Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal for $475 million

The sports apparel company has agreed to buy MyFitnessPal, a popular diet-tracking app, for $475 million. Under Armour announced the MyFitnessPal acquisition, as well as the comparatively smaller $85 million purchase of running app Endomondo, alongside its quarterly earnings report Tuesday afternoon.

Heck, I use both apps…. ^_^;

Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal for $475 million.

Monty Oum

The name may not mean much to some people, but to some, he is a well-known game animator, producing hugely popular shorts and series such as RWBY and my favourite, Dead Fantasy — a cross between Dead or Alive and Final Fantasy. It has been reported that he has passed away due to an allergic reaction during a medical procedure that put him in a coma.

Here is the blog entry detailing the news: http://roosterteeth.com/members/journal/entry.php?id=3302319

And in case you haven’t seen his work, here is Dead Fantasy (all the parts spliced together)

EE

As you’re probably aware, I love to tinker with phones, especially Android ones, having been able to root several:

  • HTC Wildfire
  • HTC Sensation
  • Asus Transformer TF101
  • Samsung Galaxy S5

However, when trying to tinker with my dad’s S5, some really weird behaviour occurred. I first unlocked it using a SIM unlock code, and it started to randomly reboot. Regardless of whether or not you use an EE SIM or not (we tried EE, Virgin and Three SIMs — all were subject to the rebooting behaviour). So, I decided to take a change and rooted it and flashed Bobcat ROM (a ROM which I was running successfully on my own S5, which is the same model as my dad’s with the only difference being the network provider — I’m on Three, he’s on EE.)

The phone still randomly rebooted, so I turned on Logcat and tried to see if it recorded anything. No such luck.

So I tried a few different ROMs — Stock Samsung (Lollipop), Bobcat ROM, and Phoenix ROM. All still rebooted. So I took it to Samsung for their opinion. They said they couldn’t flash it because Knox was void (Knox is a warranty flag on Samsung devices which indicates whether you have custom flashed the device or not — I obviously have.) But they were nice enough to tell me that the behaviour described usually indicates the Firmware is wrong (which is something I didn’t flash).

So, since this behaviour started before I even did a deep-level tinker with the device (before I flashed anything), I can only assume EE either flashed an incorrect firmware, or did not flash the correct firmware – or maybe did not flash the firmware properly. I now need to find an S5 firmware to flash onto the device. Since my own S5 is working, I can check that firmware and try to find the same one.

Geraldine McEwan dead: Actress known for playing Miss Marple in ITV series dies aged 82

Geraldine McEwan dead: Actress known for playing Miss Marple in ITV series dies aged 82 http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/31/geraldine-mcewan-dead-actress-known-for-playing-miss-marple-in-itv-series-dies-aged-82-5044189/