The M-A-C Star Trek makeup line on display at San Diego Comic-Con 2016.
Credit: M-A-C via Twitter
The makeup mavens at M-A-C beamed their new ”Star Trek” line of cosmetics to San Diego Comic-Con this week (complete with their own transporter pad) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic science fiction franchise.
“The collection of lipsticks, powders, eye shadows, nail lacquer, eye liner, lash and brushes is inspired by Star Trek and, more specifically, Deanna Troi, Uhura, Seven of Nine and the Orion Girl, Vina,” according to StarTrek.com, where you can see more photos of the M-A-C Star Trek display at SDCC 2016.
M-A-C’s “Star Trek” cosmetics line isn’t the first inspired by science fiction. Last year, Covergirl launched a “Star Wars” makeup collection in the months leading up to the release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
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— Star Trek (@StarTrek) July 22, 2016
But M-A-C pulled out all the stops for their “Star Trek” line launch at SDCC 2016.
“M-A-C commissioned a huge, sectioned, spherical and very Trek-like station that features a Ten Forward area, an interactive transporter section (yes, you can beam up and down), and an engineering warp core, along with Trek music, atmospheric smoke, view screens, computer terminals and more,” StarTrek.com reported.
Actors in Trek uniforms are making regular appearances at the exhibit to talk with visitors, pose for photos and – in the case of Uhura and Spock – sing a duet.
You can find more details behind the new “Star Trek” makeup line, including a talk with M-A-C senior artist and Trek fan Dominic Skinner, at StarTrek.com here.
M-A-C’s “Star Trek” cosmetics will warp into stores on Sept. 1.
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Got a used iPod? A local concert promoter is collecting them for nursing homes and senior facilities, as part of the Music & Memory program that helps dementia and Alzheimer's patients reconnect with their past by listening to favorite tunes.
"A lot of people have pushed their music onto their smartphone, and their iPods are in drawers somewhere," said Forrest Reed, a volunteer fundraiser for Music & Memory. "They need to be recycled."
He said he became interested in the program after discovering that listening to old Glenn Miller and Frank Sinatra songs helped calm his aging mother, who recently died.
Reed has set up drop-off sites for old iPods at 13 locations, including Dimple Record stores and Sunrise Senior Living centers in Sacramento, Fair Oaks and Carmichael. Donations are being accepted through November.
On Saturday, he has also helped organize a concert featuring saxophonist Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers at The Grove at the Red Lion Hotel Woodlake, which is dedicating a portion of ticket sales to Music & Memory. All the proceeds and iPods collected will help equip California skilled nursing, assisted living, hospice and senior centers with iPods and headsets.
The nonprofit Music & Memory, started in 2010 by New York social worker Dan Cohen, is based on research by UC Davis and other institutions showing the musical-memory part of the brain is one of the last to atrophy in Alzheimer's patients. For the last six years, Cohen has helped thousands of senior facilities nationwide provide their patients with a personalized play list of favorite songs, whether it's blues, country or rock 'n' roll.
In a pilot project underway in hundreds of California skilled nursing homes, including a handful in Sacramento, staffers say the music soothes agitated patients and can comfort those who are otherwise isolated by their dementia or Alzheimer's. It also can be a boon to family members who otherwise can't converse or elicit a response from loved ones afflicted with memory loss.
For more details, contact Reed at forresttreed@gmail.com.
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Apple has historically refreshed its iPad mini line-up annually and the new iPad mini 5 is expected in September 2016. Here's what you need to know about the new 7.9in iPad as we round up the iPad mini 5 (or iPad Pro mini) UK release date, price, new feature and specification rumours.
Here’s what you need to know about the new iPad Pro mini rumours. The iPad mini 5 is expected to launch in September 2016
By Marie Brewis| 22 Jul 16
When will Apple launch the iPad mini 5, you ask. The 7.9in tablet, which could even be called the iPad Pro mini, is expected in September. Here's what you need to know about the fifth-gen iPad mini, including UK release date, price, new feature and specification rumours. Also see: Best new tablets coming in 2016.
Updated 22 July to include design rumours.
iPad mini 5 release date rumours: When is the new iPad mini coming out?
iPad mini 5 UK launch expected: September 2016
On 9 September 2015 Apple unveiled its iPad mini 4. This was a month earlier than usual, and with no separate iPad launch event scheduled for October it appeared alongside the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
Rather than cancelling this second launch event, Apple has simply spread out its events calendar more evenly: it had one launch event in March, the WWDC developers conference in June, and a second launch event in September.
We expect Apple to follow that pattern this year. We've already seen the March launch event, where we took our first look at the iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7; and WWDC was dedicated to announcing software updates.
In the past we've had to wait a week or so following the launch event for the iPad mini to go on sale, but Apple began selling the iPad mini 4 immediately after its announcement in September 2015. See also: iPad Air 3 rumours and iPad Pro 2 rumours
iPad mini 5 UK price rumours: How much will the new iPad mini cost?
Apple tends to keep the price of its iPad mini line-up the same, reducing the price of its previous-generation mini when the new model goes on sale.
Based on 2015's iPad mini 4 pricing, we can expect the iPad mini 5 to be priced as follows:
The iPad mini 4 is available – and the iPad mini 5 will be available – direct from Apple, as well as third-party vendors such as John Lewis and Currys.
iPad mini 5 or iPad Pro mini?
The jury's still out on whether Apple will introduce a mini model in its Pro iPad line-up. It's entirely possible – after all, in March we were hopeful for a new iPad Air 3 (the iPad Air 2 was not refreshed last September alongside the iPad mini), and instead we got the iPad Pro 9.7. Perhaps Apple will update its standard and Pro iPads on a biennial basis.
On the other hand, you could argue that the 7.9in screen is too small for productivity (or an even smaller keyboard cover) so it’s just as feasible that Apple will keep the ‘Pro’ suffix for the 9.7in and 12.9in models. And if it is only a suffix, it could even be called the iPad mini Pro.
iPad mini 5 design rumours: What will the new iPad mini look like?
The iPad mini 5 is more than likely going to look very familiar to the iPad mini 4, with the same 7.9in Retina display. However, it's tipped to feature a 7000-series aluminium chassis, which will make it more durable. That's handy, since it's also rumoured to be thinner than its predecessor: just 5mm thick.
Also expect Apple to introduce a Rose Gold colour option, as it has done elsewhere in its hardware line-up.
iPad mini 5 new feature rumours: What's new in the new iPad mini?
• 3D Touch: Apple introduced 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, and it's expected to make its way to the iPad mini line in 2016. 3D Touch is able to register how much pressure is applied to the screen and offer differing options as a result.
• IP68 protection: None of Apple's hardware is waterproof, but it is a soughtafter feature in the Android world, with Sony leading the pack and Samsung reintroducing water- and dust protection in its S7 series. We'd love to see IP68 certification in an iPad, but we can't avoid the feeling this tip may be just wishful thinking.
• Apple Pencil: Should Apple decide to introduce an iPad Pro mini rather than an iPad mini 5, the new iPad mini will more than likely feature Apple's posh new stylus.
• iOS 10: We know a new version of Apple's iPad and iPhone operating system will be released on the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, so any new iPads Apple might release will also feature iOS 10.
iPad mini 5 specification rumours: What to expect from the new iPad mini
• Processor: The iPad mini 4 features the Apple A8 processor and M8 motion co-processor, so expect to see the A9 and M9 in the iPad mini 5.
• 32GB storage as standard: The iPad mini 4 is currently offered in 16GB, 64GB and 128GB versions. We'd love to see Apple ditch the 16GB iPad mini, which we feel just isn't enough storage for most users' needs. An iPad mini with 32GB of storage as standard would be brilliant, and is exactly what is offered with the new iPad Pro, so certainly a possibility.
• Screen: We doubt Apple will upgrade the screen resolution, because doing so would go against all it said previously about the Retina display. As before expect a 7.9in Retina IPS display, but here with the possible addition of 3D Touch.
• Battery: According to Cult of Mac the iPad mini 5 will feature a smaller-capacity battery in order to fit into 5mm frame, but using improved technology so it doesn't negatively impact runtime. The iPad mini 4 features a 5,124mAh battery.
• Cameras: No changes are expected here. The new iPad mini will likely feature an 8Mp camera at the rear and 1.2Mp at the front.
• No headphone port: The iPhone 7 is widely tipped to ditch the standard 3.5mm headphone jack in favour of a new D-jack. And if the iPhone loses the headphone connector, you can guarantee the new iPad mini will do so also.
• NFC: Although it is possible to use Apple Pay on the iPad mini, doing so isn't seamless because it doesn't support NFC. Apple has bitten the bullet with the iPhone; expect it to do the same with the iPad mini.
• Aluminium chassis: We anticipate the new iPad mini 5 to be protected with an aluminium body. More specifically, the 7000-series aluminium chassis allowing the iPad to be thinner and more durable.
Other specs, such as the TouchID fingerprint scanner, are likely to remain the same.
For more new iPad mini rumours check out our sister site Macworld.
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and hacker Andrew Huang have designed an add-on device for iPhone 6 that would alert the user if they are being tracked. Here’s why it matters to IT.
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Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and government whistleblower Edward Snowden is collaborating with well-known hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang to create an iPhone add-on device designed to alert users if they are being spied on.
The research was announced this week at an invitation-only video webcast featuring Snowden and produced by MIT Media Lab’s Forbidden Research. Snowden spoke via a video connection from Russia where he is living in exile, according to a report by the New York Times.
Snowden said that he was concerned that cellphones and smartphones serve as tracking devices that automatically create electronic dossiers that give third parties, such as governments, detailed information on the owner’s location.
That’s likely how Syrian forces located and killed journalist Marie Colvin, alleges a lawsuit filed by Colvin’s family against the Syrian government.
Snowden’s presentation included the story of Colvin, a journalist from New York, who entered the city of Homs, Syria while reporting for London’s Sunday Times. Colvin reported from inside this city, but Syrian forces bombed her base there, killing her and one other journalist, and injuring two others.
A report in the Intercept, the news site startup spawned by Snowden’s work with The Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and others, noted that a lawsuit filed by Colvin’s family says that Syrian forces may have found Colvin by tracing her phone.
Conceptual rendering of a “battery case” style introspection engine, piggybacked on an iPhone 6.
(Image: conceptual rendering via Andrew Huang and Edward Snowden)
In the Forbidden Research webcast, Snowden said it’s become increasingly difficult for users to trust their smartphones. These devices may even be carrying malware that transmits location information even when the user thinks the phone has been placed into a safe “airplane mode.”
And that’s particularly dangerous for journalists, and should be an issue at the top of mind for the IT departments that protect them.
“One good journalist in the right place at the right time can change history,” Snowden told the MIT Media Lab audience, according to a report in WIRED. “This makes them a target, and increasingly tools of the trade are being used against them.”
To protect them, Huang and Snowden designed the device. The work aims to give journalists the ability to know when their smartphones are tracking or disclosing their location when the devices are supposed to be in airplane mode, according to a detailed document written by Huang and Snowden.
“We propose to accomplish this via direct introspection of signals controlling the phones hardware,” they wrote. “The introspection engine will be an open source, ‘user-inspectable’ and field-verifiable module attached to an existing smart phone that makes no assumptions about the trustability of the phone’s operating system.”
[Should corporations side with government on breaking encryption? Read Tim Cook Vs. FBI: Why Apple Is Fighting The Good Fight.]
For their research, Snowden and Huang focused on the 4.7″ iPhone 6 design by Apple.
From the outside, the introspection engine looks and behaves like a typical battery case for an iPhone 6, but inside it also includes independent electronics and an independent screen to provide the user with updates on radio status.
Huang and Snowden said in their paper that they hope to prototype and verify the introspection engine’s abilities in the year ahead. The techniques used to develop the design for this prototype may also be applied to other makes and models of smartphones.
IT organizations mostly have a vested interest in being able to track end-user devices and monitor how those devices are used. For instance, a trucking company may include dispatch apps on its drivers’ iPhones.
But if an iPhone is issued to a journalist in the field in a warzone, that phone’s own tracking and monitoring features can be used against the worker and perhaps even endanger his or her life. In that case, IT would most likely want to enable technology to disable tracking and monitoring. The idea takes mobile device monitoring to a whole new level.
Jessica Davis has spent a career covering the intersection of business and technology at titles including IDG’s Infoworld, Ziff Davis Enterprise’s eWeek and Channel Insider, and Penton Technology’s MSPmentor. She’s passionate about the practical use of business intelligence, … View Full Bio
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