If you’re fond of 4K, we don’t blame you. The intense resolution makes for some cinematic brilliance, and new avenues for viewing 4K are popping up all the time. New monitors and TVs can display 4K, and service providers like Netflix are working to distribute it broadly. Now, Vimeo is getting in on the 4K action, but not as you … Continue reading
The team behind Content ID on YouTube have just opened the doors to their Audio Library, making it super simple to make certain the content you’re uploading won’t be the subject of Copyright Infringement. With the YouTube Audio Library search system, you’ll be able to search any specific track of music – any track that’ll be in the video you’re … Continue reading
Facebook is getting some long overdue functionality to help you find not just people and pages, but also specific posts from the past. So as in the example above, if you search for your friend Jessica’s wedding, it’ll search full posts for keywords “Jessica” and “wedding” and hopefully return the result you were looking for. It’s hard to believe this is new.
Ultimate Ears’ Boom Bluetooth speakers are among the most highly-regarded in the industry, and they’re both $30 off today on Amazon. Tons of color options available.
My laptop bag has never felt this light. My computer, never this thin. The $1,350 Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro feels like the future. But the future ain’t here yet.
My dog treed a cat last week a few miles from my house in Los Angeles. No firemen were needed to get it down. The cat weighed 100 pounds.
Book publisher Hachette is no longer in a blood feud with Amazon, but it’s already experimenting with new, Bezos-free online selling options, just in case. The latest: An experiment where best-selling Hachette authors will be able to sell their books directly to fans on Twitter.
Virtual reality is already making its presence felt in the movie business, but it’s about to take root in a big way. The Sundance Film Festival has revealed that nine of the 13 New Frontier art installations at its 2015 event will use virtual reality…
These days we see big companies and corporation selling video game consoles. It is a billion dollar industry, but not many people know that the home video game console industry was kickstarted by a man called Ralph Baer. He is often referred to as the father of the video game console. He developed the Brown Box back in the ’60s when we was working as an engineer at a defense contractor. The Brown Box would later go on to become the Magnavox Odyssey.
Baer’s employer, a military contractor called Sanders Associates, applied for a patent for his invention in 1971, which was granted in 1973 and exists to this day as US Patent No. 3,728,480.
The Brown Box system was then licensed to Magnavox which released it as the Odyssey in 1972. It didn’t have much when you compare it with today’s gaming consoles. The Odyssey was battery powered, couldn’t produce sound and had translucent overlays to simulate color graphics on television screens. Still it sold almost 100,000 units in 1972 and that was five years before Atari took the world by storm with the 2600 console.
A prototype of Brown Box is a permanent fixture at the Smithsonian Institution. In 2006 Baer was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President George W. Bush for his “groundbreaking and pioneering” contributions to the video game industry.
Baer passed away at the age of 92 on Saturday, The New York Times confirms.
Father Of Video Game Consoles, Ralph Baer, Has Passed Away
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There have already been quite a few rumors about the Samsung Galaxy S6. Apparently the company is going back to the drawing board for this flagship and is developing it with a completely new vision. Nothing about the specifications has been officially confirmed as yet so we still have to rely upon scuttlebutt, the latest being that Samsung’s upcoming flagship will tout a Cat.10 LTE modem.
This comes from a publication based in South Korea which claims that Samsung is developing a tri-band Cat.10 LTE modem for its Exynos processors. Any device powered by the new Exynos chips would then be able to support theoretical data speeds of up to 450Mbps, a major bump from the theoretically possible 300Mbps allowed by existing Cat.6 LTE modems.
We know that Samsung released multiple variants of its flagship devices. In some markets they are powered by the company’s own Exynos chips whereas in others Samsung uses chips from Qualcomm. The Galaxy S6 is expected to come with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chip.
Even if this rumor turns out to be true and a Galaxy S6 variant comes with a Cat.10 LTE modem its not like this feature would be useful for majority of the users. Carriers in the U.S. don’t support speeds of up to 450Mbps, and that’s pretty much the case in major markets around the world.
South Korea’s LG U+ is developing its tri-band LTE network which the Galaxy S6 would be able to take advantage of, so that’s just about how far the real-world support goes for Cat.10 LTE modems at this point in time.
Galaxy S6 Rumored To Have Cat.10 LTE Modem
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