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Kim Kardashian gets a Webby for ‘breaking the internet’
For her “unparalleled success online,” Kim Kardashian will receive the first-ever Break the Internet Award at the 2016 Webbys. With nearly 70 million Instagram followers and 45 million Twitter followers, the Webby Awards are calling the 35-year-old Kardashian “the leading celebrity in terms of her online presence.” The award will recognize the wild popularity of everything she touches, from empowering nude selfies to custom emoji.
From the announcement, which will undoubtedly give the Webby Awards a Kardashian-sized traffic bump:
It is to her credit that the phrase “break the Internet” is part of the lexicon of everyday speak—she has shaped our understanding of how someone or something can draw the popular attention of Internet users everywhere. To the degree that she’s created a new type of celebrity — publicizing her life to the benefit of herself and her family — is due to the Internet. Kim’s preternatural sense of being in the public eye, sees her appearing at seemingly every major cultural moment, most notably, her support of Caitlyn Jenner’s sex change.
In addition to her social media presence, Kardashian is being honored for her apps Kimoji and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood — a pair of cash machines that have brought in over $100 million since launch.
sorry I’m late to the party guys I was busy cashing my 80 million video game check & transferring 53 million into our joint account 🤑🤑🤑💰💰💰
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) March 8, 2016
Her husband Kanye West, meanwhile, is also getting a Webby nod for Artist of the Year thanks to his constant tinkering with The Life of Pablo.
One of Apple’s earliest Siri engineers reportedly leaves for GE
Apple hasn’t had a great time holding on to the original Siri team, and we don’t just mean the founders — there are precious few of those core members left. And today, we’re learning that one of those last remaining pioneers may have walked out the door. The Information’s sources claim that Darren Haas, a Siri co-founder and Apple’s head of compute-focused cloud engineering, has left the company to join GE a few weeks after one of his fellow Siri alumni, Steve D’Aurora, reportedly did the same. The two are believed to be working on a similar cloud platform at their new employer.
There’s no official confirmation yet (both employees still list themselves as Apple employees on LinkedIn), so take this with a grain of salt. We’ve reached out to Apple to confirm the move. If true, though, it’s not exactly heartening news for the team at 1 Infinite Loop. While this is unlikely to be a fatal blow when many people are still working on Siri, it’s a symbolic loss for a company that was one of the first to embrace intelligent voice commands in the mobile world.
Source: The Information
Windows 10 won’t let you share WiFi passwords any more
Remember Microsoft’s WiFi Sense? One of its cornerstones is the ability to share password-protected WiFi networks with contacts, saving them the hassle of logging in when they visit. Unfortunately, though, there weren’t many people enamored with the idea. Microsoft has pulled WiFi Sense’s contact sharing its latest Windows 10 Insider preview build after noting that it wasn’t worth the effort given “low usage and low demand.” It’ll remain intact on slower Insider builds and regular Windows 10 releases for now, but it should disappear for everyone when the Anniversary Update hits in the summer.
This doesn’t mean that all of WiFi Sense is going away. It’ll still automatically connect you to public hotspots based on crowdsourced data, so you’re safe if you primarily use the feature to get online at airports and coffee shops. Even so, it’s hard to avoid that bittersweet feeling: while it’s good to see Microsoft pruning features people don’t use, the decision makes Windows 10 a little more inconvenient.
Via: The Verge
Source: Windows Experience Blog
TYLT ENERGI Charging Station review: Clean up your cords with style
These days, it’s typical that a household has a slew of mobile devices. So we can easily get to the point where power outlets get hogged and charging cables run amok. This is when it becomes smart to get a charging station.
Fortunately, one of our favorite brands, TYLT, has just dropped one into its lineup. Let’s see if the ENERGI Charging Station continues TYLT’s solid quality, and if it’s the solution to your mess of cords.
Design
If you’ve had the pleasure to use a TYLT device before, you’ll know that the manufacturer builds accessories with a mix of effortless design and high quality. The ENERGI Charging Station is no exception.
TYLT’s use of a sturdy matte plastic persists. Not that you’ll be carrying around a charging station, but for what it’s worth, the material’s smooth finish feels great to the touch. The unit’s white base is wrapped with a blue/grey layer. It looks nice, but more importantly, this design gives the user slots in which to route the cables.
The charging station provides a total of five USB power outlets. One of those has a neat feature – a removable battery pack (3,200 mAh) to take with you on-the-go.
This was a considerate addition and gives the charging station more value. It’s easy to use; just press the button to the right of the battery to eject it. It will charge when installed, and four LED indicators tell you how much charge it has.
The back of the charging station just has the power socket.
It of course draws power from a wall outlet. The benefit of a device like this is that you’ll only utilize a single outlet to power five devices.
Underneath, there are two rubber linings to keep the unit from sliding around.
Functionality
There isn’t a whole lot to say about a charger. It either works or it doesn’t. However, nowadays, there is a particular with mobile devices to comes into question – Quick/Fast Charging. Many of us are now used to our battery percentages climbing up quickly, and it’s annoying when we have to go back to yesteryear’s charging rates.
The ENERGI Charging Station doesn’t have the 3A output to achieve faster charging, but it meets us in the middle. The ports output a max of 2.4A (with the exception of the 1A removable power bank), which is at least faster than the original charging rate. Additionally, it uses a SmartDetect technology that automatically determines the max power that the device(s) can handle. So at least it’s efficient.
Final Thoughts
If you’re looking for a quality charging station, then look no further. As always, TYLT does great job bringing ease and quality to yet another accessory offering. We’ll only say, if you’re in a low-battery bind, you’ll still want to keep that stock Quick/Fast charger handy.
The ENERGI Charging Station retails for $79, so it’s not the cheapest option on the block either.
4moms mamaRoo review – CNET
The Good The core idea of the 4moms MamaRoo is clever and solidly implemented. Being able to rock your baby to sleep hands-free can offer serious relief to new parents.
The Bad Most of the extra features are disappointingly low quality: the poor speakers, the plain mobile, and the completely useless ambient sounds.
The Bottom Line The MamaRoo is admittedly pricey, and it won’t be for every baby or parent. But for a parent that could use an extra set of arms, or any kid who can only sleep while being held, this 4moms device could make all the difference
In the weeks before the birth of our first child, my wife and I emptied our bank accounts buying every baby accessory we could imagine using even once or twice. After our son was born, we spent hours repackaging and returning a lot of them, because we found out the kid had his own preferences. He hated the first bassinet we bought for him, but loved the swaddling cloths. He hates to be cold, but he likes baths. And during this process, figuring out which devices to invest in took some experimentation.
At $270 (about £186 or AU$361), the 4moms MamaRoo is an expensive experiment — especially for new parents being bombarded with medical bills and nighttime diaper runs — but it’s one that could pay off. Essentially, the device is a Bluetooth-connected chair that, according the advertisements, “moves like you do.” 4moms attempted to replicate the range of movement patterns and speed that parents use to rock their children to sleep. Whether it calms your child will depend on his or her particular preferences, this base mechanic works really well.
The MamaRoo isn’t a perfect product. It has major technical shortcomings –particularly with its basic mobile app and terrible speakers. Even in light of these issues, I like the MamaRoo. Unless you’ve got $270 lying around, though, you should wait to buy it until you’re sure it’s what your baby needs.
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My son Idris came into the CNET Smart Home to test out the MamaRoo.
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The 4moms MamaRoo is basically an adjustable seat that can rock your baby in various patterns at a few speed levels. The seat can sit up for babies getting a handle on balancing, and it can lie back for newborns. The seat itself is made of a soft multi-plush material that is gentle on the skin (though a slightly less expensive model just has a rough nylon material that you’ll have to line with your own blanket), and it’s machine washable.
Setting up the MamaRoo is a breeze. The instructions are clear, the pieces fit together simply, and connecting it to your phone with Bluetooth will take a minute at most. I had my MamaRoo up and running in less than 10 minutes.
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On the app, you can control the speed and pattern of MamaRoo’s movement. You can also control the ambient sounds and volume, but to connect your phone’s music to the device, you must plug it in with an auxiliary cord.
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MamaRoo also features a hanging mobile, speakers, and sound effects to calm the baby. You can control the volume, select the sound effects, adjust the movement speed, and choose the movement pattern, all from an app. It’s like you get an extra pair of arms to rock your baby, and it’s mostly hands-free for you.
LG Action Camera Release Date, Price and Specs – CNET
With its new LTE Action Camera, LG hopes to one-up GoPro and its other action camera ilk. How? This little device has LTE, a waterproof body (you won’t need to use extra housing), and you can broadcast directly to YouTube Live.
Built-in LTE is important because it lets you leave the camera streaming under its own 4G power, while you can use your phone to do something else. If you wanted to stream to YouTube Live without an independent LTE connection (as other action cameras use), you’d have to tether the action camera to the phone, much more rapidly draining your battery and slowing processing power while you broadcast live.
(P.S. LG is pretty much alone in offering an LTE-enabled action/lifestyle camera. Samsung tried it out with its connected Galaxy camera, which flopped. Samsung’s second attempt was Wi-Fi-only.)
I went hands-on with the palmable action camera at LG’s headquarters in Seoul, Korea, where I met with the company as part of a 19-day tech trip around Asia.
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The device is coated in rubber, which makes it easy to hold and operate. There are two buttons, which are straightforward, one to record and one to broadcast to YouTube Live. Alternatively, you can manage the whole business of taking photos and recording video through a mobile app.
The camera and app were dead-simple to use, but the conference room where I saw the device wasn’t the kind of interesting setting where you’d usually use an action camera, so we’ll need to wait to get a review unit to see how it stacks up against rivals like GoPro.
LG’s new LTE-enabled action camera tethers to your phone to preview what you’re shooting — or broadcasting live.
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Again, since there’s no built-in screen, you’ll need to connect to a phone or tablet to see what you’re shooting — that wasn’t terrifically convenient.
At the bottom of the camera, a flip-open panel reveals an SD card card where you can stores your photos and videos.
LG says you can record and store over four hours of video and broadcast up to two hours of video at 1080p HD quality over 4G.
You’ll have three options for recording resolution and frame rate:
- HD: 1,280×720 (60 fps)
- Full HD: 1,920×1,080 (120 fps)
- 4K: 2,560×1,440 (30 fps)
LG didn’t have pricing or availability details for me, but will officially announce its GoPro rival soon — and hopefully answer those burning questions about when and where it’ll be available, and for how much.
4moms Infant Tub review – CNET
The Good The 4moms Infant Tub boasts simple and effective smarts, clever design and an affordable price.
The Bad This Infant Tub, like most others, is bulky and won’t fit all sinks. Plus, there’s room for more features.
The Bottom Line Compared to other infant tubs, the 4moms offering is a solid buy for new parents.
Visit manufacturer site for details.
If you’ve had a baby, one of the gifts you probably got at the shower was an infant tub. They’re bulky, usually colorful, plastic bins that might feature netting to cradle the baby, or a foam pad to keep them from slipping around. And if you’ve tried to use one of these before, you probably know it doesn’t make baby baths much easier. Once you’re a few weeks into parenting, with sleep running low and stress running high, you’re probably as likely to just use the sink as a bathtub as you are to pull out one of these tubs.
Enter 4moms, the maker of MamaRoo, with a $50 (£35 or AU$68) smart Infant Tub. This device is as bulky as competitors, and it costs about twice as much, but it benefits from really clever design and simple but well implemented smarts.
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Once the screen turns green, indicating a comfortable temperature for your child, you can plug the bottom of the first pool. This will redirect the water into the tub where your baby sits.
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Finally, with your baby secure on the foam pad that keeps them from slipping, you can use the included cup to pour water over any body parts that need cleaning and aren’t submerged.
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I like the basic design of the Infant Tub — it keeps your baby in place pretty well, and it keeps the water at the perfect temperature, taking that extra concern off your mind while you try to hold a wiggling baby. The screen and temperature sensing are also helpful. For the future, though, including some sort of tool to clean harder-to-access places like clenched fists could help the $50 price tag feel like a better deal. And reducing its size would make storage much easier.
Although some of its shortcomings mean the 4moms Infant Tub isn’t quite a must-buy product yet, for anyone who needs assistance washing their baby, the 4moms Infant Tub is a solid investment.
Netflix’s ‘Voltron’ assembles in its second trailer
Netflix’s upcoming Voltron: Legendary Defender is looking a whole lot more palatable than previously imagined. DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming Netflix reboot of the classic series is taking a lot of cues from familiar faces (and voices) as the first trailer makes its way to audiences today.
The series comes to Netflix on June 10 with an hour-long premiere episode and ten additional 22-minute episodes from executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos and co-executive Lauren Montgomery. Dos Santos was in part responsible for the smash hit The Legend of Korra, and it’s easy to see where this modern vision of Voltron found so much of its influences. It’s colorful, loud, and frenetic, as the trailer shows off, but also personal and silly, true in many ways to the original Voltron’s mission.
The trailer is our first glimpse of characters Princess Allura, Coran, Shiro, Hunk, Lance, Pidge and Keith. There are some familiar voices in the crowd as well, like Adventure Time’s Jeremy Shada and Flight of the Conchords’ Rhys Darby.
“We wanted to make it closer to what we remember the show being versus what it actually ends up being when you go back and watch it,” Montgomery explained of the series.
It’s easy to get excited about the series with this new information, voice cast, and a glimpse at what’s to come, especially when you consider how Dos Santos himself describes the new vision of Voltron.
“Our teens are reacting to the insane idea [that] there’s a giant intergalactic war going on, and now they’re going to pilot five lions that become a larger robot, and one lion will wear another as a … well, as a boot …” A boot, indeed.
You can check out Voltron: Legendary Defender next month in its entirety when it hits Netflix.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
‘Android VR’ headset will reportedly be revealed next week at Google I/O
A new report claims Google will reveal a standalone “Android VR” headset sometime next week as part of its Google I/O developer conference.
The claims come from veteran tech journalist Peter Rojas on his Twitter feed
Android VR will definitely be announced next week, and from what I’ve heard will be less powerful than the Vive or Rift.
— Peter Rojas (@peterrojas) May 11, 2016
@kesslerio I don’t have more specifics, but multiple sources have told me that it offers better experience than Gear VR.
— Peter Rojas (@peterrojas) May 11, 2016
Rojas did not offer any further details on “Android VR”, such as price tag or a release date. Android Central will be on hand at Google I/O to get all the news from the developer conference next week.
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