Best Technology Article: February 2015

Saturday, February 28, 2015

NASA astronauts back into space despite leaking helmet – AD.nl

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American astronauts go Sunday again a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS). Space Agency NASA has given their authorization even got one this week astronaut water in his helmet after work in space.

Water in space helmet can be perilous. In 2013, an astronaut almost drowned when he got too much water in his helmet. But according to NASA the leak is a known issue, and approved the spacesuit of astronaut Terry Virts. American astronaut estimated that there was about 45 milliliters of water in his helmet when he was busy with work Wednesday on the outside of the space station. That is approximately equal to the content of a shot glass. Water in the spacesuit is condensation.

Virts the moisture came only in the helmet at the end of his spacewalk. The 47-year-old astronaut must make three spacewalks with his colleagues to perform work on cables. NASA is working on the construction of hundreds of meters of cable outside the ISS. There berths where commercial space capsules Boeing and SpaceX can hitching in the future.

Lenovo now promises to deliver safer computers – NU.nl

That Lenovo reported Friday in a statement. Last week it was announced that Superfish, the adware that Lenovo flour evert on its devices, many security risks entails.

Superfish was between between 2012 and 2015 as standard on some products. In January this year the company is there in their own words stopped.

The company now promises to reveal what software is included on its devices. Explanation is then given what the software does.

When Lenovo starts with launching Windows 10 products will according to the company only software that will be included are intended to show the hardware properly to work. This is according to Lenovo adware and bloatware banned

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The Super Fish-scandal – The Standard

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Podcast: These smartphones, tablets and smart watches we expect at MWC – NU.nl

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This week in our Podcast:

Mobile World Congress

Each year the MWC held in Barcelona. During this exhibition will present major companies such as Samsung, LG and Huawei their latest smartphones, tablets and smart watches. This year the main announcement is expected Galaxy S6. This new device has to turn the tide at Samsung. Sunday the S6 will finally be explained in detail.

Sunday HTC also has an important announcement. Then the company will present the One M9, the new flagship of the Taiwanese company. The expectation is that there will be little change, but something is done to the poor camera.

In addition, there are many middle class smartphones, tablets and new round smart watches expected at MWC. Listen to the podcast for all our expectations.

Follow all the news from MWC through our file

Swiss smart watch

This week presented the Swiss watch brand Frederique Constant its first smart watch. It is the first time that a smart watch a real Swiss watch. In addition, the company wants other watchmakers, with a license to the technology it uses, also encouraging to make smart watches.

How a Swiss Dutch company’s watchmaking industry wants to make smart

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Nude still allowed on Blogger – Telegraaf.nl

That did not last long <- - google_ad_section_start ()>: websites on Google’s Blogger service may anyway nude photos and videos show. Earlier this week announced the service that there is a ‘clean’ would take place on 18 + material, but it is now returned to

Not only would it be not allowed to post nude photos and sex, although the old material would be removed. Since then more than Blogger will last ten years, there were sex blogs that were not exactly pleased with this announcement.

Out of respect for these long-term users, who use their blogs to express their sexual identity, Blogger has decided to not let the cleaning. Instead, the site is going to be existing rules enforce stricter. Thus, existing sex blogs placed behind a 18 + filter and may be placed only material for which the model in question has given permission.

In addition Blogger also announced to the popular forum Reddit to go stricter action against sexually oriented materiaai . The site wants a second ‘fappening’, where nude pictures of celebrities many were shared on the site prevented.

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Blogger running ban on naked back largely – Telecompaper

Blogger blog offer from Google, is partly returned to previously announced measures against sexual or explicit nudity in public blogs. This would take effect from March and determined that Blogger users no longer public could share images and videos that are sexually explicit or view explicit nudity. A Blogger employee leave now through the forum of the service that these measures are not implemented. Out of respect for those who keep blogs for years that suddenly would not be more public and for the sexual identity of users, which is also expressed through the blogs. Blogger will probably maintain stricter the existing ban on placing commercial pornography and ensures that sexually explicit content is placed behind a 18 + filter.

Skype for Android installed over 500 million times – Overclockers

The Skype app for Android is very popular Microsoft scores more than 500 million installations. It is one of the handful of companies that can say that.

That Android Police reports today. Microsoft joins them in a row where previously only Google and Facebook are part of. Google counts several apps over 500 million installations on Android devices, such as Google Drive and Google Maps. Facebook has not only social networking app, but also allow the successful WhatsApp Messenger in the Play Store.

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In 2011, Skype has been bought by Microsoft. That was the end of MSN Messenger, which Microsoft was replaced by Skype. Currently we are working on a web version, so you no longer need software or Apps to video call for free

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Apple grabs 88.7 percent of all smartphone profits – TechTastic

Smartphone manufacturers in the fourth quarter of 2014 more than 18.9 billion euros in totally deserved, but there is only one big winner. According to figures from Strategy Analytics, Apple accounted for a whopping 88.7% of this total, a substantial increase compared with 70.5% in the same quarter a year earlier.

The company from Cupertino generated in the last quarter of 2014 a whopping profit of 16.8 billion thanks to increasing sales of the different iPhone models. Apple was in previous years been a dominant factor in the smartphone market, but its share has never been greater. In one year, the share increased by 18 percent from 2013

Despite the increased market share of Android slumped overall winning percentage of 29.5 percent in the last quarter of 2013 to 11.3% in the last four months of 2014. Samsung seems to be one of the biggest victims of the smartphone market. The company saw its share in one year away bags and sold in the quarter as many smartphones as Apple, although we should not forget that the supply of the Korean company is considerably higher and the profit margins are much smaller.

BlackBerry and Microsoft have even bigger problems, according to figures from Strategy Analytics, since both companies would have in the last four months of 2014 nothing to deserve the sales of smartphones.

The figures clearly show that Apple’s profit margins are significantly higher. The Android operating system is available on over 80 percent of all smartphones sold, but the percentage is similar in pure profit just completely reversed. Manufacturers of Android smartphones gain per unit sold considerably less than Apple does with its iPhone

Apple grabs lion’s share profit on smartphones in Q4 2014 – Telecompaper

(Operational) profit from the sale of smartphones worldwide was in the final three months of last year 21.2 billion dollars. That means an increase of 31 percent year on year, according to a recent study by Strategy Analytics.

Apple picked according to the survey in Q4 2014 89 percent of the total profits versus 71 percent a year earlier. Android saw its share of profits within a year decline of 29 percent to eleven percent. According to Strategy Analytics knew platforms BlackBerry and Microsoft does not share in the profits.

A recent study by IDC showed that Android last year, 80 percent of the market for smartphone clerk versus 78.7 percent in 2013. The market share of iOS is declining, just as BlackBerry and Windows Phone.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Three patients have hand amputated for prosthesis – Ango

26 Feb 2015

Three patients go hand amputated for prosthesis

A breakthrough in science: three Austrians got an artificial hand by signals are driven from their brain. The three have their cripple showed, unusable hand amputated and now can better function independently.

recently three patients with artificial hands that can be controlled by the brain at the University of Vienna. By using a new technique – called bionic reconstruction – the prostheses respond to stimuli from the brains, according to a publication in the scientific journal The Lancet

High expectations
. > This procedure can help you in the future to a large group of patients with cripple or severed limbs, such as victims of an accident with potato digger or bread slicer. Not only hands but also feet and legs would eventually function as weather is expected.
Two of the operated Austrians were injured while mountain climbing in their country, crashed in a motorcycle accident. But all three of them were serious, permanent injuries to their misfortune: the nerves from the neck to the hand tore off. A serious injury that prevents too much in contact sports such as rugby and American Football. The result: a – partially – cripple hand
Neurosurgeons knew the three men after an extensive study to convince them that they would be better off if they would have to amputate their unusable hand..

Transplantation
they then received a transplant from a piece of thigh muscle to the forearm stump. This muscle was coupled to the damaged nerve in order to establish the signal transmission between brain and prosthesis. The so-called robohand is pushed over the edge.
The three patients all received intensive cognitive training and exercised an average of 9 months with the robohand before they underwent their operations. This to activate the muscles and the use of electrical signals for controlling a virtual hand.

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The men who were hampered by their injuries in their daily functioning, had directly benefited from the robohand. Now they can perform a few simple tasks, such as lifting coins or a glass, crank up a can or pot, stir into pan and tying the laces of their shoes. In their recent publication in The Lancet let the scientists of the Austrian university in Vienna know that eventually technology will be deployed worldwide.

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Google Shows Henceforth Ads In Google Play Store – Androidics

Google has announced that the company will soon start showing ads on the Google Play Store. The first ads will be shown only to a small group of users for ads will be visible to the general public

On Thursday, Google announced that they have begun testing of ad impressions in the Play Store app. Users get in the future to see ads that are relevant to the search you entered. Thus we see the search in the image below “travel apps” with the first result the app “Traveller”. Under the name, however, is an orange symbol with the words “Ad”. This indicates that this is an ad

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The ads will be first in relevant search results only displayed. Or Google will place ads on other sites in the future is unknown.

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Google will soon show advertisement in Google Play Store – Tablets Magazine

Google has announced that Google Play Store users will soon go back to see the ads in the digital store of Android. First see a small group of people, but soon everyone sees them.

Google has announced that it will not be long before we see ads in the search results within the Google Play Store. These ads appear when you search for a specific app, then Google is looking for an app that can appear on it and presents him at the top of the list. Fortunately, however, there clearly that it is an advertisement. Advertising is first visible only to a small group of people, but it will not be long before anyone with access to Google Play going to see.

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Google has lately been busy with the Play Store. For example, it now can happen anytime you Google Play Store application on your tablet is equipped with a fresh update, which Google search bar brings back. It may even be that you have already received the update. If you’re not sure, then you can look back on a number of the altered design elements, including the white Google search bar on top. The small magnifying glass is gone. Logically, since both the magnifier and the search bar have the same function.

And maybe it was you noticed when you were looking at the Google Play store for a nice game (if you wait a week until Friday, around noon where we always give three suggestions games in a specific theme ). Normally you see on the page of search results the icon of the game in question, its developer, the star rating, price and quick option menu on the right. Now you look other information , including whether the game in question achievements, leaderboards and multiplayer has.

Google lets developers pay to get attention in appwinkel – The Latest News

Developers can in the near future may pay to bring their apps to the attention of search results in Google Play, the appwinkel Google. That the technology company announced today.

According to Google product manager Michael Silinksi “always looking for new ways to identify potential new users on your apps.” “Therefore, we begin in the coming weeks with a pilot project in which paid search in Google Play are displayed,” he wrote in a blog post.

“We bring our expertise in the field of search ads to Google Play.” YouTube and displayed in the search engine itself are also paid advertisements.

CEO Sundar Pichai said in business magazine Forbes that Google wants to increase sales by this business model can also be used in Google Play. The coming weeks will receive a limited number of users served the ads in the US version of the appwinkel.