Google launched its Google+ Local service just a few months ago, but it already looks to be one of those services the search giant has decided to put into an early retirement as they have announced its dedicated iOS app will be retired on August 7. (more…)
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It’s no surprise that Android runs on all sorts of different resolutions, including small smartwatch displays, all the way up to the Nexus 10′s better-than-Retina-quality screen. However, we could see Android devices in the future rocking 4K resolutions, thanks to an interesting piece of source code in Android 4.3.
To make it possible for Android to run on all sorts of different resolutions, it must support a vast number of pixel densities for app content. This means that there are different categories for different resolutions, including Low DPI (LDPI) for 120 DPI devices, Medium DPI (MDPI) for 160 DPI, High DPI (HDPI) for 240 DPI, Extra High DPI (XHDPI) for 320 DPI, and Extra Extra High DPI (XXHDPI) for 480 DPI.
However, Android 4.3 includes a new DPI range called Extra Extra Extra High DPI (XXXHDPI) for devices that have 640 DPI. According to the comments in the source code, this category is intended for 4K displays. Obviously, this refers to 4K televisions specifically, meaning that Google might have plans for a device that’ll support the higher resolution.
Whether that device is a new set-top box or what is anyone’s guess, but it’s possible that the company could update its Google TV with Android 4.3, that way it could play 4K content on the higher-res televisions that no one can really afford yet. However, this merely seems like a tactic that Google is using to prepare early for the future.
Then again, it could also just a move by the Android team to cover their bases. The HTC One was pushing the envelope for DPI with its 468 pixels per inch. The added category to Android 4.3 could just be a cushion that Google is adding, but we really think that Google may have something cooking in the 4K realm.
SOURCE: Android Police
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean code hints at 4K resolution support is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The new documentary “After Tiller” is guaranteed to stir up heated responses from all sides of the abortion discussion. The film centers on the remaining four doctors who perform late-term abortions — a controversial practice that even some pro-choice advocates question. The Tiller referenced in the title is Dr. George Tiller, who also performed the operation following pregnancies’ 20-week mark and who was killed by an anti-abortion activist in 2009.
“After Tiller” was an official selection for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It opens Sept. 20 in New York and Oct. 4 in Los Angeles.
Click here to watch a HuffPost Live discussion about “After Tiller,” and check out a clip from the movie here:
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The upcoming Lindsay Lohan series on OWN will be more documentary than reality show.
OWN and Harpo Studios Presidents Erik Logan and Sheri Salata told journalists Thursday attending the annual Television Critics Association press tour that filmmaker Amy Rice will direct the series.
Rice directed the 2009 documentary “By the People: The Election of Barack Obama.” The series will be produced by Pilgrim Studios and Winfrey will appear on the show.
ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Jim Schwartz stepped into perhaps the NFL’s worst job of all time, inheriting its first 0-16 team.
When the Detroit Lions gave him his first shot to be a head coach at any level in 2009, he talked about taking on and tackling challenges his entire life.
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TOKYO — The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant said Friday that it delayed acknowledging that the plant was leaking contaminated water into the sea because it did not want to worry the public until it was certain there was a problem.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged for the first time this week that its Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was leaking contaminated underground water into the ocean, a problem many experts had suspected since shortly after the crisis unfolded more than two years ago.
It’s been almost three months since the T-Mobile & MetroPCS merger was completed, and already, MetroPCS subscribers are starting to see some benefit out of the entire deal as the company is announcing today it’s adding some new devices as well as supporting additional cities. (more…)
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Well folks, we’ve reached the century mark. The publication started nearly two years ago has churned out a collection of 100 issues with a bit of blood, sweat and tears shed along the way. In this celebratory special edition of our weekly, we gathered up our favorite tech of all time. From smartphones to tablets and laptops, there’s quite the collection to take in. Heck, we even have a blender that blends! Eyes-On takes an electric ride to the Golden Gate, Weekly Stat examines this e-mag’s lineage and Visualized checks in at Comic-Con. All the requisite download links are down below, so join the party — and here’s to another hundred issues.
Special thanks to the crew that had a hand in pushing Distro on its way: Jeremy Lacroix, Aaron Martin, Portia Monberg, Candy Mayo, Will Lipman, Davy Reynolds, David Robinson, Greg Grabowy, Josh Klenert, Troy Dunham, Susana Soares, Eve Binder, Anna Dickson, Wendy George, Peter Niceberg, Tim Stevens, Christopher Trout, Billy Steele, Jon Turi, Landon Peck, Daniel Stegemiller, Philip Palermo, Luan Tran, Mimmie Huang, Sharon Kasimow, Julie Vaughn, Carlynne Bradley, Jesse Chambers, Shen Lu, Sudheer Agrawal, Carl Haines, Scott Tury, Ronald Anderson, Scott Basham, Terry Worley, Todd Brannam, Mike Levine and countless others. High fives all around!
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CHICAGO — It’s 50 feet wide, weighs more than 15 tons and has taken a month to transport 3,200 miles from New York to Illinois.
It’s a gigantic electromagnet and it’s scheduled to end its unlikely journey to its new home outside Chicago on Friday.
Nokia’s Lumia 1020
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