Nov 15
“If you’re watching this, you just won back the House of Representatives. Congrats, socialists.”
Nov 15
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a frozen Super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s star, a single star closest to the Sun. According to the study, which included a handful of researchers with the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Super-Earth has a mass that is at least 3.2 times greater than our own planet; the orbit around its star lasts only 233 days … Continue reading
Nov 15
Facebook’s anticipated Messenger “unsend” feature is finally rolling out to users. The feature was promised seven months ago following a report revealing that Facebook had quietly removed some private messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg. The company was quiet about the project until recently; screenshots of the “unsend” option surfaced a few weeks back followed by an update preview last week. … Continue reading
Nov 15
Amazon Ordered to Hand Over Possible Echo Recordings Related to Double Homicide
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A judge has ordered Amazon to turn over any data it has pertaining to a New Hampshire double homicide that happened in January of 2017, saying the court has probable cause to believe an Echo may have created recordings that could be useful to the case. But Amazon doesn’t seem eager to fork over audio it may have on…
Nov 15
Nov 15
Docomo Shows 5G In Japan Ahead of 2020 Commercial Launch
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At Inter Bee 2018 (Tokyo/Japan), Docomo has installed a 5G demo truck with a huge screen inside to demonstrate the power of 5G live streaming video.
The Truck is driving across Japan as part of Docomo’s 5G awareness campaign and has a live 5G base station at the top. The truck we went into didn’t use a live connection, perhaps because the trade show location doesn’t have 5G coverage yet. To reproduce the normal experience, Docomo used pre-recorded videos from previous sessions.
We’ve been assured that the video quality is the same, which seems consistent with other 5G video-streaming demos we’ve seen around the world.
Inside, The video setup consists of four Sony short-throw projectors for a completely immersive experience with the image covering three walls. At that size, it is evident that any pixelization is going to be much more noticeable than on a TV, which the whole point of the demo (see split screen below).
The recording of the 4K live stream from Taiwan to Tokyo looks impeccable and is a great demo for consumers. The Japan market is particularly attentive to image sharpness, and it’s not surprising that the country was first to adopt 1080p, 4K, and now 8K which has started to broadcast with NHK.
Technologically speaking, this kind of performance isn’t surprising from 5G. If anything, we should start seeing 8K video streaming demos very soon. Carriers worldwide are ramping up efforts to promote the technology ahead of their commercial launches. In the USA, 5G will launch in 2019, but in Japan, it will happen in 2020 because everything is tied to the upcoming Olympics.
Peak bandwidth is often the easiest 5G feature for consumers to understand, but in reality, 5G will dramatically increase the average speed and decrease the latency. Lower latency is probably one of the biggest contributors to “perceived performance” because each data request can be slowed down considerably by the connection time, and not the actual data-download duration.
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Nov 15
The retail display world is perhaps the most relevant place to start using 8K videos, and Sony has put on an impressive show at Inter Bee 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
There are very few places where you can experience this technology, so it’s worth a look when the occasion presents itself. Sony’s Crystal LED Display System (CLEDIS) is based on small borderless display modules (model ZRD-1) that be tiled to create huge screens of various sizes. Sony says “go big or go bigger” as its motto for this product.
The image quality is extremely high, with deep blacks, and bright whites reaching 1000 NITs of brightness (a typical laptop hits ~300-400 NITs). The colors are vivid since the technology can reproduce ~140% of the sRGB space, which better than most smartphones and tablets on the market, including many high-end models.
The view angle of near-180 degrees is impressive and completely necessary since the public should be able to perceive a great image quality from anywhere in front of the screen. All of these attributes are extremely hard to achieve on a screen this size.
Projection technologies can’t match this level of performance, and LCD-based displays usually have visible bezels, however thin they may be. Perhaps OLED is the only potential competitor, but we haven’t seen an OLED equivalent of this yet.
The sight of the Sony Crystal Display playing an 8K video at 120FPS is candy for the eyes. Although 8K might seem superfluous, even for an 80” TV, it is necessary and valuable when you look at giant screens like this. You can click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.
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Nov 15
Series of War Zone Attacks Puts DRC Ebola Outbreak On ‘Edge of Crisis’
Posted in: UncategorizedIt’s now the third largest outbreak ever of the deadly hemorrhagic fever, with 219 deaths.
Nov 15
The Butte County Sheriff says 130 people are still missing.
Nov 15
Facebook’s anticipated Messenger “unsend” feature is finally rolling out to users. The feature was promised seven months ago following a report revealing that Facebook had quietly removed some private messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg. The company was quiet about the project until recently; screenshots of the “unsend” option surfaced a few weeks back followed by an update preview last week. … Continue reading
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