Starlink, the new crazy project of Elon Musk

SpaceX has put into orbit the first two satellites in a constellation of 4,425 satellites to bring broadband anywhere in the world. But he will face competition from OneWeb, his other champion of the sector.

Code Names: Tintin A and Tintin B. SpaceX on Thursday, February 22, launched the first two test satellites of Starlink, its satellite constellation project designed to connect the world to broadband. Launched in 2015 by Elon Musk, the project bears the mark, of its initiator: it plans to put into orbit 4,425 satellites at altitudes between 1,100 and 1,325 km, to definitively eliminate the digital divise in the world. By 2024, the constellation could even reach 12,000 satellites, including 7,500 in a much lower orbit (340km), according to SpaceX. A monumental figure: the largest constellation is currently that of the California start-up Planet, with just under 200 satellites in orbit.

What will Tintin A and Tintin B do? The mission of these satellites is, first of all, to validate the technologies developed by SpaceX on its Seattle site, opened in 2015 to work on the Starlink project. The two precursor satellites must thus communicate regularly with three ground stations in the United States, to verify the reliability of the links. According to Elon Musk, these test devices must fly over Los Angeles on Friday 23 February in the morning. "Tintin A and Tintin B will try to send the message" Hello world "when they go near LA, tweeted the founder of SpaceX yesterday, do not tell anyone, but the Wifi password is" Martian "." Elon Musk fans are still debating whether this tweet was a joke or not. One thing is certain: my used frequencies appear incompatible with those of terminals equipped with Wifi.

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Switch, PS4 Pro, Xbox One X: does console war really benefit everyone?

The Nintendo console has achieved a record launch in 2017. PlayStation claims to have fulfilled its end-of-year goals while Microsoft wants to capitalize on its Xbox One X.

And in the end everyone wins? Despite a highly competitive sector, the video game market looks good in France. State of play after the crucial Christmas period, which often accounts for half of the annual turnover.

Playstation wants to capitalize on its number 1 spot in the world. 5.9 million consoles sold at the end of the year, bringing the number of sales to nearly 74 million consoles sold since the launch of the console. "We are largely in our objectives" details Richard Brunois, marketing director Playstation France, "...especially since the PS4 Pro represents about 25% of sales since its release, which is above what we had originally imagined."

 Xbox wants to capitalize on its One X

"The Xbox One X console is the most powerful on the market" they found their audience? To listen to Hugues Ouvrard, director of Xbox France, everything is fine for Microsoft as the company no longer reports the sales figures of its consoles. "Our hardware revenue grew by 14% and our gaming revenue by 8% in the end of the year quarter." The Redmond firm highlights the 4 million players on Xbox at PUGB (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds), "the biggest exclusivity on the video game market".

Nintendo breaks records with Switch

"Here we go" for Nintendo. Like his moustached plumber, Mario, the Japanese video game giant can have it's prize. Nearly one million Switch consoles were sold in France in 2017 (911,000 specifically). "This is the best launch for a console in France" enthuses Philippe Lavoue, general manager of Nintendo France. The Switch performs much better than the Wii (703,000 units) and the PS4 (650,000 units) in the year of their launch. Nintendo exceeds its targets in France by 800,000 consoles sold in 2017. In early December, Nintendo had sold 10 million switches in the world. The Kyoto giant is targeting 100 million switches sold over the lifetime of the console. In Japan, the Kyoto giant has sold 3.3 million copies. In the United States, it's even better with broken records for 4.4 million sales. Nintendo has revised its objectives upwards: the group expects an annual net profit of 85 billion yen (630 million euros).

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Cedexis, specialized in accelerating the web access was again sold

The big french revelation that made web access easier to big corporations was just bought by the American software publisher Citrix.

The cloud, online services, websites, Netflix and Amazon, they all have one thing in common. They depend on connections that route the data between the user and the business site. If the consumer has to wait too long, he may zap and leave the site. The speed in the web access has become crucial to streamline online services, an increasingly difficult task to fulfill as the explosion of the amount of data circulating on the internet causes traffic jams. Smelling the windfall, many companies have rushed into the niche of optimizing the Internet and offer their miracle solutions to boost network performance.

Among them, Cedexis, a startup founded in 2010 by Julien Coulon. Quietly, the small business has garnered customers, like Facebook, Linkedin, Microsoft, Mozilla, Bloomberg, Samsung and Lenovo. "We have a team of 75 professionals,"says Julien Coulon,"in France, in the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Israel, and Singapore."We collect data from more than one billion people a day.". This little technological nugget could have become a unicorn. Missed. It has just been bought by Citrix, a US software company that made $ 2.82 billion in revenue in 2017.

When your box grows, it's not your box anymore

Such a buyout is not surprising. While the problem of accelerating the internet is crucial for all merchant sites, it has become a lifeline for all companies selling online services, especially those that offer cloud-based applications like software as a service (SaaS). In this case, the software is installed in a remote server and the user pays at the time of use. It is also necessary that the use is at least as fast and fluid as that of a software installed on the hard disk.

Internet accelerators such as Cedexis claim to be able to streamline traffic. For telecom operators, these companies are in reality parasites who are content to plunder the most profitable services without ever installing any cable. However, these techniques that accelerate the network have become indispensable.

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Transformation in the ways we work

Technology: 30 years of evolution in the service of our daily life. Understand the road traveled to better prepare for the future. 30 years is the record time that will be necessary to change the World. Three decades to profoundly change our habits and our economies. How can we prepare ourselves to make the most of future developments?

When we look back, we can only marvel at how far we have come. Never in history will technology evolve so quickly. In 1987, the memory capacities were still 1 MB maximum, the colors of a depth of 4 bits and necessarily wire networks. If in 2018 these figures are increased to 64 GB of memory, 48 bits of color and wireless networks of 1 Gbit / s, what does the future hold for us?

The opportunities of tomorrow are conceived today. Understanding that technology is transforming ways of working and creating new opportunities is key to the development of our organizations.

42% of Generation Y employees are likely to leave a job if the available technology does not live up to their expectations. Technology improves everyday life and allows unparalleled agility. It is now at the heart of issues of recruitment and retention of talent. Augmented and virtual reality will represent an $ 80 billion market by 2025. Exploitation of augmented reality is booming. It reduces errors and improves the accuracy of employees. This essential market will be divided into two pillars: hardware ($ 45 billion) and software ($ 35 billion).

Learn more about how Dell EMC helps companies improve their day-to-day lives, prepare for the future, and develop business opportunities.

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iPhone 8: Duas baterias em um design reutilizado?

Mas nós acreditamos nos rumores?

A onda do Galaxy S8 começou a refletir-se, o ciclo de rumores ao redor do novo iPhone 8 cala-se discretamente. Dessa vez foi Benjamin Geskin quem publicou no Twitter o diagrama interno do próximo smartphone onde nós podemos observar a presença de duas baterias.

Em amarelo nós podemos ver a bateria tradicional, a mesma que aparece no iPhone 7, e em laranja podemos observar uma bateria menor que poderia servir de complemento. 

O smartphone poderia carregar uma bateria maior e em formato de L, com uma capacidade de 2700 mAh. De acordo com o analista, esse é o último modelo de smartphone, com display OLED que se beneficia desse novo sistema de carga.

O diagrama de Geskin também revela outras pequenas inovações, como a presença da tecnologia True Tone (luminosidade que se adapta de acordo com o contexto) e carregamento wireless. O painel ID foi mantido na interface frontal, mas será que ele ficará por baixo da tela?

De acordo com o calendário oficial, o lançamento do novo smartphone está confirmado. De acordo com a KGI, a Apple teria prorrogado seu lançamento de Outubro para Novembro.

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Locky, uma nova onda de spams

Diversas companhias de segurança virtual detectaram uma nova onda de spams se espalhando através do sistema Locky.

Locky foi a estrela do mercado de ransonware em 2016, mas no final do ano sua popularidade caiu lentamente conforme surgia uma nova variante de ranzungware, chamada Cerber. Conforme informado pela companhia Malwarebytes, essa evolução se deve, em particular, pela decisão dos operadores de botnet Necus e seu distanciamento com relação ao já antigo ransonware.

Mas diversas companhias de cibersegurança soaram o alerta cedo nesta semana, após terem noticiado uma nova onda de ataques spam. Conforme informado por Talos, essa nova onda de e-mails foi detectada ontem e parece vir da botnet Necurs. Aparentemente, os operadores da botnet finalmente  decidiram se reconectar a seus sistemas antigos e utilizar ransonware sua infra-estrutura.

Após o documento contaminado ser aberto no word, a seguinte imagem aparece ao usuário para que ele então permita o uso de macros, o que permite que o vírus execute o download dos programas que irão criptografar seus arquivos pessoais.

Após completa a infecção, os arquivos se encontram criptografados com a extensão .osiris e os cibercriminosos então pedem um resgate de 0,5 bitcoins (aproximadamente 1800 reais) para a devolução dos dados.

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Raspberry Pi: 12.5 milhões de unidades vendidas

Um número que marca o sucesso do nano computador, inicialmente planejado para uma audiência muito menor, mas os números merecem ser colocados em perspectiva.

A fundação Raspberry tem muito a fazer com seus 12.5 milhões de unidades vendidas. A britânica está em direção ao 3º lugar no podium de computadores mais vendidos no mundo. Finalmente, é tudo uma questão de ponto de vista: a fundação anunciou que ultrapassou a marca de 12.5 milhões de Raspberry Pi vendidos, combinando-se todos os modelos. O criador do projeto Eben Upton explicou que Raspberry Pi destronou o Commodore 64, tirando-o de seu 3º lugar no pódium, logo atrás do Mac e PC.

Obviamente, as categorias aqui são bastante abrangentes e seus componentes devem ser colocados em perspectiva. Vamos olhar as vendas do Commodore 64, que estão longe de um consenso: de acordo com os dados publicados pela companhia, baseando-se nos resultados publicados em 1993, Commodore vendeu 17 milhões de unidades, excluindo-se da conta o seu sucessor, Commodore 128, a última evolução de sua arquitetura.

O Raspberry Pi de fato destronou o Commodore 64? É difícil compara-los em ordem de grandeza que não são comparáveis. O que fica claro, por outro lado, é que o Raspberry Pi se mantém um grande sucesso: originalmente lançado com uma proposta puramente educacional, o Raspberry Pi foi um projeto experimental e foi produzido, a princípio, em alguns milhares de cópias. Mas o sucesso crescente do pequeno computador de fato abriu um novo mercado, no qual ele engoliu grandes fabricantes, como a Intel.

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Windows 10 CloudBooks: Microsoft's strategy against Chromebooks

The minimum specifications for devices running Windows 10 Cloud to compete with Chromebooks in the education market have just been made public.

Windows Central has found a Microsoft Confidential document that describes the recommended minimum specifications for Windows 10 CloudBooks.

Windows 10 CloudBooks do not lie about their name: these devices were designed to compete with Chromebooks and embed the still unofficial cloud edition of Windows 10. Windows 10 Cloud and some compatible devices would however be presented at an event on 2 May in New York.

Not much to do with the cloud

Windows 10 Cloud, as far as we know it at the moment, has little to do with the cloud. This is a low-end version of Windows 10 designed to run only the applications contained in the Windows 10 Store. This is an evolution of Windows RT and Windows 7 Starter Edition. The update of Windows 10 Cloud to Windows 10 Professional will be possible say some testers.

The recommended minimum specifications of Windows 10 CloudBook published by Windows Central indicate that the first devices running Windows 10 Cloud should have at least Celeron Quad-core; 4 GB of RAM; 32 GB of storage (or 64 GB for 64-bit versions); A battery of more than 40 WHr; Fast eMMC or Solid State Drive (SSD) for storage. The pen and the touch pad are optional.

The disclosed document states that these devices will run the Windows 10 Cloud Creators Update (Redstone 2) and will not necessarily have to wait for Redstone 3, which will be released in September. This makes sense given that the school market is preparing for the re-entry from September to early summer. There is no mention of ARM-based CloudBooks in the document, but it is certain that Windows 10 Cloud will work on Intel-based and ARM-based devices.

Microsoft and its partners are directly targeting Chromebooks with these devices equipped with Windows 10 CloudBook explains the document. The lifetime of each battery cycle of these devices must be more than 10 hours, which in term of marketing translates to "all day".

I'm curious as to whether Microsoft will go to hardware with CloudBook, not necessarily with a Surface device, but with a high-end machine similar to the Chromebook Pixel.

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Galaxy S8: an update for red screens

The world number one has not dragged on to address this problem of reddish hue that seems to affect some users.

After the fiasco of Note 7, the Galaxy S8 is logically scrutinized closely. And while the first South Korean buyers received their smartphone, embarrassing testimonials begin to multiply on social networks. Many users thus report a persistent red tint on the screen, a particularly embarrassing defect when we know that the screen is the number one trump card of the terminal.

Images of these red screens are multiplying on local forums like Ppomppu and Ruliweb. The query "Galaxy S8 red screen" is also leading the search for the Naver engine, the most popular in the country.

Obviously, it is too early to say that the S8 suffers from a technical problem but for Samsung, the wound of Note 7 being barely closed, the slightest polemic could still hurt. So his reaction was not long in ensuring that it was "not a quality problem and this can be adjusted in the settings of the smartphone".

However, the world number one decided to push an update that would complement the functionality of color optimization of telephones. This will also increase the range of colors that users can define, he said. The software update applies to all Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus models and will be performed automatically. The company reaffirmed that there was no quality problem with the new phones. According to local media, the update will come this week.

And to take no risks, the manufacturer indicated that if the proposed software update did not solve the problem of the red veil, the terminal could be exchanged in the shop. Details of these exchanges were not disclosed.

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Datacenters: an ultra-dominated US market

According to Cloudscene's quarterly study released this week, the global data center market is largely dominated by North American players. This is unfortunately also true in Europe, where the local players are absent from the Top 5 continental.

Cloudscene released this week its quarterly study on the universe of data centers, Internet points of presence and cloud service providers. The least that can be said is that the dominance of the USA on this world market is undivided.

In North America, two players stand out: the Californians Equinix, which operates 153 datacenters, and Digital Realty which owns 174. They are followed by CoreSite, based in Denver, Colorado, Zayo based in Boulder also in Colorado , And Century Link headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.

More surprising and a little worrying, the European market is also dominated by actors from across the Atlantic: when one observes the Top 10 data center operators in Europe, one finds this domination of the North Americans with in the " Equinix, Interxion, Telehouse, Digital Realty, Global Switch and Level 3 Communications. The first European actor is Nikhef, only 7th: it is an atomic research center based in the Netherlands, which operates for the needs of its scientific activities a data center in Amsterdam. The 8th and first commercial operator of European origin is English Colt, and only one French infrastructure operator appears in the top ten Europeans: it is Orange, which is ninth with its subsidiary Orange Business Services. The Top 10 is completed by a Romanian actor, NXData.

The main traffic exchange point in Europe is the Dutch NL-ix, whose 142 members serve a hundred data centers in more than a dozen countries and which alone accounts for nearly 2 Tb / s of Internet traffic.

Globally, 41.6% of North America, 40.4% in Europe, 9.5% in Asia and 8.5% in Oceania (1), have access to more than 14,000 Internet points of service managed by data-processing operators analyzed by Cloudscene.

The facts are there. We in Europe are extremely dependent on technical infrastructures managed by private companies whose decision-making centers are located in the USA. The election of Donald Trump has led to more uncertainty, particularly as to the political decisions that could be made: the new US administration could completely abandon the preservation of the neutrality of the Net and make decisions towards more protectionism. Given all this, would it not be appropriate to launch a major European Internet infrastructure policy that would favor the development of international players with their headquarters in Europe?

(1) In this note I have summarized under the term "Europe" what Cloudscene means by the acronym EMEA, namely Europe, Middle East and Africa, because it is according to this geographical division which is The world's leading IT providers. However, it is Europe that makes up the bulk of the EMEA area in terms of data centers, as Africa still has very little capacity.

As for the absence of South America, I asked Cloudscene who said that I have the greatest difficulty in obtaining data on this region, whose actors are not yet very transparent. Cloudscene hopes to be able to integrate South America into its studies in the near future, we will have a clearer idea of ​​who are the players in the data center market in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

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HTML5: DRM integration and Netflix

In April, the W3C will have to decide once and for all on the standardization plan for Encrypted Media Extension (EME). This technology, loudly demanded by Netflix et al., Is described by its opponents as a DRM within traditionally open web standards.

EME: behind this term a little obscure hides a conflict deemed fundamental by the defenders of the web and free software. The controversy is not new: the Encrypted Media Extensions is a technology similar to a DRM, a tool to control the diffusion of films or works protected by copyright. With the emergence of a major player in the field of streaming (Netflix, of course, you are thinking), the pressure has gradually strengthened at W3C so that the web standards organization introduces a mechanism of this type within the standard HTML5.

W3C Steeplebreaks

The debate has been raging since 2013, but the task force assigned to this task at the W3C must now reach a final decision. The last proposal of the working group was published on 16 March. This is the result of the work of the group dedicated to EME, which obviously includes Netflix, but also other players such as Microsoft and Google.


This proposal is now in the hands of the consortium's advisory committee, which has until April 13 to make its decision. The committee can choose to accept the proposal and make it a new web standard, or may ask the working group to review its copy.

The issue of the Encrypted Media Extension has been raging for several years within the W3C, with on the one hand fierce opponents of this idea and on the other side of the defenders of the principle. The argument often put forward by opponents of this system is that EMEs introduce proprietary code into web standards, which until then were entirely free.


This solution is likely to cause many edge effects and in particular raises the question of the ability of independent security researchers to audit the code of this technology in search of fault. On the other side, the defenders of the EME explain that this technology is necessary to allow the development of service of video in streaming without questioning the copyright.

It is interesting to note that browsers did not wait for the W3C decision to implement the EME: Chrome was one of the first to propose it, and Firefox, in spite of its initial opposition to the project, eventually ranked Competition and also introduce EME technology. In this context, it is difficult to hope that the opponents of standardization of the EMEs can succeed.

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Microsoft, AWS and Google unleash new cloud war

Cloud giants have begun again to reduce their prices, but this time into new areas of cloud services.

Cloud computing giants may have triggered a new price war, this time on storage.

Until recently, price reductions among cloud computing offerings were mainly confined to virtual machines, while other services provided constant or growing margins. But according to analysts, the declines have moved beyond the calculation, in storage and databases.

Margin always comfortable for suppliers

In a cloud pricing analysis, 451 Research estimates that the cloud price battlefield has moved from virtual machines to object storage, and predicts that other services, starting with databases, will see pressure Decline in prices over the next 18 months.

Analysts observe that prices of object storage declined in all regions, including a drop of 14% in the last 12 months. Virtual machine prices only fell by 5% over the same period.

Price reductions in cloud storage began in the third quarter of 2016, according to 451 Research, with tariff cuts in object storage at IBM SoftLayer. Google, AWS and then Microsoft followed with decreases in storage.

"Cloud providers seem to be playing aggressive games by blowing the whistle, lowering the price of object storage so it does not look expensive," said Jean Atelsek, an analyst at 451 Research.

"This is the first time that there has been a major price war outside of computing, and this reflects the shift from object storage to the mass market.If the price cuts are good news for cloud buyers , They are now confronted with a new level of complexity when comparing suppliers, "he notes.

Storage has become central in price cuts as cloud vendors want to win big deals that migrate out of the company's data-centers to the cloud.

And cloud computing providers show no signs suggesting limited room for maneuver in terms of declining. For example, even after a long series of price reductions for virtual machines, vendors still achieve - at minimum - a margin of 30%.

"There is little data suggesting that the cloud is close to convenience status" reports 451 Research, which predicts relational databases are likely to be the next battlefield of the price war.

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Why the Giroptic start-up in Lille crashes the screen

With its iO camera, the start-up in Lille intends to conquer the world thanks to its advanced technology and the support of social networks.

The small, brightly colored camera clips onto a smartphone, designed to shoot 360 degree videos that can be viewed with a virtual reality headset. On April 18, at the annual Facebook Developers' Conference (Facebook 8), at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, all guests had the Giroptic iO camera on hand. A nice advertising stroke for the start-up Lille, designer of the craft, adept media performances. Last year, Richard Branson invited his founder, Richard Ollier, to "pitcher" at Necker Island, his private island in the Caribbean.

Facebook Partner

For more than a year, the little Frenchman traces his way amid colossi like Samsung and Nikon, who also launched their cameras 360 degrees. "Giroptic has several years of experience in the 360 ​​degree camera and the ability to produce on an industrial scale," says Romain Lavault, partner at Partech Ventures , One of Giroptic's investors. Better: compatible with Apple devices since its release last December, at 249 euros, it will be marketed at the end of April in version suitable for smartphones running Android.

Facebook's invitation to the heart of Silicon Valley was a total surprise. "On January 23rd, we received a purchase order of 4,400 coins from Facebook and an invitation to participate as a Facebook F8 partner," exclaims Richard Ollier, 37, with stars in his eyes. One factor has played in its favor: the camera is also compatible with Facebook Live, which allows live video on the social network. This is the secret boot of Giroptic: the sharing of images on social networks. Its patented solution supports shooting at once. While its competitors must restore the 360-degree image with software. "The use is not to store photos, but to share moments with friends," argues Richard Ollier.

Since the announcement of Facebook, "the box turns full, including weekends," he tells while wandering in the open space, within the incubator EuraTechnologies, installed in the former red brick spinning . In one year, the young sho has almost doubled its workforce, from 25 to 45 employees in Lille. It opened in 2016 an office in San Francisco, directed by Pascal Brocher, a former electronic Arts video game giant. A dozen recruits are expected.

New round of table in sight

Giroptic had to force his destiny to achieve notoriety. Originally, in 2008, the company was developing 360-degree imaging solutions for real estate professionals. It rotated in 2014 to manufacture a camera for the general public, the Giroptic 360cam, and counter the first sports cameras, such as the GoPro. The adventure could have ended very quickly: a violent conflict opposed him to his former partner Decathlon, with whom he had to market a panoramic camera. An amicable agreement was reached the following year, but the dispute delayed the start-up.


As a result, Giroptic received $ 1.5 million from Kickstarter's participatory financing platform and won 4,000 pre-orders. By the end of 2015, start-up raised 4.5 million euros from investors. The difficulties now seem to come from the past: Giroptic is preparing a new round, which Richard Ollier hopes to double-digits.

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Apple will finally rethink its Mac Pro

During a press conference, several Apple directors spoke on the future of the Mac Pro. It had a new version in 2013, which had a special design that made it difficult to improve. 

A new Mac Pro is in preparation at Apple according to several US media. Finally will say some, but the manufacturer explains wanting to take his time so as not to repeat the errors of the latest version. In 2013, Apple introduced a new Mac with a unique and circular design. A rather original approach to the computer market, rather accustomed to the good old rectangular towers or the central units integrated to the screen at Apple.

But this unique design posed many problems for the replacement of parts and the installation of new components: those provided by the market were not necessarily adapted to the design of the Mac Pro and these design choices greatly limited the possibilities of the users Who wanted to improve the performance of their machine.

"We wanted to do something different and daring. What we did not foresee at the time was that this approach would lock us in a framework, a circular framework in this instance, "said Craig Federighi, software development manager for Apple. Apple's brand leaders have clearly indicated that the instruction given to engineers currently working on the project and to put the Mac Pro design into perspective in order to allow more room for maneuver for those who would like to install or improve The components.

For now, however, we will not know much more. Apple executives have explained that the first announcements for the Mac Pro Renewal will not see the day before 2018. The team responsible for developing this new design is working on the subject and the product is likely to Stay in the Apple cartons until it is fully finalized.

Meanwhile, Apple will boost the performance of its Mac Pro line, giving them graphics cards and upgraded processors. But for those who are not satisfied with the Mac Pro 2013, they can obviously recommend that they wait and see what 2018 will be theirs.

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The LG G6 smartphone, the awesome anti-Galaxy S8 weapon from Samsung

TEST A few days after the official launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8, the main competitors are filling their weapons to try to cope with the tidal wave of the Korean brand's new smartphone. Like the LG launching the G6, a device dreadful for more than one reason.

If LG knows how to make good smartphones, it is always difficult to win in the world top 5. The Korean consumer electronics giant does not succeed in singing his Samsung companion, who has managed to secure himself on the top step of the podium, ahead of Apple, Huawei and two other Chinese brands unknown in Europe (Oppo and Vivo). The Galaxy S8, Samsung's new smartphone, will have the heavy task of forgetting the recent setbacks of the Galaxy Note 7, which was taken off the sale for battery defects.

LG therefore needs iconic flagships to try to stick to the leaders. In 2016, it sold 55 million smartphones when the world number 5 Vivo was 77 million devices (and the world number one took off with 311.4 million units sold). And the G6, the latest born, can be the sesame of a new era for the builder who makes the choice of reason here with a device that falls into the ranks. The new premium smartphone of the brand wants to be the most gathering possible and breaks radically with the technological bets of its predecessors, such as the choice of modular for the G5 for example. "We remain a challenger," said Stéphane Curtelin, marketing manager for France, "the G5 was a bold product." 2017 announces the age of reason and reconstruction for LG, over time and with a road map behind.

The age of Reason

And this age of reason is realized first of all by a classic design for the G6 that no longer seeks to be cleavage. Place to metal and glass for very premium finishes. With a large place made on the screen which is the great novelty of this device. LG is part of the great trend spring summer 2017 by pushing the boundaries of the screen and proposing a quasi border-less slab in 18: 9 format. The manufacturer manages to hold a 5.7-inch screen in a device case equivalent to that of a 5.2-inch. Either the screen of a tablet that holds and can be ordered with one hand. That is the G6's great strength. All the more so with its resolution QuadHD Plus (2.880x1.440 pixels) and Dolby Vision technology, it offers here a very high quality image that will delight fans of videos on smartphone. This format is rather convincing to use is not free of defects since all applications and videos (in 16: 9) are not yet optimized for such a display. It will not be unusual to have black bands that will limit the interest.

Another undeniable advantage of the G6, the dual camera. It takes again the dual objective of the G5 with two sensors of 13 million pixels one of which offers a normal angle of 71 ° and the other a wide angle of 125 °, very appreciable to make pictures with a very viewing angle large. The result is amazing whether it is day or night. This is undoubtedly the other strength of the G6. Another point to note is the possibility of making selfies with an angle of 100 degrees, in order not to exclude his comrades in the image.

On the technical level, the configuration offered here is part of the top of the range, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, a 3.300 mAh battery capacity ... Another advantage is IP68 Which makes the device resistant to water and dust.

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President of the Orange bank announces launch "from July 6"

Orange Bank will not charge fees for bank cards or account maintenance fees, Stéphane Richard, the group's CEO, said.

Orange bank, the new banking service of Orange telecom operator Orange, will be launched "from July 6", announced on Thursday April 20 the CEO of the group Stéphane Richard at the "Show Hello" where he presented the innovations of group. Orange Bank will not charge fees for bank cards or account maintenance fees, he said.

"We have reinvented the uses for this bank: opening accounts with scanned documents, transfers by messages, you can pay by mobile without contact or with the bank card, welcomed the leader in front of the press.

Orange Bank's offer, initially available to employees of the telecom group from mid-May onward, will include an account, a card, an authorized overdraft and a paid savings account "He said in a press release. Credit and insurance services will be offered.

No income requirement will be required, also indicates the group that aims to conquer 2 million futures customers. The latter will be advised by a virtual adviser, with artificial learning intelligence developed by IBM, which by the end of the year "will even perform tasks at the request of customers" such as making transfers or saving.

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Tesla and Elon Musk make a cardboard at Wall Street

Tesla earns more than 5% and set a historic high on Wall Street on Monday after delivering record deliveries in the first quarter, up 69% from the same period of 2016.

This is what we call a good day. Tesla earns more than 5% and set a historic high on Wall Street on Monday after the release of record deliveries in the first quarter, up 69% from the same period of 2016. The title of the electric car manufacturer hit A record of $ 294.15, improving its previous highest dating back to 2014, and it at 15:45 GMT it retains a gain of 5.30% to 293.05 dollars.

With a market capitalization of 47.8 billion dollars (44.9 billion euros), Tesla returns to Ford and 45.2 billion, especially as the latter declines 2.92% on Wall Street after the " Announced a 7% decline in its car sales in March to 236,250 units.

25,000 vehicles sold in the first quarter

Tesla announced on Sunday that its deliveries in the first quarter had reached the record of 25,000 vehicles. The group led by billionaire Elon Musk said it has delivered 13,540 Model S sedans and 11,550 SUV Model X. It has added aiming between 47,000 and 50,000 deliveries of its two models throughout the first half of 2017.

Production in the first quarter also reached a record level of 25,418 units. In the fourth quarter, shipments fell 9.4% due to production delays related to the transition to a new automated piloting software.

Tesla, which is preparing to launch a third car, the Model 3, before the end of the year, revealed last week that Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings had taken a passive stake of 5% in its capital for a sum Of 1.78 billion dollars (1.64 billion euros).

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Quando a microsoft confunde trilhões com bilhões

Em campanha publicitária, Microsoft confunde trilhões e bilhões. Não se trata de um erro de cálculo, mas sim de tradução.

O anúncio mostra um mosquito segurado por uma pinça na borda de um tubo de testes. A legenda diz: "Esse dispositivo só precisa de 12 horas para realizar 7 trilhões de exames de DNA". 7 trilhões? O número é enorme. O melhor dispositivo do mundo só seria capaz de realizar 100 bilhões, nas melhores condições. Anúncio falso? Na verdade foi um simples erro de tradução, o anúncio americano dizia "7 trilhões", mas a palavra trilhão foi utilizada baseando-se numa escala extensa, utilizada na França, onde um trilhão representa um bilhão de bilhões, enquanto as publicações científicas americanas utilizam uma escala curta.
Vamos esperar que os próximos computadores sejam capazes de traduzir e identificar erros como esse.

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A pro-trump arrested for causing an epileptic fit via a tweet

The US authorities have just made the first arrest of a suspect accused of cyber-harassment. He had sent a tweet to a journalist in order to provoke a crisis of epilepsy in him.

With our correspondent in Washington, Jean-Louis Pourtet

On December 15, in the evening, Kurt Eichenwald, a former New York Times reporter withdrew in Dallas, followed by 318,000 Internet users on Twitter, receives a tweet. When he opens it, he reads: "You deserve a crisis for your messages," against a background of strobe light. This is known to trigger epileptic seizures.

Punishment

Eichenwald, who had mentioned his illness in an article, had a crisis which he took time to recover: left hand handicapped, difficulty speaking. The author of the tweet wanted to punish the reporter for his criticisms against Trump. The police were able to find him and while searching his computer discovered messages referring to the tweet as well as research on epilepsy.

Forty messages

John Rivello, 29, who identified himself as Jew Goldstein, the "Jew Goldstein," resides in Maryland and is expected to be transferred to Texas for questioning. He faces up to ten years in prison. Eichenwald thanked the police for his arrest but reported that since the incident he had received forty other messages with a strobe light.

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Futuristic Sea Bubble soon to sail

It looks like a bubble boards on wheels and offers four seats. The Sea Bubble is the latest browser of the project Alain Thébault, father of l'Hydroptère, co-designed with Eric Tabarly. This brief funny electric boat can take passengers on the Seine River, the Thames or Lake Geneva. The first SeaBubble tests occurred in March 2017 South of France and were very convincing for a prototype. Future versions should see their redesigned design to meet the futuristic contours.

Sea Bubble is a boat that goes on skates, but it is much more like a taxi than Formula 1. "These are my daughters who caused the trigger," says Alain Thébault. Day: It's great to have beaten the record speed sail, but what can you do to be useful to the planet? "
Impressed by the number of traffic jams in the streets along a river or lake, as imagined in Paris or Geneva, a transportation system that combines flexibility, comfort and silence. He takes his laptop and started to draw.
These capsules are powered by a motor and battery (powered by solar panels) and barely touches the water with its unprecedented design. They can be used as an environmentally friendly transportation solution for tourists and Ile-de-France in search of air travel.
Long convinced that the future belongs to seaplanes, Alain Thébault immediately envision a boat mounted on leaves (runners) with four seats and able to get out of the water at low speed. With his experience, forged his successes and failures, stresses the importance of starting with pencil drawings. "I started the sea bubble project myself, I have to use common sense, I work as a high tech farmer, and only after that I use engineers using their computers."
His bubble of the sea design seduce Henry Seydoux, the chief of Parrot (who supports financially) and the city of Paris. Paris Anne Hidalgo wants to be the first city to have this new river vehicle for urban areas. These funny flying cars can sail on the River Seine in 2018 to lighten the streets of the capital. A video of two bubbles that cross the sea at the foot of the tower would certainly be the most beautiful effect. London expressed interest, as did Hong Kong.
This navigation skids several advantages that significantly reduces drag, the "bubble" does not create waves that can damage the seats, provides comfort to the passengers with its smoothest movement and needs 30 to 40% less energy at the same rate. This makes it very suitable for the electric drive unit. This part does not represent any particular difficulty, nor the choice of batteries. And Alain Thébault, "the choice of an electric motor will allow the sea bubble to go into protected areas."

The enthusiasm and optimism did not leave Alain Thébault. Sold at least 500 sea bubbles in the world. First, the "Bubbles" will work as vehicles with driver (VTC), with similar prices. But the goal is to make it fully automatic and autonomous.

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