Shortly before 17h Tuesday, June 30, a new update of the iPhone appeared on our screens. It was much more exciting than the others: it marked the launch of Apple Music, the music streaming service of paying Apple brand. As Spotify, Deezer or Pandora, Apple Music now offers millions of songs against a monthly subscription. Although a bit late to the market, Apple had every reason to lean to: listen to streaming music grew strongly (with subscriptions up 32% last year), while the download declined (-8% in 2014)
Recall that the company had launched the most used download library in the world in 2003. the iTunes Store. And most importantly, Apple has a significant advantage: Apple Music is integrated directly into thousands of devices.
Update
For iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, simply upgrade to iOS 8.4: Apple Music just happens under the “Music” icon. Mac or PC, it is also the latest version of iTunes. In terms of Android users, they will have to wait until fall to use Apple Music.
The service is free for three months – during which the artists will still be paid by Taylor Swift. After this period, you will be charged 9.99 euros per month, or 14.99 euros if you chose a family membership, covering up to six people. The subscription is non-binding: you can unsubscribe whenever you want
Customized suggestions
Apple Music presents no navigational difficulties, simply circulate between the five tabs at the bottom of the screen: “To”, “News”, “Radio”, “Connect” and “My Music” . Advantage of the new app, it includes the iTunes purchases automatically in the “My Music” section: all the music you downloaded there. This means that when you “Add to My Music” on a title found on Apple Music, it is added to your iTunes songs. Streaming and purchase in one place, it’s perfect, especially since you can combine the two into playlists.
But the heart Apple Music is “To”. As soon as you open the app, she tries to get to know you and establish a profile. As with Beats (acquired last year by Apple for $ 3 billion), you must click or remove bubbles to indicate that you like or dislike certain types of music, then some artists. In my case, I delete “reggae” and click twice on “rock”, “folk” and “electro” to show that these are genres that I like. By taking into account these results, more music already purchased from iTunes and the songs you “Likez” by clicking on a small heart, Apple offers music playlists and albums. Result: a playlist of “French touch” (Justice, Kavinsky), another entitled “Cooking the sound of electro” (Air, Caribou, Nicolas Jaar) and an album of Boards of Canada group. This gives rather want to explore.
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Visually, the Apple Music interface is perhaps less refined than what Apple has a habit of doing. One only has to see the many different color patches in the “News” tab. When listening to an album, Apple extract the colors on the entire page, which is pretty nice. When your laptop is turned off, only the album cover appears on the screen. The music automatically mutes when you call, will drop a few seconds to a text message or media alert if you let the sound or the vibrator.
30 million titles
We can also spend considerable time in “News” and its many sections. Obviously, the “1989″ album of Taylor Swift is currently in focus. But you can scroll down and learn about the “Securities of time” (AaRON, The Weeknd, Yael Naim) or the “Sort Songs” (Feder, Omi, Felix Jaehn). Going down again, we arrive at a selection of playlists created by humans and not robots. There for all occasions: “party”, “cook”, “having the blues”, “drive”, “barbecue”, “do sports”
(!).
The catalog of 30 million titles appears to cover many things. In trying to fulfill my music library (via the top right magnifier for research), Apple reserves while “Gold” Chet Faker, “Stay golden” Contemporary Sadness, “Blocked” or Casseurs Flowters of the music the opening of the TV series “Horseman Bojack”. Even looking only two letters (“Uh” Fujiya & amp; Miyagi), Apple has no trouble seeing what I mean. Grand missing that makes a little task: the Beatles.
Connecting artists and fans
We preferred to linger in the “News” rather than “Radio” which Apple yet we boast quality. Available round the clock, Beats 1 should be held by top DJs, who take turns from Los Angeles to London. By listening, we heard a lot of chatter on the radio operation as a party that starts with organizers who are trying to set the mood. Impossible to know if an English radio could seduce the French.
Apple relies on “Connect”, which, as its name implies, connects artists and fans. The artists that you can follow will post pictures and unpublished videos, songs on which they work, information on their upcoming tour, etc. We propose to follow the One Direction, Muse and Leona Lewis, for whom I have very little interest. Even more curious, Nirvana is to follow: that is the question of what news could get us (in fact, a photo shoot of the legendary album “Neverrmind”). The section is still quite thin, but is designed as a social network, it is possible that develops progressively, that is if the musicians involved.
With its wide selection and intelligent playlists, Apple Music does not have to blush before its competitors. Even if users will have to learn to juggle some misbegotten registration. If “Connect” does not quickly, they might very well abandon such. It still remains thousands of things to explore on this extremely dense App. This new competitor could shake up the streaming market. Meanwhile, n e, we have a playlist to finish.
Announced in early June, the music streaming service from Apple, Apple Music, opened this June 30 Available in a hundred countries, the service boasts a “human touch” in addition to the recommendations made by the algorithms. Apple music however will also use automated suggestions, and will offer its users a questionnaire on their musical tastes
Apple Music also includes a radio, Beats One, which will be hosted by several known DJ recruited by Apple. – the company has the opportunity to rake-star presenter of the BBC, Zane Lowe
Read also:. Online music: in search of the perfect playlist
Finally, Apple says its service will allow artists to connect in new ways with their fans, through the integration of social networks directly within the application. However, Apple has not detailed the system, while its main competitors have also implemented features that allow artists to share with their fans. Even before its launch, however the service has had its first controversy: the singer Taylor Swift denounced the pay conditions offered to artists. Apple has finally turned around its policy not to compensate artists for the three month trial offered to its customers
Read also:. Taylor Swift has reconciled with Apple
On its catalog, Apple displays “tens of millions” of songs. The service will be available for 10 euros per month, or 15 for a family account (up to six people) – prices comparable or lower than those of its main competitors. Notable change from the usual practices of Apple, the application will also be available on Windows and especially on the phones of its Android competitor this fall.
A free radio, broadcasting twenty-four hours twenty-four, led by facilitators who share the hours when they broadcast the music they want. That’s what the paper proposes Beats 1, Apple’s online radio, which will be heard from on Tuesday. Not a crazy innovation, nothing less than a traditional music radio (although 5 stars by its cast) such as FM waves are populated for decades.
Its launch will take place simultaneously with that of Apple Music. The new music streaming platform is designed to devour competitors Spotify, Deezer or Pandora. For this, a free trial period of three months in early subscription (and paid artists, from the sling conducted by the rights holders pasionaria Taylor Swift) affordable subscription rates and obviously extensive library. Alongside this pachyderm arrival on the streaming market, Beats 1 then, and Connect, a kind of social network where artists can share content directly with listeners.
The “new” Beats 1 surprises at a time when Spotify, Deezer or of Pandora bardent algorithms laying playlists suggesting listeners with news that fit their tastes. These music discovery options have their critics: they let the listeners in their comfort zone. Apple Music also propose but efforts primarily on Beats 1. editorialized programs, the people behind the microphones, playlists composed by hand. A real return to the starting point.
A star of the BBC, Elton John and Dr. Dre on the air
As always with Apple, the ambition is to type in the top range. For this, the firm Apple had announced in February 2015 a rookie weight: Zane Lowe, DJ superstar in the UK. The New Zealander, pure product MTV, for thirteen years had ensured the lively musical program of evening BBC Radio 1. A must for the cream of pop, Coldplay and Kanye West at the same time a space Zane Lowe where music discovery propelled jumble Arctic Monkeys, Alt-J or Haim. His first interviewed on Beats 1 has already been announced: it will be Eminem. Zane Lowe will face Beats 1, with recruits Ebro Darden Adenuga or Julie. Only English programs currently broadcast live from Los Angeles, New York and London.
Besides these professional curators, Beats 1 put the package by announcing flashy names in the presentation of special programs. Dr. Dre (the founder of the Beats brand) will provide hour show titled The Pharmacy , this pioneer of talent what Elton John will propose in his Rocket Hour a mix between old and new pop hits, Pharell and Drake are also planned … Like any good product must also have its mythology, Apple explains that Trent Reznor, leader of Nine Inch Nails (and one of the key designers of Apple Music), which would have first submitted the idea for the radio défricheuse new sounds.
Beats 1, a real radio?
The arrival of this luxury webradio still poses several questions. She will be heard? Online Radios have never triggered foolish passions, the podcast (which should probably offer Beats 1) being suitable for smartphones. Apple seems to rely on the appeal of these great names in music for the 15-35 age iPhone owners submit to a program they have not chosen. According to Cortney Harding, consultant for start-up music and former editor of the magazine Billboard , no doubt, Beats 1 “will work well and will be interesting since People still listen to traditional radio. But it will not be so huge that it “
Another question. How independent will the presenters in their music selection? Apple boasts the pioneer aspect of its future radio. Besides that, most private FM radio stations are already subject to commercial imperatives imposed by the hearing and labels. In comparison, Apple has an entire iTunes library for sale: what to ask many concerns in terms of freedom of programming for facilitators. Beats 1 will she a real radio? In that Zane Lowe says the New York Times, we did not necessarily feel. “It has desperately tried to find another name for radio Beats 1, and the DJ explained. We did not succeed.”
MUSIC Available in 100 countries Tuesday, the music service Music Apple wants to revolutionize music streaming. What release Spotify, Deezer or Qobuz? …
Apple Music is to be launched in 100 countries Tuesday, 30 June – DR
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. Apple Music will be launched in 100 countries this Tuesday, June 30
. After the doubts of the last days, the service will not experience delays in France.
. Apple Music is 100 million subscribers in a year
To:. A ‘family’ mode that makes the difference
15.99 euros against 29 for 6 people 99 euros for Spotify for 5 people, Apple is offering highly competitive and remains the most attractive market, although the Swede said it would align soon on its competitor. A free trial period of 3 months can even enjoy summer to get an idea of the interest of the platform. Gare however the owners of an Apple account: ensuring deactivate the automatic renewal in your settings, otherwise you may continue the Apple Music experience being charged on your credit card
To:. ITunes Apple Music seamlessly
Apple Music will be fully integrated with iTunes. It should thus be possible to trace its entire nightclub patiently ripped and purchased from the iPod years and titles that you want to discover streaming seamlessly
To:. A lively radio 24 / 24 by DJ
Beats1 issue through Apple Music 24/24. Led by three stars (Zane Lowe in Los Angeles; Ebro Darden in New York and Julie Adenuga in London). This contrasts with the thematic radio stations offered by competing platforms and is expected to “push” new artists
Cons: No Free, as paying
Unlike Spotify or Deezer, Apple does not offer Music subscription to listen to streaming music for free. For EUR 9.99 per month, it is possible to access to 30 million shares, but not to discover free, even with advertising
Against:. The premium quality not there
Apple Music titles are broadcast in 256 kbp / s, which remains the norm on most streaming sites market. We are far from the quality Hi-Res Audio Qobuz proposed, but it is twice as expensive …
are expected to judge. The recommendations by real people
Proposed by Apple’s competitors Music, recommendations of services supposed to offer us music according to our tastes are based on algorithms. No wonder that sometimes the titles offered are unsuitable. Apple Music announces the recommendations proposed by the experts through a service called “For You” and playlists to suit our tastes as our plays
are expected to judge. Connect: new MySpace musicians
Apple Music incorporate a social network dedicated to artists: Connect. On MySpace there is image a few years, artists will share it with their fans sounds, videos, etc. Not sure however that Connect is an argument for itself attract customers.
The launch of Apple Music in 100 countries on June 30 will see t -it an ignition delay? On the apple.com site, the date of 30 June is indeed specified. On the apple.fr site, it says “Soon.” Enough to swell the rumor in recent days. Reportedly, Apple Music should indeed be launched in France on Tuesday.
This Tuesday will take a little second to adjust the measurement of time at the rate of rotation of the Earth. At the risk of disrupting many electronic clocks like was the case in 2012. Explanations.
To follow the ticking of life, the most precise tool in the world meets the sweet name of NIST-F2. It is an atomic clock cesium fountain located in National Institute of Standards and Technology Boulder, Colorado. In the same way that a single platinum-iridium cylinder kept on the NIST campus in Washington is considered kilogram kilograms , the pulses delivered by this clock does not just make a meter time but the meter time par excellence, which are calibrated all other devices.
For decades, the main global time scale, Time Coordinated Universal was calibrated using the data of atomic clocks located around the globe, including the NIST-F2. Since the latter is more accurate than other atomic clocks, it is reasonable to say that this is the most accurate clock ever created by mankind. It is even more accurate than Mother Nature, a statement both true and controversial, for reasons we’ll see in a minute perfectly calculated.
What is a second?
The NIST-F2 works by playing with the electron spin. This machine almost 4 meters high uses lasers to gather nearly 100 million cesium atoms in a small space which slows down their movement and lowers their temperature to almost zero degrees. Other lasers are pushing the group of atoms in a microwave chamber and then gravity takes it back. The precisely calibrated microwave radiation changes the state of the cesium atoms. In the 1950s, scientists have calculated the number of cycles of this radiation that occur in the most precise astronomical definition of a second.
A second, in
the classical sense, does not correspond to one-sixtieth of one minute
or even at a flow of 86,400 times a day
This number is 9192631770, which for most of us only corresponds to a mass of figures, but enthusiasts recognize it in an instant. A second, in the classical sense, does not correspond to one-sixtieth of a minute or even one of 86,400 times a day. This is “the duration of 9,192,631,770 radiation corresponding to the transition between the two cycles hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom” .
There is probably nothing more important in our hyper-connected world that a precise calculation of time. Consider the mains: power generation is a very fast and sensitive management between demand and response to the request, which relies on perfect timing to meet the needs. An error of a few microseconds could plunge half a country in the dark.
Atomic Clock vs rotation of the Earth
The problem arises for all systems dominate modern life: air traffic control, stock exchanges, legal documents marked with time code, automated factories, missile guidance, robot-assisted surgery, weather, mobile phone networks, observation Astronomical and car navigation. Our world relies on computers that constantly exchange data packets. To do this, they must agree on the exact time it is and he will be by X seconds. It’s not the money that makes the world. It is the accurate calculation of the time.
But the remarkable precision made possible by atomic clocks poses a singular problem, a problem that is so well melted in our digital infrastructure that pales.
And yet it is important.
The problem is the mixing of two time scales. The time calculated by atomic clocks is not the same as that determined by the first of the clocks: the rotating earth. While current best atomic clocks have an error margin corresponding to approximately one second miscalculated every 100 million years, the Earth, by comparison, is unreliable. This lack of reliability is due to the fact that the rotation of the planet is not regular and gradually slows down. (You may have the impression that time is running at full speed, but the days are getting longer, even slowly.) This gradual deceleration associated with changes in the shorter term of the speed of rotation of the Earth, are of a truly unreliable clock sky.
Before midnight, a 26 th leap second
To prevent our atomic clocks are too far ahead of time determined by the Earth’s rotation, every one or two years the masters of the world time rajoutent one second atomic time before transmitting this time adjusted to the world as the Coordinated Universal Time.
This adjustment is modestly called leap second. Ten of them were added in one go to Universal Time in 1972, and 25 more have been added since. The arrival of the 26 th is scheduled for June 30 in the afternoon, just before midnight. The decision is made every time the difference between the rotation of Earth time and atomic time may exceed 0.9 seconds. In the decades and centuries to come, these adjustments will become more frequent, up to once a month, if not more.
Since
the movement
Earth is unpredictable, we can not predict leap seconds
This change can cause all sorts of problems. In the summer of 2012, clocks haywire ignited Internet. “Bug 2000 2.0: How one second has made the Internet the half lap” headlined Buzzfeed at the time. Temporary failures were found on Reddit, Mozilla, Gawker, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Yelp, the Qantas Airlines reservation system, and others. A few years before that, because of the leap second, a pharmaceutical company has lost a stock of drugs remained too long in the production line, and hunters of a US aircraft carrier were not all aligned on the same time scale, to the point of sometimes shifting nearly a minute.
The concern is partly because leap seconds can not be provided on a regular basis, unlike the leap years. These are both adjustments that compensate the fact that the calendar does not correspond perfectly to nature. But since the movement of the Earth is not predictable, we can not predict leap seconds. This means that computer scientists have six months at most to prepare for it.
The bug of the year 2015?
Part of the world of computing time think that such problems are the harbingers of a coming disaster. When the leap second was added in 2012, the engineers EGNOS, the European satellite navigation system, reported that they could not predict the impact of change, and that this may require a time-nearly 72 hours to adapt. Luck was on their side because nothing happened horrible, but this episode really does not inspire confidence in our ability to manage the occasional change the time scale that governs almost all modern civilization.
This summer, air traffic controllers of the Copenhagen International Airport decided that the easiest way to handle things at the arrival of a leap second would warn drivers that they will left to themselves for a few minutes, disconnect, reboot the system and get back to the aircraft. Such a system can function in a small European airport, said Poul Henning-Kemp, Danish consultant specialist IT related settings leap seconds.
“But this is not a valid solution for airports in Tokyo or Los Angeles, where leap seconds are added during peak hours.”
Farewell, sun king
Those who are in disfavor of the Leap Second explain that this trick was previously satisfactory and even ingenious turned into a problem at best very expensive, at worst a real time bomb. According, to them, the world should abandon the idea of lock on the position of the sun, and atomic clocks should define the length of the day, period.
Should we abandon
the sun once and for all
and stalling only
the frantic pace
subatomic
particle
In the other camp, there was a small group of astronomers steadfast -and the British government. They argue that the leap second was and is a clever solution and calculate the time without referring to the position of celestial objects is contrary to our understanding of the universe and our place there. We give our all time record straight: for switching to summer time, when changing the time zone, or if an old clock needs to be remounted. So what this particular adjustment is it so horrible?
Whatever his view, the problem became crucial. This fall, in Geneva, the international community responsible for defining a standard notion of time will meet to decide the fate of the leap second. These are mostly bureaucrats, not scientists who will make the decision. Should we abandon the sun once and for all and to tune only the hectic pace of subatomic particles? Or should we continue to rely on the sky, adjusting world clocks from time to time to prevent them from being too out of sync with respect to time determined by Greenwich, England?
The End of Time compromise?
The question probably fascinate the great minds of ancient Egypt. There, there are at least 4,000 years, the division of the day into segments – the invention of hours, fait- was adopted. Synchronization of clocks is then well become necessary later in the nineteenth th century, when the rapid expansion of the railroad helped to understand that the time could not be a measure to local level. In 1884, representatives from around the world gathered in Washington to reach an international agreement on the time and longitude and set a standard. It was at that time that the Greenwich Mean Time was designated as the reference, the basis on which all the world’s clocks would be settled. Each degree of longitude in the world corresponds to a difference of four minutes compared to the average solar time on that green hill east of London.
In the 1950s, the physicist Louis Essen built the first atomic clock. As he wrote, it became clear that the standard for the second time, the rotation of the Earth, “did not correspond adequately to the practical applications of the modern world in the areas of navigation Air and communication “. The latter determined by astronomical observation had had their day.
In 1967, the new standard is adopted permanently, or at least until a better solution comes along.
The atomic clock does not give the time of day, of course, but that is not what is needed
Louis Essen
The atomic clock, notes Essen, “does not give the time of day, of course, but that is not what we need “. This is not necessary because the distribution times of the day is a social concept. Yet as soon as atomic time has become the new standard, a question arose: how to integrate this standard notion of time from the point of view of civilization (or at least incorporate the notion that noon the sun at its zenith are linked)? Essen was convinced that the leap second “was a good compromise” .
The world will then end up with just two notions of time, one determined by atomic clocks, the other by the old method heavenly. They could be slightly offset, but not much. Easy.
The door wide open to error
Easy, yes, except for the GPS. Introduced in the 1970s, satellite guidance technology offers a positional accuracy and unprecedented temporal data. Over the following decades, computer programmers begin to stall many software clocks on the GPS system time instead of Coordinated Universal Time -He who is entitled to the leap second.
In the late 1990s, astronomer Dennis McCarthy, the United States Naval Observatory, learned of a number of bugs and problems related to the implementation of the leap second, and attended a lot of nights chaotic insertion of the leap second at the observatory, so much so that he began to seriously consider simply stop the practice. McCarthy, who rose in rank to become director of the temporal branch of the observatory, began writing and speaking about the possibility that the leap second might have had its day.
The time is
a succession of small events called seconds. We can not afford to interrupt
This sequence
Elisa Felicitas Arias
There are two major categories of problems caused by leap seconds. The first relates to the coexistence between GPS signals and signals UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in a transmission from GPS satellite, there is a small code segment that roughly explains the difference between time GPS and UTC time is X seconds. Each leap second, that information must be changed in the GPS message. In other words, it is the open door to the error. Another potential danger is related to the interruption of what is supposed to be an uninterrupted sequence.
“Time is a succession of small events called seconds explains Elisa Felicitas Arias, director of the international department Time weights office and Measures in Paris. We can not afford to interrupt this sequence. “
In 2004, a delegation of the International Union of Communications, led by McCarthy, formally proposed to terminate the leap second principle. Reactions were mixed.
“I think when there is a bug, we fix it. That does not mean that redefines the time, “ says Rob Seaman, data specialist at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson.
Eye on Mars, the Sun and the Earth
Abandon the leap second will lead to expensive and difficult changes telescopes around the world because they are, of Somehow, clocks that measure time and space. But the biggest criticism of Seaman and other scientists is that set time regardless of the positions of celestial objects returns to separate the sun of our clocks. It is not possible to define a time of the day -a second- just looking at an electronic device. We must also look at the sky.
Take the passage of time on another planet, for example. The days on Mars do not last 24 hours, but they include a sunrise and sunset, and minutes between two, as on Earth. One day is not and can not be arbitrarily determined standard.
Nearly forty years after the introduction of this practice, any kind of bug apocalyptic catastrophe of 2000 under certain occurred
Especially as the leap second works quite well, according to Peter Whibberley, chief researcher of the time and frequency at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK. Nearly forty years after the introduction of this practice, no kind of bug apocalyptic catastrophe of 2000 under certain occurred. “Or if there was, we have not heard about it.”
Whibberley, since we already live in a world governed by the atomic time and not by the rotation of the Earth, the debate about the leap second is not really about the calculation of the time. Atomic clocks do that very well, thank you. But thanks to the leap second, we both know how many seconds have elapsed knowing what the time of day in astronomical terms, or at least with a margin of 0.9 seconds.
“We just change the way we call the time when it appears on our clocks [everyday]” indicates Whibberley.
An English pride misplaced?
If there are compelling reasons to change things, Whibberley has not identified them. Besides that, we should not put the blame on those who want to change things to prove that their new approach will be superior to the status quo, and how to know that this new method will not cause unexpected inconveniences?
Some experts have suggested that the commitment of Britain to the leap second had more to do with national pride and preservation of the prestige of Greenwich Mean Time with a scientific logic, technical or even economic. Whibberley is far from okay with it. To prove it, he expressed a bill before Parliament to pass Britain GMT European time, especially for economic reasons. This does not really look like a political position blinded by nostalgia.
I think that without leap second, we will end lose the link between time and the experience of the people day and night
Citation
David Willetts, Minister
British Science
But last year, the Minister of Science, David Willetts, warned against the risk of making “the meaningless time” if world leaders decide to remove the leap second.
“I think without leap second, we will eventually lose the link between time and the experience of the people day and night … the relatively frequent but modest corrections better than creating a gap. The Greenwich Mean Time would shift gradually to the West, the United States. I want him to remain in Britain. “
In fact, the first-year pass through Paris, to the east, where Arias the international office of weights and measures is ironic that Britain, the country where the atomic clock was born now so loudly defend what she calls a “imaginary discontinuity of time” .
Difficulties too well hidden?
For people like McCarthy The debate on sunsets lunchtime deviates from the real problem (and the real dangers) in question. The problem is that companies and institutions that are experiencing difficulties because of the leap second has little reason to make these public problems, and have every reason to keep it secret. You feel safe, if, for example, you were told that some elements in the military, or the leaders of the financial markets had trouble staying on time?
In 2008, McCarthy attended a conference at the Naval Observatory, given by Kamp, the Danish consultant. Kamp shared an amazing story with the congregation during a leap second addition of a few years ago, a new radar control system in a certain country (that Kamp would not disclose) has suddenly set to reproduce radar recordings from the year before.
For that to change, it would take something irreversible, short, people dying
McCarthy
McCarthy thought it was the kind evidence he needed to finally win the game against skeptics who think that the second insert is picturesque, safe and pretty cool. But since nothing catastrophic has happened (the radar screens soon returned to normal), McCarthy warnings have again been little heard.
“This is the most frustrating experience of my life, he admits. We can not continue to put that aside and pretend it was not a problem. “
Pending a tragedy
After years of avoidance, blind alleys and false resolutions to further push a little more the problem, 2015 , or at least a good chance to be a real milestone for the United Nations agency charged with agreeing on this.
“If we put aside the 2015 meetings without changing the definition of Coordinated Universal Time, it will not change until a number of years,” think Arias.
But few people are optimistic about the outcome of future deliberations. McCarthy, even having spent countless hours of his life on it, is now convinced that nothing will happen as a tragedy will not force things.
“We need something irreversible, short, people are dying.”
Meizu and Canonical announced last Thursday for distribution in France and Europe publishing Ubuntu MX4, with nearly three months behind the original schedule.
During our grip at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015) in March, both partners planned availability for the month of April. The unit, one of the few phones and Ubuntu first on the premium segment, is finally proposed on the Old Continent, after a mid-May launch on native lands Meizu, China.
The opportunity to begin to discover the price, unknown until now. The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu with 16 GB of memory is sold 300 euros, that is to say, strictly the same introductory price as its Android equivalent.
The launch also confirms that this powerful device will not be able to turn into extra desktop, which would have been possible with a screen, keyboard and mouse connected via USB MHL, but unfortunately there is no change in this view. This feature allowed by the roots of the mobile platform, derived from a Linux distribution for PCs initially, will only be proposed in a second time, without knowing if the first terminals will enjoy.
We find anyway astonishing 5.36 inch IPS screen and 1920 x 1152 pixels, covered with reinforced glass Corning Gorilla Glass 3, the MediaTek MT6595 processor quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 at 2, 2 GHz quad-core A7 at 1.7 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, without possibility of extension, and the dorsal Sony sensor to 20.7 megapixels.
MX4 Ubuntu distinguishes therefore as its operating system, but innovative young, we invite you to discover in the article that we have dedicated to him and the Quick Start video below.
Meizu MX4 Ubuntu is sold on the international version of the manufacturer’s website. The sale is open to all, but only a selection of buyers will actually buy it, on the draw, as at the launch of OnePlus One.
Soon 6S 7 or an iPhone? Apple has begun production of the next two models of iPhone, reported Bloomberg News on Monday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. They are equipped with a technology called “Force Touch” detecting the degree of force with which you press the touch screen, said the news agency, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
They are identical in size to the iPhone 6 (4.7 inches) and iPhone 6 Plus (5.5 inches), released in September, she said. They also retain their external design.
Few changes
So there would be not much changes in terms of design or design. It would be more a technical update, as was the case with the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 and iPhone 5S. Contacted by AFP, Apple declined to comment.
The technology “Force Touch”, already used in Apple Watch and the new MacBook, allows, according to Apple, to ascertain the degree of pressure applied to the screen, allowing offer new features and an almost 3D on the screen. The Cupertino group had wanted to introduce this technology in the iPhone in 2013 but had given to perfect.
The iPhone is the main source of profits Apple 61.2 million units were sold (+ 40% year on year) in the three months ended in late March, exceeding forecasts the most optimistic analysts had forecast 58.1 million units sold.
SOLAR The aircraft powered by solar energy in Japan was blocked due to weather …
Aircraft Solar Impulse at Nagoya Airport in Japan on June 24, 2015 – / NEWSCOM / SIPA
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The revolutionary aircraft Solar Impulse 2 stuck in Japan since June 2 due to weather, took off on Monday morning to fly over the Pacific Ocean, said a spokeswoman.
Piloted by Switzerland André Borschberg, the device, which works exclusively with solar energy, left around 3am (Sunday at 20h Paris time) of Nagoya, in the center of the Japanese archipelago has is it the same source. “He took off three hours and four minutes (local time),” said Elke Neumann, spokesman of the organizing team of this round the world unique. “We now expect that he has reached the point of no return before sending out the official press to 10:00 local time,” she added, noting that the weather was favorable, but it could still change .
To move from Japan to Hawaii, Solar 2 Impulse will fly a distance of 7,900 km, which should take at least five days and five nights. As there is no point in the road where aircraft could possibly arise after departure, this step is considered the most risky of the journey. A previous attempt at takeoff had to be canceled, there a few days due to bad weather.
In an interview published last week, the second driver Solar Impulse 2, Bertrand Piccard, had stressed that the aircraft was flying over the Pacific in the coming weeks, if not at the risk of being stuck in Japan a year.
Solar Impulse flew Monday 2 toward Hawaii, above Pacific after taking off on the sly Japan where it was blocked by weather for nearly a month, to continue its solar energy challenge around the world.
“Now in flight to Hawaii. very strong emotions because I have passed the point of no return: exploration begins here, “tweeted his driver, Switzerland André Borschberg, 62.
The point of no return is when the airplane is no a priori able to turn around.
“No turning back. It’s a way to Hawaii,” said his side the Solar Impulse team on its website ten hours after takeoff.
The revolutionary aircraft flew from Nagoya (center) at 3:03 local (6:03 p.m. GMT). It travels at about 110 km / h above the Pacific Ocean and plans to climb to 8,500 meters. It is well on the way to Hawaii.
” During the first ten hours of flight, we had technical problems. We finally took the risk to go on. And we have passed the point of no return, and we said OK, we’ll fly to Hawaii ” , told AFP the second Swiss driver alternately, Bertrand Piccard.
“We have good weather. So we are confident that window,” he insisted.
The biggest challenge was to locate a “corridor” to cross a dense rain front that goes roughly from Taiwan to Alaska.
– Bypassing the clouds –
According to the flight plan filed with the Japanese authorities, Solar Impulse is supposed to “go first south and then east before returning to Northern avoiding clouds. “
” He will therefore not pass through in a straight line, it makes a curve to the north. But even by following this path, we can reach Hawaii in five days ” said Mr Piccard.
2 Solar Impulse had to abort its flight between Nanjing (Eastern China) and Hawaii because of bad weather and had landed in Japan in the night of 1 to 2 June
He had long hoped to leave several times, but the rainy season and a thick brow in the rain prevented until Sunday.
The initial decision was very difficult to take given many technical parameters.
” It is extremely difficult to predict the weather on a five-day horizon, “stressed repeatedly the team, taking his pain with patience.
However, the aircraft had only one period limited time, until August 5, to be able to embark on the voyage of a milking 7900 km between Hawaii and Nagoya, because of the conditions in which the unit is to fly.
Fragile it supports neither too hot weather nor rain nor disturbance.
Although it is on track, Solar Impulse is not immune to a technical accident. Ultimately, André Borschberg has a parachute and may pop out over the ocean.
“He will then inflate the life raft and wait for a plane gives him additional means for survival. He can stay on this great raft for maybe three days until a the rescue ship comes, “has assured Bertrand Piccard.
– ‘A feat never achieved’ –
According to organizers, “André will venture into the unknown this flight will be demanding and challenging especially in light of its duration: nearly 120 hours with solar energy only. It is a feat never achieved before in the world of aviation “.
The pilot carefully prepared for this test of endurance, as his alter ego Bertrand Piccard, each having developed his method.
“The goal is to feel comfortable to be able to accept mentally, and even love, to be in the cockpit during a long period,” he told André Borschberg.
“We sleep for periods of 20 minutes, and as this is not enough, I use techniques of yoga and meditation, self-hypnosis and my partner, to relax us,” t- he said, seeming to enjoy his live alone in his cramped cabin.
2 Solar Impulse, whose wings are covered with photovoltaic cells, had previously been blocked more than a month in China by poor conditions climate.
The flight departed on March 9 Abu Dhabi to a world tour of 35,000 kilometers to promote the use of renewable energy, particularly solar energy.
Solar Impulse 2 left Nagoya at 3am Monday. The revolutionary device, which only works with solar energy, had to make a forced stopover in Japan in early June because of poor weather conditions. There was grounded since, waiting for the heavens to be more favorable. For Impulse 2, fragile, supports neither too hot weather nor rain nor disturbance. The biggest difficulty was to find a “corridor” to cross a dense rain front that goes roughly from Taiwan to Alaska, stressed the team. This time, this is it, “we spent the night with the team to take the most difficult decision of project: rush to Hawaii,” said on his Twitter account the pilot Bertrand Piccard
<. p> Solar Impulse 2 will therefore be able to continue his world tour of 35,000 km, began on March 9 of Abu Dhabi in order to promote the use of renewable energy, particularly solar energy. But this new stage of his journey is particularly risky. To reach his next destination, Hawaii, the unit will fly a distance of 7900 km, with no possibility to arise.
This is the second pilot alternately, Switzerland André Borschberg, will be to orders during this trip that should last at least five days and five nights. “ This is the moment of truth for the project. This is the moment of truth for our team “, he stressed last week.
INFOGRAPHIE- After being forced to abort its flight early June the plane solar energy took off again from Japan for a journey of five days and nights during which André Borschberg will only to commands.
2 Solar Impulse took off in the night from Sunday to Monday from Japan where he waited patiently for nearly a month, enjoying a favorable weather window to try to reach Hawaii.
The plane, piloted by André Borschberg, flew to a distance of 5 days and 5 nights Nagoya (center) around 3:04 local (6:00 p.m. GMT), told AFP a spokesman for the mission, Elke Neumann. “We now expect that it has reached the point of no return for issuing a press release to local 10 o’clock (0100 GMT),” she said.
There are a month Solar Impulse 2 had to abort its flight between Nanjing (Eastern China) and Hawaii because of bad weather and had landed in Japan in the night of 1 to 2 June He had hoped for from several times, but the rainy season and a thick brow nuagueux has prevented until Sunday. The decision of the start was very difficult to take, given the many technical parameters. “It is extremely difficult to predict the weather a period of 5 days,” repeatedly stressed the team, taking his misfortune patiently.
However, the aircraft piloted alternately by André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard, had only a limited period, until August 5, in order to embark on the voyage of a treats 7,900 km between Hawaii and Nagoya, because of the conditions in which the unit must fly. Fragile, it supports neither too hot weather nor rain nor disturbance. The biggest challenge was to find a “corridor” to cross a dense cloudy forehead ranging approximately from Taiwan to Alaska. “The only way to achieve this with our plane to locate a place where the front is much thinner,” explained André Borschberg last week told AFP. “This is the moment of truth for the project. This is the moment of truth for our team, “also told the driver.
” This plane is like a jewel. It really flies well. It behaves very well. We do not want to lose it with a stupid decision. We need a good script in five or six days and nights. We knew it would be difficult, “he confided
” Andre will venture into the unknown. This flight will be demanding and challenging especially in light of its duration, nearly 120 hours with the solar energy only. It is a feat never achieved before in the world of aviation “, said the organizers awaiting takeoff. The pilot carefully prepared for this test of endurance, as his alter ego Bertrand Piccard, each having developed his method. “The goal is to feel comfortable to be able to accept mentally, and even love, to be in the cockpit during a long period,” said André Borschberg. “We sleep for periods of 20 minutes, and as this is not enough, I use techniques of yoga and meditation, self-hypnosis and my partner, to relax,” he recounted, seemingly enjoying his life alone in his cramped cabin.
2 Solar Impulse, whose wings are covered with photovoltaic cells, had previously been blocked more than a month in China by bad weather.
The flight departed on March 9 Abu Dhabi to a world tour of 35,000 kilometers to promote the use of renewable energy, particularly solar energy.
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The revolutionary aircraft Solar Impulse 2 stuck in Japan since June 2 due to weather, took off on Monday morning to fly over the Pacific Ocean, said a spokeswoman.
Piloted by Switzerland André Borschberg, the device, which works exclusively with solar energy, left around 3am (Sunday at 20h Paris time) of Nagoya, in the center of the Japanese archipelago has is it the same source. “He took off three hours and four minutes (local time),” said Elke Neumann, spokesman of the organizing team of this round the world unique. “We now expect that he has reached the point of no return before sending out the official press to 10:00 local time,” she added, noting that the weather was favorable, but it could still change .
To move from Japan to Hawaii, Solar 2 Impulse will fly a distance of 7,900 km, which should take at least five days and five nights. As there is no point in the road where aircraft could possibly arise after departure, this step is considered the most risky of the journey. A previous attempt at takeoff had to be canceled, there a few days due to bad weather.
In an interview published last week, the second driver Solar Impulse 2, Bertrand Piccard, had stressed that the aircraft was flying over the Pacific in the coming weeks, if not at the risk of being stuck in Japan a year.
