On December 5th, NASA’s Orion capsule successfully lifted off from its platform at Cape Canaveral in Florida, reaching a max altitude of 3,600 miles in outer space. During the four-and-a-half hour test flight, it entered the Van Allen radiation belt,…
While both the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Note Edge are decent devices in their own right, there is a design flaw in which the speaker grill of the phone is placed on the back of the device. This means that if your phone is in your pocket with the speaker resting against your thigh, there is a chance you could miss out of hearing notifications.
Well the good news is that there is a mod out there that will help rectify the situation, and in some cases could give you an “almost surround” sound experience. Basically what the mod does is that it activates the front earpiece of the Galaxy Note Edge to allow it to be used as a secondary speaker for the phone.
However it seems that this mod is only applicable to the Galaxy Note Edge and not the Galaxy Note 4 at this point in time, although it is unclear if the mod will ever make its way onto the Galaxy Note 4. While we have yet to try this mod out for ourselves, its creator sshafranko has described the effect as an “almost surround sound type of effect”.
There are three different variations that users can choose from regarding its volume, ranging from a default volume level all the way until a high volume level. For those who are interested in checking out this mod, you can head on over to the XDA Developer forums for the details. It should be noted that it also requires users to have a rooted Galaxy Note Edge.
Galaxy Note Edge Mod Turns Front Earpiece Into A Secondary Speaker
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JOSEPH WHITE, AP Sports Writer
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — A week after their “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!” show of solidarity, several St. Louis Rams players made another societal statement Sunday with the message: “I Can’t Breathe.”
The slogan refers to Eric Garner, who died after a New York police officer placed him in a chokehold during an arrest for selling loose cigarettes. A grand jury decided last week that it would not indict the officer. A video of the arrest showed Garner gasping, “I can’t breathe.”
Guard Davin Joseph wrote the words on the cleats he wore during pregame warmups before the Rams beat the Washington Redskins 24-0. Tight end Jared Cook had it written on his wrist tape. Receiver Kenny Britt had several names — including Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin — written on his blue and gold cleats. The names were of black men or teens whose deaths led to protests.
“I feel like we should support what we feel is right,” said Joseph, who intended to wear the cleats during the game but had to change because of the condition of the slick turf at the Redskins’ stadium. “We should always have an opinion of sticking up for people who don’t have a voice.”
Joseph Tweeted an image of his shoes before the game with the message: “R.I.P. Eric Garner.”
Players at other NFL games expressed similar sentiments. Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush had “I Can’t Breathe” written in black across his blue warmup shirt. Browns cornerback Johnson Bademosi wrote the message on the back of the shirt he wore before a game in Cleveland.
“Honestly, I’ve always been the quiet kid. I’ve always been the one who’s reserved, to kind of sit back and not really get into politics and things like that,” said Bush, whose mother has been a police officer for about 20 years. “But I don’t know why I just felt some kind of … I guess the situation just touched me.
“It’s kind of resonated with me. Not because I’ve been through a similar situation or because I’ve seen anybody go through it. I just really felt terrible about what was going on these past couple of weeks.”
Lions coach Jim Caldwell supported Bush’s action.
“I grew up in the ’60s, where everybody was socially conscious,” Caldwell said. “I believe in it. I’d be a hypocrite if I stood up here and told you any differently, because more than likely, some of those protests that Dr. (Martin Luther) King and some of the others that took a part in non-violent protests, is the reason why I’m standing here in front of you today.”
Bademosi said there were players and coaches on his team who weren’t even aware what “I Can’t Breathe” meant. He called the Garner case “a ridiculous situation.”
“It’s not an us-against-them thing,” Bademosi said. “It’s about us standing in solidarity with those of us who know what’s going on.”
On Saturday night, Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose wore the message on his T-shirt during warmups before an NBA game.
The decision not to indict the officer came after another grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson over the Aug. 9 shooting of Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Last week, before a Rams home game, five St. Louis players — including Cook and Britt — took the field making the “Hands up. Don’t Shoot!” gesture associated with Brown. The St. Louis Police Officers Association expressed outrage and called for the NFL to discipline the players; the league declined.
Although Garner’s death occurred far from St. Louis, Joseph felt the need to make his feelings known.
“In that case, it’s another incident where it’s a sad case and it’s sad to see,” Joseph said. “Every life in this world is worth something, and when you lose one, it hurts, no matter who it is. We have to stand for the value of life.”
Added Cook: “It’s something that’s important to a lot of people.”
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AP Sports Writers Noah Trister in Detroit and Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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Over the weekend, I watched the always wonderful and under-appreciated Titan AE (via HBO Go). It had been awhile since I’d seen it—maybe a five years or so—and I was amazed how great that movie still is. Think about it: an animated film that nearly kills the entire human race before the title screen. Gutsy.
BBM is a perfectly fine app, but for some reason when you use it on Android or iOS devices, it almost feels like you have been transported into the world of BlackBerry 10. We guess this is to be expected since BBM is by BlackBerry and we guess the company wouldn’t mind a few iOS or Android users hopping on board the BlackBerry bandwagon.
That being said if you were hoping to get a look more in line with the design of your mobile operating system, you’re in luck. BlackBerry has recently released a new build for iOS users who signed up for BBM beta. With the latest update, BlackBerry has introduced a host of new improvements and features, one of which includes a slightly more iOS 8-friendly theme.
As you can see in the image above, gone is the black and blue finish of the BBM app and replaced with a whiter and “cleaner” theme. It isn’t 100% tuned to iOS 8 as there are some buttons and features that aren’t exactly in line with how iOS handles menus, but as far as an overall look is concerned, we have to say we are digging it.
The update also brings sticker support to group chats, better suggestions when trying to locate BBM friends, and more. This version has yet to be released to the public, but hopefully it won’t be too long until it does. In the meantime are you guys digging the iOS-theme?
BBM Beta Get iOS-Friendly Theme In Latest Build
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‘New Republic’ owner Chris Hughes spoke out on Sunday about the recent mass exodus of dozens of the magazine’s writers and editors.
Over 50 ‘New Republic’ staffers and contributors stepped down this week after word got out that Hughes and CEO Guy Vidra were in talks to replace top editor Franklin Foer with former Atlantic Wire editor Gabriel Snyder. Foer and storied literary critic Leon Wieseltier resigned on Thursday in light of this news, with senior editors such as Jonathan Cohn and Julie Ioffe and contributing editors like The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza and New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait following suit.
Hughes lashed out at the departing journalists in a Washington Post op-ed.
“Former editors and writers who claim in an open letter that the New Republic should not be a business would prefer an institution that looks backward more often than forward and does not challenge itself to experiment with new business models and new ways to tell important stories,” he wrote. “If you really care about an institution and want to make it strong for the ages, you don’t walk out. You roll up your sleeves, you redouble your commitment to those ideals in a changing world, and you fight. This 100-year-old story is worth fighting for.”
Still, Hughes said that he “was sad to see them go and regret much of how it happened.”
Hughes and Vidra riled members of the media on Thursday when they announced their place to rebrand the magazine as a “vertically integrated digital media company.” They also revealed that they would be reducing the number of yearly issues published from 20 to 10. In a statement provided to HuffPost on Friday, a group of former editors and writers said:
The New Republic cannot be merely a “brand.” It has never been and cannot be a “media company” that markets “content.” Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.” It is not, or not primarily, a business. It is a voice, even a cause. It has lasted through numerous transformations of the “media landscape”—transformations that, far from rendering its work obsolete, have made that work ever more valuable.
The New Republic is a kind of public trust. That is something all its previous owners and publishers understood and respected. The legacy has now been trashed, the trust violated.
The magazine cancelled its December issue in light of the shakeup. According to the New York Times, several writers have asked that their work be pulled from the next issue.
A 60-year old man from Shanghai, China designed and built his own mini-car that seats only one but boasts a kick-ass sound system to drown out the noise of passing traffic. What have YOU done lately, hmm?
The YotaPhone 2, is sleek, fast and has a legitimately useful secondary E Ink screen on its backside. The only problem? That extra display comes at a hefty cost. Read on for the rest of our news highlights from the past 7 days, including our Fire TV …
This nasty-looking storm (yes, that’s a storm not some hostile extraterrestrial unleashing otherworldly Armageddon) only confirms what we’ve always known: Mother Nature can be truly terrifying.
You might recall that a while back in the Apple versus Samsung lawsuit that Apple was awarded a whopping $930 million in damages. However since then, both companies have kind of stayed out of the spotlight as far as their legal issues were concerned and have agreed to drop most of their legal battles against one another.
However Samsung is back in the headlines as they have recently filed an appeal with the US Court of Appeals asking them to toss the $930 million verdict that was awarded to Apple. According to a report from Bloomberg, it seems that Samsung is still a bit indignant that they were accused of copying Apple’s designs.
According to Kathleen Sullivan who represents Samsung, “They awarded Samsung’s total profit for all of these phones — this is absurd. It’s like awarding the profit of an entire car because of infringement of the design of the cupholder.” However according to Apple’s lawyer William Lee of WilmerHale, “After two years, their market share was plummeting. In three months, they came up with something that was identical” to the iPhone.”
It is unclear if the courts will rule in Samsung’s favor this time, but their decision isn’t expected for several months, so we guess we’ll just have to wait and find out.
Samsung Wants Courts To Toss $930m Verdict In Its Lawsuit Against Apple
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