Jul 10
These speeds aren’t indicative of what T-Mo’s LTE network—which just went live in NYC and elsewhere
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Jul 10
Hubble researchers identify color of an exoplanet for the first time (video)
Posted in: Today's Chili
While exoplanets are seemingly a dime a dozen, their looks have been mysteries; they often exist only as measurements. Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have partly solved that riddle by pinpointing the visible color of an extrasolar world for the first time. By measuring reflected light, they can tell that HD 189733b (conceptualized above) is a cobalt blue, much like Earth’s oceans. Not that we can claim much kinship, though. The planet is a gas giant 63 light-years away — its blue tint comes from an atmosphere likely full of deadly silicate. As disappointing as that may be, the discovery should at least help us understand planet types that don’t exist in the Solar System.
Source: ESA
Jul 10
The expansion of T-Mobile’s brand of 4G LTE has been suggested to be going quite a bit quicker than planned, the CEO of the company expressing this onstage at a special event in NYC. This event also played host to new devices fully prepped for the network’s new largeness, devices like the Nokia Lumia 925, the Sony Xperia Z, and a software-upgraded Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, but it’s the network itself that the company seemed most excited about.
Having just been born less than a year ago, the pink network’s 4G LTE footprint now reaches 116 metro areas. To put this in perspective, the company suggests that they’re aiming at covering their own HSPA+ network area within a year. They’ve also made clear that they’ll be hitting 200 markets, this covering 200 million people, by the end of 2013. That’s a deployment that’s right up there with the top guns.
The company’s own goal before now had been reaching 100 million people by the time the year was half over. At this point they’ve already beaten down that goal with 157 million people covered – right now, live. This set of areas covered by the company currently include the following: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta, and Miami. And of course quite a few more beyond that.
You’ll find T-Mobile’s network still kicking it with 4G HSPA+ covering 228 million people across the USA while the company is pushing for as full a network as possible – be it one 4G or the other, as soon as possible. Have a peek at the rest of our T-Mobile event coverage today starting with the company’s new JUMP initiative.
T-Mobile LTE now in 116 metro areas, 200 by year’s end is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 10
The first-class Maps app from Google has gotten better. Too bad you need Google+ to enjoy all the new features.
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Jul 10
The folks at YouTube are updating Sony’s PlayStation 3 YouTube app today with additional support for send to TV functionality, making it all the easier to share clips from your mobile device of choice with a living room full of people. Similar to the Xbox 360’s SmartGlass functionality, YouTube’s send to TV allows for a phone or tablet to be paired via a shared Wi-Fi network with the PS3, enabling videos on your mobile device in the YouTube app to be transferred “instantly” to the big screen — the service now pairs automatically rather than requiring a PIN. Moreover, today’s update looks to be yet another example of YouTube’s co-developed DIAL tech. YouTube also added some video stream stabilization in the latest update, should you be experiencing hiccups.
Filed under: Gaming, Software, HD, Sony, Google
Source: Google
Jul 10
Nokia’s new Lumia 925 was made official for T-Mobile back in May, but today, the carrier is finally revealing pricing and availability for the new handset. It’s also T-Mobile’s latest 4G LTE device, which the company ended up also launching more markets for, reaching 157 million people in the US.
The Lumia 925 will be available starting on July 17, with pre-orders beginning the day before on July 16. The phone will cost only $49.99 down, with 24 monthly payments of $20. This totals $530 for the device off-contract. The phone sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor running at 1.5GHz, with 1GB of RAM and up to 32GB of internal storage.
Like the Lumia 920, the 925 doesn’t have a microSD slot, but Nokia and Microsoft partnered up to offer SkyDrive storage for these users with 7GB of free storage for Lumia 925 owners. Since the phone runs Windows Phone 8, SkyDrive is seamlessly integrated into the phone’s software.
The 925 also has an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera, which Nokia has been big on touting lately. The device is covered in a 4.5-inch OLED display with an HD resolution of 1280×768. This is essentially’s T-Mobile’s flagship Windows Phone device, and it’s their first 4G LTE device that’s equipped with Microsoft’s mobile OS, and it can be yours later this month.
T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 925 arriving this month is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2013, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Jul 10
Being an enlightened individual means understanding basic scientific information about how the world works. Sure, we have teachers and parents there to fill our brains with knowledge, but the sad truth is that there are certain facts that take on a life of their own as they pass from ear to ear, eventually etching themselves into our collective brain-mass in twisted forms that are, well, just plain wrong.
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Jul 10
A generation of innovators want to change the way we have sex and consume porn, but Google, Apple, and Amazon won’t let them.
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Jul 10
There they were, a caravan of nine electric car enthusiasts with a lot of free time on their hands, “tearing” down North America’s west coast in a bunch of environmentally conscious vehicles. That was just last week in what organizer Tony Williams called the All Electric Vehicle Rally, and nearly all nine participants arrived in the rally’s end location of Tijuana, Mexico.
The convoy started in Blaine, Washington and took to I-5 in four chunks. This year a Tesla Model S piloted by Jack Bowers and Georg Kuhnke arrived first, with just 41 hours of driving time — a far cry from the eight days and five hours the course took Williams last year. The approximately 1,400 miles were covered by the winner at an average speed of about 34 MPH. Sadly, one Nissan Leaf owner got stuck charging their car for 15 hours in California due to a lack of CHADEMO chargers en route. Despite years of promises, CHADEMO sites haven’t made their way south of the Oregon/California border as part of the west coast’s Green Highway. Still, that we’ve reached the point where even some EVs can clear that many miles in under two days using only public chargers is pretty impressive.
Filed under: Alt
Source: Plug In Cars, All Electric Vehicle Rally
Jul 10
3D Printing with Liquid Metals at Room Temperature: One Small Step for Terminators
Posted in: Today's ChiliWe’ve seen a 3D printer make objects out of soft materials, and one that uses titanium powder. This 3D printer made by researchers at North Carolina State University is somewhere in between: it uses a liquid metal alloy that is stable at room temperature.
According to the university’s press release, Dr. Michael Dickey, Colin Ladd, Ju-Hee Soand John Muth were able to make freestanding structures out of an alloy of gallium and indium. At room temperature, the alloy reacts with oxygen in the air, forming “a ‘skin’ that allows the liquid metal structures to retain their shapes.” Watch the video below, but I must warn you: it will make you want to play Sims.
According to the researchers, the printer can not only stack metallic beads together as shown in the video; it can also inject the alloy into a polymer template to assume a specific shape. The template can be dissolved to free the printed metal structure. The alloy is also conductive, meaning it can be used to connect electronics. I wonder if the alloy can be used with carbomorph to print complex gadgets.
[via NC State U via Popular Science]
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