New NASA photos show sharpest close-up shot of Pluto

We can’t help but want to understand the space beyond ours and the new photos released by NASA show us possibly the sharpest images we can see of Pluto for decades to come. Taken in July during New Horizons’ closest flyby to the dwarf planet, the series of images captured by the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were taken from 10,000 miles away with a 250 to 280 feet per pixel resolution. What does this mean? NASA says these images are six times better than the global Pluto map the space agency released earlier. You can see the image stitched together under the link.

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Apple reportedly raise iTunes Match and Apple Music Library matching limits

Reports from MacRumors have surfaced saying some users have noticed they’re able to upload more than 25,000 tracks to iTunes Match or Apple Music’s similar scan-and-match feature. Exceeding the current limit means Apple is keeping to its word to raise the matching limit. Back in late June and before the launch of Apple Music, Eddy Cue said on Twitter that Apple planned to raise this limit to 100,000 for iOS 9. But that didn’t show up when iOS 9 made its debut. When MacRumors checked with Cue in October, he said the company was “definitely working on it” and it would go live “before the end of the year.” So perhaps Apple is keeping its word, but they haven’t made official announcements for it yet.

Source: MacRumors

Porsche's Mission E takes aim at the Tesla Model S

Don't look now, but Porsche's shifted gears and looks to be aiming for the sedan with supercar performance EV market dominated by none other than Tesla's Model S.  The Mission E is a fresh new Porsche prototype, a 5-seater sedan designed for long-range EV driving.

Featuring a 600 horsepower engine with a 0-100 kph time under 3.5 seconds, a top speed of over 250 km/h, and a total range of over 500 kilometers, the Mission E is also one of the most futuristic Porsches we've come to market.

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ZTE outs its cheapest smartphone with fingerprint sensor

ZTE’s making a case for feature-packed budget phones with its newest device. The ZTE Blade A1 comes with a fingerprint sensor at the back. It packs in a 5-inch 720p HD display, MTK MT6735 1.3GHz processor, 16GB internal storage with microSD expansion capability, LTE connectivity, and dual SIM support. This Android Lollipop device also has a 13-megapixerl rear shooter and 8-megapixel front facing camera. It’s going up for sale in China via JD.com for 599 CNY by the end of the year, which is roughly $125. There is no word if it’ll come this way though. We can only hope it would.

Source: Android Community