With such a huge screen, the device will be entering a very niche category and we can’t see it being used in any environment other than a commercial one.
Pricing information included in the import document lists the value of the unit at INR 32,371, which is approximately $510.
Source: NoWhereElse
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Unidentified HTC smartphone passes through the FCC with support for Verizon’s carrier bands
Earlier today, an unannounced HTC-branded smartphone carrying the model number 0PM9310 passed through the United States of America’s official certification authority — the FCC. Information included in the brief filing documentation reveals that we’re looking a mid-range handset with a removable backplate that’s heading to Verizon.
Unfortunately, the paperwork doesn’t disclose anything about the internals of the device, but we do know that the slate is set to pack a variety of different connectivity options, including support for Big Red’s 4G carrier bands (5, 7, 2, 4, and 13), GSM, WCDMA, Bluetooth Class 1 (Version 4.0, LE+EDR), 802.11b/802.11g/802.11n Wi-Fi, NFC and GPS.
That’s pretty much all the information we have about the HTC 0PM9310 at this point.
If you wish to view the full FCC filing – just click the source link below.
Source: FCC
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