[Deal] Play Music subscriptions 50% off for Valentine’s Day

Looking for a great Valentine’s Day gift for a loved one? Google has you covered with 50% off on subscriptions to Play Music!

Play Music subscriptions regularly cost around $10 a month, but Google’s is discounting that price by 50%. Not only that, but you can also get 50% on a three-month subscription as well as a six-month subscription. Instead of paying $30 for three months, you’ll pay $15. Or, instead of paying $60 but for six months, you’ll pay $30.

Google is offering some other great Valentine’s Day promotions as well.

It’s worth nothing that you don’t have to gift the subscription to someone else, but can gift it to yourself as well. As a side note, while this is a good deal as is, it gets even better. Google is throwing in free access to YouTube Red and YouTube Music as well.

Keep in mind that you have only about three days to take advantage of this deal, as Google says it expires on February 15.

Anyone plan on picking up a subscription for yourself or a loved one?

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ICYMI: Ripples in Spacetime, brain jolts to learn and more

Today on In Case You Missed It: Researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory confirmed Einstein’s theory that ripples in the fabric of spacetime do, in fact, exist. They spotted the gravitational waves made when two black holes collided.

Halo Neuroscience headphones might help you understand what that means, since the mild electrical signals strapped on your head are apparently helping US ski team members perform better in some early trials.

Scientists from the University of Zurich taught a UAV to ‘see’ and follow a hiking trail in the woods, with the hopeful goal of helping in search and rescue missions.

The must-see of the day is really the man who constructed a very Steampunk arm brace to allow him to continue working after a stroke. As always, please share any interesting science or tech videos, anytime! Just tweet us with the #ICYMI hashtag to @mskerryd.

NASA maps part of Pluto’s complex terrain

Pluto’s surface looks pretty textured even from afar, but you may still be surprised by how complex its terrain actually is. This new color-coded geological map illustrates that complexity more clearly. It covers 1,290 miles of the dwarf planet, including the left side of Pluto’s heart-shaped region and its surrounding areas. NASA has identified and labeled the texture and morphology of everything that falls within the rectangular map. The cracked, bluish part in the center, for instance, represents a nitrogen ice plain within Tombaugh Regio called Sputnik Planum.

Those purple clumps flanking its right side (your left) are mountain ranges, while the red area in the bottom left edge is a possible cryovolcano called Wright Mons. The dark brown strip on the left side beside the purple mountain ranges marks the beginning of the Cthulhu Regio, dotted by impact craters colored in yellow. As you can see below, NASA describes each location as accurately as possible, whether its rubbly, degraded, eroded or pitted.

The map was created from 12 photos captured by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager, 48,000 miles away. They were taken almost two hours before the probe’s nearest approach on July 14th, 2015 at a resolution of around 1,050 feet per pixel. NASA is taking a closer look at those photos from last year to determine which part goes on top of which. That will give the agency a pretty good idea if formations are older or younger than the ones beside them and to ultimately conjure up a timeline that shows when each one appeared on Pluto’s surface.

Source: NASA

O2 tracks and sells what customers are doing on the Tube

If you’re with O2 and regularly use the London Underground, you should know that the network is trying to track your phone and pass that information on to advertisers. If that sounds like a huge invasion of privacy, well, in some ways it is — however, the silver lining is that all of the data is anonymised and aggregated before it’s visible to any marketing folk. O2’s owner Telefonica struck the deal with Exterion Media last summer, the latter of which owns every billboard on the subterranean transport system. It then came into effect on Thursday, monitoring customers’ journeys, app usage and browsing activity over Wi-Fi.

The idea is pretty simple. By gathering all of this information, Exterion Media can show advertisers the types of people that make particular journeys. Knowing that large swathes of fashion-conscious Instagram lovers stand on the platform near Covent Garden, for instance, could inspire ASOS or Urban Outfitters to take out an ad. Similarly, knowing when certain users descend on a station — Stratford is normally a place for shoppers, but the Olympic Park occasionally attracts sports fans — could help companies figure out when to debut a highly targeted poster.

O2 has 25 million customers and expects to track roughly one million journeys each day. If you’re worried about your privacy, there’s an obvious solution — switch off your phone’s Wi-Fi connection and do something else while you’re sitting on the Tube. Sure, you’ll have to wait a little longer to check Twitter or Facebook, but there’s always an alternative, like listening to some podcasts or ploughing through your Pocket queue.

Via: Ars Technica

Source: The Telegraph, Exterion Mobile