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Forgive me for passing up the chance to beat the exploding battery joke into the ground. Lets get straight to the point Samsungs once dominant flagship phablet is back after a two year hiatus. Sporting a stunning extra widescreen 1. Galaxy Note 8 is bigger and more engaging than ever before, and it packs a larger power pack than any Note besides the ill fated Galaxy Note 7 too. But a lot has changed since 2. Note 8 is now more expensive than ever. Directed by Alex Gibney. With Julian Assange, Adrian Lamo, John FuzzFace McMahon, Alex Gibney. A documentary that details the creation of Julian Assanges. Julian Assange, Self Citizenfour. Julian Assange was born on July 3, 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia as Julian Paul Assange. He is a producer and director. That means there are two questions it needs to answer Does the Galaxy Note 8 still make sense in 2. What is it A giant phone with a built in stylus. Like. Its about time Samsung joined the dual camera game. At first glance, the answer might be no. The Note 8s 6. 3 inch 2. AMOLED display is insignificantly larger than the 6. We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks Full Movie Part 1' title='We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks Full Movie Part 1' />S8 Plus though that bezel less design remains strikingly pretty, and its Qualcomm Snapdragon 8. GB of storage and built in micro. SD card reader arent any different either. Get the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews. Aside from slightly boxier corners, the Note 8s luscious glass and aluminum body is pretty much the same too. You even get the same annoying Bixby Button below the volume rocker, which still cant be remapped to something useful. The one small improvement is that Samsung has upped the Note 8s RAM from 4. GB to 6. GB, which is nice nod to the Galaxy Notes traditional fan base of power users. However, on a day to day basis, its an improvement that isnt always that noticeable despite benchmarks that put the Note 8 a tiny bit ahead of its smaller siblings. That means the decision really hedges on Samsungs signature S Pen stylus and the companys first ever dual camera module. Now Ill be the first person to say that after years of improvements to mobile operating systems, weve gotten to a point where UIs are properly designed for touch based navigation. Across both i. OS and Android, theres never a time when youre screaming out for a mouse or something more precise. Which, for me, softens the allure of a stylus. But after over a week using the Note 8, the S Pen is starting to win me over. Theres just so much you can do, whether its jotting down notes without even unlocking the phone, or using the new full sentence translation feature to make up for my shoddy Mandarin reading comprehension. But strangely, the best part about the S Pen is the multiple methods it has for goofing off by making your own homegrown gifs. Option one is to whip out the S Pen, hit Smart Select and put a rectangle over any video you can see on the screen. Watch Phenomena Online Phenomena Full Movie Online. Boom. gif made. Option two, the Live Messages feature, is new for 2. Live Messages lets you make animated drawings on a background color of your choosing or even on top of pictures youve taken. Its a virtual meme making machine, and a joyful addition to a phone thats so often seen in the hands of no fun allowed corporate execs. But thats still only answering half the question of why you should get a Note 8 over the cheaper S8. The other part of the equation are Samsungs new dual rear cams, which pairs the S8 and S8 Plus camera with a second 1. Its a camera set up weve already seen in last years i. Phone 7 Plus. The little special sauce Samsung adds to the mix is the presence of optical image stabilization on both cameras. This is a welcome improvement, because as things get farther away, camera shake tends to becomes a much bigger nuisance. Unfortunately, even with this new addition, the Note 8s camera performance isnt flawless. The first issue is that like on the i. Phone 7 Plus, you dont actually have full control over which lens youre using. Sometimes in low light environments, hitting the 2x button to zoom results in digital enhancement instead of optical. That means you are just cropping in and getting a lower resolution final image, instead of using the lens with double the focal length. At least its not a problem unique to the Note 8. Sometimes when the Note 8 opted for digital zoom instead of optical, the i. Phone didnt. While other times, the situation was reversed. And the really frustrating part is that neither phone offers an override for when you might know better than the silicon nanny holding your hand. Yet even in ideal conditions, the Note 8 didnt always nail it. Take, for example, photos I got when I tried to snap a picture of New Yorks favorite large adult son at a recent Yankees game. At first I was absolutely thrilled that the Note 8s zoom let me get up close and personal like not many phone cameras can. But when looking at pics side by side from the Note 8 and the i. Phone 7 Plus, things were close, but the i. Phones pic was sharper and less blown out. But when you put a little effort in, the Note 8 can still absolutely dazzle. I was blown away by a shot I took of the nighttime New York skyline with Samsungs new camera module. Ive taken this exact shot with a budget DSLR and not gotten something this good. Not only did it let me get everything out of that zoom lens, its photo is sharper, less noisy, and way more colorful than the best I could get from the i. Phone 7 Plus. On top of all that, Samsung has a new live focus mode that lets you adjust depth of field similar to how you might on a big DSLR or mirrorless camera. That lets you choose between backgrounds with the creamy blurriness portrait shooters love, or sharpness all the way from front to back depending on what youre going for. And you still get the super saturated colors and razor sharp focus that Samsungs cameras have become known for. Camera and stylus aside, there are a few other little Samsung surprises like the new app pair feature, which lets you create combos that launch two apps in multi window mode with a single touchperfect for anyone whos ever wanted to find an address from an email or text while keeping an eye on the map. And despite a battery thats actually smaller in capacity than the one in the S8 Plus 3,3. Ah versus 3,5. 00 m. Ah, the Note 8s time of 1. S8 Pluss 1. 0 4. With stuff like this, the Galaxy Note 8 is starting to make a pretty good case, but Im still not sure. The Galaxy Note 8 is supposed to be a phone of excess. Its supposed to have all the most outrageous tech while simultaneously pushing boundaries that other companies wouldnt dream about touching. Yet its screen is only marginally bigger than the S8 Plus and it doesnt look that much different either. Why Bringing Back a Wooly Mammoth Is No Longer Science Fiction. Dr. George Church is a real life Dr. Frankenstein. The inventor of CRISPR and one of the minds behind the Human Genome Project is no longer content just reading and editing DNAnow he wants to make new life. In Ben Mezrichs latest book, Wooly The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of Historys Most Iconic Extinct Creatures, Church and his Harvard lab try to do the impossible, and clone an extinct Woolly mammoth back into existence. Mezrich, author of the books that would become the feature films 2. The Social Network, seems to have graduated from college to a bioengineering Ph. D with his latest work, which is chock full of scientific explanation detailing every aspect of the Church labs efforts to rewrite the DNA of an elephant to look like a wooly mammoth. But Mezrich is even more interested in telling the stories of the people trying to make the mammoth a reality, dramatizing the lives of Church, his wife, Harvard Professor Dr. Ting Wu, their fellow scientists, researchers working for a competing cloning lab in Korea, and the conservationists at the Siberian preserve where the mammoths will finally reside. While at times his predictions feel too good to be true, Mezrichs prose rarely fails to engage. Gizmodo sat down with Mezrich to talk about a few of the themes present in his book, as well as the future of de extinction and scientific breakthroughs in general. Below is a lightly edited and condensed version of the interview. Gizmodo What brought you to extinct species revival in particularMezrich Ive been interested in mammoths since I was a kid, basically, and Ive always been a fan of Michael Crichton and Jurassic Park, so its always been on my mind to tell a story like that. Then a couple years ago, I started hearing about Dr. George Church and the Mammoth Revival project, and I decided I just needed to tell this story. So I basically reached out to him blindly. He let me embed myself in his lab, so I spent a while just living there seeing what was going on, and just getting really into it. Gizmodo An early chapter of the book opens four years in the future, when humans have succeeded in bringing mammoths back to life. What makes you think the project will succeed so soon Mezrich Even at this moment, right now, there are three prehistoric woolly mammoth genomes alive, living in elephant cells, so were on the verge of it. I was talking to George the previous night. Even though he doesnt put a date on it, I put the four year date, but he sees that as totally possible. The slowest part of the process right now is the gestation period of an elephant. Whether well have a woolly mammoth in three years or just be very close in three years, I dont know, but a lot depends on the money and on the elephant. The initiative is how they work on it, but it is feasible. Gizmodo Lets talk about the money. Thats a huge motivating factor behind the project, but it seems like the wealthy are the ones funding scientific efforts a lot of the time Editors Note The Church Labs Genome Sequencing project is funded mainly by private computing and biotechnology companies. Is this a good thing How do you feel about science funded on the whims of oligarchs Mezrich Well its interesting, you look at this marriage between incredibly wealthy people and science, and in some ways its a very good thing. You know, in some ways it pushes science forward. Youre not gonna see and I wish you would Donald Trump pouring money into the woolly mammoth revival project, youre not seeing the government doing these things. Scientists do often have to turn to outside sources, and if someone like Peter Thiel wants to live forever, he needs to fund the things in George Churchs lab. So whatever his personal goal, its good for everybody. I look at it as a positive thing, I think big money has always influenced outside the box science, look at what Elon Musk does or whats going on at Amazon, Facebook or Google. Its very very wealthy people throwing money at crazy ideas, and hopefully we all benefit from it. Peter Thiel put in 1. Gizmodo This book and The Accidental Billionaires both had the protagonists receive additional funding from Peter Thiel. Hyde Park On Hudson Movie Watch Online'>Hyde Park On Hudson Movie Watch Online. How do you feel about his involvement in particular in such immediately relevant work Mezrich Yeah, Ive written about him twice. Editors Note Mezrich also covered Peter Thiel in his book Accidental Billionaires In this case the way George tells the story, he basically ran into Peter Thiel, and told him about a couple of projects. Thiel said tell me your craziest projects, and he listed a couple of them, and Thiel said, the woolly mammoth, thats the one I want to do. Gizmodo Speaking of other projects, is Church working on anything half as crazy as a mammoth Mezrich Yeah, absolutely, Church and his lab are doing the anti malaria mosquitos, working with the Gates foundation, theyre building domes over villages in Africa and releasing mosquitoes that cant carry malaria, to test them out. Also, his student Ken Esfeld at MIT is working on transgenic mice to beat lyme disease. The goal is to release 1. Lyme disease onto the island of Nantucket, which is kind of a wild story. In his lab, theyre also working on the pigs with human compatible livers. Theyve a couple of pig embryos with livers that can be used in humans. Youre looking at the future of transplantation, which is incredible. Theyre working on projects to extend lifespans but the mammoth project and the ones with the transgenic species are the craziest. Gizmodo Do you think meddling with ecosystems and reviving lost species could have negative effects on living ones Mezrich You have to be very ethical and responsible because youre working with technology that is very powerful. The same technology that allows you to create a woolly mammoth or an extinct species allows you to eliminate a species if you want. You could eliminate mosquitos Editors Note Scientists are discussing the possibility of doing this with a controversial and speculative technology called gene drive, but that brings up enormous issues in ecology. I think bringing back an extinct species like the mammoth is generally a good thing, I think that the people who dont want Church to do that are usually thinking what does it mean for the Asian elephant population, which is endangered. But its not a zero sum gamewere not giving up on these endangered species.