Xbox One gets its first taste of Creators Update features

You don’t have to wait long to try some of the big Xbox One upgrades that Microsoft has been promising lately. The company is trotting out an Xbox Insider preview update that includes a few of the bigger improvements that will come alongside the Creators Update. Most notably, you’ll get a faster and decidedly more intuitive interface. The new home screen is both speedier and will promote the “most valuable content” in your games. You’ll have quicker access to the game hub, groups and achievements, too. A refreshed Guide, meanwhile, includes a new home page based on common tasks (such as recent games and pinned apps) and fast access to background music controls.

Some of the more notable upgrades are harder to spot. It’s now faster to start recording video clips (you just have to launch the guide and press a button), and there’s an achievement tracker that helps you gauge your progress as you play. Cortana can set reminders and alarms for game sessions. And Microsoft’s efforts to make gaming accessible are continuing at full speed. A Copilot feature lets two controllers serve as one (helpful for players who can’t use every button themselves), while there are further improvements to Magnifier, Narrator, audio output and custom rumble feedback.

Home theater buffs will like developer support for Dolby Atmos (including for headphones) and a beta that lets your receiver decode audio when you’d rather not have the Xbox One do the work.

The preview still leaves out some of the largest upgrades, such as native Beam streaming, Arena for tournaments and further Cortana upgrades. Moreover, don’t count on getting all of this right away even if you are an Insider. Only a “small subset” of members will see it right now, and the rest will have to wait for them over the weeks ahead. Even so, this peek at least removes some of the mystery surrounding the Creators Update — you now know more about what you can expect.

Source: Xbox Wire

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative acquires Meta’s scientific search engine

In September, Facebook CEO and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan promised to spend a whopping $3 billion of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s extensive capital over the next 10 years, as it works towards its lofty goal of curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century. To get a little bit closer to that goal, the Initiative announced Monday that it will acquire the AI-powered research paper search engine Meta and make the service free for anyone to use.

Meta’s search platform uses machine intelligence to analyze the number and quality of citations in medical journals and research papers, and then sorts them into the largest knowledge graph of its kind. Search results are then ranked in order of importance, similar to how Google News search gives a higher rank to highly linked sources, thus making it easier to find the most relevant or authoritative research among the thousands of scientific papers that are published every day. While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.

As TechCrunch notes, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative didn’t disclose how much it paid for the Toronto-based startup, but once the acquisition is complete, Meta will add a few more enhancements to the product before rolling it out free to all in the next few months. “Going forward, our intent is not to profit from Meta’s data and capabilities,” Meta CEO Sam Molyneux said in a statement, “instead we aim to ensure they get to those who need them most, across sectors and as quickly as possible, for the benefit of the world.”

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Scientists make a viable semi-synthetic organism

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute have already created organisms with synthetic DNA letters, but they weren’t ready for the real world when they couldn’t even keep the artificial base pair in their genetic code. However, the team has made a lot of progress since then: they’ve produced the first stable semi-synthetic organism. The bacteria now holds on to its human-created X and Y bases while it grows and divides, much like the natural A, C, G and T bases. The key, researchers say, was to tweak existing techniques.

At first, they fine-tuned a nucleotide transporter (which carries the materials needed to copy artificial base pairs across the cell membrane) so that it wouldn’t make the bacteria “sick” while using the new letters. They also made their Y letter easier to copy. And as a sort of insurance, the scientists used CRISPR gene editing to make their organism reject genetic sequences that don’t have X and Y — it’s effectively impossible to lose the synthetic data.

You’re still a long, long way from seeing this hybrid life used for practical purposes. It’s only useful in single-celled organisms, and you can only make it store gene info. It’s another matter entirely to get this data into RNA, let alone to produce complex organisms. So long as there’s progress, though, Scripps sees a bright future ahead. Eventually, you could use these letters to create new functions that help with discovering new medicines and “much more.”

Via: Phys.org

Source: Scripps Research Institute, PNAS

What’s on TV: ‘iBoy,’ ‘Beware the Slenderman,’ ‘Resident Evil 7’

While we take a week off from football ahead of the Super Bowl (unless you count the Pro Bowl), there are plenty of ways to fill the time. Netflix is dropping in its odd cellphone-superpower iBoy flick, while HBO airs a Slenderman documentary. The Path is back for season two on Hulu, Incorporated is wrapping up its run on USA at the same time Suits comes back and comedian Gad Elmaleh has a new special on Netflix. Look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).

Blu-ray & Games & Streaming

• Inferno (4K)
• Sherlock (S4)
• The Monster
• Attack on Titan (S1)
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• The Monster
• Wait until Dark
• Black Girl (Criterion)
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4, PC)
• Moto Racer 4 (Xbox One, PS4)
• The Sims 4: Vampires DLC (PC)
• Pineview Drive (PS4)
• Yakuza 0 (PS4)
• Lethal League (PS4)
• Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek (PS4)
• Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter (PS4)
• Subterrain (PS4, Xbox One – 1/27)
• Memoranda (PC)
• Towerfall Ascension (Xbox One)
• Syndrome (PS4, Xbox One)
• The Sun and Moon (Xbox One – 1/27)
• Doodle God: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One – 1/27)
• Earthlock: Festival of Magic (PS4 – 1/27)

Monday

• The Bachelor, ABC, 8PM
• Gotham, Fox, 8PM
• Supergirl (winter premiere), fox, 8PM
• Kevin Can Wait, CBS, 8PM
• Shadowhunters, Freeform, 8PM
• WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
• Man With a Plan, CBS, 8:30PM
• 2 Broke Girls, CBS, 9PM
• Beyond, Freeform, 9PM
• The Young Pope, HBO, 9PM
• Jane the Virgin (winter premiere), CW, 9PM
• Lucifer, Fox, 9PM
• Beware the Slenderman, HBO, 10PM
• Hate Thy Neighbor (series premiere), Viceland, 10PM
• Scorpion, CBS, 10PM
• Timeless, NBC, 10PM
• Quantico, ABC, 10PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM
• Startalk, National Geographic, 11PM

Tuesday

• Gad Gone Wild, Netflix, 3AM
• Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy, Netflix, 3AM
• Terrace House: Aloha State (S1, Part 1), Netflix, 3AM
• The Flash (winter premiere), CW, 8PM
• NCIS, CBS, 8PM
• New Girl, Fox, 8PM
• The Wall, NBC, 8PM
• WWE Smackdown, USA, 8PM
• The Mick, Fox, 8:30PM
• The New Edition Story: Part 1, BET, 9PM
• Face Off (season premiere), Syfy, 9PM
• D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow (winter premiere), CW, 9PM
• Outsiders (season premiere), WGN, 9PM
• Teen Wolf, MTV, 9PM
• Inside the NFL, Showtime 9PM
• This is Us, NBC, 9PM
• Fresh Off the Boat, ABC, 9PM
• Bull, CBS, 9PM
• Bones, Fox, 9PM
• The Real O’neals, ABC, 9:30PM
• Teachers, TV Land, 10PM
• Chicago Fire, NBC, 10PM
• Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., ABC, 10PM
• Taboo, FX, 10PM
• Killing Fields Discovery, 10PM
• Sweet/Vicious (season finale), MTV, 10PM
• Noisey, Viceland, 10PM
• Throwing Shade, TV Land, 10:30PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM

Wednesday

• The Path (season premiere), Hulu, 3AM
• Arrow (winter premiere), CW, 8PM
• Hunted, CBS, 8PM
• Lethal Weapon, Fox, 8PM
• Unsung: Lenny Williams, TV One, 8PM
• Lucha Underground, El Rey, 8PM
• Speechless, ABC, 8:30PM
• The New Edition Story: Part 2, BET, 9PM
• People’s Choice Awards 2017, CBS, 9PM
• Are You the One?, MTV, 9PM
• Law & Order: SVU, NBC, 9PM
• Modern Family, ABC, 9PM
• Frequency (season finale), CW, 9PM
• The Magicians (season premiere), Syfy, 9PM
• Salem (series finale), WGN, 9PM
• Nova, PBS, 9PM
• Star, Fox, 9PM
• NFL Turning Point, NBC Sports Network, 9PM
• Suits (winter premiere), USA, 10PM
• Workaholics, Comedy Central, 10PM
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, FXX, 10PM
• Match Game, ABC, 10PM
• Incorporated (season finale), Syfy, 10PM
• Code Black, CBS, 10PM
• Bong Appetit, Viceland, 10PM
• Man Seeking Woman, FXX, 10:30PM
• Jeff & Some Aliens, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM

Thursday

• The Grand Tour, Amazon Prime, 7PM
• Supernatural (winter premiere), CW, 8PM
• Grey’s Anatomy (winter premiere), ABC, 8PM
• The Big Bang Theory, CBS, 8PM
• The Great Indoors, CBS, 8:30PM
• Riverdale (series premiere), CW, 9PM
• The New Edition Story: Part 3 (series finale), BET, 9PM
• Scandal (season premiere), ABC, 9PM
• Chicago Med, NBC, 9PM
• Alone, History, 9PM
• Mom, CBS, 9PM
• My Kitchen Rules, Fox, 9PM
• Life in Pieces, CBS, 9:30PM
• Lip Sync Battle, Spike TV, 9:30 & 10PM
• How to Get Away With Murder (winter premiere), ABC, 10PM
• Baskets, FX, 10PM
• Colony, USA, 10PM
• The Blacklist, NBC, 10PM
• Portlandia, IFC, 10PM
• F*ck That’s Delicious, Viceland, 10PM
• Pure Genius (season finale), CBS, 10PM
• Nightwatch, A&E, 10PM
• Desus & Mero, Viceland, 11PM

Friday

• iBoy, Netflix, 3AM
• Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh (S2), Netflix, 3AM
• Kazoops (S2), Netflix, 3AM
• Z: The Beginning of Everything (series premiere), Amazon Prime, 3AM
• The Vampire Diaries, CW, 8PM
• Grimm, NBC, 8PM
• Last Man Standing, ABC, 8PM
• Rosewood, Fox, 8PM
• Dr. Ken, ABC, 8:30PM
• Rise: Sacred Water (series premiere), Viceland, 9PM
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, 9PM
• Emerald City, NBC, 9PM
• Hawaii Five-0, CBS, 9PM
• Sleepy Hollow, Fox, 9PM
• Jeff Ross presents Roast Battle, Comedy Central, 10PM
• The Wheel, Discovery, 10PM

Saturday

• Love by the 10th Date, Lifetime, 8PM
• Cops, Spike TV, 8PM
• Ransom, CBS, 8PM
• UFC Fight Night, Fox, 8PM
• Clippers/Warriors, ABC, 8:30PM

Sunday

• The 65th Annual Miss Universe Pageant, Fox, 7PM
• 2017 Pro Bowl, ESPN, 8PM
• 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards, TBS/TNT, 8PM
• 60 Minutes, CBS, 7PM
• NCIS: LA, CBS, 8PM
• The Simpsons, Fox, 8PM
• Mercy Street, PBS, 8PM
• Black Sails (season premiere), Starz, 9PM
• Homeland, Showtime, 9PM
• The Young Pope, HBO, 9PM
• Victoria, PBS, 9PM
• Hunted, CBS, 10PM
• Jeff Ross presents Roast Battle (season finale), Comedy Central, 10PM
• Elementary, CBS, 10PM
• Conviction (season finale), ABC, 10PM
• The Affair (season finale), Showtime, 10PM

Ajit Pai confirmed as new head of the FCC

Just as expected, Ajit Pai has been named as the new chairman of the FCC, replacing the outgoing Tom Wheeler. Pai has worked at the FCC since May of 2012, when he was nominated by President Obama as the senior Republican party commissioner. In his time at the FCC he’s made his stance against net neutrality well-known — Pai and fellow Republican commissioner Michael O’Rielly sent a letter in December vowing to “revisit” net neutrality rules “as soon as possible.”

This afternoon, I was informed that @POTUS @realDonaldTrump designated me the 34th Chairman of the @FCC. It is a deeply humbling honor. pic.twitter.com/Joza18aP33

— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) January 23, 2017

That letter made it clear that pro-consumer practices that made life tougher for businesses are going to be under scrutiny. Net neutrality rules that prevent things like pay-for-priority access, blocking and throttling are “unjustified burdens” for service providers that the FCC now intends to do away with. How quickly this will come to pass remains to be seen, however — it may take months of hearings, procedure, and public comment before the rules of the land can be changed.

Pai can stay on through 2017 as FCC chairman, after which he’ll need to be reconfirmed by the Senate — something that seems likely with Republicans in control.

Source: FCC

‘Final Fantasy XV’ kicks off a limited-time carnival event

It’s not just multiplayer games that can host limited-time events. Square Enix is launching the Moogle Chocobo Carnival, a time-sensitive Final Fantasy XV feature, today (January 23rd) at 8PM Eastern. So long as you have the Holiday Pack add-on (free or paid), you can visit Altissia to participate in carnival games and chocobo races, play new side quests and indulge in themed treats. The gig runs until February 20th, so you’ll want to act quickly if you want to give it a look.

The Carnival might well address a common complaint with solo games: how do you keep players coming back without making them wait for official content packs? An event like this isn’t going to be terribly deep, but it might spark just enough renewed interest that you’ll stick around… and, in theory, buy add-ons that you might otherwise ignore.

Source: Final Fantasy XV (YouTube)

Samsung’s Note 7 apology was heavy on battery science, light on admitting its own failures

Samsung must now pick up and move on from the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, but we can learn a lot about the company through its recent investigation.

The Galaxy Note 7 may be dead, but the experience of the incident has clearly reverberated throughout the company, from headquarters in Korea to much smaller markets like Canada. A press conference early Monday morning in Seoul began solemnly, as Samsung’s president of mobile, DJ Koh, took responsibility for the company’s recent troubles.

“I deeply apologize to all of our customers, carriers, retail and distribution partners, and all of our business partners,” he said. “We thank you for your patience and continuous support. We believe that as a first step to regain your trust, it is important to provide you with a thorough understanding of the cause of the Galaxy Note 7 incident and to implement a comprehensive plan to take preventative measures.”

Samsung went into great, almost excruciating detail of the Note 7’s demise, covering the ways in which the batteries inside the Note 7 were at fault, and that there was nothing inherent to the phone’s design that would cause fires in the chassis. Koh explained that over 200,000 phones were tested along with 30,000 individual batteries, in a variety of conditions, to rule out whether things like water ingress or the company’s fast charging or wireless charging implementations contributed to the prevalence of fire. None of it did.

Samsung placed blame solely on the batteries themselves.

Instead, Samsung placed blame solely on the batteries themselves, though neither Koh nor Paul Brannen, VP of Samsung Canada’s mobile division, would divulge the names of, nor blame directly, the suppliers. “As much as the fault is with the batteries, we provide the specs of the batteries we want them to build. They make quality batteries, not just for us, for millions of units and thousands of devices throughout this industry, and the issue was for the batteries specifically built for the Note 7,” said Brannen in an interview with Android Central Sunday night. Samsung didn’t build the defective batteries, but it put the suppliers in a position to do so.

This simultaneous acceptance and diffusing of responsibility forms the basis of Samsung’s strategy on how to move forward. Almost immediately after Koh showed his introductory statement, full of remorse and promise to improve, he launched into what would become an hour-long, jargon-heavy performance meant as much to reassure the public as to parse the information itself. Indeed, anyone without a chemical or electrical engineering degree may have had a difficult time digesting the notion that Battery A, manufactured by Samsung SDI, “had a combination of deformation at the upper corners + thin separator + repeating mechanical stresses due to cycling, causing higher possibility of separator damage leading to an ISC between aluminum and copper foil at the corner.”

The reality is likely more subtle — that institutional decisions to push the Note 7 to include a larger battery in a smaller frame forced both suppliers of the Lithium Ion cells to make mistakes, skip essential steps, and eschew the regular volume of quality testing that the mobile industry requires.

The takeaway was that, by testing as many units as it did, and by spending as much time and money as necessary to unearth the problem, including the hiring of three independent organizations that built their own reports, the public would feel sufficiently placated and free to look towards the company’s future. What neither Koh nor Brannen would acknowledge was the sheer unlikeliness of having two sets of batteries from different suppliers with defects significant enough to cause fire and injury. Instead, the four groups involved in testing the Note 7 came to the same conclusion: The boundaries of tech were pushed too far, and mistakes were made.

“Battery A, which was in the Canadian [and U.S.] markets first, had the ‘pouch issue’ (deformation at the upper corners),” said Brannen, “which led us to believe that, by working with [independent testing company] Exponent, when Battery B didn’t have that issue, it would be safe.” But Battery B, he acknowledged, had a “totally unrelated” issue to Battery A.

The takeaway was that, by testing as many units as it did, and by spending as much time and money as necessary to unearth the problem, the public would feel sufficiently placated.

Based on findings from Exponent, UL, and TÜ V Rheinland, Battery B, built by Amperex, was found to have “welding defects” from production and was made “without protective tape over the positive electrode tab, increasing the likelihood of an internal cell fault,” leading to what Brannen called a “worst case scenario for us as a manufacturer.”

Samsung’s new device testing facility.

From a bird’s-eye view, Samsung has done its due diligence; it has successfully explained the cause of the fires and sufficiently, through its eight-point battery safety check, promised that such an issue will never occur again. But Brannen believes that Samsung can actually stand taller from this, emerging as a positive corporate citizen pushing for improved quality assurance and more stringent testing of all products that use Lithium Ion batteries.

“If you come back and look at what the root cause was of the Note 7, it has nothing to do with the design, software, or usability. It was the battery, end of story. So as a result, we realized we need to place a higher level of scrutiny on what we do from a device standpoint,” said Brannen.

Both UL and Exponent wrote extensively on what were the “likely” causes for the battery failures, but for many, the explanations will remain unsatisfying.

“But we also created an advisory board that relates to the design of batteries, because it’s important from a Samsung perspective that we start to share this with the industry — the entire industry — because Lithium Ion batteries are extremely powerful tools, but they can also be extremely dangerous if not designed, built, and implemented in the right way.”

Samsung won’t have to wait long to begin to test that theory. Brannen said the company just recently had “one of [its] best fourth quarters in many years,” and that the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are “still incredibly popular products.”

Trying to prove that the new regimen of product testing will satisfy customers won’t be an easy task, but “as we add new products to the portfolio in the next 90 days, we’ll continue to build on that momentum,” he said, referring to the Galaxy S8, now expected for early April.

Two of Samsung’s new battery tests, including X-ray samples for potential defects.

The major issue with Samsung’s Note 7 findings is that because of the scale of such an enterprise, there are so many variables at play. Both UL and Exponent wrote extensively on what were the “likely” causes for the battery failures, but for many the explanations will remain unsatisfying. The reality is likely more subtle — that institutional decisions to push the Note 7 to include a larger battery in a smaller frame forced both suppliers of the Lithium Ion cells to make mistakes, skip essential steps, and eschew the regular volume of quality testing that the mobile industry requires.

While it’s commendable that Samsung has now, after all of its admitted foibles, stepped up to play the role of the Good Citizen, we can’t overlook the contribution of hubris borne of fierce competitiveness that fuelled this debacle in the first place.

Then again, we thought the Galaxy Note line was damaged beyond repair, and we were proven fools. Samsung has done everything it possibly could to be as open and transparent as possible about what happened with the Note 7, so let’s hope good things emerge from these ashes.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7

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OnePlus is trying this new thing where it ships as soon as you order!

No more waiting for your OnePlus 3T to ship.

Shipping in volume is hard. It’s actually one of the most complicated and expensive parts of making a physical object you want to sell to people. Many larger companies around the world make it look fairly easy, where you can just press the order button and the phone is in a box with a shipping label within hours, but it only works for those companies after years of negotiations and errors.

OnePlus is finally ready to give immediate dispatch a try in Europe and North America starting tomorrow, but it’s not clear how long this experiment will be around. Starting tomorrow, if you buy a OnePlus 3T in the 64GB Gunmetal configuration from OnePlus, the phone will be shipped immediately after! Here’s what David from OnePlus had to say about the plan:

A New Year means a new start. Our goal for this year is to once again deliver the best technology to our community. It’s just as important to do so as fast as possible though, so we’ll be looking to reduce our delivery time. That said, as is the case with all New Year’s resolutions, we can’t expect to get there overnight. That’s why we are going to tackle this goal step by step.

OnePlus isn’t saying how long this option will be available, only that the goal is to make this a permanent offering on its website.

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You can charge two devices quickly in the car with this Quick Charge 3.0 charger for just $9

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Snapchat adds universal search: Here’s how it lets you quickly find friends and chat

Snapchat is rolling out a new design for iOS and Android users.

The update (version 10.0.0), which released on 23 January, not only introduces a quicker way to start chats with friends and groups from anywhere in the app, but also universal search bar that runs across the app. Here’s everything you need to know about the new update.

• What’s the point of Snapchat and how does it work?

Snapchat: What’s new in the update?

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Design

Snapchat has added some slick animations and a card-style system for swiping between the Camera, Stories, and Chat screens.

Snapchat also now labels each screen, making it easier for new users to navigate. Other than that, Snapchat put Bitmoji (which Snap acquired last year) front and center. You will now see your Bitmoji avatar in the upper corner of the Camera screen. You can tap it to bring up the Profile screen. From there, you can tap your avatar again to access a new screen for editing your Bitmoji.

Between the new animations, which makes the app feel more unified, card-style design, and Bitmoji focus, Snapchat’s navigation has been much improved. It’s clear Snap wanted to make the app easier to use.

Search

There’s a new, universal search bar at the top of each screen. It provides quick access to existing contacts, but you can also use it to find other users. When you tap in the search bar on the Camera screen, Snapchat will bring up a screen with the search field at the top. Enter a name of a user, contact, or someone you’d like to quickly find. If you haven’t added the person, you’ll be given the option to add him or her.

Below search, you’ll see a horizontal row of your frequent contacts. If they have a Bitmoji, you’ll see their avatar. Otherwise, you’ll see their Snapcode GIF or ghost. Tap on one to start a quick chat with the person. Below the Quick Chat row, you’ll see a card-style selection of your new friends. You can tap on one to start a chat, or you can slide from the left to see a new card with all your contacts on your device. 

If you tap the search bar from any other screen, you will get access to the same features. It’s been added to every screen in order to make it more convenient for you to search and find people, but if you spend most of your time sending snaps, it probably won’t get much use. 

Discover

There are some new guidelines for publishers using Discover. According to The New York Times, Snapchat will begin restrict publishers from using images or headlines that lack editorial value in an effort to cut down on clickbait and fake news. Snapchat is also planning to introduce tools to publishers to help prevent minors from seeing inappropriate content on Discover.

Snapchat: When can you get the update?

Version 10.0.0 is a free update for Snapchat. It’s rolling out now for iOS and Android users.