Samsung Galaxy Active Neo coming to Japan
Samsung is known for creating lots of variants and different line-ups of smartphones in order to soothe everyone’s needs. Just this past week, the company announced the Galaxy Active Neo in Japan, aimed for the outdoors man.
The Galaxy Active Neo is a new ruggidized handset running Android Lollipop. It packs a low in class 4.5-inch display with 480 x 800 pixels, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP rear-facing camera, a 2MP front-facing camera, 16GB of expandable storage, an IP67 rating for water and dust resistance, LTE connectivity and a 2200 mAh battery. Buyers of the Galaxy Active Neo handset can additionally claim 100GB of free OneDrive cloud storage for 2 years.
The Galaxy Active Neo will cost you around $168 USD, and will be available in Japan beginning in early November via NTT DoCoMo.
Source: Samsung Japan
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The interfaces that bridge the human-machine divide
First it was toggle switches. And then keyboards, the mouse and other standard interface devices gave us control of computers and the digital world. From the tangible, to hands-free and beyond, the ways in which we control digital systems are expanding. We’ve collected just a few of the interesting products and concepts that are breaching the two-dimensional world of computing and merging it with our physical reality.
[Image: Jinha Lee / MIT Media Lab]
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Recommended Reading: Microsoft’s knack for predicting NFL games
Recommended Reading highlights the best long-form writing on technology and more in print and on the web. Some weeks, you’ll also find short reviews of books that we think are worth your time. We hope you enjoy the read.
How Microsoft Got So Good at Predicting Who Will Win NFL Games
by Tim Stenovec
Tech Insider
Have you been using Bing’s sports predictions to make “friendly wagers” and set your fantasy lineups this football season? Microsoft’s Bing Predicts team has been picking winners for NFL games, other sporting events, reality shows and elections for a while now. As it turns out, the small group of researchers employ machine learning to make the predictions and they’ve gotten better at it over time.
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Here it is, Moog’s Badass New Synth Moog revealed the Mother-32 semi-modular analog synth this week and The Creator’s Project offers a bit of background on the new gear. |
I Went to a Robot Cage Fight and Learned How to Be Human Robot cage fighting? ‘Nuff said. |
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At Google, Breathing Room for New Ideas The autonomy of Nest, even after Google bought the company, is being used as a model for new projects under Alphabet. |
Carrie On: Making Peace With Five Seasons of ‘Homeland’ Homeland was a pretty good show… until it wasn’t. Grantland’s Andy Greenwald stuck it out, though, and offers a preview of the new season that begins this Sunday. |
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ICYMI: Grippy robot hands, smarten up your dumb car and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: MIT developed robotic hands of pliable silicon that are also studded with pressure sensors so it knows how tightly to hold something. A small dashboard camera and advanced computer vision software are being tested in the San Francisco Bay Area to record potential roadway hazards and track the drivers eyes. And a robotic solar-powered mirror light is here to give Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers another option for Vitamin D.
You definitely need to know about the Experian credit hack at T-Mobile but it might be more fulfilling to check out the livestream or YouTube channel of this year’s migration of animals in Africa via HerdTracker. It’s really beautiful.
If you come across any interesting videos, we’d love to see them. Just tweet us with the #ICYMI hashtag @engadget or @mskerryd.
Listen to a ‘CD’ made from fool’s gold, powered by a Raspberry Pi
What’s music to some is noise to others. And that’s perhaps most apparent with Ra the latest piece from the creator of an 8-bit camera gun, ::vtol::. As the artist writes in the demo’s Vimeo description, the project uses a laser to scan the irregularities on the surface of a pyrite disc. The artist, real-name Dimitry Morozov, says that this disc was a gift from a mineral seller and that all of the tech present was centered around the idea of making a laser sound reader that’d “be able to produce sound from various uneven surfaces.” Oh, and Morozov wanted to use the bare minimum tools to make it. What do those include? A Raspberry Pi, Arduino Nano, a homemade laser pickup, stepper motor, servo motor and a three watt mono sound system. If you want to see it in action, you’re going to have to hit the Sound Museum in St. Petersburg.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/140167278
Source: ::vtol::
Apple Makes More Dev Kits for New Apple TV Available
Late Friday night, Apple emailed developers to tell them that more developer kits for the new Apple TV are now available. The email, which MacRumors has obtained a copy of, says that more developer kits are being made available due to “overwhelming demand.”
Due to overwhelming demand, we’ve made more Apple TV Developer Kits available and you’ve been selected to receive one. Simply sign in with your developer account, agree to the terms and conditions, and submit your order by 5:00 p.m.local time on October 9, 2015.
Similar to the original wave of new Apple TV dev kits, Apple will charge developers $1 to verify billing addresses. The Apple TV will ship within 1 to 3 business days via standard shipping for free. The original wave of Apple TV dev kits had to be ordered by September 16.
The new Apple TV represents a massive overhaul of Apple’s existing set-top box, coming with a brand new operating system called tvOS, a much more powerful A8 processor, 2 GB of RAM, support for a full App Store and Siri in countries where it’s supported.
Nova Launcher 4.1.0 update brings same size icons and Marshmallow style search
Popular Android launcher, Nova Launcher, has just updated their app to version 4.1.0. The new update brings some awesome new features. One of them is the much talked about “Normalize Icon Size” which automatically shrinks large icons so they match all the other icons.
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Normalize Icon Size, automatically shrink overly large icons to match Material guidelines
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Marshmallow style search bars (Color and grayscale) [2]
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Support runtime permissions on Marshmallow
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Optimizations and bug fixes
The scaling icons is a lot more important than you may think. Many times an app with a square icon will visually look different than an app with a circle icon even though they are the same size. With the update, icons now scale to look visually the same size. This may not make a huge difference in how you use your phone, but does make it more enjoyable to look at.
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Android 6.0 not coming to the Verizon and AT&T Moto X (2nd gen)
The Motorola Moto X (2nd gen) was strangely not included in the list of Motorola phones that will be receiving the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update. Motorola only lists the Moto X Pure Edition (2nd gen) to get the update and not the carrier variant Moto X.
It’s possible they just forgot to include it or made a mistake, but according to Matt, the Motorola forums manager, the AT&T and Verizon variants definitely will not be updated to the latest version of Android.
That really sucks for the Moto X owners because the phone is only about one year old. Technically, this isn’t officially from the high ups at Motorola and they might update it in the future, but it isn’t looking good.
Source: Motorola Forum
Via: Droid-Life
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A little NSFW: Pornhub thinks what mobile platform you’re on defines what you’re into
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, adult websites like Pornhub have a ton of traffic data from the people that occasionally frequent their website. In an insights post on their website this week, the Pornhub team collated their data and make some interesting findings, suggesting that what mobile platform you’re on defines what you’re into – or at least, what kind of porn you search for when you’re on there. The statistics compare both Android and iOS – for instance, if you’re on Android, there were 138% more people than on iOS watching “BBW” videos; conversely, there were 134% more people on iOS than on Android looking at the category “MILF”. Similarly, Pornhub also took a look at which words were searched most for relative to the other platform.
Now, there’s no judgement from us (there’s totally judgement from us), but despite how different our relative tastes and search terms were, overall people on both platforms searched for the same word the most – “lesbian”. There’s plenty more information that Pornhub has gathered, so if you’re interested in checking it out, the source link below. And be sure to turn down the lights. Though maybe not at work.
What do you think about Pornhub’s statistics? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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A little NSFW: Pornhub thinks what mobile platform you’re on defines what you’re into
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, adult websites like Pornhub have a ton of traffic data from the people that occasionally frequent their website. In an insights post on their website this week, the Pornhub team collated their data and make some interesting findings, suggesting that what mobile platform you’re on defines what you’re into – or at least, what kind of porn you search for when you’re on there. The statistics compare both Android and iOS – for instance, if you’re on Android, there were 138% more people than on iOS watching “BBW” videos; conversely, there were 134% more people on iOS than on Android looking at the category “MILF”. Similarly, Pornhub also took a look at which words were searched most for relative to the other platform.
Now, there’s no judgement from us (there’s totally judgement from us), but despite how different our relative tastes and search terms were, overall people on both platforms searched for the same word the most – “lesbian”. There’s plenty more information that Pornhub has gathered, so if you’re interested in checking it out, the source link below. And be sure to turn down the lights. Though maybe not at work.
What do you think about Pornhub’s statistics? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
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