‘THE WICKED + THE DIVINE’ #2 VARIANT COVER GAZES A GAZELY STARE
By Andy Khouri
Because you’re young you may not realize the latest Wicked + Divine variant cover is a particularly cheeky reference to a 1976 mugshot of David Bowie, himself a major inspiration on the Kieron Gillen/Jamie McKelvie series about ancient gods reincarnated as glamorous pop stars. But hang on to yourself; the only way to get ahold of this conversation piece is to buy it from Beach Ball and Corner Store Comics in California.
Ragged and naive, Bowie was arrested at the Rochester hotel in upstate New York on charges of felony marijuana possession. Fortunately Bowie was not dragged from police station to station, and his stay lasted only a few “…hours” before being released into the heat of the morning — but not before the Thin White Duke was able to create a little wonder in the form of what’s doubtlessly the prettiest star mugshot ever captured.
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Apology to David Bowie re Chris Hadfield’s performance of Space Oddity | Ottawa Citizen
On May 16, 2014, The Ottawa Citizen published a prominent commentary piece written by Blayne Haggart on our op-ed page that David Bowie was responsible for the removal from YouTube of astronaut Chris Hadfield’s video version of “Space Oddity” which was viewed over 22 million times.
The commentary erroneously claimed that Mr. Bowie refused to renew a one-year licence previously granted to Commander Hadfield, ultimately forcing the video to be removed from worldwide distribution.
That was incorrect. Subsequent to running this piece, we were informed by Mr. Bowie of the following facts: In April of 2013, while Commander Hadfield was still in space, his people contacted Mr. Bowie to seek permission to make the video.
They were informed that while Mr. Bowie would give his full support to the use of the song by Commander Hadfield, Space Oddity was the only one of more than 300 songs he has written and recorded for which he did not own or control the copyright. Mr. Bowie offered to have his people call the publisher and convey his strong support, but he had no ability to personally dictate any of the terms of the licence or even require the publishers to issue one.
Immediately thereafter, Mr. Bowie made contact with the publisher of the composition expressing his wish that they allow Commander Hadfield the right to record and synchronize his recording to the video he was proposing to make. Mr. Bowie strongly suggested that the licence be immediately issued at no charge and that the creation of this video had his enthusiastic support.
One year later, the Citizen erroneously published that Mr. Bowie had granted the original licence but failed to renew the licence after one year. The commentary published by the Citizen also erroneously implied that Mr. Bowie was the reason the video had to be removed from YouTube and questioned how his actions could have “made the world a better place.” The article caused an immediate reaction by thousands of fans worldwide, and this incorrect information was picked up by hundreds of other news sources around the world.
On behalf of Blayne Haggart and ourselves, we regret the error and we sincerely apologize to Mr. Bowie as well as all his fans around the world.
Hugh Jackman makes a swashbuckling appearance at Wimbledon thanks to Blackbeard role | Mail Online
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He’s normally the picture of Hollywood hotness, but Hugh Jackman looked rather dastardly on Tuesday.
The Australian actor took his seat in the Royal Box of Centre Court at Wimbledon, where he looked like he might plunder the other VIP guests.
That was thanks to the vintage goatee and shaved head he has to wear for his role as Blackbeard in the upcoming Peter Pan movie.
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Strong look: Hugh Jackman looked a far cry from his hunky self in the Royal Box on Tuesday
The live-action fantasy based on J. M. Barrie’s classic children’s tale is directed by Joe Wright, and is currently being filmed in London.
The legendary story centres on an orphan boy who is spirited away to the magical Neverland, where he finds both fun and dangers, and ultimately discovers his destiny.
Though Blackbeard doesn’t appear in the Disney animation, Wright’s version of the story is actually a prequel to Barrie’s novel, with Jackman’s character the central villain.
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Dastardly: Hugh had his hair and facial hair altered for his role as Blackbeard in the upcoming Peter Pan movie
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All smiles: Hugh leads the rest of the guests into a false sense of security before he readies to plunder the Royal Box
Captain Hook does appear, with Garrett Hedlund in the role, but rather than being Pan’s arch-nemesis they are actually allies as the one-handed pirate works on Blackbeard’s ship.
Amanda Seyfried and Rooney Mara have been cast as Mary and Tiger Lily, while Cara Delevingne has secured a part though it has not been revealed as of yet.
Hugh managed to get a day off from filming to watch the matches on Centre Court on Day Two of Wimbledon.
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Not so fast Blackbeard: An army officer keeps an eye on the pirate on Centre Court
Savine Lisicki defeat Julia Glushko in two sets but Hugh was there to see the first match of Rafael Nadal against Martin Klizan.
The final game would be an the highly anticipated first game of Serena Williams who takes on fellow American Anna Tatishvili.
Pan is set for release on July 17, 2015
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Charming his way out of trouble: The actor flashes a grin though he's surely got a dastardly plan under his sleeve
EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway - Fedblog - News - GovExec.com
Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently.
Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent most of his time on the clock looking at pornography.
It appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new low: Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.
In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an individual placing feces in the hallway” outside the restroom.
Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and the individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions.
“Management is taking this situation very seriously and will take whatever actions are necessary to identify and prosecute these individuals,” Cantor wrote. He asked for any employees with knowledge of the poop bandit or bandits to notify their supervisor.
EPA spokesman Richard Mylott provided the following statement:
“EPA cannot comment on ongoing personnel matters. EPA’s actions in response to recent workplace issues have been deliberate and have focused on ensuring a safe work environment for our employees. Our brief consultation with Dr. Nicoletti on this matter, a resource who regularly provides our office with training and expertise on workplace issues, reflects our commitment to securing a safe workplace.”
The Gin Renaissance in America: Who, When, Where, and Why
This post is sponsored by Anchor Distilling, makers of Junipero gin and Genevieve genever-style gin.
Gin History, In General
Dutch genever and English Old Tom gin predate the London Dry style of gin that dominates today. Much credit for the popularity of gin in England is given to William of Orange, who was the king of Holland and then England (making the British people familiar with genever) and who imposed tariffs/bans on products from Catholic France, including cognac (forcing folks to drink local).
In England Old Tom and then London dry styles of gin proliferated and the era known as the Gin Craze in the mid-1700s was an epidemic of over-consumption. Over a 100-year period during and after the Gin Craze, most of the older London Dry brands, including Bombay, Gordon's, and Tanqueray launched.
In America, many early gin cocktails were made with genever. As David Wondrich points out in Imbibe, until the 1890s there wasn't much London dry style gin in the US at all.
During US Prohibition, "gin" was often raw spirits adulterated with juniper oil and other flavorings like turpentine. After Prohibition and into the Martini-filled Mad Men era, gin ruled the day, but in 1967 vodka outsold gin for the first time and has remained on top ever since.
Today, there are hundreds of new gin brands created internationally and at the 600+ new microdistilleries in the US. The mixology and craft distilling renaissances have combined to make gin a very exciting category over the last two decades. So many new gin brands are launching that it's nearly impossible to keep up.
Recent History and the US Gin Launch Timeline
In looking at the US Gin Launch Timeline (the launch dates of about 75 gin brands to the US market), we can make a little more sense of the American gin renaissance. Much credit must be given to the big brands who promoted a lighter, less juniper-forward style of gin and marketed the heck out of it to steal back some market share from vodka drinkers. This includes Bombay Sapphire in 1987, Plymouth's relaunch in 1998, and Tanqueray No TEN in 2000, among others.
Overlapping somewhat with these launches were the new "fun" brands Hendrick's and Martin Miller's, each with new and interesting botanicals. Hendrick's came to the US in 2000 and Martin Miller's regular and Westbourne (navy) Strength in 2003.
These brands all came out of the UK, however. In the 1990s, the US the micro-distilling movement was in its infancy. California distilleries St. George Spirits and Germain-Robin both opened in 1982 and Charbay in 1983, and all focused mainly on fruit brandies at the time.
San Francisco's Anchor Distilling was founded in 1993 and launched its first product, a single-malt rye whiskey, in the beginning of 1996.
Back to the gin. In 1996, both Anchor Distilling's Junipero and Bendistillery's Cascade Mountain (later changed to Crater Lake) Gin both launched. Junipero was bold: nearly 50% alcohol by volume and bursting with juniper. Cascade Mountain (47.5% ABV) is an infusion of juniper berries (with no other botanicals) in neutral alcohol, post-distillation- a different beast entirely.
Idaho's Bardenay launched in 2000, and Hampton's and Leopold Bros. in 2001. According the Wayne Curtis in The Atlantic, "There were about 70 small distilleries across the United States in 2003; today there are more than 600."
A few brands launched each year after that, and then in 2006-2007 things really picked up steam with half-dozen or so launching in each of those years. The pace of new gin launches has only increased since then, probably exponentially.
Old Tom and Genever
When David Wondrich's book Imbibe came out in 2007, he mentioned that sometimes you could find a few genever imports but one might have to make due with a mix of Irish whiskey, London dry gin, and simple syrup. Luckily that era didn't last too much longer. The small jonge-genever style import Zuidam was available in some markets, Anchor Distilling's Genevieve was released in 2007, and Bols Genever made a slow but successful entry into the category in 2008.
For Old Tom gin, there hasn't been very much on the market - I assume bartenders prefer the crisper London-dry style even in drinks that once called for Old Tom, but the lightly-sweetened Hayman's was imported in 2007 and the lightly-aged Ransom came along in 2009. In 2014, Tanqueray released a new Old Tom onto the market.
In my next post, I'll get into the specifics of how they created Junipero and Genevieve at Anchor Distilling.
Will Larry Page's Google be friendly, totalitarian, or both?
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At Google I/O, the company announced even more components of what could pretty well turn into Skynet. At The New York Times, Farhad Manjoo more soberly ties the protests that interrupted the I/O keynote to fear over Google co-founder Larry Page's perhaps tone-deaf push for "context awareness," the ultimate goal of a system that can connect cars, watches, phones, payment systems, and more. Google's unified health care could help save lives. It could also be completely totalitarian. "Is Google, in its globe-spanning reach, trying to do so much that it risks becoming creepy instead of helpful — the assistant who got too powerful and knows too much?" Manjoo asks.
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Unlocking your phone still illegal while carriers meet “voluntary” rules
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A bill slowly working its way through Congress would once again make it legal for consumers to unlock their cellular phones so that they can be used on other carriers' networks.
While lawmakers dither, a "voluntary" agreement the carriers signed under pressure from the Federal Communications Commission is paying off for some customers, but not all.
The guarantee signed in December should force the carriers to unlock phones, albeit only when a consumer has paid off his or her contract, and in many cases not until early next year.
MP Says 'Failed' Piracy Warnings Should Escalate To Fines & Jail
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Running WordPress? Got webshot enabled? Turn it off or you’re toast
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A zero-day vulnerability in the popular TimThumb plugin for WordPress leaves many websites vulnerable to exploits that allow unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code, security researchers have warned.
The vulnerability, which was disclosed Tuesday on the Full Disclosure mailing list, affects WordPress sites that have TimThumb installed with the webshot option enabled. Fortunately, it is disabled by default, and sites that are hosted on WordPress.com are also not susceptible. Still, at press time, there was no patch for the remote-code execution hole. People who are unsure if their WordPress-enabled site is vulnerable should open the timthumb file inside their theme or plugin directory, search for the text string "WEBSHOT_ENABLED," and ensure that it's set to false.
When "WEBSHOT_ENABLED" is set to true, attackers can create or delete files and execute a variety of other commands, Daniel Cid, CTO of security firm Sucuri, warned in a blog post published Thursday. He said uploading a file to a vulnerable site was possible using URLs such as the following, where a.txt was the file being created:
With Android One, Google is poised to own the entire world
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In the developed world, smartphones are ubiquitous. They’re so common, many device makers have given up on selling non-smartphones entirely. But that’s not the case in the developing world, where consumers are still in transition. This market opportunity has often been referred to as "the next billion," and many companies have made it their priority to focus on it. Research firm IDC reports that in India, smartphone sales have exploded 186 percent in growth in just the last year, with 78 percent of sales coming from devices priced below $200.
Nokia has made the next billion a big part of its business for years, first with the Asha line of phones, and now with its Android-powered Nokia X series. Nokia’s new parent, Microsoft, has also pushed its Windows Phone platform even lower in price in order to capture the rapid growth of emerging markets. Mozilla is doing the same with its Firefox OS platform.
Android has been popular in emerging markets for a long time, but Google first expressed explicit interest in this market when it launched Android 4.4 KitKat last year. It was designed specifically so it would run well on the lower-cost hardware that usually finds its way to emerging markets. At its launch last fall, Google's senior vice president, Sundar Pichai, said: "As we get on our journey to reach the next billion people, we want to do it on the latest version of Android." And now, with Android One, Google’s showing that Pichai’s vision has legs.
Android One ensures a uniformly decent experience on low-end devices
Android One is a reference platform — it’s a set of rules that device makers can follow to make low-cost phones. It makes it easier for manufacturers to develop and produce devices, because Google is doing all of the hard work figuring out materials costs. For Google, it ensures that even low-end devices can run its software and run it well, providing everyone with a uniformly decent experience. Where KitKat was Google’s effort to address the software issues on low-end devices, Android One is now doing the same for hardware. The company calls it a "a comprehensive solution to address the mobile computing needs of those in emerging markets."
The first Android One devices will be produced by Indian manufacturers this fall. An example device that Google demonstrated this week featured a 4.5-inch display, support for two SIM cards at once (an important feature for many in developing markets), an SD card slot, and an FM radio. Critically, it is said to cost less than $100 to make, far less than the cost of most smartphones sold in the developed world. That means the Android One handsets will likely retail for less than $200 unlocked, competitive with other devices in their target markets.
Google isn’t just controlling the hardware with Android One, either — it’s also making sure the devices run the latest versions of Android and aren’t encumbered by unnecessary software additions, which could endanger whatever performance advantage KitKat had given them. Android One phones will run stock Android, get automatic updates, and access Google’s Play Store for apps and media content.
Controlling hardware and software experiences on Android devices is a big shift for Google
For Google, a hardware reference platform and far-reaching software rules represent a big shift from how it’s handled Android in the past. The company’s Nexus program has provided developers with fast updates and a "pure" Android experience, but those devices have never been marketed broadly to consumers. The Google Play Edition program has offered stock software with more hardware choice, but so far, most GPE phones have been expensive. In order to make a low-end phone work as well as a high-end one, Google’s finding that it has to turn the screws a little harder than it would for a big, fast Samsung or HTC.
Although KitKat may be starting to have an impact, low-end Android phones in developing markets are still often a mess. Many run outdated versions of Android and don’t have access to the full suite of services and apps in Google’s Play Store. According to IDC, the top-selling phones in India are Samsung’s Galaxy Star Pro and Galaxy S Duos 2, which have small, low-resolution displays and run versions of Android that are at least two generations old. India’s other market leaders, Micromax and Karbonn, count low-end devices as their top sellers as well. Unsurprisingly, both of those companies have been tapped for the Android One program.
Motorola proved that user experience on a low-end device matters
Motorola is an early example of how important a good user experience is to the low end of the market: its stripped-down, low-cost Moto G and Moto E smartphones run stock versions of the latest Android builds and provide a user experience not seen before at this price level. They were quick successes, rapidly outpacing the meager sales of Motorola’s higher-end Moto X and becoming the most popular smartphones the company has ever produced.
Nokia’s, Microsoft’s, and Mozilla’s biggest challenges in developing markets have been beating the onslaught of cheap Android phones from Asian manufacturers. In the case of Nokia and Microsoft, they could point to the much better and much more cohesive user experience that their devices provided. But with Android One, that advantage likely won’t last — provided Google is committed to ensuring the experience stays consistent.
Google’s already winning the market-share wars in both developed and developing countries. With Android One, it’s poised to keep its lead and take the lion’s share of the next billion, too.
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America's drone program could lead to longer and more frequent wars, report says
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A panel composed of former military officials, legal advisors, and others believes that America's drone strike program could be creating a more unstable, violent world. In a report released today, a group of former military and government officials said that relatively low-risk, increasingly common missile strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) "risks increasing instability and escalating conflicts," as other countries emulate America's strategy of targeting suspected terrorists even outside official war zones. While it said UAVs should be "neither demonized nor glorified," it urged the Obama administration to consider the effect they were having on warfare, including a potential slippery slope as other countries consider their own drone programs.
'Neither demonized nor glorified'
After President Barack Obama promised to weigh changes to the program, global security think tank Stimson created a 10-person panel to suggest reforms. Members included Bush-era National Security Counsel and State Department advisor John Bellinger III, former CIA Counterterrorism Center deputy director Philip Mudd, and former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith. It was co-chaired by retired general and former US Central Command head John Abizaid and by Rosa Brooks, a former counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and a professor at Georgetown University's law school. Members met periodically over the course of a year and focused on near-term counterterrorism strikes, rather than future autonomous warfare or drone issues as a whole.
The resulting report raises many of the same issues that critics of drone strikes have had for years, and some of which aren't unique to drones. Most targeted strikes kill only people the US has identified as terrorists, but there have still been unambiguous civilian casualties. Even on the most utilitarian level, this can create blowback for the United States. And anything that the US does, other countries with UAVs are likely to mimic — including a disregard for national boundaries as strikes have extended from clearly acknowledged battlefields into Yemen and Pakistan. The program has been operated under extreme secrecy; the White House refused to acknowledge its existence for years, and even more recently, little information has been released.
A PlayStation mentality?
There are also, however, benefits and dangers specific to unmanned planes themselves. The report, interestingly, refuted what the ACLU has called the "PlayStation mentality," the idea that remote operation makes killing easy. "UAVs permit killing from a safe distance — but so do cruise missiles and snipers' guns," they wrote. "Ironically, the men and women who remotely operate lethal UAVs have a far more 'up close and personal' view of the damage they inflict than the pilots of manned aircraft." They cited a 2011 study in which nearly half of drone operators reported high levels of stress, a finding that was backed up in 2013 by the Department of Defense. The report's claim that this is because they "watch their targets for weeks or even months ... before one day watching on-screen as they are obliterated," though, may not be totally accurate. The 2011 study's authors attributed the stress levels to long hours as drone use steadily increased; they were surprised to find that relatively little stress was a result of watching targets.
Soldiers may not find killing with drones easy, but strategists do
It also agreed with President Obama's claim that drones, compared to traditional aircraft, actually minimize civilian casualties. "Equipped with imaging technologies that enable operators, who may be thousands of miles away, to see details as fine as individual faces, modern UAV technologies allow their operators to distinguish between civilians and combatants far more effectively than most other weapons systems," it says. "The frequency and number of civilian casualties resulting from US drone strikes also appear to have dropped sharply in recent years, as UAV technologies have improved and targeting rules have been tightened."
But even if operators themselves take the process seriously and technology improves, unmanned vehicles still let the military expand the scope of war. "The increasing use of lethal UAVs may create a slippery slope leading to continual or wider wars," the report says. Elsewhere, it writes that "the availability of weaponized UAVs almost surely has led US decision-makers to adopt counterterrorism tactics that probably would have been deemed too risky or politically unacceptable had UAVs not been an option." Estimated strikes increased dramatically in the early years of Obama's presidency, and other countries could follow suit. Drones "create an escalation risk insofar as they may lower the bar to enter a conflict, without increasing the likelihood of a satisfactory outcome."
Straightening a slippery slope
Armed drones have become a more and more integral part of the war on al-Qaeda, but the report says that little has been done to examine their use. "To the best of our knowledge... the US executive branch has yet to engage in a serious cost-benefit analysis of targeted UAV strikes as a routine counterterrorism tool," it wrote. In addition to carrying out such a study, it decried a culture of secrecy and a lack of oversight. "We do not believe it is consistent with American values for the United States to carry on a broad, multi-year program of targeted strikes in which the United States has acknowledged only the deaths of four US citizens, despite clear evidence that several thousand others have also been killed," it wrote.
The secrecy of targeted strikes is not 'consistent with America's values'
Among other things, the President should appoint an independent commission similar to the one that exists for surveillance oversight. While the commission would not review strikes beforehand, it would examine them after the fact, looking for mistakes or illegal strikes. It would also be tasked with fixing the perception of America's drone program, creating a way compensate civilians for deaths or damages and ensuring that strikes do not "create more enemies than we take off the battlefield," a quote from Obama. Like the Council on Foreign Relations and others, it also recommends shifting control of the targeted killing program towards the military, rather than the CIA.
More generally, the board calls for the US to work with allies to develop "appropriate international norms" for drone strikes, to evaluate and prepare for likely technological developments, and to tighten export controls on UAVs. It's hoping to find a way to prevent other countries from repeating America's missteps — and, on a more pragmatic level, stop them from attacking the US.
Obama and Congress have already attempted to reform the drone program to some extent. The Senate approved an intelligence provision that would have forced the White House to disclose how many people a year were killed in strikes, then removed it after Director of National Intelligence James Clapper claimed it could undermine national security. The House proposed a similar bill, the Targeted Lethal Force Transparency Act, in April. But as with the attempts to reform surveillance, these efforts have been criticized as coming up short.
Google's insane all-seeing Project Tango tablet is coming to consumers next year
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The day after Google gave its developers a vision for the immediate future, Regina Dugan and the ATAP team — "a small band of pirates trying to do cool shit," as she calls them — have taken the stage to talk about a few slightly more ambitious things. One is Project Tango, the tablets and smartphones equipped with incredible cameras that allow them to see the world in 3D. We've seen it before in prototype form, but the team announced on Thursday that next year, it's partnering with LG to build a consumer tablet that will go on sale next year.
The announcement came after a handful of demos that make clear how much potential Project Tango really has. "Imagine if the directions to your destination didn’t stop at the front door, but to tell you exactly where to go and what to do," project lead Johnny Lee told the audience. "The compute is here. The compute is genuinely here to do amazing things with our devices. What’s missing is the hardware and the software." He showed demos of mapping his house, playing a virtual-reality game that required him to squat with his tablet to chat with a very short wizard, and more. The whole story of Project Tango is the possibilities that arise when you've mapped the world around you, and what can happen when you're mapping it in real time.
Project Tango is, for the moment, still just a project. There's no detail on timing, specs, price, or anything for the upcoming LG tablet. But the ATAP model is to both invent and ship, and soon enough Project Tango will be real.
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Google turns on its crazy modular phone in public for the first time
Speaking today at Google I/O, the technical lead for Project Ara, Paul Eremenko, showed off the progress his team has made since we saw the very early first prototypes this past April. He showed off the functional, form-factor prototype. For the first time publicly, we saw a modular Ara phone power on. It took its sweet time, but after several rounds of support from the audience, it booted. And froze. But over the course of the session, the team kept at it to get it past the boot screen (though to no avail). So not the most successful demonstration, but enough to show progress.
Eremenko also announced a challenge for developers. A $100,000 prize for a working module that lets a phone do something that a phone has never done before, along with a trip to Ara's next developer conference.
Eremenko also took on the critics of Project Ara who say that it's not possible to make a modular phone that people actually want. "We started by turning statements like 'it's impossible' into numbers," he said. By quantifying the exact things that would make it difficult, his team was able to better tackle the problem. The technical problems are many, and the Ara group is investigating new ways to solve them. One of them are "novel" ways to handle the data transfer from the modules to the body, using capacitive interconnects and other new connectors. He also noted that Android will need "changes" to support modularity, and that it will be a "stress test" of the operating system to see if it's flexible enough to allow it.
Eremenko also imagined possible modules, like a key fob for you car, an expensive camera that different people would be able to share with each other, and night-vision modules. Ara is also investigating new battery technology that's much more powerful (though with a shorter overall lifecycle) than standard batteries. We also saw potential new module shells, which give the phones their designs. They're made with a 3D printer that prints at 50 times the speed of a normal 3D printer.
"Guys, this will be hard, but we're going to do it together," Eremenko said. A developer preview device should be available in the fall.
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Make a Glowing Playing Card Just Like Gambit’s
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If you’re going to dress like Gambit from the X-Men, you may as well put in the extra effort to replicate his signature cards. Instructables user yota came up with a design to mimic the glowing cards using plexiglas, red LED, 3v lithium battery, 100 ohm resistor, wire, a momentary switch, and hot glue. She sketched the card design onto cardstock and incorporated the X-Men logo and referenced Xavier’s school but mentions you could also just cut up old playing cards – you’ll need two of them. Solder together the electrical parts and cut the plexiglas to the shape of the card:
Cut your plexiglas. It’s a pain in the butt to do, but you can use either a jewelry saw (slow!) or a dremel tool (inaccurate!). I used a dremel, because I’m impatient. Plus, you’ll need one for etching in those grooves for your wires and drilling any holes. When cutting, if you can’t be completely accurate, better to have the piece be a bit too big than it be smaller than your cardstock cards.
Adding the wires to the plexiglas:
Stick the wires in the grooves and keep them there with hot glue. Then go over the whole bloody thing with a thing layer of hot glue to diffuse the LED, but don’t go over the area of the spade design (you’ll ruin it!).
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Como Fazer uma Horta Hidropônica
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Councilors vote to put middle-school kids on the T
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