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Компания Lenovo представила компактный планшет S5000. Толщина планшета составляет всего 7,9 мм, а вес устройства – 246 граммов. По словам компании, это почти на двадцать процентов меньше, чем у его современных конкурентов премиум-класса.

Lenovo S5000

Планшет получил 7-дюймовый HD-дисплей (1280х800 пикселей) с яркостью 350 нит и широкими углами обзора. Фронтальная камера обладает разрешением 1,6 Мп, а задняя камера - 5-мегапиксельная.

Lenovo S5000 работает под управлением операционной системы Android 4.2 Jelly Bean и на основе четырехядерного процессора Media Tek 8389 с тактовой частотой 1,2 ГГц. Кроме того, предлагается опциональная возможность подключения к сотовым сетям с помощью 3G HSPA+. USB-порт с поддержкой OTG позволит подключить к планшету внешний жесткий диск или подзарядить другие устройства. Аккумулятор емкостью 3450 мАч дает возможность использовать Интернет в течение восьми часов или же отдыхать за просмотром HD видео шесть часов без подзарядки.

Планшет S5000 поступит в продажу в четвертом квартале 2013 года. В Европе модель на 16 ГБ и с Wi-Fi будет продаваться по рекомендованной цене в 199 евро, а ...read more...

NASA's LADEE lunar probe takes off from Virginia aboard a Minotaur V rocket.

There's a bizarre glow on the moon and scientists have launched a probe to figure out what it is.

A Minotaur V rocket roared into the skies above Virginia late Friday carrying the super sleuth robot, NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which will examine the moon's infinitesimal atmosphere and dust.

The $280 million mission began with a textbook launch, visible to millions along the East Coast, as the probe was carried aloft at 11:27 PM EDT from Pad 0B at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia.

It marks the first use of Wallops Island for a moonshot, as well as the debut mission for Orbital Sciences' Minotaur V booster.

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The incomparable dance maestro, David Brent.

Let's discuss the word "daft."

It is a very English -- Ye Olde English -- word that some would translate as "foolish." And others would translate as "utterly, mindbendingly insane."

There is a band called Daft Punk, which, though French, got its name when an English music magazine described the music its members originally created as "daft punk."

Here is the denouement: It's a daft idea to get an interviewee to dance to Daft Punk.

When I say "interviewee," I don't mean interviewing for a place in the band. I mean interviewing for a job in an electronics store.

Yet 21-year-old Alan Bacon insisted that is exactly what people at the Currys Megastore in Cardiff, Wales made him do.

As the BBC reports, Bacon is a university graduate who loves cameras.

He ended up being asked to do a cameo that seemed to come ...read more...

Uber's DeLoreans allegedly cannot fly, nor can they travel through time.

Uber may occasionally fit the Silicon Valley stereotypes of unnecessary excess, what with its helicopter rides on the 4th of July and boat service during the BART strike. But how can you knock the company when it gives its customers a chance to step back in time, through those glorious gull-wing doors and into a simpler time of Chuck Berry covers and vest-and-flannel combos?

So for the truly diehard Back to the Future fans already dusting off their limited edition pair of Nike Air MAGs, Uber is offering free DeLorean rides to San Francisco users thanks to a partnership with General Motors. The promotion will last for this weekend only.

It's all part of a ...read more...

Some Apple parody videos are better than others and the one going viral on the Internet right now, simply entitled "Introducing the iPhone 5S," ranks a solid 8 out of 10 with some pretty amusing lines.

Some of the better quotes include:

"To create the new iPhone, we started with a design we really loved. And then...stopped."

"We have found a way to sell the exact same iPhone a year later...and sell millions."

"We decided to spend more money on marketing because all the time added up is time...added up."

"We laid off our who engineering staff to show how dedicated we were to this new direction."

Enjoy.

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Компания Samsung Electronics представила на выставке IFA 2013 UHD OLED телевизоры. Новинки обеспечивают реалистичное и детализированное изображение разрешения Ultra HD с высокими показателями яркости и контрастности, которых удалось достичь благодаря OLED-технологии.

Samsung UHD OLED TV

UHD-телевизоры обеспечивают яркие впечатления от просмотра, благодаря 8 млн пикселей и разрешению в 4 раза выше, чем у Full HD моделей. Как отмечает производитель, также сочетание технологий OLED и самоизлучающих суб-пикселей позволило вывести качество и контрастность изображения на новый уровень.

Телевизоры Samsung UHD OLED TV представлены на стенде компании в обычном и изогнутом форматах с диагональю экрана 55 дюймов каждый. Экспозиция компании также включает в себя Samsung Curved OLED TV и полную линейку UHD-телевизоров Samsung с диагональю 110, 98, 85, 65 и 55 дюймов.

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer will orbit the Moon to gather information on its atmosphere and surface conditions. It launches from Wallops Island, Va. tonight at 11:27 p.m. ET.

If the typical bevy of Friday night activities seem just too boring to bear, try out a rocket launch instead.

At roughly 11:27 p.m. ET tonight, NASA will launch its Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) onboard an Orbital-made Minotaur V rocket. The launch is the first to take place at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va., and will be visible to a wide array of East Coast onlookers lucky enough to catch a patch of clear sky with enough visibility.

The goal of the $280 million mission, pronounced "laddie," is to investigate age-old unknowns surrounding the moon's atmosphere first poised by NASA's Surveyor 7 mission in 1968. Back then, astronauts caught sight of unexplainable "streamers" of light on ...read more...

This purported images of an iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C side-by-side is just one in a growing abundance of leaks.

Apple's next iPhone is headed to China Mobile and its more than 740 million subscribers, according to a new report.

Citing sources, The Wall Street Journal says Apple plans to sell the upcoming, and highly-rumored low-cost iPhone model on the carrier, which does not currently offer Apple's mobile phone.

The report comes on the heels of others in recent weeks, claiming Apple and the carrier have been involved in business discussions.

According to a report from Barclays on Thursday, a deal with China Mobile could bring in an extra 20 million iPhone unit sales within a year, and boost Apple's revenues in the region, which were down 14 percent from the previous year last quarter. Other estimates have ...read more...

An enormous feature in the northern Pacific, Tamu Massif has been confirmed as the largest single volcano on Earth.

Scientists have discovered a staggering colossus that once spewed fire but now slumbers deep in the Pacific Ocean. Sadly it's not Godzilla, but it is a volcano with a footprint comparable to Olympus Mons on Mars, the largest volcano in the solar system.

Covering an area of 120,000 square miles, which makes it about the size of New Mexico or the British Isles, the formation dubbed Tamu Massif is one of the biggest ever found, according to a study led by University of Houston professor William Sager.

"We show that the Tamu Massif is a single, immense volcano, constructed from massive lava flows that emanated from the volcano center to form a broad, shield-like shape," Sager and colleagues write in Nature Geoscience (PDF).

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Среди череды официальных анонсов, проводимых компанией Toshiba в рамках IFA 2013, можно отметить презентацию первого фирменного Windows-планшета с диагональю экрана 8 дюймов. Новинка под названием Encore ожидается на рынке в ноябре по цене $330, а в основе ее лежит четырехъядерный процессор Intel Atom из свежей линейки Bay Trail. Кроме того, благодаря сотрудничеству Toshiba и Microsoft данный планшетный компьютер оптимизирован для операционной системы Windows 8.1, а его фронтальная 2-Мп камера и система микрофонов будут сертифицированы для работы со Skype.

Toshiba Encore

Прочие характеристики Toshiba Encore включают вполне стандартное для такого рода продуктов разрешение экрана 1280 x 800 пикселей, а для хранения контента предлагается использовать 32 ГБ внутренней памяти, ...read more...

Zeus takes its place in the pantheon of 3D printers.

We're already used to 2D copiers and printers. Slip a piece of paper in, push a button, and a copy comes out. Now, that same sort of capability is coming to the 3D world with the AIO Robotics Zeus all-in-one 3D scanner, copier, and printer on Kickstarter.

The process is fairly simple. You place an object inside Zeus, the machine scans it, and then creates a copy. You can also load your own 3D files for printing.There is a one-touch automatic-copy button if you want the machine to just go to town. All of this is controlled through a friendly 7-inch touch-screen interface.

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Somewhere, your life depends on boxes and cables.

When all else fails, we always assume our favorite Web sites will be there.

We feel reassured that we'll have the comfort of sitting on our sofas, clutching our little iPads and communing with the same outside world that doesn't always like us in person.

Yet, for one reason or another, sites are going down. Sites are being attacked. Servers go down for reasons that don't always seem understandable.

Which means that Americans are beginning to realize that the fundaments of their lives are being assaulted and insulted.

I lean on my exclusive possession of new research that asked Americans whether outages were upsetting them and why.

You will end this post prostrate at the way respondents bared their souls. Did they declare that server outages were hurting them because this was a serious threat to their way of life?

In a way.

Fifty-two percent said that their biggest ...read more...

The "Spinal Tap" reference to the volume control that goes to "11" notwithstanding, there's a lot of confusion surrounding volume controls. There shouldn't be; the volume control setting has nothing to do with how loud an amp can play. Some folks mistakenly think that if you don't have to turn the knob up very far from the minimum setting to achieve high volume, that "proves" it's a powerful amp. No, not at all; the maximum volume level of any amp is determined not by how far you turn the knob, but by the amp or receiver's power output. The position of the volume control doesn't indicate the amount of watts driving the speaker; the only real concern is whether the amp can play loud enough to suit your needs, and it doesn't matter in the least whether the volume control is at 9 o'clock, 12 o'clock, or 3 o'clock.

Here's another volume control/output power myth: The lower position for ...read more...

A scene from move-in day at the University of Florida, a school that lets its thousand of incoming freshmen find a roommate on Facebook.

In 2007, Facebook had been open to the public for less than a year, but a troublesome tendency -- now commonplace among nearly every college-age teenager in the country -- had already begun emerging: The moment incoming students received their roommate's name, they would type it into Facebook to learn all they could.

That singular action -- which often inspires overbearing parents and judgmental teens to flood housing offices with complaints -- led Robert Castellucci to co-found RoomSync, a pre-eminent roommate pairing service that operates right within Facebook.

"We looked at the landscape and we're like, 'Everyone's going onto Facebook to research their roommate after they're assigned," said Castellucci, acting CEO of the Gainesville, Fla.-based company. "So we said, 'Instead of fighting this trend,' -- which frankly housing offices ...read more...

Компания iRU представила новые модели школьного нетбука под длинным названием iRU School Netbook transformer 10,1’’ на базе сертифицированной платформы Intel Education Solutions. Уже в августе ожидаются поступления новинок в продажу.

iRU School Netbook transformer 10,1’’

Нетбук iRU School Netbook transformer 10.1” создан на основе процессора Intel Celeron 847. Устройство представлено в легком ударопрочном корпусе темно-серого цвета с выдвижной ручкой для переноски, что немаловажно для модели, которая должна быть способна перенести все тяготы школьных будней. Поворотный сенсорный экран диагональю 10,1 дюйма – удобная опция для работы как со специальным стилусом (поставляется в комплекте), так и от прикосновения ...read more...

Разработчики социальной сети ВКонтакте выпустила большое обновление клиента для мобильных устройств Apple.

Редактирование собственной записи

В новой версии ВКонтакте для iPhone заявлены десятки новых возможностей. В числе самых важных новшеств - появление возможности редактирования своих записей и комментариев, что давно ожидалось пользователями, а также прикрепление фотографий к комментариям. Среди менее "революционных", но от этого не менее приятных нововведений можно отметить следующее:

• Пересылка нескольких сообщений другим пользователем.
• Мульти-выбор фотографий. Работает при загрузке на стену, в фотоальбомы и личные сообщения.
• Автоулучшение фотографий в одно касание.
• Черный список. Блокировка из его профиля или из настроек.
• Моментальный предпросмотр статей на внешних сайтах. 
• Изменение порядка фотографий, прикрепленных к сообщению или записи.
• Новый интерфейс просмотра внешних ссылок (браузер) с альбомной ориентацией.
• Новая фотолента. В разделе "Фотографии" отображаются обновления друзей, но не сообществ.
• Пересылка оригиналов фотографий и видеозаписей в виде документов. Работает и для настенных записей.
• Копирование фотографий в "Сохраненные фотографии".
• Фотографии-обложки групповых бесед.

Также появились отображение закрепленных записей в сообществах, иконки замка в записях только для ...read more...

iPhone season is upon us once again. And that means that anxious Apple fans are plotting their best options for selling their old devices to buy the new one.

In this edition of Ask Maggie, I offer some advice to a reader about the best time to sell an old iPhone to get the best trade-in value or price from an individual buyer. But not everyone is in the market for the brand new iPhone.

Some savvy wireless customers see the launch of a new iPhone as an opportunity to get a bargain on older models of iPhones. And as people resell their used devices, there are also deals to be had the used iPhone market as well. But savvy shoppers also have to careful of scammers. So in this edition of Ask Maggie, I also offer some tips on buying a used iPhone.

Tips for selling a used iPhone

Компания Nokia объявила о начале продаж в России смартфона Nokia Lumia 625 на базе операционной системы Windows Phone 8 с большой диагональю экрана 4,7 дюйма и поддержкой стандарта LTE.

Nokia Lumia 625

Nokia Lumia 625 стал смартфоном с самым большим дисплеем в линейке Nokia Lumia, при этом разрешение у него небольшое - WVGA (800 х 480 пикселей), что обеспечивает плотность 201 ppi. Также можно отметить 5-мегапиксельную основную камеру с автофокусом и светодиодной вспышкой, фронтальную VGA-камеру, двухъядерный процессор с тактовой частотой 1,2 ГГц, 512 оперативной памяти, 8 ГБ встроенной флеш-памяти для хранения данных и поддержку карт памяти формата microSD с максимальной емкостью 64 ГБ.

Питание производится от аккумулятора емкостью 2000 мАч. Размеры составляют 133,2 х 72,2 х 9,2 мм, а вес - 159 граммов. Ориентировочная розничная цена Nokia Lumia 625 составляет 11990 рублей, модель доступна в ...read more...

For a very brief few minutes on Friday you may have noticed some Google services, most notably search, appeared to be down. If not, maybe you noticed the ensuing freak-out across Twitter and the rest of the Internet.

At first glance the flash outage was little more than an opportunity for a few good one-liners and a chance to actually stand up from the keyboard and walk around for a few minutes. If we had connected nanobots floating around in our bloodstreams, certainly they would have registered a worldwide uptick in caffeine intake during those few moments.

As it turns out though, Google's downtime did appear to have global, measurable repercussions according to analytics firm GoSquared, which estimates that it caused a 40 percent drop in global traffic during a five-minute window: Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews ...read more...

Apple's mid-2011 iMacs.

Apple has reportedly begun a new program to replace faulty graphics cards found in some mid-2011 to late-2012 iMacs.

The new replacement program, which was reported by 9to5Mac, affects systems with AMD Radeon HD 6970M video cards. Those were found in the 27-inch iMac models with either the 3.1 or 3.4GHz quad-core Intel i-series chips.

According to support language, the video cards could fail "causing the computer display to appear distorted, white or blue with vertical lines, or to turn black." Apple has listed 13 different possible serial number suffixes that are a part of that group, which are eligible for the replacement.

That iteration of iMac was sold between May 2011 to October 2012.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the program, which is not posted to its support site, though was reportedly sent to Apple Support employees on Friday.

Contrary to popular thinking, Google doesn't always get its way when it comes to all things Internet -- at least, not if the latest pronouncement from ICANN is any indication.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of a major overhaul of Internet addresses, ruled this week that it's passed a resolution prohibiting so-called dotless domain names, essentially putting the kibosh on Google's plans for a dotless "http://search" domain.

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Google outlined its interest in the dotless search domain in a letter it sent to the ICANN board in April. The idea behind a dotless domain is that a top-level domain name ...read more...

Researchers have once again pulled a fast one on Apple's app approval process, getting malware onto the App Store to prove it's still a possibility.

A group of researchers from Georgia Tech developed an app that masqueraded as a news reader that would phone home to reprogram itself into malware -- something that was apparently not picked up in Apple's security screening procedures, reports the MIT Technology Review.

Once configured remotely, the software was able to do things like send texts, e-mails, post Tweets, take pictures, dial phone numbers, and even reboot the system.

Apple only ran the app for a few seconds during its testing process, the researchers said. And once published to the App Store, the researchers quickly removed it after they were able to successfully install it on their phones.

The methodology and results of the test, which occurred in March, were published this week at the UNSENIX Security Symposium in Washington, D.C. ...read more...