MOGA, great control to use with your Android

The use of video games on smartphones may not be as popular as home consoles, but still is quite widespread. Sometimes I play certain video games on our Android becomes quite difficult due to the size of your screen, which leaves little room for buttons. For these cases has been created tremendous MOGA known as Control.
Our smartphone Android is placed on the control and both are connected to each other using Bluetooth. The buttons you have are the 4 classic actions, also has two analog, two forwards, a Start button and Select one, so in some ways it is a bit like a PlayStation control.
MOGA is compatible with Android 2.3 or higher and you can be ours for $ 50 .

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Google launches broadband service and television in the U.S.

The Google presented officially on Thursday (26/07) in Kansas City, Google Fiber, your broadband service and television in the United States.

The company promises an Internet 100 times faster than the major U.S. and ensures that the download speed is 1 Gigabyte per second for downloads and uploads.

Fiber The service also comes with TV with local channels and integrated with Netflix and YouTube, allowing content to watch live or on demand, when the user wants. In addition, you can record up to eight concurrent programs and store them in the cloud (with 1 Terabyte available in Google Drive).

The equipment that act as central content were all baptized of Network Box They come with 2 gigabytes of storage space on your hard disk, transmit video up to 1080p, Ethernet will have four inputs and act as points of Wi-Fi

Prices and installation

There are three packages available for residential plans. The most basic is $ 300 for the installation of cables and offers a much slower service internet (downloads to 5 megabytes per second) and a TV with only a few channels.

For the complete contents and full-speed connection, you can pay $ 120 for the plan and broadband TV or $ 70 just for internet. Who to hire full service, will still receive a Nexus 7, which also function as control of the TV.

To install the fiber optics, the Google will require a number of requests in the same region they call "fiberhoods." The company also said it will pay for the installation of cables in places such as schools and libraries.

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Now the plants are watered themselves

 

Have you already tired of watering your plants or just have time to do it? So this could definitely be the solution you're looking for, and thanks to the miracle technology we have today, plants are able to be irrigated by themselves .
The system we see in the image, created by Randy Sarafan, works easily and is quite basic. All you need is one of the excellent control plates Arduino, a sensor for soil moisture and a small water pump. How does this work? It is something simple and you probably already have noticed: when the sensor detects that the land of the plant lack moisture, sends a signal to the Arduino board, which causes the pump to give it a refreshed our little green friend until the sensor indicates that the moisture is sufficient. But beware, because for this to work you need to have water pump and the electric power system has provided.

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Facebook Post spy talks and to detect criminals

 

Facebook can now detect suspicious behavior, brand content and determines further action, inform the police. This news comes from a Reuters interview with the Director of Security at Facebook, Joe Sullivan. Reuters The note mentioned the following:
 

'A man of about 30 I was talking about sex with a 13-year-old South Florida and is scheduled to meet with her after school classes. The extensive technology but little discussed Facebook for digitizing publications for criminal activity chats automatically dials the conversation, after notice is given to the police. The officers took control of the computer of the child and arrested the man the next day '.

This software is focused on Facebook conversations between members that have a loose social network. Means is for users who are not friends, are friends recently, they have mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and / or are away from each other, then the tool special attention.

The program is responsible for searching certain phrases found previously in the chat logs of criminals, including sexual predators. 'We never wanted to create an environment in which private communications look, what is really important is using technology that has very low false positive rate, "says Sullivan told Reuters. Anyway do not have many details of the tool, but we know that Facebook is working with the police because they have to comply with the law.

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The law of 'copyright' angers EU Radiohead and Pink Floyd

 

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The draft law of the European Union to give musicians more control over their copyright has angered bands like Radiohead and Pink Floyd, who accuse the European Commission to break its promises to address the problem of default suffering.
The commission announced on Wednesday a bill designed to ensure that companies that collect copyright on behalf of the artists also have them delivered to the musicians, composers and producers involved in each subject.
"We are deeply disappointed by his choice to defend the minority of managers and shareholders," said a letter signed by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, British singer Sandie Shaw, producer and director CJ Bolland of Younison, a pressure group formed by artists, Kelvin Smits.
According to the Commission's own assessment, the rights management companies - of which more than 250 operating in Europe - kept "substantial sums" in its books pending distribution.
In a striking analysis before Wednesday's announcement, the Commission said that in 2010 the leading management companies were 3,600 million euros in right of authors to the creators.
The artists say the figure is actually much higher and that the managers have no incentive to pay quickly, profitability gives them keep the money.
Between five and 10 percent of payments are retained for at least three years after his recovery, the Commission said.
The bill, which need approval by the European Parliament and of the 27 Member States, said that companies will have 12 months of the fiscal year in which the song plays to pay 'royalties'. And the funds owned by the issues identified will not be theirs after five years.
"They have broken their promises and encourage managers to management companies to retain the fruits of our creativity" read the letter of the artists to the Commission. "They Steal our hopes."
The musicians say a grace period of five years only encourage the managers to keep the money they owe, and reduces incentives to find the owners of those rights.
"This way legitimize one of the most problematic forms of fraud made by the rights management companies in Europe," added the document.
The managers say they try to pay the copyright owners as fast as possible and that many already do fertilizers earlier than the bill asks.
PRS in the UK make your payments every three months, said Veronique Desbrosses, Secretary General of GESAC, which represents 33 of these companies in the European Union.
"And sometimes it is difficult to find the owners because they are all over the world," he added.
The law also seeks to curb piracy by expanding the number of songs that can be played online as Apple's iTunes service, which needs the permission of managers before offering.

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