[TA Deals] Pick up the BK Sport wireless earbuds for… $19!

Wires make many things difficult, but they really make being active tough. Between limiting mobility and getting tangled, wires are just no good! The BK Sport wireless earbuds featured on Talk Android Deals eliminates the hassle caused by wires. The wired connection between your device and ears goes away at a slim price courtesy of our online store.

The BK Sport wireless earbuds offer wireless streaming, on-device controls, noise reduction, and a snug fit.

Here’s how battery life stands:

• Talk: 5 hours
• Music: 4.5 hours
• Standby: 150 hours

Once your BK Sport wireless earbuds needs to be charged, you connect the included USB charging cable. It should take around two hours to charge from 0% to 100%.

Now usually you’d have to spend $50 on the BK Sport wireless earbuds. Talk Android Deals, though, has slashed that price by 60% to $19. And that includes free shipping, the USB charging cable, two pairs of extra ear tips, and a protective pouch to store the BK Sport wireless earbuds.

Follow the link below to choose your color (black or blue) and order!

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Dainese’s airbag jacket doesn’t rely on a motorcycle to activate

Airbag jackets for motorcyclists typically rely on the bike to activate the safety features, which, in some cases, could be a bit tricky. Dainese remedied the issue by packing all of the requisite tech inside the jacket itself on its D-air Misano 1000. The collection of sensors, GPS and other electronics that are housed in the back protector “monitor the dynamics of the rider’s body 800 times a second” and deploy the airbag when they detect impact or tumbling. As you might expect, there’s an on/off switch to activate the system when you’re in the saddle and an LED status like keeps your informed of its status. Looking to snag one? The D-air Misano 1000 will arrive in November for €1,499 (around $1,700).

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HiddenHUB speaker scans the room to produce the best sound

It takes a unique set of features and an interesting design for a portable speaker to turn heads these days and Hidden’s newest offering is definitely intriguing. The company’s HiddenRadio series was its latest release, providing pop-up pills of 360-degree sound and capacitive touch controls. This time, it’s taking to Kickstarter to launch the HiddenHUB, a more well-endowed offering that goes beyond the basics, with adaptive acoustic sound, smart features and a sleek futuristic design. If you’re intrigued, you can head over to its crowdfunding page today and take advantage of a limited early bird deal of $339, which is a hefty savings over its proposed $599 retail price. That’s certainly not cheap, but it does sound like an interesting piece of kit, especially when it can do double duty as a glowing blue wall sconce.

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The Hub can share sound with nearby Bluetooth speakers or a network of other Hubs scattered throughout the home for multi-room audio. These units can use your existing WiFi network to communicate, or if you’re off-the-grid, it can set up its own 5GHz network to tie them all together. Mobile devices and computers can connect wirelessly through Bluetooth, WiFi or Airplay, and we’re told it will support DLNA. When you’re nearby, volume and track selection can be controlled by using the touch sensitive “smart dial” on the top edge of the speaker itself. A single tap will start/stop the music, while a double tap will skip to the next track. Volume can be controlled by swiping clockwise/counterclockwise around the Hub’s edge. There’s also an AutoPlay feature that’s supposed to sense when a user leaves home, turn itself off, and resume where it left off when you return.

One of the more unique features on the HiddenHUB is its adaptive sound technology. This uses an accelerometer to detect whether its on a table or mounted vertically on a wall, along with infrared sensors to scan the area so it can optimize the audio output according to its environment. We haven’t seen any specs regarding its audio capabilities yet, but with its clean circular design and glowing blue underside, it’s definitely an interesting addition to the growing world of intelligent speakers.

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World’s first all-electric propulsion satellite begins operations

Boeing has announced that the first satellite using fully-electric propulsion has begun operating. Dubbed the ABS-3A, this 4,300-pound telecommunications satellite will provide C- and Ku-band service to South America, the Middle East and Africa. Unlike, well most every other satellite in orbit, the ABS-3A doesn’t rely on tanks of inert gas for propulsion and orbit maintenance. Instead it relies on the Xenon Ion Propulsion System (XIPS) which employs a magnetic field to push ions around and generate thrust. The satellite is expected to use just 11 pounds of Xenon annually over the course of its 15 year operational life span — that’s a tenth the amount of propellent that a conventional satellite would require.

Boeing launched the satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in March and handed off control of ABS-3A to its new owner, Asia Broadcast Satellite, at the end of August — a month earlier than originally planned. Boeing plans to launch a second such satellite, ABS-2A, early next year.

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Lollipop for the Verizon first-gen Moto X is rolling out

If you happen to own the first-gen Moto X from Verizon, you’re in for a treat as Android Lollipop is on its way. The long-awaited update brings material design, added functionality, and the latest OS with a Stagefright fix.

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Here’s the full change log if you happen to own one, taken from Motorola’s website:

• Material Design: You will quickly notice a whole new colorful look and feel to your device – from fluid animations to new application and system themes, colors and widgets.
• Notifications UI & Priorities: In order to alert you to the most timely and relevant information, the format and behavior of notifications have evolved:
  • notifications will appear on the lock screen and are intelligently ranked by type and who sent them.
  • you double-tap to open one, swipe left or right to clear one, or clear all notifications from the bottom of the list.
  • you can set the priority and privacy of notifications for each application.
  • very high priority notifications will pop up briefly over other applications so that you can take action.
  • when you dismiss a notification on one device it will be dismissed on your other Android devices, if they are connected to the Internet.
  • you can further tailor how notifications behave with the new Downtime and Ambient Display settings (see below).
• New Interruptions & Downtime Settings: You can tailor how interruptions behave, choosing to allow all, none, or only priority interruptions.  You can personalize what counts as a priority interruption (reminders, events, calls, messages) and even tailor them to be from only contacts you specify.  The Downtime setting will allow only priority interruptions during the times and days that you specify.  e.g. allow only priority interruptions on the weekend.
• Recent Apps (Multi-tasking): The redesigned Overview space (formerly called Recents) will include both applications and separate activities within those applications.  For instance, each open tab in Chrome will also appear here along with recent applications; both your Gmail Inbox and a draft email message will appear as separate cards.  This provides a consistent way to switch amongst tasks.
• Flashlight: Lollipop includes a new flashlight option as part of Quick settings (swipe down with two fingers from the status bar to see it).
• Pin a view/app: Screen pinning allows you to keep a specific app or screen in view. For example, you can ‘pin’ a game and your child will not be able to navigate anywhere else on your phone.
• Battery: The Battery settings panel now shows an estimated projection for how much time you have left while discharging or charging.  You can also enable a new battery saver mode that will save power by reducing performance and most background data operations to extend your battery life.
• Smarter Internet Connections: With Android Lollipop, your phone will not connect to a Wi-Fi access point unless there is a verified Internet connection. This feature improves hand-offs between Wi-Fi and cellular connections, helping to maintain your video chat or voice-over-IP (VoIP) call as you switch.
• Performance: Your phone now uses the new Android Runtime to help optimize application performance.  After upgrading to Lollipop, your applications will undergo a one-time optimization process.  Note that the optimization for ART requires more space.
• Security: Encryption can now use a stronger 256-bit key to help protect your data.  Note that the stronger key will only be used after you perform a factory reset on Android Lollipop.  Otherwise encryption will continue to use 128-bit key.  You can turn on encryption in the Security settings menu.

You can check for the update now by going to Settings> About Device> System Updates> Check for update

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Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt talks artificial intelligence in op-ed piece

In a new op-ed piece that came out over the weekend via the BBC, Alphabet’s new chairman Eric Schmidt wrote about artificial intelligence and why he thinks so much progress has been made in recent years. Although the term was coined way back in the 1950’s, progress seemed to languish for quite a while waiting for technology to catch up with researchers.

Schmidt points to the experience of Geoff Hinton as an example of the slow, evolutionary instead of revolutionary progress that has been made. Hinton first developed some of his key pillars regarding artificial neural networks back in the 80’s and then had to wait a couple decades before his team could use the concepts to beat the state of the art in speech recognition in 2009.

Schmidt and Google eventually hired Hinton and his team because they recognized the work had moved from the realm of “could work” to “works better.” That change can be attributed to a couple things, one of which is the phenomenal growth and ability to network computers to increase computing horsepower.

The other big impetus though has been a move to try to solve real-world problems. Google discovered that the same types of questions they were trying to help consumers answer were the same types of problems that artificial intelligence researchers were trying to get computers to learn to answer. This mostly fell into the realm of dealing with lots of unstructured data or a variety of inputs, like languages. Trying to address these challenges forced researchers to raise the bar.

Schmidt points out that consumers are seeing the fruits of these efforts in their products. For instance, Google Photos can recognize the a customer’s first picture of their dog even though it was never labelled as such. Gmail users get a glimpse of this with the filtering that goes on with inbound messages.

Schmidt concludes his piece by urging those involved “to keep thinking first and foremost about people’s real needs and the real world we all inhabit.”

source: BBC
via: The Verge

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