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Android Phones: Life-Savers in Venezuela’s Deadly Quakes!

 How Google’s Earthquake Alerts Protected Millions — And How to Turn It On in Quake-Prone Countries When two massive earthquakes (7.2 and 7.5) struck Venezuela recently, the country had no national early warning system. But millions of Android phones lit up with loud alerts seconds to minutes before the shaking hit — giving people precious time to drop, cover, and hold on. Google’s clever system turns the accelerometers in over 2 billion Android phones into a giant crowdsourced seismic network. It detects the first waves, confirms the quake, and blasts notifications to users in the affected area. In Venezuela, it reached 11.4 million people — proving technology can save lives even where governments can’t. How to activate it (works in nearly 100 countries):    Open Settings on your Android phone.   Tap Safety & Emergency (or search for “Earthquake alerts”).   Select Earthquake Alerts and toggle it ON.   Keep Location services ena...
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ET deals: Save over $400 on a Dell Inspiron 3847 quad-core desktop

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Looking for a powerful desktop that won’t break the bank? Check out the Inspiron 3847 from Dell. With a quad-core CPU, plenty of RAM, and tons of potential for expansion, this PC is a great bargain — especially when you use today’s coupon code.
ET Inspiron 3000What kind of specs are we looking at, though? Inside, it has a fourth generation quad-core 3.6GHz Intel Core i7-4790 processor, integrated Intel HD Graphics 4600, 16GB of DDR3 RAM (1600MHz), a 2TB 7200RPM hard drive, a DVD burner, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi support. As a nice little bonus, a wired keyboard and mouse come along for free — all you’ll need to get started is a display. Since it has an HDMI port and a VGA port on the back, you can easily connect to your existing monitor or HDTV.
And if you want to beef up your machine after purchase, it has two PCIe x1 slots, a PCIe x16 slot, and a Mini-Card slot. If you want to turn it into a gaming machine, you can quickly pop in a discrete graphics card, and you’re off to the races. A decent mid-range card will only cost in the ballpark of 200 bucks, so using this as a starting point makes for a surprisingly affordable rig.
This PC ships with Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) installed by default, but it comes with a license for Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit) as well. Better yet, you’ll be able to upgrade to Windows 10 at no additional cost until July of 2016. Whether you’re looking for legacy coverage or the cutting edge, the Inspiron 3847 has you covered.
Normally, this model retails for $1032.99, but Dell is selling it directly for $879. Use coupon code “DELLDT599” during your checkout, and it will save you an extra 280 bucks. And if you take advantage of the free shipping, you’ll save even more.Need an even cheaper machine? TheCore i5 configuration of the Inspiron 3847 is a great deal. It typically sells for $639.99, but Dell is selling it online for $479. Apply coupon code “399DESKTOP” during checkout, and the sub-total will drop all the way down to $349.
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Apple Hacked By A 16 Year Old Teen !

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All Controller controls all your consoles

Am here to introduce to you the All controller for all standard game consoles... Remember the third party controller your sibling/cousin/friend made you use when you visited his or her house in the NES days? Remember the pain you felt when the joystick wasn’t quite right and they were hosing you on Mortal Kombat while you were busy trying to figure out why your character kept kicking? Well the  All Controller isn’t like that at all. The All Controller is a third party project that, in theory, can be used on any console. You can set up macros and speed buttons and connect to the Xbox, the PS4, or the Switch. It also has a 40 hour battery and can connect to PCs. “Connecting to consoles will be as easy as plugging in the custom USB adapter,” write the creators. “This device will allow the ALL Controller to connect to the XBox 360, XBox One, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. Added support for Nintendo Wii, WiiU and Switch will be added as well. On top of that, the USB adapter wi...
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Supercomputer Can Calculate in 1 Second What Would Take You 6 Billion Years

It's shiny, fast and ultrapowerful. But it's not the latest Alpha Romeo. A physics laboratory in Tennessee just unveiled Summit, likely to be named the world's speediest and smartest supercomputer. Perhaps most exciting for the U.S.? It's faster than China's. Hot 100 smartphones The supercomputer — which fills a server room the size of two tennis courts — can spit out answers to 200 quadrillion (or 200 with 15 zeros) calculations per second, or 200 petaflops, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the supercomputer resides. "If every person on Earth completed one calculation per second, it would take the world population 305 days to do what Summit can do in 1 second," according to an ORNL statement. Put another way, if one person were to run the calculations, hypothetically, it would take 2.3 trillion days, or 6.35 billion years. [9 Super-Cool Uses for Supercomputers] The former "world's fastest supercomputer," called S...
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