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iPhone X front-camera options. Credit: AppleThe iPhone X also brings Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting to the front-facing camera.
Our Pick: iPhone X. With Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting on both the front- and rear-facing cameras, plus optical image stabilization in both rear lenses, the X takes iPhone camera tech to the next level.
Apple says the iPhone X "lasts up to two hours longer than iPhone 7" and that the iPhone 8 Plus "lasts about the same as iPhone 7 Plus." Basically, the X and 8 Plus advertise comparable battery life, with up to 21 hours of talk time and about 12 to 13 hours of internet use. In the Tom's Guide Battery Test (continuous web browsing over LTE), the iPhone 8 Plus lasted 11 hours and 16 minutes, which actually outperformed the 7 Plus by nearly 40 minutes.
We haven't tested the iPhone X yet, but if Apple's estimates are accurate, we expect the X to improve upon the iPhone 8 Plus' performance.
Both devices support wireless charging and are fast-charge capable, so you can juice up to 50 percent battery in just 30 minutes.
Our Pick: Draw. We'll update this when the iPhone X battery results are in.
Apple put its next-generation A11 Bionic processor in every iPhone it produced this year, including the X, 8 and 8 Plus.
iPhone X. Credit: Apple We haven't tested the X's performance yet, but the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus blew every Android flagship out of the water in our benchmarking tests, beating the next-fastest Android phone by 54 percent. We expect the X to be on par, because it has the same chip and (reportedly) the same amount of RAM as the iPhone 8 Plus.
Our Pick: Draw. We'll update this when the iPhone X benchmarking test results are in.
The iPhone X is expensive — prohibitively so for some. With a starting price of $999 for 64GB of storage, the new phone costs as much as an entry-level MacBook. The 256GB version is $1,149.
The 8 Plus is $200 cheaper, at $799 for the 64GB version. You can boost the storage to 256GB on the 8 Plus and still pay less ($949) than what an iPhone X costs. When it comes to value, there's no contest: The 8 Plus offers amazing battery life, a great camera and insane processing power for less money.
Our Pick: iPhone 8 Plus.
We still need to run a multitude of tests on the iPhone X, but it edges out the iPhone 8 Plus when it comes to design, display and camera quality. If you don't want to spend $1,000 on an iPhone, or if the thought of dealing with launch-day lines or a potentially glitchy online preorder process gives you hives, know that the iPhone 8 Plus is a premium device with all the features you could possibly want. It might look a little old-fashioned, but some people hate change.
The iPhone X is the early winner, but we'll update this piece with test results and impressions from our full review soon.
Neither buy Samsung. Why do you want to buy a phone so small your fingers hit 3 letters everytime you type? Sorry, maybe I am bias. An idiot and his money will soon separate buying Apple products. Your paying a premium for a brand.
When I read today that Apple get's their supply of Oled glass from Samsung (may be a backlog due to Samsung furnishing the glass for so many phones and breaking of the front or back Apple X is around $250.oo plus to replace glass if broken I think I will just buy the Note 8.
I have the iPhone 8 now and i'm probably not going to upgrade but the specs on the iPhone X are very cool.
Walmart offers the Backyard Grill 30" Charcoal Barrel Grill with Side Smoker for $79.99 with free shipping. That's $8 off and the lowest price we could find. It features a storage shelf.
Hardik Pandya shared a picture on Tuesday with his brother Krunal Pandya and his Mumbai Indians' teammate Kieron Pollard.
Kieron Pollard who is in India after participating in the India vs West Indies T20I series, was seen partying with the Pandya brothers in Mumbai, after a hard fought series.
Kieron Pollard has had a forgettable T20I tour of India with scores of 14 and 6, which puts his spot in the West Indies squad in doubt for the future.
Hardik Pandya has been out of action lately, after he injured his back during an ODI versus Pakistan in the Asia Cup earlier this year. The all-rounder however has been enjoying his time off the pitch with his new pet dog named Bentley.
Krunal Pandya is on a career high these days after debuting for India in the India-West Indies series. In his brother's absence, Krunal Pandya impressed with the bat and the ball, putting in useful performances in India's T20I series win.
Netflix (s NFLX) subscribers watched more than one billion hours of video in June, according to the company’s CEO Reed Hastings. That means that U.S. subscribers watched around 80 minutes of Netflix per day last month, which makes the service more popular than any traditional U.S. cable network, estimated BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield.
Greenfield took it upon himself to do a little back-of-the envelope math based on that number for a blog post Tuesday (registration required), and estimated that 90 percent of that viewing originated in the U.S. He also suggested that Netflix had around 24 million U.S. subscribers in June – we won’t know the exact number until the company releases its quarterly earnings later this month. Based on those numbers, Greenfield estimated that U.S. subscribers watched an average of 80 minutes of Netflix every day last month.
Netflix has long positioned itself as not a cable killer but a cable-like network, competing with HBO and Showtime as opposed to TV itself. Regardless of these semantics, the recent numbers show that Netflix is definitely starting to eat into cable networks’ market share.
Wait a second, there are a few people here who are questioning back of the envelope math or misleading reported numbers but we’re 100% okay with only 5,000 Nielsen boxes collecting data for the entire United States?
I have been watching a lot more TV episodes on Netflix. I really did not want to subscribe to Hulu so this gives me additional content.
One thing I notice is that many sites for shows also stream their own episodes (Portlandia) …although for limited times. Netflix seems to have a two year lag to get the latest episodes.
Numbers may be accurate, but headline is absolutely misleading. We see that a lot around here.
Really amazing! How true Netflix is the biggest TV network in the US now a day…? I will made some research on this. Am a bit interested.
really.. your not going to at least question those numbers?
Dave, Netflix is a publicly traded company. If Hastings were to lie about the usage of its service, he would very likely violate federal securities laws. I’m confident that Hastings had that number thoroughly vetted before he published it on his Facebook wall. As for Greenfield’s conclusions, I called it back-of-the envelope math for a reason.
I likely make up the crux of that 1 billion, as I am marathon speeding through the Stargate franchise.
Let’s see… So phony numbers + made-up “back of the envelope” math + desperate Reed Hastings hype = A gigaOm hanjie?
I am not sure how the numbers are tracked but I would like to see if there was a jump in average hours watched in June versus May. I noticed in June, Netflix introduced a new feature that automatically started playing the next episode of a series after the previous one had ended. That being said, I generally turn on Netflix more than cable because there are no commercials.
"Crazy Rich Asians" follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Wu) as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Golding), to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors. Being on Nick's arm puts a target on Rachel's back, with jealous socialites and, worse, Nick's own disapproving mother (Yeoh) taking aim. And it soon becomes clear that while money can't buy love, it can definitely complicate things.
Hope you're not afraid of heights.
In case you need more ~adventure~ in your life, Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in China officially opened a terrifying PLEXIGLASS BRIDGE to the public on Thursday, Sept. 24. Visitors can see exactly what's beneath their feet -- a very large, very deep canyon -- as they walk nearly 900 feet to the other side. Casual.
Check out the photos below and feel grateful for the solid ground beneath your feet right now.
One of my personal highlights of the year is Dragon Quest XI. I didn’t initially have it on my radar, but it won me over big time. The main reason for this is the game’s compelling narrative. On the surface, it’s the classic good-versus-evil tale we’ve seen/read a million times over. However, there’s a great deal of depth in the narrative that isn’t initially apparent. The story is brought to life thanks to the myriad of playable and non-playable characters which inhabit the land of Erdrea. This endearing tale is one of the reasons I consider the game a modern-day JRPG classic.
To learn more about Dragon Quest XI’s narrative, I submitted questions to the development team. This includes Game Designer Yuji Horii, Producer Hokuto Okamoto, Director Takeshi Uchikawa, and Executive Producer Yuu Miyake. Their answers give further insight into how the game’s narrative was crafted. We also learn how Dragon Quest XI was made with a global audience in mind and how the classic Dragon Quest experience was updated for the modern age.
Dragon Quest XI is the most technologically advanced game in the series so far. At the same time, it retains the elements which have made it successful over the decades. What challenges did the team face when designing a game that balances modern and classic RPG mechanics?
Yuji Horii: First, there is the fact that I’ve never considered the elements to be “classic.” Rather, we have always aimed to develop themes fitting for the current day and age, as well as continued to make advancements along with the hardware. So, I feel like Dragon Quest has been constantly evolving over the years.
Yuu Miyake: And, rather than something being classic or modern, we are always prioritizing how easily understandable and accessible a game is from the viewpoint of the player. So I don’t think we’ve ever assessed things based on this type of notion or perception to begin with.
Yuji Horii: We always aim to create a great experience to the best of our ability within the framework. Thus, in that sense, everything we set out to do was a challenge we had to face. I suppose, conversely, perhaps it was a challenge to have chosen to continue the tradition of command-based battles in this day and age — to use that as a basis while incorporating skills and various additional features to further elevate the enjoyment from battles.
Dragon Quest XI features a grand, epic narrative that is easy for players to understand. At the same time, it contains a great deal of depth. What specific challenges came with crafting such a tale? What did the team want players to take away from the story?
Yuji Horii: With regards to the story, this is something that is worked out through numerous discussions with the team. We work hard to create twists within the story that doesn’t just stop at a generic conclusion, but attempts to take things a step further. In that sense, I feel like we were able to depict the characters honestly and realistically, after contemplating a range of human complexities and emotions from kindness to sorrow.
Hokuto Okamoto: I do want to note that all the characters in DQXI have two sides. So I hope players delve into and imagine various aspects pertaining to the character, such as their background.
It’s clear Dragon Quest XI has a greater emphasis on characters and character development. Given how the protagonist is silent, was it difficult to make him feel as well-rounded as his companions? Where there ever any discussion about possibly letting the character speak (which would be a first for the series)?
Yuji Horii: Let’s see… This is something we have always been quite particular about. The protagonist in Dragon Quest is always meant to be the player, so there would be a disconnect between the character and the player if a character does or says something against the player’s will. That is something we want to avoid at all costs, so we make sure that the protagonist never speaks and never takes actions beyond the player’s control. In relation to that, we try to create the game in a way in which we have the surrounding characters assist to make the protagonist character to feel well rounded.
Takeshi Uchikawa: From the start, we never considered giving the main character some dialogue. As Horii-san explained just now, this thought had already existed, and so it had been decided at the very beginning of development that we would be protecting, or rather placing importance on that aspect. That said, many discussions took place with Horii-san as we contemplated how to develop scenes with action and movement within working in a more realistic environment, especially since we need to ensure that the protagonist doesn’t take any actions that are against the player’s will.
Yuji Horii: We really hammered out the details on how to create a sense of drama without making the protagonist speak over the 32 years we’ve been developing Dragon Quest.
Yuu Miyake: That is essentially the expertise and technique our team has accumulated over the years.
Takeshi Uchikawa: So really, this time, there were many additional points we needed to be careful about given the game itself was heading in a more realistic direction, and so we focused on tackling those inevitable challenges.
The game features a large roster of party members, each with their own specific personalities. Were the characters inspired by any particular people? What role do the party members play in the protagonist’s personal growth?
Yuji Horii: It always starts by thinking about the overall balance. When considering what type of party members to include, I think about characters that may fill certain roles. For example, the role of the middle-aged man, sisters or whatever else there may be. From there, I consider ways in which these characters will interact with the protagonist and work to build out a well-balanced party.
Takeshi Uchikawa: Rather than a specific person, I think there is definitely a part where we rely on Horii-san’s sensibilities, such as his sense of balance that he just described.
Yuji Horii: I also love Japanese TV dramas so there is a lot I take in from watching those. But, I don’t think it’s ever about a specific someone; rather, I feel there’s a part that’s cultivated from overall experiences.
Takeshi Uchikawa: In terms of the starting point, we leave it all up to Mr. Horii’s sensibilities when making those choices, and the development team believes in those decisions wholeheartedly, working to build out that vision. As for the role the party members play in the protagonist’s growth, the protagonist is essentially the player and something that the player actively controls. So, the party members essentially take a supporting role as they take part in the story to help showcase the protagonist’s growth.
Yuji Horii: I feel that all humans have something that they’re lacking or missing. Therefore, I think that these missing pieces are supplemented as the player travels with the party, and they can feel the growth of the protagonist.
All of the game’s cities feel distinct from one another. They also all have a story to tell. What went into giving every location its own identity? Did the real-world cities each locale is based on influence the kinds of stories told in each town?
Takeshi Uchikawa: We wanted players to get the same feeling as when they travel in the real world when exploring the various locations spread out the world of Dragon Quest XI. With that in mind, we outlined features and characteristics unique to each location in a document, and shared it among the development team to ensure the proper representation of each town’s identity. As for the story, there was an underlying humanistic aspect that we wanted to portray, so we did take in aspects from certain towns if we felt it necessary to achieve the feeling we wanted to depict. That said, I think it is safe to say the focus was more on creating that human drama when building out the story.
Dragon Quest XI is not a short game. Despite its length, it never feels like the story drags. How do you go about crafting an extensive tale that continues to keep players engaged for so many hours?
Yuji Horii: Looking at the way we’ve crafted the stories for Dragon Quest, players would generally visit a town and there would be some kind of occurrence at each town. They would then resolve the issue, moving onto the next town thereafter. The story has always been crafted in that fashion. In that sense, each episode isn’t too long as it is essentially tied to one location. Perhaps it doesn’t feel dragged out because we are essentially connecting numerous short episodes. When the player moves to a new location, they can then experience the story afresh.
Takeshi Uchikawa: Particularly with this title, we also received a general direction from Horii-san in that he wanted the story to develop like a roller coaster; in other words, he wanted to leave some elements that draw the player’s curiosity further so that they would continue forward. We really kept this in mind throughout the development, and as a result, I think contributed to generating the feel you mentioned in the question.
Yuji Horii: It’s like connecting all these small stories and placing a larger story on top of that.
Dragon Quest is very popular in Japan but hasn’t enjoyed the same level of success worldwide. Is this something the team thought about when developing Dragon Quest XI? What, if any, decisions were made to give the game worldwide appeal?
Hokuto Okamoto: When developing Dragon Quest XI, we made sure to keep the Western market in mind. First off, we wanted to incorporate features from Dragon Quest VIII, which we believed to be one of the more successful titles for the series in the West, such as including full English voice over and overhauling the user interface. We also included more Draconian Hard Mode options for players who want a challenge, and a dash function to make it easier to traverse through the world. We also added a PC release for Dragon Quest XI, as we understand there are a large number of PC users overseas.
Are there any final thoughts you wish to impart on our readers about Dragon Quest XI and its story?
Yuji Horii: You are the protagonist of your own life, and your struggles will always pay off, so keep it up and live your life to the fullest!
The overwhelming majority of dinosaur fossils are the remains of bones — it’s very rare for soft tissue to survive long enough to mineralize. It’s not impossible, though. In the past, paleontologists have found skin, muscle, and even blood vessels preserved in fossils. For the first time, they’ve found a dinosaur’s fossilized brain.
This unlikely discovery was made almost a decade ago, but only recently have scientists realized what they had. A man looking for fossil sin Sussex, England spotted an unusual rock several inches across. He realized it was a fossil of some sort. Examination by the Geological Society of London has revealed it to be brain tissue from an Iguanodon, a herbivore that lived around the start of the Cretaceous period some 133 million years ago.
None of the original biological material exists, having been completely replaced by minerals. However, many of the complex structures and surface details were preserved. This incredibly rare fossil likely exists because the Iguanodon died near a bog or swamp, which then enveloped the animal’s body. The acidic pH and low oxygen levels could have essentially pickled the brain while keeping bacteria at bay. That allowed the tissue to survive long enough to fossilize.
The Iguanodon is not believed to be a direct ancestor of today’s birds, but the study of the brain has shown some similarities to birds, as well as modern day reptiles. The structure of the brain itself looks very much like crocodiles, but the shape is bird-like. Most reptiles today have large sinuses in their skulls that are used for blood drainage, but the Iguanodon’s brain appears to have been much closer to the skull. Again, it’s more bird-like. That could indicate that dinosaurs had larger brains than we thought. They weren’t smart enough to deflect that asteroid, though.
Posted on August 25, 2016. Brought to you by localcom.
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Newswise — Philadelphia (August 22, 2016) – Today, the American Heart Association (AHA) released a scientific statement supporting a relationship of added dietary sugars to cardiovascular disease risk in children, and recommending that children consume no more than 25 grams (~6 teaspoons) of added sugars per day – about half the current consumption of American children over the age of four.
In an invited commentary published on the AHA website, Monell Center developmental psychobiologist Julie Mennella, PhD and pediatric cardiologist Samuel S. Gidding, MD, from Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children stress the need to better understand the biology of taste in children, who have a heightened proclivity for sweet taste, in order to successfully implement the AHA recommendation.
Mennella is available to discuss why children are especially vulnerable to sweet-tasting foods, as well as describe the huge knowledge gaps regarding effective ways to reduce added sugar consumption in children. Currently, there is no available evidence that demonstrates that children’s preference for sweet taste can be lowered.
She also can address how and why the use of non-nutritive sweeteners may teach children to expect and prefer sweet-tasting foods and beverages.
Mennella, http://www.monell.org/faculty/people/mennella, a world-renowned expert on pediatric taste, recently contributed a section on the development of taste and flavor preferences during early childhood for the World Health Organization Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Science and Evidence for Ending Childhood Obesity.
To arrange an interview, contact Monell Communications Director Leslie Stein at media@monell.org or 267-519-4707.
The Monell Chemical Senses Center is an independent nonprofit basic research institute based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For over 48 years, Monell has advanced scientific understanding of the mechanisms and functions of taste and smell to benefit human health and well-being. Using an interdisciplinary approach, scientists collaborate in the programmatic areas of sensation and perception; neuroscience and molecular biology; environmental and occupational health; nutrition and appetite; health and well-being; development, aging and regeneration; and chemical ecology and communication. For more information about Monell, visit www.monell.org.
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba posted a 54% increase in revenue for the third quarter of the financial year, bringing its total to $7.67B for the three months ending December 31, 2016.
It was a better-than-expected hike for Jack Ma’s company, which was driven largely by Single’s Day, China’s annual shopping event on November 11.
The company’s digital media and entertainment business in the quarter was up 273% to $585M year-on-year, driven largely by the consolidation of video website Youku Tudou and also an increase in revenue from mobile value-added services provided by UCWeb, such as mobile search, news feeds and game publishing. But this sector also was the biggest loss maker in the company: loses increased in the third-quarter to $463M (up from $156M in 2015).
Meanwhile, revenue from cloud computing increased 115% year-on-year to $254M while revenue from innovation initiatives was up 61% to $122M.
Net income for the company sat at $2.47B overall, or $1 per share, while income from operations was at $2.98B and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization was $3.892M. But according to a Thompson Reuters estimate, Wall Street expected Alibaba to report third-quarter earnings of around $1.13 per share.
Following the announcement, Alibaba shares were up 5.4% in pre-market trading on Tuesday.
Alibaba executive chairman Ma has made no secret of his ambitions to link up with Hollywood. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, Ma said the company was keen to partner with U.S. entertainment companies. In December, the company said it planned to invest more than $7.2B into content across the next three years while in October Alibaba took a minority equity stake in Steven Speilberg’s Amblin Partners in a bid to co-produce films for global and Chinese audiences.
Last week in Davos, the company also announced that it had linked up with the International Olympic Committee to become IOC’s Worldwide Olympic partner until 2028, offering official cloud services and e-commerce platforms.
Ma was also one of the first foreign figures to meet with President Donald Trump before he was sworn into office. Last week, the duo met at Trump Tower in New York to discuss agriculture in the Midwest and an idea to create 1M new small-business jobs in the next ten years.
Zoiks! Online - The Very Best in Stand-Up And Music!: Album Review: ‘The Best of (Hed) p.e.’ - Hide the Women, Let the Children Listen, and Kill the Man.
Album Review: ‘The Best of (Hed) p.e.’ - Hide the Women, Let the Children Listen, and Kill the Man.
The mercurial boys (Hed) p.e are back with a new mix of old jams with tunes dating from their 2006 album Back 2 Base X and beyond, sprinkling pure hip-hop odes to the lady V to animosity fueled political fits with screeching riffs.
(Hed) p.e (standing for Higher Education Planet Earth) are the pioneers of 'G-Punk,' a rap inspired punk subculture coming out of Huntington, California. Tipping his hat to Rage Against the Machine and Suicidal Tendencies, lead singer Jared Gomes, or MC Underdog, started the band in 1994 with former guitarist Wes Geer. Member switches landing on a comfortable 6 members, they're a genre fluid force to be reckoned with. Although they often perform in juggalo hinted make-up, these guys are really just political stoners with angry minds and open hearts.
This compilation titled The Best of (Hed) p.e released by Suburban Noize has concocted a cultural conglomeration of something groovy and brutally honest. It begins with a wall of thrashy noise metal with tunes like "Truth Rising" and "Renegade" then proceeds to a Strange Music-esque rap diddies with "Put 'Em Up" and "Comeovanite." Amidst the expected and vaguely predictable heavy songs comes "Sophia," a punky-reggae party song.
The album closes with a clever sampling of "What it's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield on "Children" and ends hard and fast with, yes, "It's All Over," where Jared Gomes decides to take vocal cues from A7X.

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