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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Kanye West Signs Teyana Taylor To G.O.O.D. Music
The 21-year-old Harlem rapper and singer is officially added to the roster at West's Def Jam imprint.
By Nadeska Alexis
Teyana Taylor
Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
Well, this was a long time coming. Kanye West has been closely affiliated with Harlem rapper/singer Teyana Taylor for some time now, but this week it was confirmed that Taylor has officially been signed to 'Ye's G.O.O.D. Music label.
The 21-year-old singer-songwriter and actress, who worked with West on his fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, will reveal details about her first G.O.O.D. Music LP and forthcoming singles in the next few weeks. In April she debuted a new mixtape, The Misunderstanding of Teyana Taylor, which pays tribute to Lauryn Hill and her other early influences, including Mary J. Blige and Janet Jackson.
Taylor got her start in the industry when she was signed to Pharrell William's Star Trak record label at the age of 15, and some fans might remember her over-the-top episode of MTV's "My Super Sweet 16." Her debut album, 2008's From a Planet Called Harlem, featured the breakout single "Google Me," and Taylor has since earned plenty of co-writing credits on recent songs like Nicki Minaj's "Right By My Side," which appeared on Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Taylor worked closely with West on MBDTF's "Hell of a Life," "Runaway," "Dark Fantasy" and the collaboration track "Christmas in Harlem," which also featured G.O.O.D. Music's CyHi the Prynce.
Her recent onscreen endeavors include roles in 2010's "Stomp the Yard 2" and Tyler Perry's 2011 film "Madea's Big Happy Family." Last summer, the 21-year-old also grabbed attention with her remix of Drake's hit single "Marvin's Room." "Her Room" found Taylor sampling lyrics from Lauryn Hill's "X Factor," as she came to terms with a cheating ex.
The G.O.O.D. news just keeps coming from Kanye West's camp. Last month the super producer/rapper signed veteran Q-Tip to his Def Jam imprint.
What do you think of Kanye of signing Teyana to G.O.O.D. Music? Tell us in the comments!
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Light from alien 'super-earth' seen for first time
NASA's Spitzer space telescope has detected a light source coming from a large earth-like planet.
Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are calling a historic achievement.
Skip to next paragraphNASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope spotted light from the alien planet 55 Cancri e, which orbits a star 41 light-years from Earth. A year on the extrasolar planet lasts just 18 hours.
The planet 55 Cancri e was first discovered in 2004 and is not a habitable world. Instead, it is known as a super-Earth because of its size: The world is about twice the width of Earth and is super-dense, with about eight times the mass of Earth.
IN PICTURES: Exoplanets
But until now, scientists have never managed to detect the infrared light from the super-Earth world.
"Spitzer has amazed us yet again," said Spitzer program scientist Bill Danch of NASA headquarters in Washington in a statement today (May 8). "The spacecraft is pioneering the study of atmospheres of distant planets and paving the way for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to apply a similar technique on potentially habitable planets."
Spitzer first detected infrared light from an alien planet in 2005. But that world was "hot Jupiter," a gas giant planet much larger than 55 Cancri e that orbited extremely close to its parent star. While other telescopes have performed similar feats since then, Spitzer's view of the 55 Cancri e is the first time the light from a rocky super-Earth type planet has been seen, researchers said.
Since the discovery of 55 Cancri e, astronomers have pinned down increasingly strange features about the planet. The researchers already knew it was part of an alien solar system containing five exoplanets centered on the star 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer (The Crab). [Gallery: The Oozing Planet 55 Cancri e]
But 55 Cancri e stood out because it is ultra-dense and orbits extremely close to its parent star; about 26 times closer than the distance between Mercury and our own sun.
The new Spitzer observations revealed that the star-facing side of 55 Cancri e is extremely hot, with temperatures reaching up to 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit (1,726 degrees Celsius). The planet is likely a dark world that lacks the substantial atmosphere needed to warm its nighttime side, researchers said.
And to top it all off, the planet is oozing.
Past observations of the planet by the Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that one-fifth of 55 Cancri e is made up of lighter elements, including water. But the extreme temperatures and pressures on 55 Cancri e would create what scientists call a "supercritical fluid" state.
Supercritical fluids can be imagined as a gas in a liquid state, which can occur under extreme pressures and temperatures. On Earth, water can become a supercritical fluid inside some steam engines.
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
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Toshiba Excite 10 LE
Toshiba's Excite 10 LE ($529 direct, 16GB) is the slimmest, lightest 10.1-inch tablet we've seen yet. At only 7.7mm (0.3 inches) thick and 1.2 pounds, it's even comfortable held in one hand, as long as that's a pretty strong hand. You'll pay a premium for the slimmest tablet on the block, though, both in money and in power, and even better slim tablets are coming from Toshiba soon.
Physical Features and Networking
Once known as the Excite X10, The Excite 10 LE looks and feels like a premium product. At 10.1 by 6.9 by .3 inches (HWD) it's super-slim, with a brushed-metal back and a groove around the smooth plastic edge. The Power and Volume buttons, and the lock switch, are in natural positions for your fingers to find. For such a slim tablet, there are a suprising number of ports around the edge: a microSD card slot, USB, HDMI, and headphone jacks, as well as a separate, large power port.
The 1280-by-800, TFT LCD screen is just okay. The Gorilla Glass covering the display is highly reflective, and you can sometimes see the pattern of the touch-screen actuators under the glass, which makes solid black areas look oddly textured.?
The Excite connects to Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n networks, albeit only on the 2.4GHz band. I had some trouble connecting the tablet to our office networks, but was able to get through after a few tries. The tablet's slender body doesn't fit much of a battery, and as such, we got only 4 hours, 44 minutes of continuous video playback with the screen set to full brightness. That's shorter than all of our competing highly rated tablets.
Android and Apps
The Excite 10 LE runs Android 4.0.3 on a TI OMAP4430 dual-core, 1.2GHz processor. It's the same processor you'll get on the Editors' Choice Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx ($199, 4.5 stars) smartphone, for instance, and it's faster than the Nvidia Tegra 2s you see in some other tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1). But it doesn't measure up, speed-wise, to the new Nvidia Tegra 3 or Qualcomm S4 8960.
You won't notice that in average use. I found the Excite 10 LE's screen to be very responsive, unlike, say, the supposedly faster Acer Iconia Tab A510 ($449, 3 stars).? While the Excite 10 LE's Antutu system benchmarks came in at half the speed of Tegra 3 tablets like the Asus Transformer TF300 ($379, 4 stars), Web benchmarks like Browsermark were almost up to par. The two places you'll notice the difference are in high-end games like Riptide GP, which are jerkier and lack some visual effects you see on Tegra 3 tablets; and on Flash-based Web sites, which operate slowly.
The fine performance here may be in part because Toshiba uses a completely stock version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The company did add some apps to try to get around Android tablets' app failures, though. Toshiba App Place is a quasi-app-store which lists several hundred tablet-ready apps in the Google Play market. Book Place is a bookstore; News Place is a good looking, Flipboard-like news app; and Crackle delivers free streaming movies. You also get Kaspersky antivirus, a media player app that supports shared servers on your local network, and a bunch of Solitaire games.
Multimedia and Conclusions
The Excite 10 LE comes with 16GB of on-board memory, and our 64GB SanDisk memory card worked in the microSD card slot. The tablet played all of our music and video formats, including H.264, MPEG4, WMV, DivX, and XviD up to 1080p resolution, and music in WMA, OGG, WAV, MP3, and AAC formats. There are various SRS-related sound options you can use to boost treble or stereo separation.
Sound through wired headphones and the twin stereo speakers on the bottom was unremarkable, but fine. Through a Bluetooth headset, I saw a slight lip sync delay in some video files. And 720p HD output from the micro HDMI port has an annoying bug which sent a slightly-too-large image to our Sony TV, clipping off the edges of the screen.?
The 5-megapixel rear camera has issues in low light, but brightens up considerably outdoors. In my tests, low-light and indoor images generally showed a lot of color noise and looked oversharpened. The 1-megapixel front camera was extremely noisy in low light. Outdoors, shots weren't bad at all, with decent color and light balance and much less noise.
Videos recorded outdoors clocked in at a smooth 30 frames per second in 1080p HD with the main camera, and VGA quality with the front camera. But indoor videos taken with the main camera were very jerky, ranging from 9-18 frames per second, even when taken down to 720p resolution.
The filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson once wrote, "Everyone's born with?one special thing." The Excite 10 LE has that one special thing. Its light and slim build stand out from the crowd of similar $450 tablets. But that isn't enough to overcome the competition. The Asus Transformer TF300 costs only $379, is just a wee bit thicker, and is much better for gaming thanks to its quad-core processor. The new Apple iPad (4.5 stars), at $499, has a far superior screen and a much broader library of tablet-centric applications. And Toshiba itself has the Excite 10 coming soon, with a quad-core processor in the same body for $500. That gives the Excite 10 LE a pretty slim niche in a crowded Android tablet market.
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Saturday, May 12, 2012
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