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Pine64 ☛ Project Showcase: Movuan - PINE64
The goal of the Movuan project is to merge into Devuan as an official version, but it still requires some polishing to do before this can happen. Specifically help with packaging and testing would be appreciated! Anyone who is interested in helping with this project can contact [...]
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Hackaday ☛ The Android Bluetooth Connection
Suppose someone came to talk to you and said, “I need your help. I have a Raspberry Pi-based robot and I want to develop a custom Android app to control it.” If you are like me, you’ll think about having to get the Android developer tools updated, and you’ll wonder if you remember exactly how to sign a manifest. Not an appealing thought. Sure, you can buy things off the shelf that make it easier, but then it isn’t custom, and you have to accept how it works. But it turns out that for simple things, you can use an old Google Labs project that is, surprisingly, still active and works well: MIT’s App Inventor — which, unfortunately, should have the acronym AI, but I’ll just call it Inventor to avoid confusion.
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CNX Software ☛ Ugoos AM9 Android 14 TV box features Amlogic S905X5 Armv9 SoC, supports H.266 and AV1 codecs
Ugoos AM9 is an Android 14 TV box powered by an Amlogic S905X5 quad-core (Armv9) Cortex-A510 SoC, which supports features such as H.266 and AV1 hardware video decoding and Hey Hi (AI) Super Resolution (AI-SR) through the built-in 4 TOPS NPU. We first noted the Amlogic S905X5 SoC in an upcoming SEI Robotics TV box about two years ago. Details were sparse at the time, and in the meantime, Amlogic introduced the similarly named S905X5M, which is still a “regular” Armv8 SoC with four Cortex-A55 cores, and found in products such as ODROID-C5 SBC and Ugoos X5M Pro. However, I had not heard anything about the more powerful S905X5 SoC until I came across the Ugoos AM9 TV box this morning.
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New York Times ☛ London Asks Commuters, ‘Please Put Your Headphones In, Thank You’
On Tuesday, London’s public transit operator took action, with a social media campaign and posters on one line gently reminding riders who listen to music, play games or make calls to use their headphones.
Many in Britain have long disdained the practice of playing music through a phone’s speakers in public as “sodcasting.” In a June survey, about 70 percent of riders said they found headphone-less phone use “disruptive.”