The Galaxy Note 8 is here, and there's definitely a lot to like about it. But what are the new features that stand out? Here are our top 5 (+1) new Galaxy Note 8 features. #Features #Samsung #SamsungGalaxyNote8

Whether your style is contemporary or ultra-modern, grey and white pair together to complete any look.

#DonaldTrump Talks “Love” And “Unity” Hours After Blaming “Sick” #Media For Neo-Nazis At Rally

Meet the Laptops & Desktop PCs Powered by Ubuntu Budgie #linux

Yesterday we asked if laptops & PCs preloaded with Ubuntu Budgie are on the way — and today we have our answer. UK computer outfit Nimbusoft is gearing up to sell two laptops and an all-in-one desktop PC pre-loaded with the nimble, GNOME-based Ubuntu…

Inkspace is an Android Experiment drawing tool that uses the accelerometer to show you your drawings in 3D

Read more here: http://goo.gl/nfVfgb

Inkspace was built using OpenFrameworks (http://www.openframeworks.cc/) an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding that works on a variety platforms, including Android. On android (as well as platforms like the rPI) it uses a makefile system, which the eclipse IDE interacts with, to compile and run your app.

The New England Patriots presented US President Donald Trump with a commemorative Super Bowl ring following the team’s visit to the White House earlier this year, USA Today reported Tuesday.

He Used Only 2 Ingredients, Avoided Knee Surgery And Went Home Pain Free

There is a story of a 44 year old man that was scheduled to have a knee surgery performed on him, until he was able to avoid the surgery completely just by consuming a once secret recipe comprising of two natural ingredients.

#knee #health #surgery #explore #pain #healthbenefits #healthy #cure #pain #remedy #jointpain #healthyliving #healthcare #disease #naturalremedies #herbal

All four colors for each of Dragon Ball FighterZ newly revealed characters
Super Saiyan Blue Goku and Vegeta not included

Those who attended Gamescom had the opportunity to try out the latest build of Dragon Ball FighterZ. We've seen some great tech already floating around, but for this particular story we're going to focus on aesthetics instead.

Several Twitter users have shared images on social media showcasing the colors for the newly announced combatants. This includes all four colors for Piccolo, Krillin, Trunks, Android 16, and Android 18.

Additionally, we get to see a screenshot of two full teams all color coordinated with the red color. This includes an alternate color for Vegeta.

Scientists at MIT have found that ancient Earth had a viscous mantle that was 200 degrees Celsius hotter than present day.

The study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, found that the Earth's ancient crust was made up of a much denser, iron- and magnesium-enriched material than today's rocky mantle.

"We find that around 3 billion years ago, subducted slabs would have remained more dense than the surrounding mantle, even in the transition zone, and there's no reason from a buoyancy standpoint why slabs should get stuck there. Instead, they should always sink through, which is a much less common case today," Benjamin Klein, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, said in a press release.

"This seems to suggest there was a big change going back in Earth's history in terms of how mantle convection and plate tectonic processes would have happened."

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X17303813

The Boston Celtics signed Kyrie Irving from the Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday in a blockbuster trade that saw Isaiah Thomas head in the opposition direction, the Celtics confirmed.

Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month.

The Boxing News stance on Floyd Mayweather vs Conor McGregor: http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/the-boxing-news-stance-on-floyd-mayweather-vs-conor-mcgregor/

Red supergiant star Antares: Artist’s impression | ESO
This artist’s impression shows the red supergiant star Antares in the constellation of Scorpius. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of this, or any star other than the Sun. Using the same data they have also made the first map of the velocities of material the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/M. Kornmesser
Release Date: August 23, 2017

+European Southern Observatory (ESO)

#ESO #Astronomy #Science #Space #Star #Antares #Red #Supergiant #Physics #Heliophysics #Scorpius #Cosmos #Universe #Telescope #VLT #Paranal #Observatory #Chile #Atacama #SouthAmerica #Europe #STEM #Education #Art #Artist #Illustration #Visualization

Junior Dos Santos has been pulled from the UFC Rankings. Will Jon Jones be next?
#UFC #MMA
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Black holes: scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios

Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are ‘tumbled around’ with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.

The paper, published in Nature, is based on data that came about following landmark observations of gravitational waves by the LIGO gravitational wave detector in 2015 and again in 2017.

In our own galaxy we have been able to electromagnetically observe black holes orbited by stars and map their behaviour – notably their rapid spinning.

Gravitational waves carry information about the dramatic origins of black that cannot otherwise be obtained. Physicists concluded that the first detected gravitational waves, in September 2015, were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole. Collisions of two black holes had been predicted, but never observed.

As such, gravitational waves present the best and only way to get a deep look at the population of stellar-mass binary black holes beyond our galaxy. This paper states that the black holes seen via gravitational waves are different to those previously seen in our galaxy in one of two possible ways.

The first possibility is that the black holes are spinning slowly. If that is the case it suggests that something different is happening to the stars that form these black holes than those observed in our galaxy.

The second possibility is that the black holes are spinning rapidly, much like those in our galaxy, but have been ‘tumbled’ during formation and are therefore no longer aligned with orbit. If this is the case, it would mean that the black holes are living in a dense environment – most likely within star clusters. That would make for a considerably more dynamic formation.

There is, however, also the chance that both possibilities are true – that there are instances of black holes spinning slowly in the field and instances of black holes spinning rapidly in a dense environment.

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2017/08/black-holes-scientists-excited-by-observations.aspx

To Be Or Not To Be (Arya Stark Portrait) | Vlad Rodriguez | https://goo.gl/DTXJbG #gameofthrones #aryastark

This is my favourite Bloopers and Outtakes video so far!

Here's the Galaxy Note 8 vs the phablet competition right now!

Morning on the Seine. Paris, France

#seine #france #paris

Gold in my eyes!
August 23rd 2017

Giraffe
Botswana

#animals #africa #giraffe

Indian Paint Brush

I took this photo yesterday while climbing in the North Cascades of Washington. I was on a day trip to a popular area and found this lone Indian Paint Brush flower with the white flowers in the background.

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The Ptarmigan Traverse https://goo.gl/photos/NNXKxzQXPrCLkv5e8
Wilderness Trip https://goo.gl/HVB0aV
Larch Trees at Horseshoe Lake https://goo.gl/TwZg7y
My YouTube Videos https://goo.gl/IJXBc0
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My eyes for Brixton lanes _
London August 2017 _

Prop up the lion
Lion is the symbol of PML (Pakistan Muslim League), party of recently disqualified prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. The ex prime minister has been judged by supreme court of Pakistan as not truthful/trustworthy and hence unfit to rule the nation (constitutional ruling 62-63)

#pakistan #punjab #street
#streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #monochromephotography 

In an effort to advance the mission to Mars, HPE and NASA launch a supercomputer into space on the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft http://bit.ly/2wo3YdT

Google and Walmart partner to bring shopping, free delivery right to your Google Assistant.

#Android #Google #Walmart

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Why Do #Photographs Taken In #Space Not Have Stars In Them? : https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-do-photographs-taken-in-space-not-have-stars-in-them.html #science

NASA's Chandra Suggests Rare Explosion Created Our Galaxy's Youngest Black Hole
Supernova Remnant W49B
Supernova remnant W49B.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/L.Lopez et al; Infrared: Palomar; Radio: NSF/NRAO/VLA

New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The remnant appears to be the product of a rare explosion in which matter is ejected at high speeds along the poles of a rotating star.

The remnant, called W49B, is about a thousand years old as seen from Earth and located about 26,000 light-years away.

"W49B is the first of its kind to be discovered in the galaxy," said Laura Lopez, who led the study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "It appears its parent star ended its life in a way that most others don't."

Usually when a massive star runs out of fuel, the central region of the star collapses, triggering a chain of events that quickly culminate in a supernova explosion. Most of these explosions are generally symmetrical, with the stellar material blasting away more or less evenly in all directions.

However, in the W49B supernova, material near the poles of the doomed rotating star was ejected at a much higher speed than material emanating from its equator. Jets shooting away from the star's poles mainly shaped the supernova explosion and its aftermath.

The remnant now glows brightly in X-rays and other wavelengths, offering the evidence for a peculiar explosion. By tracing the distribution and amounts of different elements in the stellar debris field, researchers were able to compare the Chandra data to theoretical models of how a star explodes. For example, they found iron in only half of the remnant while other elements such as sulfur and silicon were spread throughout. This matches predictions for an asymmetric explosion.

"In addition to its unusual signature of elements, W49B also is much more elongated and elliptical than most other remnants," said co-author Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz of the University of California at Santa Cruz. "This is seen in X-rays and several other wavelengths and points to an unusual demise for this star."

Because supernova explosions are not well understood, astronomers want to study extreme cases like the one that produced W49B. The relative proximity of W49B also makes it extremely useful for detailed study.

The authors examined what sort of compact object the supernova explosion left behind. Most of the time, massive stars that collapse into supernovas leave a dense, spinning core called a neutron star. Astronomers often can detect neutron stars through their X-ray or radio pulses, although sometimes an X-ray source is seen without pulsations. A careful search of the Chandra data revealed no evidence for a neutron star. The lack of such evidence implies a black hole may have formed.

"It's a bit circumstantial, but we have intriguing evidence the W49B supernova also created a black hole," said co-author Daniel Castro, also of MIT. "If that is the case, we have a rare opportunity to study a supernova responsible for creating a young black hole."

Supernova explosions driven by jets like the one in W49B have been linked to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in other objects. GRBs, which have been seen only in distant galaxies, also are thought to mark the birth of a black hole. There is no evidence the W49B supernova produced a GRB, but it may have properties - including being jet-driven and possibly forming a black hole - that overlap with those of a GRB.

The new results on W49B, which were based on about two-and-a-half days of Chandra observing time, appear in a paper in Sunday's issue of the Astrophysical Journal. The other co-author was Sarah Pearson from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge, Mass.

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The "Dirk Gently" Season 2 trailer

The first season was a phantasmagorial hoot. I always worry a bit about going back to the well for another go on such things, but we'll be watching regardless.

Davido’s ‘Banana’ banned………including 9ice, Olamide’s ‘Living Things’ & ‘Wo’