(Deal) Stay protected while browsing with Private Internet Access VPN

Few things can start the week off right. A good cup of coffee, a traffic-less commute to work, and a good deal. Well we can only hope that everyone had the first two already, while AndroidGuys is here to provide the third. Today’s Deal of the Day aims to bring you some protection while browsing the web.

Accessing the internet without leaving your important information behind, is a task that is becoming more necessary in today’s world. Sure, you could remove all your private information from your various online accounts, delete your Facebook account, and try to stay “off the grid”. Regardless of whether you do your best to stay off the grid, there’s still a chance that your information is out there.

Private Internet Access VPN is one of the many options available to you when trying to keep your information private. We have covered quite a lot of various options for Virtual Private Networks (VPN), all of which offer different options, and all at different prices. What they all do though, is help protect your identity and your information, from getting into the wrong hands.

• Prevents data mining so you can browse anonymously
• Connects instantly w/ one-click installers
• Masks your location w/ IP cloaking
• Provides access to Private Internet Access’s professional support staff
• Blocks unwanted connections w/ server-grade filtering software
• Allows the use of 5 devices simultaneously w/ unlimited bandwidth
• Protects your identity w/ several layers of privacy
• Bypasses censorship filters so you are free from geographic restrictions
• Stops traffic w/ a kill switch if the VPN connection is unexpectedly terminated

Normally priced at $80, you can head over to the AndroidGuys Deals page, and grab this for only $59.95, a savings of almost 25%. Private Internet Access is a great option to keep yourself, and your family, protected. With this two-year subscription you will get top-notch customer service, and can rest a little easier at night knowing that you are protected.

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Meizu Pro 5 official with 5.7-inch screen, Exynos 7420

We’ve previously heard rumours that Meizu were set to release one of the first non-Samsung Exynos-powered smartphones and today the company has made these rumours official by announcing the Meizu Pro 5 at an event in China. The smartphone, which is the company’s latest big-screen device, also sees Meizu drop the MX branding and offer impressive specs at an affordable price.

The Meizu Pro 5 sports a 5.7-inch Full HD Super AMOLED display with 2.5D curved glass and relatively small bezels on either side of the screen. On the back there’s a 21MP Sony IMX230 camera, while the front sports a 5MP selfie snapper. Meizu also say the Meizu Pro 5 comes with phase detection auto focus, which lets you focus on a subject in just 0.7 seconds.

Under the hood, the Exynos 7420 processor – which is also used in the Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge Plus and Note 5 – provides some serious power and the handset comes with either 3GB or 4GB RAM, depending on whether you go for the 32GB or 64GB model. Both of these models also come with a microSD card allowing you to expand the storage further by up to 128GB, while the front also has a fingerprint sensor built into the solitary home button beneath the display.

Other notable specs of the Meizu Pro 5 include a USB Type C port on the bottom – which supports mCharge and lets you charge the 3050mAh battery to 65 percent in just 30 minutes – a new signal processor, headphone amplifier and the Android 5.1 Lollipop OS with Flyme 5 UI on top.

The specs certainly look impressive and the handset will be affordable once it goes on sale on October 12th. The 32GB version of the handset, which comes with 3GB RAM, will cost 2799 Yuan ($438), while the 64GB version with 4GB RAM will cost 3099 Yuan ($485). The company is also offering a couple of other versions of the Meizu Pro 5 including one with a Harman Kardon stereo kit for 4098 Yuan ($642) and the other with the Soho II NC active noise cancellation headset for 3698 Yuan ($579).

What do you think of Meizu’s new smartphone and would you buy it? Let us know your views in the comments below guys!

Physicists successfully map individual atoms in 3D

Technology can evolve at such a rapid rate that many scientific discoveries are not just pushing boundaries, they’re practically barging them. Example, Physicists at UCLA have managed to 3D-map the position of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter (that’s several times smaller than a hydrogen atom, for those of you playing at home) using a creative scanning technique. The method will help scientists and engineers build things — such as aircraft components — that lack point defects (i.e. missing atoms) that can have detrimental effects on structural integrity.

The new procedure is called “scanning transmission electron microscopy” and works by passing an electron beam over a sample and measuring how many electrons interact with the atoms in said sample. Different arrangements of atoms react with the electrons in different ways so the outcome is unique to a particular atomic structure. The team conducts the initial scan which produces a 2D image, and in order to get to the final 3D product, they combine several scans from different angles. The downside of this technique is that multiple scans can potentiality damage the sample.

Currently, a method known as X-Ray crystallography is used to map the layout of billions of atoms at a time, but has never been able to pinpoint an atom’s exact coordinates. This all encompassing procedure makes identifying a missing atom impossible.

“Our measurements are so precise, and any vibrations — like a person walking by — can affect what we measure,” said Peter Ercius, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The team of UCLA scientists who happened across this discovery now plan to use it in order to study magnetic properties.

[Image Credit: Mary Scott and Jianwei (John) Miao/UCLA]

Source: UCLA Newsroom

NASA designed app aims to shorten commercial flight times

It seems as though NASA’s focus as of late has been solely geared towards Mars and the efforts to get there. However the space agency recently made an announcement that hits a little closer to home. NASA has developed software to help reduce fuel consumption, carbon emissions and even cut travel times in commercial airlines. The newly introduced technology is loaded onto a tablet and won’t require any major change to the already established aviation roles of pilots and ground crew meaning the technology can be implemented right away. It works by reading the planes current position in conjunction with its flight path and then looks for an alternate route that can save both time and money.

Called TAP (Traffic Aware Planner), the app is used to make traffic aware strategic aircrew requests, or “TASAR’s.”

“TAP connects directly to the aircraft avionics information hub on the aircraft,” said David Wing who is the TASAR project lead. Set to be used by Virgin America and Alaska Airlines over the next three years, TAP also connects to the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) which scans nearby air traffic to assure that there are no conflicts of newly proposed flight paths. For aircraft with an Internet connection, TAP can also access real time information such as live weather conditions and wind forecast updates that will work to further increase flight efficacy.

“Up until now there has been no way to deliver comprehensive wind and congestion data to pilots in near-real time. It is a ‘super app’ that will give our pilots better visibility to what’s happening now versus three hours earlier when the flight plan was prepared.” claimed Tom Kemp, Alaska Airlines’ vice president of operations in Seattle, Washington.

Source: NASA

ITV’s Hub is its answer to BBC iPlayer and All4

As more and more households embrace online TV services, broadcasters are changing the way they deliver content in order to better fit around their audience. Last year, the BBC updated the iPlayer website and apps, followed by Channel 4’s rebranded All4 portal in March. Now it’s ITV’s turn. The company announced today that it will scrap the existing ITV Player and ITV.com website and roll them into a new entity: The ITV Hub. It will house all of the channels you’d expect (ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, CITV and ITVBe), making them available to stream live on smartphones, tablets, PCs, connected TVs and set-top boxes.

ITV says that it will deliver its first ever app for Amazon’s new Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. More importantly, ITV Hub will also come to the new Freeview Play service, which is set to roll out from next month. To mark the launch, ITV will debut new episodes of Family Guy, becoming the first public broadcaster to offer the popular cartoon on a video-on-demand service. In terms of timing, ITV says it’s “looking forward to fully unveiling it later this autumn” — this suggests that the company could follow a similar route to BBC iPlayer and launch public tests of the service before it becomes widely available to everyone.

Source: ITV