Engadget RSS Feed]NASA regains contact with spacecraft after a 2-year silence
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
When mission crews lose contact with a spacecraft or lander for a significant amount of time, that's usually a bad sign… ask the European Space Agency if you want to know why. However, NASA just showed why you shouldn't always give up hope. It re…
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[Engadget RSS Feed]Edible milk-based film preserves food better than plastic
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Figuring out how to keep food fresh was a challenge seemingly met by plastics. But as it became clear that spooling out all that synthetic packaging was adversely affecting the environment, interest in greener methods of preservation has spiked. Whil…
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[Engadget RSS Feed]Fox starts the Bundesliga season with a soccer VR broadcast
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Fox Sports and NextVR are at it again. The two have paired up for live sports broadcasts in VR before and now they're bringing those immersive views to the pitch in Munich. This weekend marks the beginning of the Bundesliga soccer season in Germany,…
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[Engadget RSS Feed]Japan may forge Olympic medals from recycled smartphones
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
If you caught Japan's teaser for the 2020 Summer games in Tokyo, you know the nation is planning to lean hard on its pop-culture icons — but Tokyo may also use the Olympics to make a statement about sustainability. According to a report from Nikkei,…
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[MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors – All Stories]Samsung Shuttering its Milk Music Service in the United States
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Over the weekend, Samsung announced plans to shut down its Milk music streaming service in the United States, more than two years after it first launched. Milk Music, powered by Slacker Radio, was never able to compete with more popular music streaming services like Pandora, Spotify, and Apple Music.
As of September 22nd 2016, Milk Music will no longer be available. Samsung is encouraging current Milk Music users who want to continue to use the service to sign up for Slacker Radio, and listening history will be able to be transferred over.
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Rather than pushing its own music service, Samsung says it plans to pursue a “partner model” that will allow Samsung devices to seamlessly integrate with third-party music services. Samsung also says it plans to “invest and refine” its strategy for delivering “new and engaging connected experiences” to its users.
Samsung is sun setting its Samsung Milk Music service in the United States on September 22, 2016.
We have made the strategic decision to invest in a partner model focused on seamlessly integrating the best music services available today into our family of Galaxy devices. We believe that working with partners will accelerate innovation, enhance device sales and provide amazing new experiences for our customers.
We have no additional details to share at this time.
Positioned as a freemium radio-style app that required users to pay $3.99 per month to remove ads, Milk Music was originally designed to compete with Pandora, but it never gained steam as a Pandora alternative. It was initially launched beside “Milk Video,” a video aggregation app, but that was shuttered in 2015, and earlier this year, many Milk Music employees left the company.
Milk Music will continue to operate in South Korea, Malaysia, and China. It was also discontinued in Australia and New Zealand earlier this year.
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[MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors – All Stories]Microsoft Security Update Brings 64-Bit Support to All Mac Office Apps
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Microsoft today release a new update for its Office 2016 for Mac apps, introducing small performance improvements, bug fixes, and 64-bit support across the Office lineup.
Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneNote have all adopted the 64-bit runtime environment to enable better performance and “new innovative features.” 64-bit support has previously been available to Microsoft’s “Office Insider” beta testers but is rolling out to all users today.
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Microsoft Office users who do not use add-ins will be unaffected by the change, while those who do will need to update their add-ins to 64-bit versions as add-in developers release the necessary updates. All add-in developers have had several months to make the updates thanks to the beta testing period, so the transition should be seamless for most end users.
Apple’s Mac operating system has supported 64-bit applications since OS X Lion was released in 2011, but prior to 2016, Microsoft continued to offer 32-bit Office for Mac apps.
Microsoft Office for Mac is available through an Office 365 subscription or as a standalone purchase from the Microsoft website. Office 365 costs a minimum of $69.99 per year while the standalone version of Office 2016 for Mac is priced at $149.99.
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[Engadget RSS Feed]FBI finds 14,900 more files from Hillary Clinton’s email server
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Just because the US Attorney General isn't bringing charges over Hillary Clinton's private email server doesn't mean that it's all over — far from it. FBI investigators have unearthed 14,900 more files (email and documents) on the server, or almost…
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[MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors – All Stories]Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of macOS Sierra to Developers
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Apple today released the seventh beta of macOS Sierra, the newest operating system designed for the Mac, to developers. macOS Sierra beta 7 comes one week after the release of the sixth beta and two months after the software was first unveiled at Apple’s 2016 Worldwide Developers Conference.
Developers can download today’s seventh beta update through the Apple Developer Center or through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store.
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macOS Sierra is a major update that brings Siri to the Mac for the first time, allowing users to conduct voice searches to quickly find files, look up information, and more. New Continuity features offer an “Auto Unlock” option for unlocking a Mac with an Apple Watch and a “Universal Clipboard” for copying text on one Apple device and pasting it on another.
Deeper iCloud integration allows files stored on the desktop or the Documents folder of a Mac to be accessed on all of a user’s devices, and Photos features deep learning algorithms for improved facial, object, and scene recognition. There’s also a Memories feature for displaying photo collections, and Messages has rich links, bigger emoji, and “Tapback” response options.
Apple Pay is coming to the web in macOS Sierra, with payments authenticated through an iPhone or Apple Watch, and new features like multiple tabs, Picture in Picture multitasking, optimized storage, and revamped emoji are also available.
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macOS Sierra is currently available to developers and public beta testers, and it will see a wider public release this fall. macOS Sierra beta 7 is likely to be the last beta that will be released ahead of the golden master, as we are nearing the end of the beta testing period. For full details on all of the new features included in macOS Sierra, make sure to check out our macOS Sierra roundup.
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[Engadget RSS Feed]Weeklong Twitch marathon showcases streamers with disabilities
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
The AbleGamers Charity has been campaigning for greater accessibility in games for over a decade now, applauding games that do inclusivity right and raising money for grants and fellowships. Today they're kicking off a different awareness project: A…
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[MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors – All Stories]iPhone 6s Bests Samsung’s New Galaxy Note 7 in App Speed Test
Posted on August 22, 2016 by admin
Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Note 7, its newest smartphone with a 14-nanometer Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB RAM, a 12-megapixel camera, waterproofing, and wireless charging.
Spec wise, the Galaxy Note 7 seems to best the dual-core A9 processor and the 2GB RAM of the iPhone 6s, but based on a new speed test, it’s clear raw hardware can’t quite match superior hardware and software integration when it comes to real world usage.
In the performance comparison in which the two phones simultaneously launched the same apps, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 was thoroughly defeated by the iPhone 6s, despite the Note 7’s cutting edge hardware and the fact that it’s a year newer than Apple’s latest iPhone.
The iPhone was able to launch apps in succession at a much faster rate than the Galaxy Note 7, launching 14 apps (including rendering a video) in one minute and 21 seconds and eventually lapping the Galaxy Note 7, which took two minutes and four seconds to complete the same tasks. The iPhone was able to cycle through two laps of the app test in one minute and 51 seconds, while the Note 7 took two minutes and 49 seconds, almost a full minute longer.
This is just a single test that compares an unusual usage scenario, but it does suggest Apple’s efforts to deeply integrate hardware and software give the iPhone some significant benefits compared to even the latest Android devices.
Apple will be announcing a new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in the near future with improved hardware that includes a faster, more efficient A10 processor and perhaps more RAM, at least in the larger device. The new phones are expected to debut in early September with a launch coming later in the month.
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