Hardware Showdown: iPhone 6s vs OnePlus 2
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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Hardware Showdown: iPhone 6s vs Samsung Galaxy S6
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 the first edition of the AndroidGuys Hardware Showdown, we are pitting the iPhone 6s against the Samsung Galaxy S6.
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iPhone 6s Roundup Updated – Pre-Orders Start Tonight
We’re just hours away from iPhone 6s and 6s Plus pre-orders. Check out our newly updated iPhone 6s roundup to learn about all the new features the phones have to offer before you buy.
http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone–6s/
Apple Pencil Offers High Precision and Low Latency, Gains 30 Minutes of Use From 15-Second Charge
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs famously dismissed the need for a stylus when introducing Multi-Touch on the original iPhone over eight years ago, touting the finger as the best pointing device in the world.
“Who wants a stylus? You have to get them, and put them away, and you lose them. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus.”
Macworld 2007 was quite awhile ago, however, and Apple on Wednesday ultimately reversed course and introduced the Apple Pencil for iPad Pro, which it refers to as a creative tool for scribbling, sketching, annotating and editing.
Apple Pencil features a pointed tip with highly responsive sensors that allow for precise input down to a single pixel. To achieve this, Apple engineered the Apple Pencil and iPad Pro display to work together to detect position, force and tilt.
For example, as seen in the video below, you can press lightly for a thinner stroke, or press harder for a darker, bolder stroke. Likewise, you can draw with the Apple Pencil on an angle to produce broad, shaded strokes.
The iPad Pro’s subsystem scans the Apple Pencil’s signal 240 times per second, providing the tablet with twice the data points it would normally collect for a finger. This results in the Apple Pencil being very responsive, with almost indistinguishable latency, as seen in TechCrunch‘s hands-on video below.
Apple Pencil has a built-in rechargeable battery that lasts up to 12 hours on a single charge, but more interesting is its ability to gain 30 minutes of battery life from just 15 seconds of charging. A magnetic cap hides a male Lightning connector that allows the Apple Pencil to be plugged into the iPad Pro to charge.
Apple Pencil will be available in November for $99 alongside the new Smart Keyboard. While the Apple Pencil is officially compatible with the iPad Pro, it remains to be seen if the tool will work with older iPads as a traditional stylus.
Apple Shares Full Video of Fall ‘Hey Siri’ Event on YouTube
Two days after its jam-packed “Hey Siri” event that saw the debut of several new products, Apple has uploaded a full video of its presentation to its YouTube channel. The same video is also available on Apple’s own event website.
Apple’s “Hey Siri” event presentation was well-organized but fast-paced, as it covered the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, the iPad Pro and its Pencil/Smart Keyboard accessories, the iPad mini 4, the Apple TV, and several new Apple Watch products, from new Rose Gold/Gold finishes for the Apple Watch Sport to exclusive Hermés Apple Watch models.
Rumors have suggested Apple’s big fall extravaganza will be its final event this year, meaning there won’t be a second event in October as there has been in years past. Apple has, however, split its upcoming product releases up over September, October, and November. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus will launch on September 25, while the Apple TV will come in late October and the iPad Pro will launch in November.
Two New Apple Stores Opening in Nanjing and Florence in Late September
Apple has announced that two new Apple Stores will hold their grand openings in Nanjing, China and Florence, Italy on September 19 and September 26 respectively at 10 AM local time. Each store will offer traditional services such as the Genius Bar, Workshops and JointVenture.
Apple’s upcoming retail store in Florence, Italy opens September 26
The new Florence store will be located in Republic Square (Piazza della Repubblica) and open on Monday-Sunday between 10 AM and 8 PM local time. Meanwhile, the store in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, will be located at the Rainbow Joy shopping mall and open on Monday-Sunday between 10 AM and 10 PM local time.
(Thanks, Lapo!)
ZeroLemon releases giant 8500 mAh battery pack for the LG G4
As we slowly see most OEMs transition away from removable backs, a number of phones have adopted quick charging tech as sort of a band-aid for the issue of not being able to quickly swap out batteries. Of course, not everyone sees this as a worthy solution, and that’s why devices like the LG G4 are a refreshing alternative for these types of users.
But what if you’re not just looking to have a replacement battery or two? What if size and weight aren’t an issue, and you just want the best battery life possible? That’s where the ZeroLemon 8500 mAh giant brick of battery could come in handy. The 3000 mAh battery that comes in the LG G4 is pretty decent as it is, but 8500 mAh is more than enough to provide three-day life, even with fairly heavy use, and likely will make it much longer with lighter usage.
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Such a battery instantly kills the G4’s aesthetics, but not everyone will care. Some people just like the idea of having a phone that rarely needs charging, others will probably use the regular back and battery most of the time but like the idea of having an 8500 mAh battery for camping trips and other situations where they will have very limited access to an outlet. Bottom-line, it’s nice to have the choice, even if the ZeroLemon is admittedly appealing only to a small niche.
See also: LG G4 review: a phone that attempts to do everything
Those interested can now get the battery for just $59.99 with an 180-day money back guarantee if it doesn’t live up to the battery quality promised.
Scientists aim to treat septic shock with new, meshy dialysis device
Sepsis is a mysterious condition. It’s the body’s life-threatening response to an infection and it’s usually tied to a weakened immune system, but it can be triggered by just a cut or routine surgery. Each year in the United States, Sepsis affects more than 1 million people and kills up to half, according to the National Institutes of Health. There’s no treatment for Sepsis or septic shock, the deadly full-body inflammatory response, but scientists at Harvard’s Wyss Institute are working on a new dialysis system that cleans the blood of poisonous pathogens, Reuters reports.
The new system sends a patient’s blood through a tube of mesh fibers coated in an engineered protein, fcMBL. This protein binds to the sugars along the walls of pathogens, trapping them and leaving clean blood behind. Senior Staff Scientists Mike Super describes the procedure to Reuters:
“We are coating the inside of the tubes with that protein and we are running the infected blood from the patient through that, through the filter and binding, absorbing, capturing the pathogens that are in that blood so that the blood that is going back to the patient is cleansed,” he says.
In a trial phase using rats as patients, the new dialysis treatment was more than 99 percent effective in removing bacteria from the blood, the site reports. Super and his team are conducting trials on large animals now, and they hope to start human trials soon.
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Science
Source:
Reuters
Tags: blood, sepsis, SepticShock
Department of Energy was hacked over 150 times since 2010
Between 2010 and 2014 the US Department of Energy was hit by hackers over 150 times. Just pause and think about that for a moment. In the span of four years, the federal organization that helps regulate our power grid, energy labs and nuclear weapons was successfully infiltrated 159 times. Almost as terrifying, the department was constantly under attack according to records obtained by USA Today. During that time there were 1,131 attempts made to break into the DOE’s systems.
The government hasn’t said what if any data was stolen, though the extremely sensitive nature of what the Department of Energy oversees is certainly cause for concern. If information about our nation’s energy grid were to windup in the hands of a terrorist organization or a country like North Korea, it could prove extremely problematic… to put it lightly. The security of the power grid and our nuclear stockpile has been the topic of repeated handwringing from experts. And, even with the administration’s renewed focus on cybersecurity, bad actors have proven time and time again that they can break into government systems with enough time and effort.
In the last year alone attacks on the Office of Personnel Management saw over 21.5 million Social Security Numbers stolen, and tax records of over 300,000 people were compromised in a breach of the IRS. Add the near-constant barrage of attacks on the Pentagon (which occasionally lead to its networks going down) and breaches of White House email servers and it becomes clear why the Obama administration has moved to make cybersecurity a priority during his second term.
A good place to start is probably with updating passwords. A security audit in October of 2014 found 41 servers and 14 workstations at the DOE “were configured with default or easily guessed passwords.”
Filed under:
Internet
Source:
USA Today
Tags: CyberAttack, cybersecurity, Department of Energy, DepartmentOfEnergy, DOE, government, hack, security
[TA Deals] Pick up a Git Training Bundle for Windows completely free
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