Hardware Showdown: iPhone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Perhaps you’re wondering just how good these new iPhones (iPhone 6S and iPhone 6s Plus) are that were announced earlier this week. Maybe you’re wondering how they stack up against the competition.
We all know about the age-old argument about how the iPhone has “inferior” specs to the Android flagships. We also know about how Apple is behind the times, and needs to catch up to the rest of the world. So what exactly is it about the iPhone that makes it such a heart throb for the Apple-lites around the world? Check out this graphic to see what’s under the hood between these two devices.
In this edition of the AndroidGuys Hardware Showdown, we are pitting the iPhone 6s against the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge.
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Spanish cancer patient gets a 3D-printed titanium rib cage
Is there anything 3D printers can’t do? A 54-year-old Spanish man, who had a cancerous tumor in his chest wall, was recently fitted with a 3D printed sternum and rib cage. While the first-of-its-kind implant seems like a Marvel Comics experiment with Adamantium, in reality, it was an ingenious, life saving medical solution that used lightweight yet sturdy, Titanium. The metal printing technique gave the surgeons at the Salamanca University Hospital in Spain the flexibility they needed to customize the complex and unique anatomy of their patient’s chest wall.
They brought in Anatomics, a Melbourne-based company that manufactures surgical products, to help create and print the implant. Based on the patient’s high-resolution CT scan data, the Australian team first created a 3D reconstruction of the patient’s chest wall and tumor so that the surgeons could plan with precision. Next, they used the 3D digital CAD file detailing the patient’s anatomy to build the customized implant, layer by layer, on Arcam’s $1.3 million electron beam metal printer.
This isn’t the first time a 3D printer was brought in to create a titanium body part, but a prosthetic for the chest wall has never been printed and deployed before. “This part of the chest is notoriously tricky to recreate with prosthetics, due to the complex geometry and design required for each patient,” says CSIRO, a government scientific research agency in Australia that offered its lab for the printing. The printed metal implant, which can go over the bones on one side and be screwed on securely on the other side, was shipped to Spain soon after it was ready. Now, about 12 days after the surgery, the patient with the titanium rib cage is reportedly on his way to recovery.
[Image credit: Anatomics]
Source:
Gizmodo
Tags: 3DprintedRibCage, 3dPrinter, 3dPrinting, Metal3Dprinting, TitaniumRibcage, wolverine
Translogic 184: Detroit Drone FPV racing
Translogic heads to the Motorcity for some head-to-head racing, only these vehicles have four motors and fly through the air. Detroit Drone hosts first-person view, or FPV, races for multicopter enthusiasts throughout the area. Watch as Translogic host Jonathon Buckley pops on a headset and takes the controls of his own drone for a high-speed race around Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center.Translogic heads to the Motorcity for some head-to-head racing, only these vehicles have four motors and fly through the air. Detroit Drone hosts first-person view, or FPV, races for multicopter enthusiasts throughout the area.
“I’ve been into radio-controlled stuff for 20, 30 years,” says Harry Arnold of Detroit Drone. “My background in car racing said, ‘well, let’s race them,’ and now we’re at about 450 members for our user group and the racing is really, really catching on.”
Watch as Translogic host Jonathon Buckley pops on a headset and takes the controls of his own drone for a high-speed race around Detroit’s Russell Industrial Center.
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Tags: autoblog, detroitdrone, drone, fpv, fpvracing, original video, partner, syndicated, translogic, video
Etsy will test same-day delivery in NYC with the help of Postmates
If you’re looking to get your mitts on those handmade goods purchased on Etsy the same day, you might soon be in luck. The company is teaming up with Postmates to test same-day and next-day deliveries in parts of New York City. As a refresher, the delivery company already handles packages and food orders from the likes of Apple, Starbucks, McDonald’s and Chipotle. As Re/code notes, its partnerships with online shopping outfits (like Everlane) give its couriers work at times of the day when there isn’t too much takeout being ordered. Etsy’s service, labeled “Etsy ASAP,” will be available for sellers in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens based on Postmates coverage of the area. If sellers in those spots have enabled the option, shoppers will see the same-day delivery when checking out. Of course, you also have to be in the area to take advantage. The cost? In order to get your goods quickly, expect to shell out an additional $20. However, buyers will be able to specify a delivery window and track the package while in route.
[Image credit: Photo credit should read Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images]
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Misc
Source:
Re/code
Tags: delivery, etsy, nyc, postmates, samedaydelivery, test
5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week! – Android Apps Weekly
Sponsored by: Daily Calculator Free
[Price: Free / $0.99]
This week’s Android Apps Weekly is sponsored by Daily Calculator Free. This application was designed to look good and be easy to use, all of which it does extremely well. Some of the features include multiple color themes, the ability to copy the calculation by long pressing, and even some customization options. You can even enable and disable memory buttons, change the keypad layout, and change the display format. It’s easy to use and it’s totally free with no in-app purchases or you can get the ad-free version for $0.99. Give it a shot and show your support for the Android Apps Weekly show!
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Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! Here are your headlines from the last week:
- Google announced earlier this week that the minimum price for an application in India has gone down. Originally, the price was set to 50 rupees and that has now dropped to 10 rupees. This will allow app devs to sell their application for less money and, hopefully, encourage people to buy more apps.
- In an unusually stupid move, Pandora will being offering a one-day pass of ad-free listening for $0.99. This adds up to about $30 per month and at that point, you might as well just use Spotify, or Google Play Music, or, you know, anything else. We don’t foresee this being too big of a deal although you never know with how people spend money these days.
- Earlier this week, Ironhide Game Studio, developers of the famed Kingdom Rush franchise, announced on Twitter that their first Kingdom Rush game is now free (with in-app purchases) and will remain that way. Even if it’s old, it’s still a solid little tower defense game and worth checking out.
- A new Humble Bundle is out now and includes such games as One More Line, Toy Defense, the Double Dragon Trilogy, and Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath. You can get all of these games for the average price of just over $4 which is far less than you’d pay normally and this is a great way to give to charity!
- Last up this week, it was announced that YouTube has found a way around AdBlock. In a hilarious twist, users of AdBlock and similar apps go from not having to see ads to not being able to skip them unless they disable AdBlock. Users are understandably pissed and I’m sure the comment section will reflect that.
For even more Android apps and games headlines, updates, and new releases, don’t forget to check out this week’s newsletter! There you’ll find the complete list of stuff that happened this week, including the stuff we didn’t have time for here. If you’re so inclined, you can sign up for the newsletter using your email address and we’ll send it straight to your inbox every single Friday!
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You Sunk for Android Wear
[Price: Free with in-app purchases]
You Sunk for Android Wear is, as you’d imagine, a game for Android Wear. In this simple game, you’re tasked with sinking all of the enemy battleships using a variety of weapons. The game can be played on either a phone or an Android Wear watch but it seems to be a little more fun on the watch. There are also power ups, different time settings, and even nukes if you want them. It’s free to download but do beware of the release day bugs.
Get it now on Google Play!
VirusTotal Uplink
[Price: Free]
VirusTotal Uplink is a newer antivirus application and virus scanner that scans your files and apps on command or you can have it run in the background. It’s well designed and comes with a very small footprint at 1.4MB. I know a lot of people don’t use antivirus apps and that’s okay but this seems to be something worth trying for those who do use Android antivirus applications. It is totally free with no in-app purchases
Get it now on Google Play!
Kill Me Again: Infectors
[Price: Free with in-app purchases]
Kill Me Again: Infectors is a match-3 puzzle game with some fighting game elements mixed in. Unlike most puzzle games that use these mechanics, this one actually kind of has a story line. It is a zombie game where you must survive in a world run by zombies but the cinematic graphics are pretty decent, the mechanics are solid, and it’s actually a pretty fun little time waster. It’s also free to download if you’re interested but again, watch out for those early bugs.
Get it now on Google Play!
Adblock Browser for Android
[Price: Free]
In an amusing bit of irony, the Adblock Browser was released earlier this week. In terms of pure browsing power, the Adblock Browser isn’t all that special. It does the basic browser stuff without a lot of bells and whistles. Obviously the main focus of this application is to block advertising and that is something that it does well. It’s worth a try if ad-blocking is something that’s important to you. As with most new apps, there are also a few bugs out of the gate.
Get it now on Google Play!
The new Google Wallet
[Price: Free]
In anticipation for the upcoming Android Pay rollout, Google has taken the Google Wallet functionality and put it in its own application. With this app you’ll be able to view your balance, manage your Google Wallet card if you have one, send and receive money, and a lot more. It’s essentially what the current Google Wallet app did except this one doesn’t do tap-to-pay transactions. If you use any of these features, you’ll want this app because we imagine that it’ll be leaving the current Google Wallet app once it turns into Android Pay.
Get it now on Google Play!
Wrap up
If we missed any awesome new Android apps and games news or releases, tell us about them in the comments below!
Microsoft puts Windows 10 installer on PCs even if you don’t ask for it
Taking the idea of “automatic updates” to the extreme, Microsoft has confirmed that it’s downloading Windows 10 installation files on PCs just in case you might want to upgrade, The Inquirer reports. As a Microsoft rep tells it, the company is placing the files on computers that have opted into automatic updates through Windows Update. Normally that just entails getting a few security fixes every few weeks, but the Windows 10 installer can take up around 3.5GB and 6GB on your system. That’s a lot of precious hard drive space for something you might not even want (though it’s definitely worth upgrading). Microsoft probably figures it’s worth preloading files to make the Windows 10 installation faster, but it seems like a boneheaded move when storage is scarce on some machines (especially if you’re stuck with flash memory or a small SSD). It makes more sense for Microsoft only to preload the files after you’ve decided to “reserve” the free upgrade.
Basically, it seems like Microsoft is just a bit over-eager to juice Windows 10 installation figures. It already announced that the new OS reached 75 million PCs after just one month, but Microsoft said earlier this year that it hopes to bring it to a billion PCs within a few years. But rather than forcing Windows 10 on people, Microsoft would likely be better off just extending its free upgrade offer for existing Windows 7 and 8 years beyond one year.
If you’re on automatic updates and don’t want Windows 10 at all, you can delete the installation files (located in the hidden $Windows.BT folder) by following these instructions from Addictive Tips.
[Photo credit: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images]
Filed under:
Software, Microsoft
Via:
Ars Technica
Source:
The Inquirer
Tags: microsoft, Windows10
Cyanogen reportedly planning “deep Cortana integration” for Cyanogen OS
Back in April we first learned of Microsoft and Cyanogen’s new “strategic partnership”, which would see the inclusion of select apps like Bing, Skype, Office, and a few others. This only applied to the commercial Cyanogen OS and not CyanogenMod ROMs, though the announcement still was met with with mixed reception. Now it looks like Cyanogen and Microsoft are getting ready to expand that relationship, this time by baking in Cortana integration into Cyanogen OS.
In an interview with International Business Times, the notorious Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster revealed that Microsoft and Cyanogen are working to bring Microsoft’s digital assistant over to the OS but in a way that goes much deeper than the current Cortana Android app.
Natural language coupled with intelligence is very important but as an application it doesn’t really work because you need to be embedded into the framework of the OS because that is where you get all the signal from the services that makes that intelligence smarter.
The idea is that Cortana could be used to do a lot more than just an app can accomplish, baking it into the UI’s controls, allowing it to be used in apps, and the list goes on. Not a lot more than that is known just yet, though supposedly we can expect to see the first fruits of this integration in the next major version of Cyanogen OS.
Cyanogen has made it clear on more than one occasion that, despite being built on the Android backbone, the company has big plans for the OS and hopes to separate its association with Google, at least to some degree. For now, though, Cyanogen continues to be pretty stock-like in many ways and utilizes Google services like the Play Store. McMaster envisions a time when this won’t be the case, though most of us doubt that Cyanogen could every really stand on its own.
What do you think of the idea of deeper Cortana integration with Cyanogen OS?
Philo streaming TV platform adds 15 new universities to portfolio
Streaming TV platform Philo is taking a unique approach to getting their service in front of young consumers. They are partnering with colleges and universities to be the provider for residential students on campuses, including 15 new locations that were announced this week. Today’s college students very likely have significant exposure already to online streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, so tapping into a service like Philo that is provided to them should not be a great leap. Philo believes their platform, which provides live TV and DVR services, meets the changing expectations of television viewers that are part of this newer, younger generation.
Some of the institutions added in this latest round include Clemson University, the University of Utah, and Washington State University. Philo is already deployed at campuses like Harvard University, the University of Alabama and Texas A&M University. All together, Philo now counts over 40 universities as part of its network.
Along with the expansion, Philo also announced they are updating their Roku app with a major redesign that brings some enhanced search functionality to the platform. Philo is also available through a web browser or via iOS and Android apps.
You can read the full press release from Philo below.
Philo Now Available at 40+ Universities Nationwide
Next-Generation TV Platform Launches at 15 New Universities, Offering Philo’s Innovative Live TV and DVR Service to Students Heading Back to School
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Philo, a next-generation TV platform, today announced that it has launched at 15 new universities providing live TV and DVR service to residential students on any device. Philo’s roster of more than 40 universities now includes Clemson University, University of Houston, University of North Carolina Asheville, University of South Florida, University of Texas El Paso, University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, Washington State University, and more.
“We’re thrilled to bring the revolutionary TV experience that Philo enables to many more students across the country”
These new schools join Philo’s current line-up of highly regarded universities, which includes Harvard University, Brown University, University of Alabama, Lubbock Christian University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Washington.
“We’re thrilled to bring the revolutionary TV experience that Philo enables to many more students across the country,” said Andrew McCollum, CEO, Philo. “Together with our industry partners, we’re changing what this generation expects from television.”
McCollum, who was a founding member of the Facebook team, is leading the Philo team in creating an unprecedented television experience with intelligent search, insightful discovery, and effortless sharing.
Philo is also launching a redesign of their Roku app, which includes a significant visual design overhaul with enhanced search and DVR functionality. The Roku redesign joins recent enhancements to Philo’s web, iOS and Android apps including the ability to search across shows, movies, and channels; a home page that displays recent DVR recordings, shows that are trending near users, and upcoming popular shows; a new channel guide in both a grid and guide view for easier live TV viewing; and an enhanced DVR interface.
For more about Philo, visit http://www.philo.com.
About Philo
Philo is the industry leader in bringing live TV and DVR to college students on all of the devices they use — computers, tablets, and smartphones — anywhere on campus. Philo works with the content and media industries to provide students access to programming through a cable or satellite provider, including popular TV series as well as live news, sports, and events. Philo also offers students access to TV Everywhere services like HBO GO® and innovative features that enhance the viewing experience.
Philo closed its Series B round of financing for $10 million in June. This raise was led by Series A lead investor New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with participation from CBC New Media Group of Raleigh, NC; Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO); Rho Ventures; XFUND; and CEO Andrew McCollum.
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Hardware Showdown: iPhone 6s vs LG G4
Perhaps you’re wondering just how good these new iPhones (iPhone 6S and iPhone 6s Plus) are that were announced earlier this week. Maybe you’re wondering how they stack up against the competition.
We all know about the age-old argument about how the iPhone has “inferior” specs to the Android flagships. We also know about how Apple is behind the times, and needs to catch up to the rest of the world. So what exactly is it about the iPhone that makes it such a heart throb for the Apple-lites around the world? Check out this graphic to see what’s under the hood between these two devices.
In this edition of the AndroidGuys Hardware Showdown, we are pitting the iPhone 6s against the LG G4.
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Hardware Showdown: iPhone 6s vs HTC One M9
Perhaps you’re wondering just how good these new iPhones (iPhone 6S and iPhone 6s Plus) are that were announced earlier this week. Maybe you’re wondering how they stack up against the competition.
We all know about the age-old argument about how the iPhone has “inferior” specs to the Android flagships. We also know about how Apple is behind the times, and needs to catch up to the rest of the world. So what exactly is it about the iPhone that makes it such a heart throb for the Apple-lites around the world? Check out this graphic to see what’s under the hood between these two devices.
In this edition of the AndroidGuys Hardware Showdown, we are pitting the iPhone 6s against the HTC One M9.
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