This year, the app that everyone was talking about at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival wasn’t something that debuted at the event. The platform didn’t throw a massive party, or even have an official presence. Still, for some reason, everyone couldn’t stop talking about Snapchat. “With SXSW you have people who tend to experiment with technology and a place where people are running around having unique experiences,” said Josh Rickel, vice president of media and entertainment for social media marketing platform Spredfast. “Snapchat is perfectly designed to share these ephemeral moments.” Everything you wanted to know aboutSnapchat… There’s no…
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This image shows the effect of an FDA-approved drug that restored hair growth in a research subject with alopecia areata. Left to right: at baseline, at 3 months, and at 4 months of treatment. Credit: Julian Mackay-Wiggan Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified the immune cells responsible for destroying hair follicles in people with alopecia areata, a common autoimmune disease that causes hair loss, and have tested an FDA-approved drug that eliminated these immune cells and restored hair growth in a small number of patients. The results appear in today’s online issue of Nature Medicine. In the…
Samsung’s more rugged version of its flagship phone may be about ready to hit the trail. The Galaxy S7 Active makes a cameo in the support section for the Samsung Level app, which is used for several bluetooth speaker and headphone accessories. It doesn’t appear Samsung is too concerned about this leak, as after an initial report ran about the finding the S7 Active still appears on the Samsung Level listing in the Play Store. The Galaxy S7 Active is hiding in plain sight. Samsung has often released an Active variant to its flagship Galaxy phone, as it did with last…
In recent years, North Dakota’s Bakken formation was synonymous with boom times. Crude production grew 10 times over, unemployment fell to a national low, and the state budget more than doubled as North Dakota’s coffers grew fat on severance and sales tax income. But with crude prices down more than 70 percent at their recent bottom, some of the drillers who fueled the boom are pulling back from the Bakken. Several exploration and production companies are no longer completing wells in North Dakota and are now turning to more efficient assets in other states. Analysts say the decision comes down…
Samsung’s brewed up a fresh idea of how to bring a smart dashboard system to the motorcycle with a new concept called the Samsung Smart Windshield. It’s a kind of heads-up—eyes slightly down, really—display that allows motorcyclists to keep their hands on the handlebars and still interact with their phones. The basic idea is that you connect your smartphone (via Wi-Fi and a dedicated app) to a device embedded in your bike that includes a projector. When you’re on the road, the projector takes information from your smartphone and displays it in a semi-transparent view on the bottom of the…
A new software update has started rolling out today for the OnePlus 2. It’s not going to change the underlying Android version unfortunately (so no Marshmallow for you), but it does come with some bug fixes and improvements. Chief among the latter is the added RAW support for the preinstalled OnePlus Camera app. RAW image capture has been supported in third-party apps ever since a previous update in September of last year, and now this is finally part of the built-in app as well. You’ll also find that compatibility for Bluetooth devices and Ultra SIM has been improved, along with…
It was one month ago—Feb 11—that the market bottomed. One factor was likely JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s announcement that day that he had purchased $26.5 million of JPM stock. The buying was at four different prices, but the average price was roughly $53.18. With JPM stock hovering near $59 today, that’s a gain of 10.8 percent, slightly outperforming the S&P’s roughly 10 percent gain in the same time period. Not bad. What’s next, Jamie Dimon Asset Management? If you’re really bored, here’s the amounts Jamie Dimon bought and the prices paid, all on Feb. 11: 330,000 shares at $53.14 $17.53M…
Verizon isn’t always the fastest US carrier when it comes to releasing Android updates for the handsets it sells, in fact it’s usually one of the slowest. But that’s not the case for the Samsung Galaxy Note5 as it turns out. Big Red is already rolling out the update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow for Samsung’s premium phablet, just a couple of weeks after the new software was first released anywhere in the world. That’s some fast turnaround indeed. Aside from all the goodies that Google’s packed into Marshmallow, the update also brings with it certain improvements to Live Broadcast and…
The National Football League said it had chosen Twitter as its exclusive global partner for streaming its Thursday night games during the 2016 regular season. Twitter, whose shares were up about 1 percent in early trading Tuesday before reversing to end down modestly, will stream 10 games for free,the NFL said in a statement. The deal also includes in-game highlights as well as pregame broadcasts from players and teams on Periscope, Twitter’s live-streaming video service. Twitter outbid a number of companies, including Verizon Communications, Yahoo, and Amazon.com to win the deal, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the news. Facebook…
Ever see something that isn’t really there? Could your mind be playing tricks on you? The “tricks” might be your brain reacting to feedback between neurons in different parts of the visual system, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience by Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Sandra J. Kuhlman and colleagues. Understanding this feedback system could provide new insight into the visual system’s neuronal circuitry and could have further implications for understanding how the brain interprets and understands sensory stimuli. Many optical illusions make you see something that’s not there. Take the Kanizsa triangle:…