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Up Close With the Samsung Freestyle Portable Projector
Up Close With the Samsung Freestyle Portable Projector
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Auto everything
Place the Freestyle near a flat surface and it will automatically focus and adjust the keystone so the image looks square.
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A projector of tubes
You can even project images on the ceiling.
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A few controls
For most functions you'll need to use the included remote or Samsung's free app.
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Full-range speakers
The small driver aims downwards (relative to the projector) and is also vented above, so sound radiates out in all directions. You can also use the Freestyle as a Bluetooth speaker.
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Pivot
The pivot points lack a locking or even tension mechanism, so at low angles the Freestyle has a tendency to fall to horizontal.
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Input
The main intention of the Freestyle is to use Wi-Fi, but there's also a mini HDMI connector (adapter not included). It uses USB-C for power. There's no built-in battery, so you'll need a beefy battery pack to power it when away from home. Samsung recommends one capable of outputting at least 50 watts.
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Small
The Freestyle is smaller than it looks in most pictures.
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Xiaomi Mi 6 review: The best phone you can't buy (for now)
Xiaomi Mi 6 review: The best phone you can't buy (for now)
I love the Mi 6 for what it is -- an amazing device with the same speedy processor as the Samsung Galaxy S8 and a beautiful design that stands out on its own. It also comes with dual-cameras, and takes portrait pictures like the Apple iPhone 7 Plus and now, the OnePlus 5. You get Android goodness with some Apple-like features. And it costs a lot less than your typical flagship phone. What's not to like?
Well, how about the fact that it's still only available in China two months on from its launch. Xiaomi said it would reach other countries "soon", but it couldn't tell me when exactly it's going to start rolling out.
While eager beavers could order a Mi 6 from China, take heed that the LTE may not work in countries such as the US -- you'll have to compare to your carrier's network bands to be sure. And there are no Google Play services in China so until the company releases a global ROM, you'd have to sideload it if you want native apps such as Google Maps.
The lack of global availability means Xiaomi may be missing the boat in most markets that would have loved to grab a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 powered phone on the cheap. The cheapest version of the phone retails for about $365, £280 or AU$485 converted, and that model gets you 4GB RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. Step it up to the 6GB RAM version with 128GB onboard storage and you'll pay 2,899 Chinese yuan -- about $420, £330 or AU$560.
A premium ceramic version with 18K gold finish and 128GB of storage space sells for just a little more at 2,999 Chinese yuan. That's about $435, £340 or AU$580.
If you're lucky enough to get and use the Mi 6, you'll find an affordable flagship that matches the Galaxy S8 where it counts. Though it's missing some features, including wireless charging. It makes you wonder just how much of a premium you're paying for other high-end flagships such as the Galaxy S8 or the Sony Xperia XZ Premium. If you live outside China, keep reading to see what the Mi 6 will bring you -- but hold out for the international version before committing.
The power and volume buttons are located on the same side -- and the only problem with that is that I can't use it with my car mount -- the clamps press down on the power button, turning it off.
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All the bling in the world
The Mi 6's glass and stainless steel frame stand out. The phone comes in the standard shades of black or white, plus a much snazzier blue-and-gold version that's visually stunning.
I particularly loved that color, and it's a great conversation starter as well. I can't tell you how many people looked at it and said, "Wow." That said, the glass rear can be a tad slippery to hold at times.
The Mi 6 has a 5.15-inch screen with a 1080-pixel display that looks good to the naked eye. Pixel density isn't as sharp on paper as the Galaxy S8, but my eyes didn't strain trying to read news stories or social media updates. Colors pop, and while it has a maximum brightness of 600 nits, it goes all the way down to one at night, helping you not strain your eye. The phone won't take a long dunking like the Galaxy S8 or LG G6, but it is splash-proof, so you shouldn't worry too much about small spills.
Like other Xiaomi phones, the Mi 6 runs MIUI, a customized version of Android 7.1.1.
Double the cameras
One of the Mi 6's key features is its dual 12-megapixel camera setup, which is a hot trend these days. While it's not the first time Xiaomi has used it on phones, it's the first time a Xiaomi phone has added portrait mode similar to the one found in the iPhone 7 Plus (Xiaomi even calls it the same thing).
Portrait Mode works the same way as it does on the iPhone 7 Plus: you stand in front of the object and let the phone apply the effect. It's much simpler than the effect on previous Xioami models such as the Redmi Pro, which let you tweak the depth of field after shooting the picture. As for the quality, well, that's trickier. The Mi 6's Portrait Mode feels very finicky; half the time it detects the object properly, the other time you're either too close to apply the effect or the picture winds up being too out of focus.
The dual-cameras of the Mi 6 can take Portrait Mode pictures just like the iPhone.
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But when it does work, the subject remains in focus while blurring everything else. Results are pretty compelling. Check out the picture below for an example.
Portrait mode gets you good looking shots.
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Aside from Portrait Mode, the Mi 6 takes great pictures, especially in bright light. It isn't as capable as the Pixel XL or the Samsung Galaxy S8 in low light, but then again, which phone is? The quality of its low-light shots is similar to the iPhone but more saturated, giving images a nice pop, even if they're not 100 percent realistic.
Besides Portrait mode, the Mi 6 also does 2x lossless zoom -- again like the iPhone. Xiaomi's features here are good, but the Mi 6 does lean on the iPhone for a lot of its inspiration, a critique I had of its past phones, too.
HDR shots really pop, though the sky is slightly washed out.
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Interestingly, the Mi 6's HDR function now has its own dedicated button you'll have to manually switch on and off. It doesn't seem to turn on HDR automatically the way many other phones do.
Selfies came out looking good, but the 8-megapixel Mi 6's front-facing camera ran into the same problems as a lot of other phones when it comes to bad lighting. You just can't get around terrible backlighting. It also comes with a beauty mode, which made my face look baby smooth (it's really not).
The selfie camera doesn't do well with backlit backgrounds (like most phones).
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Where's the jack?
The Mi 6 joins the list of phones with no dedicated headphone jack. Instead, you'll have to use the USB-C charging port for wired headphones, or use a set of wireless Bluetooth headphones. However, the phone does come with a USB Type-C to 3.5mm audio jack converter in the box. Honestly, I'm not as bothered by the lack of an audio jack, since I prefer using wireless headphones to cut down on loose cables anyhow. You may feel differently, of course.
The phone uses Type-C USB and has no audio jack.
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Smooth performance and long battery life
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 836 processor keeps the Mi 6 buttery smooth. You won't notice any lag when switching between apps or playing 3D games such as Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed. You'll love how snappy everything is. Battery life is superb as well. It lasted 17 hours 35 minutes in our lab tests and chugged through a full day of relatively heavy use without dying on me. For reference, the Galaxy S8 lasted an average of 16 hours in our video drain tests, and the S8 Plus went 18 hours.
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 Photos Apparently Leak
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4 Photos Apparently Leak
New images of the upcoming Samsung foldable phones, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Flip 4, appeared online Friday from phone leaker Evan Blass on 91Mobiles.
While we can't see any details of the inner workings of the new phones, the images show the Fold 4 will come in three colors: black, gray and a creamy gold. The Flip 4 is shown in lavender, periwinkle blue, cream and black.
Samsung's next large-format foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 4, is rumored to have a sleeker design and better cameras similar to those on the Galaxy S22, among other improvements like a double-sided fingerprint reader and Qualcomm's newly announced Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor.
The rumored Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 was teased on Samsung's invitation to its Unpacked event on Aug. 10, where it's expected to unveil the two new foldable phones. The Flip 4 could come with a rotating camera lens and a 3,700-mAh battery, reports suggest.
You can check out all the images here.
Samsung didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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A Black Widow Pulsar Became the Heaviest Neutron Star by Devouring Its Mate
A Black Widow Pulsar Became the Heaviest Neutron Star by Devouring Its Mate
Some massive stars collapse into ultra-dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars, which are some of the more powerful and fascinating objects in the cosmos, just behind black holes. But sometimes these monsters have companion stars that they can begin to consume, a phenomenon known as a black widow binary.
Now scientists believe they've found a record-breaking black widow neutron star that has consumed almost all of its partner star, making it the heaviest neutron star known so far.
University of California, Berkeley, astronomy professor Alex Filippenko is co-author of a paper published Tuesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on the parasitic pulsar pairing, and he says the evolution of the relationship is "absolutely fascinating. Double exclamation point."
"As the companion star evolves and starts becoming a red giant, material spills over to the neutron star, and that spins up the neutron star," Filippenko explained in a statement. "By spinning up, it now becomes incredibly energized, and a wind of particles starts coming out from the neutron star. That wind then hits the donor star and starts stripping material off, and over time, the donor star's mass decreases to that of a planet, and if even more time passes, it disappears altogether."
The pulsar is catalogued as PSR J0952-0607 and now takes the title of densest object visible from Earth. It is roughly the size of city, but with 2.35 times the mass of our sun, and spins at a dizzying rate of 707 times per second.
Besides just being an impressive object, the record-setting collapsed star could provide some insight into exactly where the line is between collapsing into a neutron star and something even more mysterious and powerful.
"We can keep looking for black widows and similar neutron stars that skate even closer to the black hole brink. But if we don't find any, it tightens the argument that 2.3 solar masses is the true limit, beyond which they become black holes," Filippenko said.
The team used the Keck telescope on Hawaii to observe the ravenous dense star, pushing it to its limits to make the observations. The next generation of giant telescopes now under construction could add even more detail to the profile of these bizarre and slightly terrifying objects.
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The next MacBook Pros need these features from the iPad Pro
Apple just revamped the MacBook Pros at its latest October event, adding a ton of features, restoring some classic ports, bringing back MagSafe and removing the Touch Bar for good. Look closely and you can see some iPad Pro features making the jump to the Mac this time: mainly, the display. The Mini LED, ProMotion-enabled 120Hz Liquid Retina XDR display on the latest MacBook Pros looks essentially similar to what the M1 iPad Pros have.
But there are also some things iPad Pro still has that I'm surprised haven't also come over. One's a reach, but two are pretty obvious.
Face ID and Center Stage camera
The MacBook Pro's notched display has a new 1080p camera, but it doesn't have the whole TrueDepth camera package of the most recent iPads. That's a shame, on several levels.
Center Stage , a wide angle camera technology that digitally zooms in to follow your face during FaceTime or Zoom (or any other compatible app), is extremely helpful... especially at further-off distances. A laptop seems like a pretty good application.
Face ID, while I don't love it on the iPhone, is pretty useful on the iPad. I find it gets me logged in and into sites a lot faster than Touch ID, but I also wouldn't ever trade it for Touch ID on a laptop. I'd prefer it as another option (also, the TrueDepth camera has Portrait Mode video, which looks pretty nice so far on calls).
Center Stage turns on and off and even zooms in (I'm pointing to the setting on Zoom).
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5G
Apple's laptops still, to this date, don't have cellular connectivity. In 2021, that's pretty weird. I don't think I'd ever need cellular on my own laptop, but I'm not sure why a MacBook can't get 5G. The iPhone has 5G and so does the iPad Pro (the iPad Mini has it too, although not mmWave flavor). All the other iPads have LTE options. Adding 5G at some point would make a lot of sense, if only for business reasons.
MacBooks only come with one keyboard, unlike iPads.
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A detachable keyboard and a convertible design
The iPad may never become a Mac. And the Mac may never become an iPad. Fine. I get it. But I still love how the iPad Pro can be snapped in and out of an excellent keyboard and flexed into either a drawing-based tablet mode or a laptop mode on the fly.
There's another reason why that concept appeals to me: It means the keyboard is replaceable. If keys wear out or break down, a new keyboard accessory could be picked up. It's just strange to me that keys, these things we pound on all the time, are bonded to our laptops and can't easily be swapped for other options as needed. I can change up my iPad Pro keyboard to other designs and manufacturers easily. It's nice to do.
And as far as making a touchscreen, Pencil-compatible Mac... we're overdue for that, too.
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If you're looking for a countertop oven to take on the work of a few kitchen appliances -- toaster, convection oven, air fryer -- there's a solid deal on one happening now. You can grab the Chefman 6-slice convection toaster and air fryer for $90 (normally $150) plus free shipping at Best Buy. In addition to air frying, the Chefman bakes, broils, toasts and warms; that's a whole lot of options for an oven at this price.
While I recently tested a slew of similar ovens, I haven't gotten around to this particular model. We dug deep into the reviews, however, and owners of the Chefman love its quick preheat time and powerful convection and air fry functions. Similar models from more familiar brands retail for $150-$250 or more.
If you already have a countertop toaster you love but are interested in a solo air fryer, check out CNET's updated list of best air fryers for 2021.
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The Ghost Particle: What Is a Neutrino and Could It Be the Key to Modern Physics?
The Ghost Particle: What Is a Neutrino and Could It Be the Key to Modern Physics?
It came from deep space, moving at the speed of light, and crashed into Antarctica. Deep below the ice, it met its end. It wasn't an asteroid or alien spacecraft, but a particle that rarely interacts with matter, known as a neutrino.
Though theorized in the 1930s and first detected in the 1950s, neutrinos maintain a mysterious aura, and are often dubbed "ghost particles" -- they're not haunting or dangerous, but they just zip through the Earth without us even noticing them. Oh, "and it's a cool name," according to astrophysicist Clancy James at Curtin University in Western Australia.
In recent years, ghost particles have been making headlines for all sorts of reasons and not just because they have a cool name. That Antarctic collision was traced to a black hole that shredded a star, for instance, and other neutrinos seem to come via the sun. In early 2022, physicists were able to directly pin down the approximate mass of a neutrino -- a discovery that could help uncover new physics or break the rules of the Standard Model.
Imagine if we actually captured a ghost and could say the specter was of someone who had died. It would change everything we know about the universe. A ghost particle is pretty much a big deal for the same reason, and that's why astrophysicists are trying to trap them. They're excited, and here's why you should be, too.
The IceCube observatory in Antarctica.
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What is a neutrino?
In a nutshell, a neutrino is a fundamental, subatomic particle. Under the Standard Model of particle physics it's classified as a "lepton." Other leptons include electrons, the negatively charged particles that make up atoms, with protons and neutrons. But look, if we get into all that, we're going to go real deep on particle physics and it'll explode our brains.
The neutrino is unique because it has a vanishingly small mass and no electrical charge and it's found across the universe. "They are made in the sun, in nuclear reactors, and when high-energy cosmic rays smash into Earth's atmosphere," says Eric Thrane, an astrophysicist at Monash University in Australia. They're also made by some of the most extreme and powerful objects we know of, like supermassive black holes and exploding stars, and they were also produced at the beginning of the universe: the Big Bang.
Like light, they travel in basically a straight line from where they're created in space. Other charged particles are at the mercy of magnetic fields, but neutrinos just barrel through the cosmos without impediment; a ghostly bullet fired from a monstrous cosmic gun.
And, as you read this, trillions of them are zipping through the Earth and straight through you.
They're crashing into me right now?
Yes, exactly. Every second of every day since the day you were born, neutrinos have been moving through your body. You just don't know it because they interact with hardly anything. They don't smash into the atoms that make you up, and so you don't even know they're there. Just like a shadowy spirit passing through a wall, the neutrino moves right on through. Fortunately, there's no exorcism required.
But why should I care about neutrinos?
Studying them for decades has thrown up a bit of a surprise for scientists. Under the standard model, neutrinos shouldn't have any mass. But they do. "The fact they do points us to new physics to enhance our understanding of the universe," notes James.
The puzzle of the neutrino mass first came to light in the 1960s. Scientists had suggested the sun should be producing what's known as electron neutrinos, a particular type of the subatomic particle. But it wasn't. This "solar neutrino problem" led to a breakthrough discovery: that neutrinos can change flavor.
Like an almost-empty bag of Mentos, the ghost particle comes in just three distinct flavors -- electron, muon and tau -- and they can change flavor as they move through space (flavor is the actual terminology, I'm not making that up for this analogy). For instance, an electron neutrino might be produced by the sun and then be later detected as a muon neutrino.
And such a change implies the neutrino does have mass. Physics tells us they couldn't change flavor if they were massless. Now research efforts are focused on elucidating what the mass is.
In a study published in the prestigious journal Nature in February 2022, researchers revealed the mass of a neutrino to be incredibly tiny (but definitely there). Physicists were able to show directly, using a neutrino detector in Germany, that the maximum mass for a neutrino is around eight-tenths of an electron volt (eV). That's an unfathomably tiny mass, more than a million times "lighter" than an electron.
The is what a ghost hunter looks like: The main spectrometer of the Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) is manoeuvred through a road in southern Germany.
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Wait! A neutrino detector? But aren't they... ghost particles? How do you detect neutrinos?
As James notes, "the darn things mostly pass straight through whatever detector you build!"
But there are a number of ways to trap a ghost.
One of the key ingredients you need is space. Physical space, deep underground. For great results, scientists have built their neutrino detectors under meters of ice in Antarctica and, soon, at the bottom of the ocean. This helps keep the data clean from any interference from things like cosmic rays, which would bombard the sensitive detectors at the surface. The detector in Antarctica, known as IceCube, is buried about 8,000 feet straight down.
"Trapping" a ghost particle might not actually be the best terminology for what these detectors are doing. IceCube, for instance, doesn't hold any neutrinos prisoner. The particles mostly blast straight through the detector. But on the way, some very (very!) rarely interact with the Antarctic ice and produce a shower of secondary particles emitting a type of blue light known as Cherenkov radiation. A range of light-sensing spherical modules, vertically arranged like beads on a string, pick up the light those particles emit. A similar detector exists in Japan: Super-Kamiokande. This uses a 55,000 ton tank of water instead of ice and is buried under Mount Ikeno.
Both are able to detect which direction the neutrino came from and its flavor. And so, physicists can see signs the ghost particle was there, but not the ghost particle itself. It's kind of like a poltergeist -- you can see the way it interacts with chairs (throwing them at you) and lights (menacingly switching them on and off), but you can't see the phantom itself. Spooky!
The sun is known to produce a specific type of neutrino
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Great. So what can we learn from neutrinos?
Neutrinos are a fundamental particle in our universe, which means they underlie, in some way, everything that exists. Learning more about neutrinos will help unlock some of the mysteries of physics.
"Particle physicists study neutrinos in order to look for clues for physics beyond the Standard Model," says Thrane. He notes that physicists want to understand if neutrinos violate some of the fundamental laws of the Standard Model. "This may shed light on why there's more matter than antimatter in the Universe," Thrane says, noting that the problem has been referred to as one of the great mysteries in physics.
We also know that extreme cosmic objects and events can produce them. For instance, exploding stars, or supernovas, are known to create neutrinos and shoot them across the universe. So are supermassive black holes chomping on gas, dust and stars.
"Detecting neutrinos tells us about what is going on in these objects," says James.
Because they hardly interact with the surrounding matter, we could use neutrinos to see these types of objects and understand them in regions of the universe we can't study with other electromagnetic wavelengths (like optical light, UV and radio). For example, scientists could peer into the heart of the Milky Way, which is hard to observe in other electromagnetic wavelengths because our view is interfered with by gas and dust.
Reliable detection and tracing could stimulate an astronomy revolution akin to the one we're currently seeing with gravitational waves. Essentially, neutrinos can give us a whole new eye on the cosmos, complementing our existing set of telescopes and detectors to reveal what's going on in the void.
And then there are "sterile" neutrinos which...
Oh god. What are sterile neutrinos?
I probably should've kept those under wraps, but seeing as you're here, sterile neutrinos are a whole other class of neutrinos. They're entirely theoretical, but scientists think they likely exist because of a feature in physics known as chirality. Essentially, the normal neutrinos we've been discussing are what some call "left-handed." So, some physicists think there may be "right-handed" neutrinos -- sterile neutrinos.
They give them this name because they don't interact with other particles via the weak force, like normal neutrinos. They interact only through gravity. These types of neutrinos are considered a candidate for dark matter, the stuff that makes up more than a quarter of the universe but that we've never seen.
That means neutrinos might also help answer another vexing puzzle in physics: What, exactly, is dark matter? There are lots of candidates for dark matter theorized by physicists, and there's still plenty to learn -- it may not be related to neutrinos at all!
The three flavors of neutrino and the theoretical "sterile" neutrino.
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Cool. Anything else I need to know about neutrinos?
As Deborah Conway once sang, "It's only the beginning, but I've already gone and lost my mind."
We haven't gotten into some of the more mind-blowing theories about neutrinos, like neutrinoless double beta decay and the idea of the neutrino as a Majorana particle.
Several new neutrino experiments have been proposed, including the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection, or GRAND, which would see up to 200,000 receivers placed. The total area of the array is designed to be about the same size as Great Britain. The first 10,000 antennas are expected to be placed on the Tibetan plateau, near the city of Dunhuang, in the next few years.
Though we've been able to detect and trace only a few neutrinos so far, the next decade should see neutrino astronomy really take off. The bottom line is that understanding neutrinos, their flavors and masses, will provide a window into the fundamental nature of our universe.
