Source: http://gizmodo.com/that-aim-assisted-rifle-is-now-accurate-up-to-a-mile-1678303048
Oh, what a difference two years make. The Precision-Guided Firearm (aka the Linux Gun) from TrackingPoint that blew many a mind at 2013's CES is back and better than ever. And by "better" I mean able to hit a target traveling at 30 mph, 1,800 yards out.
Source: http://ces.gizmodo.com/this-modular-smartwatch-could-have-as-many-days-of-batt-1678389628
One of the biggest problems with powerful smartwatches is battery life. Who wants to charge their watch every night? But what if your watch was made of modular blocks and you could add as many batteries as you like?
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/engadget-forums-whats-up-with-curved-displays/
Walking through the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center, one thing becomes abundantly clear. Curved displays are apparently all the rage. They're everywhere and include everything from Ultra-HDTVs, monitors and even smartphones. Much like 3D televisions of the past, it seems like every hardware manufacturer got together and said, "This is exactly what consumers need!" The thing is, I've yet to meet anyone who has one. Are they the real deal? Head over to the Engadget forums and share your thoughts!
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Source: Engadget forums
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-going-big-on-video-2015-1
Facebook has acquired video technology startup QuickFire Networks for an undisclosed amount.
QuickFire Networks CEO, Craig Y. Lee, announced the acquisition on the company website.
“QuickFire Networks was founded on the premise that the current network infrastructure is not sufficient to support the massive consumption of video that’s happening online without compromising on video quality,” Lee writes.
QuickFire’s technology reduces the bandwidth needed to watch video online without sacrificing on video quality.
Facebook averages more than one billion video views per day, so it makes sense that they’d want to deliver a higher quality video experience to users.
The company posted a blog post on January 7th outlining “what the shift to video means for content creators,” and highlighted how integral video had become to the platform.
Facebook noted that, on average, more than 50% of people who come back to Facebook every day in the US watch at least one video daily and in a single year Facebook video posts per person increased 75% globally and 94% in the United States.
QuickFire will be able to help streamline the increased video consumption and provide support to the platform as it rolls out more video in emerging markets, which frequently have slower connections.
A group of key QuickFire employees will be joining Facebook as part of the acquisition. In the meantime, the company will be reaching out to individual customers and partners as business winds down.
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Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/android-lollipop-adoption-is-abysmal-2015-1
Almost nobody is using Google’s latest and most ambitious update to its Android operating system. Based on the company’s latest numbers charted for us by BI Intelligence, less than 0.1% of all Android devices are running the latest version, called Lollipop. It doesn't even appear on the chart, because we don't show distributions with less than 0.1% adoption.
Most Android users are still on Android Jelly Bean (46% of devices), followed by KitKat (39.1%), the most recent version of Android that came out before Lollipop. Android suffers from a ton of "fragmentation" — that is, many different versions of the software out at the same time — because Google gives third parties like hardware makers and carriers lots of leeway on what they can do with the platform. It’s difficult to roll out new updates since each new software edition must pass through so many different channels before it reaches the end user. Unfortunately, this makes it hard for developers trying to build Android apps — which version do they build for?
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