Xiaomi reveals information on its upcoming Xiaomi Mi 4c

Today, co-founder of Xiamoi, Li Nan and Lei Jun the chairman of Xiamoi believed it was necessary to give consumers some details on the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 4c.

We have already seen numerous leaks and benchmarks regarding the Xiamoi Mi 4c and now more details have emerged. According to Xiaomi, the Mi 4c will have dual-SIM/dual standby capabilities both supporting 4G LTE connectivity. The company is also adding some new features that are currently only found on select Android handsets. The double tap to wake feature will be among one of them.

Teaser images posted on Weibo reveal a Snapdragon 808 processor and an Adreno 418 GPU. These internals will give the handset a significant boost in connectivity and download speeds. Another image shows off a totally new orange and white colored packaging that will replace the plain white design of its counterpart.

The handset is scheduled to be announced at an event held on September 22, and launch in stores on October 3. Only a small amount will be produced and we are expecting to see a price tag south of $300 USD. We’ll find out all the mysteries in just two days time.

Via TechGrapple

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The After Math: Big scary numbers

This week on The After Math, Cablevision sells for buku bucks, AT&T gets generous with its data allowances and some sucker is probably going to spend $130,000 on a TV he won’t be able to use until its become obsolete. Because numbers!

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: new EV concept cars and Napmobiles

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

Up until now, Tesla has blazed a trail in the electric vehicle market — but the major automakers are finally starting to catch up. This past week Porsche unveiled its new Mission E electric car, which packs over 600 horsepower and recharges in 15 minutes flat. Meanwhile, Audi showcased a sleek all-electric SUV to rival the Tesla Model X, and Mercedes-Benz debuted a car that can actually transform at high speeds. Even LA is jumping on the green-car bandwagon — the city just announced plans to launch the largest electric vehicle fleet in the US. If you prefer pedal-powered transportation, don’t miss out on a chance to win a Public V7 bike in our back-to-school giveaway — it only takes a second to enter!

Carnegie Mellon professor Jay Whitacre has created a non-toxic battery that’s clean enough to eat — and this week it won him the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. In other energy news, Ethiopia is turning to giant solar energy-generating tulips in its quest to become carbon neutral by 2025. And researchers recently developed a new hybrid solar cell that produces five times more energy by harnessing sunlight and heat at the same time.

What will the buildings of the future look like? Last week a team of architects unveiled plans for an underground bubble house that could be 3D-printed on Mars. Here on Earth, the world’s largest delta 3D printer can produce entire houses out of mud for practically zero cost. World-renowned firm Foster + Partners announced plans to construct a Droneport in Africa that will use unmanned aerial vehicles to distribute emergency medical supplies. And we showcased several examples of mobile architecture — an incredible tiny home on wheels, and a Napmobile that lets you test-drive a cozy mattress on the road.

Samsung Galaxy Note 5 International Giveaway!

Welcome to the Sunday Giveaway, the place where we giveaway a new Android phone or tablet each and every Sunday.

A big congratulations to last week’s winner of the OnePlus 2 giveaway: Sergiy G. from Ukraine.

This week we are giving away a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 courtesy of Cujo.

Cujo, a new project that just launched on Indiegogo, aims to take the guesswork out of securing your connected devices, from smartphones to baby monitors.

Hacks are no longer the stuff of Hollywood flicks. These days, the chances of falling victim to a very real – and potentially very nasty – hacking incident have shot up. And, despite popular belief, hackers don’t target just corporations and public figures. Determined hackers can and will breach your personal devices. Laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles, thermostats, even cars – if they connect to the internet, they’re vulnerable.

This is where Cujo, a smart security device developed by an LA-based startup, comes in. Think of Cujo as your final line of protection against internet threats. This little white box plugs into your router with just one cable and zero fuss. After that, it immediately begins scanning traffic, protecting you from intrusions, malware, and other types of threats. Whenever an incident is detected, you can get a detailed notification on your Android or iOS smartphone, so you can act and keep your home safe.

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Researchers draft the first comprehensive tree of life

It’s very poetic to talk about a tree of life, where every species can trace its roots, but actually illustrating this tree is no mean feat when Earth has been home to at least 2.3 million known species. However, scientists have finally given it a shot. They’ve published the first draft of a comprehensive tree of life that shows every major evolutionary branch, ranging from the very first organisms to complex beings like humans. This isn’t a complete tree, of course (it’s doubtful that we’ll ever know all the species that ever existed), but it beats the patchwork from before.

The best part is that this tree isn’t buried inside an academic paper or otherwise hidden to the public. Its creators have posted the tree of life online (it’s down as I write this, likely due to high traffic), including both the pure data and the source code for tying it all together. If you need to trace the history of a species any time soon, this may be your go-to resource.

[Image credit: Duke University]

Via: Phys.org, Gizmodo

Source: Duke University, PNAS, Open Tree of Life

MRI scans used to create 3D-printed hearts for surgery practice

Heart surgeries could be so much safer if surgeons can see and feel an actual representation of the patient’s organ before the procedure itself. A system developed by a group of researchers from MIT and Boston Children’s Hospital might make that a viable option. By using MRI scans as a blueprint, it allows doctors to print out a model of the patient’s heart within just three hours. When you do an MRI scan, the machine takes hundreds of cross-sectional images of your organs. In order to create an accurate 3D-printable model, though, the boundaries between each part of the organ must be determined. It’s critical for each part to look distinct, especially if the patient needs surgery due to an unusual anatomy.

If a human manually designates boundaries for each of the heart’s parts in the 200-plus scans needed to created a model, it would take him 10 hours. Since that’s just too much time, one of the researchers developed an algorithm that speeds up the process. The person in charge of marking boundaries only need to work on around eight cross sections, after which the algorithm will take over to finish the job in an hour. The printing itself takes just a couple of hours more.

Note that the technology’s still young, and seven cardiac surgeons at the Boston Children’s Hospital will still have to assess how useful the 3D-printed models are this fall. Just recently, select surgeons from the facility started practicing procedures on 3D-printed vasculature. They found that the preparation cut some surgeries’ time considerably, making them a lot safer for the patients.

[Image credit: Bryce Vickmark]

Via: Computerworld

Source: MIT