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Netflix to stream original anime by ‘Attack on Titan’ producer

Netflix is preparing to release its new, 12-part original anime series Perfect Bones. It’s not the streaming service’s first original anime, but it’s the first time the company is launching a whole series in 190 countries simultaneously. Netflix’s first “original” title, Knights of Sidonia, can be more appropriately described as an exclusive, since it already aired in Japan before it arrived on the platform. This one will completely bypass Japanese TV. Netflix VP Erik Barmack said in a statement: In an era where the Internet knows no bounds, we are proud to deliver high quality original Anime to fans all over the world, at the exact same time , no matter where they live whether it be Japan, France, Mexico, the US, and beyond. Perfect Bones is directed by Kazuto Nakazawa (who also did Kill Bill 1’s animated sequence) for Production I.G. That’s the famed anime studio behind several popular titles, including Attack on Titan and Psycho Pass , as well as sci-fi classic Ghost in the Shell . In the world of Perfect Bones, geneticists are on a quest to create the “perfect human” to maintain universal peace. Unfortunately, their research subjects are kidnapped by an evil organization that plan to use them to achieve a “new world order.” Netflix didn’t say when the series will be available, so keep a close eye on the app or website to catch it as soon it’s up. Source: Netflix

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Your Next Phone Might Have 256GB of Storage Thanks to Samsung’s New Chip

I love high capacity things. So when Samsung announced it’s producing 256 GB flash storage that can be used in mobile devices, I swooned. The memory is two times faster than the previous generation of Universal Flash Storage (UFS) memory, meaning that phones will not only have greater storage capacities, but also breeze reading and writing operations. Read more…

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Report: Major Apple Manufacturer Foxconn Has Bought Sharp For $6.2 Billion

Foxconn is best known as the sometimes-controversial Taiwanese manufacturer used by Apple to assemble iPhones. Sharp is an ailing Japanese company that used to make plasma TVs, and now makes iPhone displays. Read more…

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Player Discovers Secret Menus In Mortal Kombat Games After Over 20 Years

Through a series of button inputs, a player has found previously undiscovered menus that lay dormant in the arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 1 , 2 and 3. How did they last so long without being discovered? Read more…

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MIT mapped where Boston’s biggest energy hogs reside

Boston might be best known for the longstanding baseball rivalry between its Red Sox and the New York Yankees, but maybe the nerdier folks among us will think of it beyond Fallout 4 and PAX East now. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a model for estimating gas and electricity demand for every building in the city. Some 100, 000 edifices are included and the model is even being used to aid in making decisions regarding energy policy, according to PhysOrg . The idea here is to use the model as a way of making Beantown more energy efficient across the board. “Every city has long-term goals, but nobody knows exactly how to plan for and measure them, ” MIT’s Carlos Cerezo says. “With this model, the city has a map to help them target and reach those goals.” One example of that is looking a building that’s consuming lots of energy (and thus giving off a sizable amount of heat waste) and positioning others around it that’d use the otherwise wasted heat, Cerezo says. Another is developing autonomous power grids, “microgrids, ” that can withstand extreme weather conditions on their own if disconnected from the larger power network. Once a city can see how energy ebbs and flows via the big data , this sort of stuff should become easier. “Nobody has ever modeled a city the size of Boston at this level of detail, ” Christoph Reinhart, also of MIT, says. But the above model’s projections need to be validated against hard, real-world data before the team can reach its ultimate goal of energy-use models for every city on the globe. Source: PhysOrg

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How to Choose Your Next Android Phone: 2016 Edition

Mobile World Congress , the biggest smartphone trade show of the year, is this week, and companies like Samsung and LG are there showing off the hot new handsets they want you to buy. All of this gives us a glimpse into how Android phones will evolve in 2016, and what you should look for before you go shopping for your next smartphone. Read more…

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Google is shutting down its car insurance comparison service

Google is sending one of its lesser-known tools called Compare to the slaughterhouse. We don’t blame you if you’ve never heard of it before — in the email sent to the service’s partners and posted by Search Engine Land , the big G said it “hasn’t driven the success [Google] hoped for.” Compare gives you a way to view several offers from car insurance, mortgage lending and credit card companies in the US and the UK. You only have to type in some info, such as your car’s make and model, to make it work. It’s still up and running if you want to try it out , but don’t expect too much. The tech giant has initiated the shutdown process today, and it will be completely offline by March 23rd. One of the difficulties Google encountered, according to The Wall Street Journal , is that auto insurance typically requires state-by-state approval. The publication also noted that Google failed to convince some big insurers and lenders to be part of Compare, leading to limited choices and people seeking answers elsewhere. Google didn’t reveal whether it plans to pursue the niche again in the future — Compare itself is the new version of Google Advisor — and only said that it’s focusing on AdWords for now. Here’s the full email to partners posted by Search Engine Land : Dear Partner, Beginning on February 23, 2016, we will start ramping down the Google Compare product, which is currently live in both the US and UK. We plan to terminate the service as of March 23, 2016. As you know, Google Compare (formerly Google Advisor in the U.S.) has been a specialized, standalone service that enables consumers to get quotes from a number of providers for financial products such as car and travel insurance, credit cards and mortgages. Despite people turning to Google for financial services information, the Google Compare service itself hasn’t driven the success we hoped for. We greatly appreciate your partnership and understand that this decision will be disappointing to some. But after a lot of careful consideration, we’ve decided that focusing more intently on AdWords and future innovations will enable us to provide fresh, comprehensive answers to Google users, and to provide our financial services partners with the best return on investment. We’re grateful for all the feedback that you have provided over the course of this product’s development, and we are looking forward to partnering with you to achieve greater success in the future. We will work with you during this transition and beyond. Please reach out to your Google representative if you have any questions and to discuss the next steps. The Google Compare Team Via: The Wall Street Journal Source: Search Engine Land

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Encrypted Messaging App Telegram Hits 100m Monthly Active Users, 350k New Users Each Day

 That didn’t take long. Telegram launched just two and a half years ago and is today announcing at Mobile World Congress 2016 that it has 100, 000, 000 monthly active users. Shortly after launching, the messaging app claimed it had 100, 000 users communicating on its encrypted platform. In December 2014 there was 50 million active users, who were generating 1 billion messages daily. Now, … Read More

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Telstra To Roll Out 1000Mbps 4G

An anonymous reader writes: After beginning support for LTE Category 9 last year on their 4Gx network (with it’s theoretical max download speed of 450Mbps), Telstra has now announced that they will upgrade their network to support LTE category 16. In theory, this means that if a customer has the correct equipment in the correct location, they will be able to have a maximum theoretical download speed of 1000Mbps, and a maximum theoretical upload speed of 150Mbps. Of course, it’s unlikely that customers will be able to sustain these speeds, but Telstra lists on their website that 4GX devices currently have a typical download speed of 2 to 75Mbps on 4GX. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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