I can't believe how much I love this Samsung stylus that looks like a Staedtler pencil

I can't believe how much I love this Samsung stylus that looks like a Staedtler pencil

 I never thought I'd say this in a million years, but Samsung made a stylus I actually want.

Alongside announcements for its new Galaxy Tab S3 and Galaxy Book tablets that come with the most advanced S Pen Samsung's ever made, the company surprised everyone with a special edition Staedtler-branded S Pen that resembles the iconic black and yellow pencil.

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Pencil-like design aside, the Staedtler S Pen works almost exactly like the S Pen that comes included with the new tablets. Hover the 0.7mm tip near the screen and the familiar Samsung Air Command bubble will pop up with a variety of features like Smart Select, Translate and Magnify.

 I tried the Staedtler S Pen on both the Tab S3 and the Galaxy Book for a hot second and it's remarkable how pencil-like it is. It's still got the regular S Pen's 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity and the slimmer design is more balanced in your hand. 

Though I didn't have an Apple Pencil on hand to compare it with, I can honestly tell you it's one of the best tablet styluses I've ever used. Plus, it just looks so damn cool.

 There's just one thing that disappoints about the Staedtler S Pen: It's missing the regular S Pen's button. Without it, there's no way to use the useful "Screen-off memo" feature on the Galaxy Tab S3 that lets you write on the screen without needing to turn the entire tablet on. 

Still, Samsung deserves props for the sweet collaboration. Call me whatever you want for geeking out over a stylus that looks like a Staedtler pencil because I don't care — it's awesome. 

Neither Samsung nor Staedtler are talking pricing or release yet, but fingers crossed it won't cost $99 like the Apple Pencil.

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Now we know: The Best Picture Oscar debacle was the accountants' fault

Now we know: The Best Picture Oscar debacle was the accountants' fault

Warren Beatty, you're off the hook. 

You too, Faye Dunaway. And to La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz: You handled this as well as anyone could have.

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The blame for the Best Picture Oscar snafu has finally been owned: PricewaterhouseCoopers, the London-based accounting and "professional services" firm that has handled the Academy Awards winners for years, admitted Sunday night that they messed up.

Beatty was handed the wrong envelope.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' statement, sent to Mashable later Sunday night, reads:

We sincerely apologize to “Moonlight,” “La La Land,” Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Oscar® viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture. The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC, and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation.

The key here: There are always two identical winners' envelopes, kept by PwC officials standing on opposite ends of the stage. 

Somehow, Beatty — presenting Best Picture with Dunaway — had been given the envelope for Best Actress, which had already been announced as La La Land's Emma Stone moments before. On the other side of the stage, Beatty got handed an identical envelope.

As anyone would, Beatty tried to roll with it.

He looked over the card two times, then a third. He clearly wasn't sure — it didn't make sense that his envelope said "Emma Stone." And so he showed it to his fellow presenter, Dunaway, who saw the words La La Land. 

And, because the clock was ticking, she spoke them.

The rest of that story has been well-documented. The La La Land crew took the stage and began to give speeches — then were told by panicking production crew that they'd actually lost. Moonlight was the real winner.

For the next couple of hours, theories flew: Emma Stone called Beatty's explanation into question. Moonlight director Barry Jenkins said he saw "two envelopes." No one was sure exactly what happened or why.

But now we know: Somehow, someone handed off the wrong envelope to Beatty backstage. 

The PwC accountants, whose one job is to get this stuff right, got it wrong.

At least they owned it. Eventually.

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The money in the account against flood victims

To promote tourism in Uttarakhand, India captain Virat Kohli signed with the government. For this purpose, a huge amount jeppindi viratku touch. Looks good so far. Kohli, however, be paid remuneration of Rs. 47.19 crore has been disputed now. Assigned to the organization because of disaster prevention for varadabadhitula mallincinatlu found out that the government was criticized adabbunu viratku Kohli. 

The funds allocated for the Rudraprayag district mallincinatlu RTI Kohli said. BJP leader Rajendra ajaya filed an application under the Right to Information Act, reveal the government's response. Uttarakhand Tourism to promote Kailash Kohli mesars Entertainment Pvt Ltd in Mumbai, this amount was paid. 

The funds allocated for the reconstruction of flood Kedarnath, Rudraprayag district of vandalism. To promote tourism in the state, in the hour-long video released by the government. The video does not violate the terms of their payment to Virat Kohli kanipistaduila Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat adviser Surendra Agarwal said.

Harry Potter' passages that are shockingly similar to 2017 politics

Comparisons between the plot of the Harry Potter series and the Trump administration are apparently not stopping any time soon.

What started as the post-election mantra of "Even Hogwarts fell to Voldemort" has morphed into daily comparisons between Potter villains and Trump appointees. These parallels have been criticized as being reductive, juvenile and politically useless — Donald Trump is a real human being capable of inflicting real harm and Voldemort is a made-up snake man from a YA series, after all.

SEE ALSO: 8 strange Patronus results I got from that Pottermore quiz

But what these critics don't seem to realize is that there are several very real and certainly not Photoshopped moments in the Potter series that seem to directly and literally speak to our current political situation.

Of course, if these passages didn't exist, critics would be 100% correct. But as it stands, they do. Interesting!

When Hagrid predicted the election of Donald Trump in 'The Sorcerer's Stone'

The whole chapter about Steve Bannon in 'The Chamber of Secrets'

The passage where Voldemort compares himself directly to several members of the Trump administration

The Triwizard Tournament task that was just 'Calling your reps'

The first appearance of Dolores Umbridge in 'The Order of the Phoenix'

The whole chapter that was just JK Rowling talking about how sweaty the Trump sons are

When Umbridge had Harry carve that Trump speech into his hand

Ford skips over semi-autonomous cars for fully autonomous ones because humans get tired and distracted

Ford skips over semi-autonomous cars for fully autonomous ones because humans get tired and distracted

Will self-driving cars have steering wheels? Maybe not, if engineers keep falling asleep. 

Ford's self-driving cars will skip over Level 3 — where cars are automated, but human drivers are still expected to take over if need be — to Level 4, where cars are basically fully autonomous except for extreme conditions. (Self-driving cars that would meet the requirements for Level 5 are still theoretical at this point.) The levels are defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE. 

Automotive News reported that Ford came to that decision after its engineers fell asleep, lulled into a false sense of security with nothing much to do while driving Level 3 cars.

“These are trained engineers who are there to observe what’s happening,” Ford Product Development Chief Raj Nair told the publication. “But it’s human nature that you start trusting the vehicle more and more and that you feel you don’t need to be paying attention.”

SEE ALSO: Driving in rain is no problem for this self-driving car

A spokesman for Ford denied that report, but confirmed the automaker would pursue Level 4 autonomous vehicles.

"Reports that Ford engineers were falling asleep while testing autonomous vehicles are inaccurate," Ford said in a statement. "We believe that high levels of automation without full autonomy capability could provide a false sense of security, and that this presents a challenge for the driver to regain full awareness and control of the vehicle if a situation arises where the technology cannot function. That is why we’re currently pursuing SAE Level 4 autonomous capability that will take the driver completely out of the driving process in defined areas." 

Ford invested $1 billion in the autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI earlier this month, so there's big money behind these decisions. 

SEE ALSO: Google's self-driving car engineers made so much money that they quit

Deciding on Level 4 aligns Ford with Waymo, Google's self-driving project, which also found that human drivers grew inattentive when tasked with only sort of driving. 

“Level 3 may turn out to be a myth,” Waymo CEO John Krafcik said, according to Automotive News. “Perhaps it’s just not worth doing.”

Unless you need a nap, that is. 

88 satellites will launch on Valentine's Day to image the entire Earth every day

  88 satellites will launch on Valentine's Day to image the entire                                    Earth every day

On Valentine's Day, instead of chowing down on chocolates, a group of engineers and scientists are going to get pancakes and a rocket launch.

Employees working for Planet — a California-based startup — are planning to watch a record 88 of their tiny satellites launch into orbit while eating breakfast. 

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"This [pancake tradition] originated from the very first launch we had back in 2013," Mike Saroyan, Planet's director of launch and regulatory affairs, said in an interview. 

"It was an early morning launch and everyone got together and watched the live stream and we decided to eat pancakes and that's just kind of carried over for every single launch we've had so far."

The Valentine's Day launch will be a special one for Planet, and it's not only because it will set a record for the largest clutch of satellites launched at once. (In total, the PSLV rocket carrying them will take 104 satellites to orbit.)

After these 88 satellites — called Doves by the company — make it into orbit, they will allow it to image the entire Earth every day. It's a goal Planet has dubbed "Mission One," set back when it was founded in 2010.

This will mark Planet's 15th launch and will give the company a total of 100 Dove satellites in orbit. 

"We've had a lot of launches under our belts but this is the one that we feel really defines Mission One," Safyan said.

"It's a pretty special feeling to think back [to] all those years ago when we were a scrappy team inside a garage dreaming about this day, and now this day has finally come."

The new capability will allow Planet's customers to get their data more quickly,  opening the door to uses that weren't possible before.

For example, organizations hoping to track deforestation could use the daily images taken by these satellites to really track, and maybe even prevent, some of that deforestation.

"If we have an update of an area every six months, you can see change but there's not much you can do about it," Safyan added. "Whereas, if everyday you're getting an alert where trees are going down where they aren't allowed to be harvested or cut down, then you can actually go and send someone and do something about it."

The photos can also be used to keep an eye on crops and create more accurate maps.

Planet has had a big year. 

The relatively young company just announced that it's acquiring Terra Bella, Google's satellite arm focused on capturing images of Earth. The acquisition means that Planet will also gain control of Terra Bella's seven SkySat satellites.

As part of the deal, Google will buy data gathered by Planet's fleet of satellites.

Planet also struck a deal that will allow the company to host data from a wealth of other satellites like Landsat-8 and RapidEye.

"We firmly believe that more accessible data can help decision makers take smarter, faster action, and we’re excited to see new and meaningful applications built from this collection of datasets," Planet said in a blog post.

G-mail Service is shutingdown

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2017 December kallavindos in the old version of Google's G-mail, Google said that the company does. From the 8th of this month than the old version of the Gmail open in Chrome when version 53 .. .. A banner will no longer be updated cesukovalantu said. The Chrome browser, for Windows operating systems, the old (OS) is XP, Vista-powered computer with software that does not function in G-mail said.This decision was taken within the Google cyber securities firm.

Getting a new version of the Chrome browser, Google the company to 55. In this version, according to cyber security is not going to tave. Services to update the older version as well as the security features that are not announced apestunnattu.

Both of his older operating software of Microsoft XP, Vista two years ago to update the service stopped. Still a lot of people on this computer is being used. G-mail use of the new OS, browser, and falls into the situation to be