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LG is making bendable and unbreakable OLED display, for useless curved smartphone
2013-10-07 19:25:41| Extremetech
LG has confirmed that it has begun mass production of a flexible, 6-inch OLED display for smartphones. According to LG, these displays are both bendable and unbreakable (if LG would like to send us a prototype so that we can test the latter claim, that'd be lovely). LG's flexible OLED display will apparently hit the market inside the "G Flex," a 6-inch curved-screen smartphone that's expected to be announced in November. Unfortunately, curved smartphones are virtually useless -- and actually worse ergonomically than normal, flat smartphones.
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Are models that show economic effects of climate change useless?
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economist: MODELS simplify. They are supposed to. It is a feature, not a bug. Their formulae may be complex but models deliberately omit some things in order to focus on others. They also leave out factors that cannot be modelled satisfactorily. That is understandable, but what if the factors that cannot be modelled make a huge difference to the outcome? And what if the things that are excluded tend to produce a systematic bias in the results? That is precisely the situation facing those who model the economic...
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VIDEO: Banks should end 'useless' activities
2013-08-09 00:07:24| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The governor of the Bank of England has called for a cultural change in financial institutions and an end to activities he deemed, "socially useless".
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Windows RT 8.1: Still slow, still plagued by the Desktop, still useless
2013-06-27 12:56:07| Extremetech
Despite an additional year of trying to get Windows RT right, the ARM version of Windows 8.1 remains sluggish on the Surface RT -- and by association, any other Windows RT tablet powered by the Tegra 3 SoC. Despite its status as a vestigial stump, the Desktop remains -- and you still can't run anything other than a handful of Microsoft-approved Desktop apps. Some changes, such as the ability to side-by-side apps and the beefed up Metro Control Panel, make Windows RT more usable -- but in reality, these updates are meaningless until some updated, faster hardware arrives.
MIT tech turns any surface into a user interface, but its useless without Google Glass
2013-05-02 15:36:03| Extremetech
MIT Media Lab has released a video to go along with their recent publications detailing new AR interface technology they claim could put "a user interface on any surface".