China’s regulatory body has just given the green light for Apple’s latest smartphone generation, approving the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus for use on the country’s network bands. And with Apple formally announcing the launch date for the smartphones in China, the iPhone 6 could reach yet another world-breaking sales record, which already sold 10 million units on … Continue reading
Apple has announced the official launch date for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in China. On October 10, customers will be able to pre-order the devices from Apple’s site. On October 14, they’ll be able to put earlier orders in at Apple’s retail locations, and devices will become available for pickup on October 17. Read More
In Japan they love to make perfect ice for perfect drinks. For that they use these metal machines to turn huge ice cubes into ice spheres using nothing but brute force. Surprisingly, the ice doesn’t break thanks to the MAGICS of physics. The pressure is huge but so slow that the cube melts into its new shape.
Back in April, Project Ara’s Module Developers Kit revealed that the phone’s battery will be hot-swappable; in other words, you can replace it without having to switch the phone off. Nifty trick, right? Well, the feature’s apparently not limited to…
For seven years, I’d help my friend Ed get dressed and eat breakfast before I went off to work. But he’d soon call, desperately needing my help for some or other perceived crisis. I’d leave my job then return later. By afternoon he usually had some other emergency and I’d have to go out again. I’d return to work frazzled and try to finish some project with a looming deadline. It was a miracle I didn’t lose my job. I’d fall into bed at night, exhausted, only to repeat my duties the next day.
It wasn’t always this way. I met Edward Theodoru, a professor of French at Northern Kentucky University many years ago. We began a friendship that, despite some ups and downs, would deepen and last until the very end, nearly 30 years later.
For a long time, our friendship was like that of any other close friends. Ed was my rock, helping me through several difficult and painful times in my life. But, then, Ed began to show signs of Alzheimer’s, which slowly and steadily increased with each passing day.
In the beginning, Ed was unusually short-tempered and lashed out at me frequently. Although he returned to his gentle self later in the disease, it was hard for me to understand how this kind man could be so difficult at times. It was only later that I truly understood it was the Alzheimer’s that was affecting his mood and behavior.
I had a full time job, but Ed needed care and monitoring 24/7 — something I simply didn’t have the ability to do. To make things worse, he adamantly refused to move to a nursing home, which was exactly where he needed to be.
Eventually, he gave in and agreed to move to an assisted care facility. People there would tell me how lucky he was to have me, which was oddly upsetting. They didn’t understand the give and take we had in our friendship over the years. Nor did they know everything he had done for me when I really needed it. No matter how worn out I became, I always felt that I was the one who had been lucky.
Sometimes Ed had moments of total lucidity. One day he found his clothes (often he couldn’t) and dressed himself (quite nicely, in fact). Another time he called and spoke to me eloquently about how much he appreciated my help. That brief moment of clarity and the tender expression of appreciation from a man who had lost so much warmed my heart and made me truly understand why I was doing this arduous work.
Although Ed’s been gone for several years now, I still miss him. In fact I think about him every day. I remember his kindness and gratitude, and I wish he were still here – Alzheimer’s and all.
Caring for Ed was difficult, especially during those moments when he seemed to forget about our friendship. It was a tough time in my life, and a number of times throughout the process, I considered giving up. But now, surprisingly enough, I realize that I’d love to be able to care for him all over again.
Caregiving can be incredibly challenging. One must have an abiding love and stamina to persevere. While caring for Ed, I discovered something important about myself. I discovered I actually could find the energy to keep it up day after day, year after year. I realized that my friendship with Ed trumped the tribulations and exhaustion that went along with it, and no matter what else impacted our time together, that love matters above all else.
ASUS did reveal the ASUS Chromebox officially earlier this year, where that particular model would definitely have kept the ChromeOS crowd happy with a relatively affordable portable computing device. However, perhaps it is time to move on to bigger and greater things, which is why ASUS intends to cater to the PC market with a comparable device that they have called the “VivoMini”.
The ASUS VivoMini happens to be a tiny and barebones PC which will run on the Windows platform, although it would be worth noting that running Linux on it is also very possible. Expect the ASUS VivoMini to come with a Haswell Celeron processor alongside its $149 price tag. If you are willing to invest more money, then you will be able to see some upgrades being made to the i-series CPUs not too long after launch.
Since this will be a barebones PC, it would mean you would have to shell out more dough for other components that you would like it to “dance” with. The VivoMini will feature a Gigabit Ethernet port (WiFi cards are supported as well, a quartet of USB 3.0 ports to keep up with the times, HDMI and DisplayPort out, 1/8″ audio out (headphones/PC speakers), an SD memory card slot, Intel HD graphics and a pair of PCIe slots – where one of them is one half length and the other is full length. Do be prepared to pony up for your own storage space and RAM though.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jamaal Charles proved he is back to full speed for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Tom Brady is still stuck in neutral for the New England Patriots.
Charles returned from an injury to score three touchdowns Monday night, Brady was picked off twice by the opportunistic Chiefs, and Kansas City routed New England 41-14 to hand Bill Belichick one of his worst losses as coach of the Patriots.
Charles, who missed last week’s win in Miami with a sprained ankle, ran for 92 yards and a score. The Pro Bowl running back also caught two short touchdown passes from Alex Smith, who had 248 yards passing and three touchdowns in a sharp performance before a raucous crowd.
The Chiefs (2-2) ended a four-game skid at Arrowhead Stadium dating to last season by handing the Patriots (2-2) their worst defeat since losing to San Diego 41-17 in 2005.
Along with throwing two interceptions, one of which was returned for a touchdown, Brady was strip-sacked by Tamba Hali to step up a field goal. Brady finished 14 of 23 for 159 yards.
The Chiefs forced the Patriots to air it out by stuffing Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley. And when Brady dropped back, their front seven ran roughshod over their suspect offensive line.
It hardly helped the Patriots’ offense that it was trying to operate on the same night Chiefs fans were trying to reclaim the record for loudest outdoor sports venue. The record was set in the first half, when Guinness World Records record a noise level of 142.2 decibels — breaking the mark of 137.6 that the Seattle Seahawks’ fans had set last season.
The crowd included several members of the Kansas City Royals, who made the walk across the parking lot from Kauffman Stadium to watch the start of the game on the sidelines. The Royals will play their first postseason game since 1985 against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night.
Knile Davis finished with 107 yards rushing for Kansas City. Tight end Travis Kelce had eight catches for 93 yards and a score.
Charles gave the Chiefs an early lead with his first-quarter touchdown plunge, and then he extended the lead with a 5-yard TD catch in the second quarter.
Cairo Santos added a 22-yard field goal just before halftime for a 17-0 lead.
The field goal came after the Chiefs were bailed out by a defensive penalty. They had been stopped short on a pass play with 8 seconds left, but the penalty gave them a second chance.
Kansas City had 303 yards of first-half offense, the most against any Belichick-coached team.
Charles added his third touchdown of the game early in the second half, taking a short pass in the flat and stumbling into the end zone. He appeared to grab his hamstring on the way down and was met by trainers as he exited the field. After a brief trip to the locker room, Charles logged a few more carries before his night was done.
By that point, the game was pretty much done, too.
Brady threw a 44-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter to Brandon LaFell, who slipped the grasp of cornerback Marcus Cooper to reach the end zone. But he was picked off by Husain Abdullah later in the half, and Abdullah returned the interception 39 yards for a touchdown.
With the game out of hand, the Patriots gave rookie quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo a chance to play. He threw a late touchdown pass to Rob Gronkowski to complete the scoring.
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The Silicon Valley money machine only seems to work for men, a painful new study reveals.
Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman, according to a study from Babson College released Tuesday. That means that out of nearly $51 billion in funding that startups received over those two years, a comparatively teeny $1.5 billion went to women-led ventures.
“The findings of this study, demonstrate it is not the women who need fixing; the model for venture capital that has been in place since the 1980s simply does not work for women entrepreneurs,” Patricia Greene, one of the authors of the study, wrote in a release accompanying the report.
The picture for women at startups has hardly budged since 1999, the last time Babson’s Diana Project studied it. Back then, less than 5 percent of companies that netted venture funding had women on their executive team. This time around, 15 percent of the companies had women on the executive team.
The findings likely serve as cold comfort for those, like Facebook Chief Operating Office Sheryl Sandberg, who are looking to increase gender diversity in the tech industry. While Facebook and Google are both pushing to hire more women, clearly work needs to be done outside of the tech giants.
Female founders’ limited access to venture funding means they’re largely cut off from creating the next tech giant themselves.
A graph from Babson illustrating how little funding female entrepreneurs get.Women have complained to Wired, Forbes and other outlets about male venture capitalists who try to turn pitches into dates and ask inappropriate questions about whether their business will survive given the founder’s relationship status. But in most cases, the bias is more subtle.
When venture capitalists evaluate businesses, they’re often looking for intangible qualities that signal success. That can put women at a disadvantage. Experts say female entrepreneurs fall victim to “pattern recognition” when seeking funding. In other words, investors are less likely to bet a woman will be the next Mark Zuckerberg because she doesn’t look like Mark Zuckerberg.
Subconsciously, people also are more likely to see potential in those that remind them of themselves. Investors are also more likely to fund businesses they understand intuitively. But just 6 percent of partners at venture capital firms are women, down from 10 percent in 1999, Babson found. As a result, female founders are often pitching to panels of people who don’t look like them and are less likely to see the value in projects marketed toward women, such as an on-demand make-up service.
In addition to putting the female founders themselves at a disadvantage, this dynamic threatens to slow innovation on products that are used mostly by women. As the New York Times “Motherlode” blog argued in March, “if men could breastfeed, surely the breast pump would be as elegant as an iPhone and quiet as a Prius by now.”
The post inspired a hackathon to do just that.
Netflix, the hugely popular video streaming site, is all set to roll out its very first feature length film some time later next year, and this particular bit of news came about after Netflix came to an understanding with the Weinstein Company, at least according to reports on the ground. As to what this film will be, all about, it so happens to be the sequel to the Oscar-winning martial arts drama by Ang Lee – that is, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, where it will be shown in the comfort of your own home – or you can always opt to hop over to the nearest IMAX cinema if that is not your cup of tea.
With Netflix boasting of having more than 50 million subscribers across 40 over countries, one can only think of just how big of an impact it will have on the bottomline if folks prefer to remain at home and shun some big screen action. Still, I would like to think that if you are going to have a martial arts drama, there is no better place to be than at a cinema due to the scale of things shown.
Right now, we do know that Netflix is producing its very own TV programmes, with House of Cards being one of the more famous “exports”, so to speak. Netflix has certainly come a long way since its 1997 days where it kicked things off by being a postal DVD rental service, going to show how businesses need to reinvent themselves if they would want to remain ahead of the curve.
Netflix Set To Introduce Full Feature Length Film In 2015
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Anything that can be measured, it can be improved, and when it comes to mobile operating systems, everyone is jostling for news to be presented in the most positive manner possible. Having said that, AdDuplex has taken a look at just how the Windows Phone ecosystem is doing for this month, and taking into consideration that they are a cross-promotion network that is featured in many apps, they are able to obtain some rather solid statistics. While nothing major has changed in this month, it looks like Windows Phone’s strongest point would be the low end market.
Apparently, the Lumia 630 and Lumia 635 handsets that were released not too long ago are now seated at the number 2 position – if one were to combine their market share, of course. AdDuplex was looking into the EU 5 ( France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) in addition to the US to obtain such figures, where a couple of the models made up close to 13% of the market. It is also not surprising to know that Microsoft controls more than 90% of the Windows Phone hardare market compared to other smaller manufacturers.
Apart from that, Windows Phone 8.1 is said to be running on close to 40% of Windows Phone devices around the world – is that encouraging for you as a Windows Phone user and/or developer?
Windows Phone 8.1 Close To 40% Device Saturation
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