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This is a DIY Camera Obscura You Wear on Your Head
PetaPixel - 4 Jul 2013 22:10
Categories: Do It Yourself Finds Ideas Tags: cameraobscuraDIYdoityourselfhelmetjustinquinnellpinholecameraridiculouswear Photographer Justin Quinnell is a pinhole photography master. Over the years we've featured his wor...
How Old Is the Average Country?
Slashdot - 4 Jul 2013 23:37
Daniel_Stuckey writes with a snippet from his piece at Vice: "I did some calculations in Excel, using independence dates provided on About.com, and found the average age of a country is about 158.78 years old. Now, befor...
Happy Fourth, from Giz
Gizmodo - 4 Jul 2013 23:30
Have fun out there.
New Zynga CEO Mattrick's Package Is Worth About $50M In Stock, Options & Salary
TechCrunch - 4 Jul 2013 00:04
Zynga's new CEO Don Mattrick, who just left Microsoft to fix up the ailing social gaming company, is getting incentivized heavily with stock for his new gig. He starts with a sign-on bonus of $5 million, a base salary of...
External Flash: An iOS App that Lets You Fire Up to 16 iPhone Flashes Together
PetaPixel - 4 Jul 2013 23:13
Categories: Software Tags: externalflashideviceiosiphoneiphoneappiphoneflashslaveslaveflashsmartphoneappsmartphonephotography The flash built into your iOS device isn't anything to write home about. If you want something...
Dell mulls entry into wearable tech, says tablet sales aren't so hot
Engadget - 4 Jul 2013 21:02
Wearable technology is all the rage these days, and Dell isn't immune to the peer pressure: its global VP of personal computing, Sam Burd, tells the Guardian that his company is "exploring ideas" in the field. While it's...
VIDEO: Rupert Murdoch on Getting 'Caught With Dirty Hands'
Variety - 4 Jul 2013 00:33
Britain's Channel 4 has posted clips from their alleged audio recording of News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch admitting knowledge of bribery amongst some of his tabloid journalists. "(We) got caught with dirty hands, I gues...
Research shows Twitter could be a tool for aid workers during events like the Boston bombings
GigaOM - 4 Jul 2013 23:17One Photographer Bought the Last 12,000 Sheets of Velvia 50 8--10 Film
The Phoblographer - 4 Jul 2013 23:16
One photographer bought the last 12,000 sheets of Fujifilm Velvia 50 in 8x10.
Vibrating Train Windows Transmit Ads Directly Into Your Head
Mashable - 4 Jul 2013 23:41
Billboards. Radio ads. Pop-up banners. You see and hear advertising everywhere these days, and a new concept literally bring ads into your skull. Sleepy commuters in Germany, who rest their heads on public train windows,...
Hands on with Korora 19 'Bruce'
ZDNet - 4 Jul 2013 23:19
Hot on the heels of Fedora 19 comes this everything-including-the-kitchen-sink derivative.
Every Weird Johnny Depp Face in Under 2 Minutes
Mashable - 4 Jul 2013 23:09
It's pretty much a universal truth that Johnny Depp has a beautiful face. But he can certainly contort it into some seriously goofy (and frightening) guises This ScreenJunkies supercut highlights the best of Depp's kooky...
France has its own PRISM-like surveillance program, report suggests
GigaOM - 4 Jul 2013 13:32
Le Monde says it has exposed a secret scheme, being carried out by the French intelligence service DGSE, that stores metadata for communications inside the country and possibly beyond.
Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies
Slashdot - 4 Jul 2013 23:58
An anonymous reader writes "When George Lucas produced his Star Wars movies, he subtitled them 'Episode I,' 'Episode IV' etc. But that style will become inappropriate and confusing with Disney producing a new Star Wars m...
European Parliament votes to investigate US surveillance of EU residents
Engadget - 4 Jul 2013 23:55
Not surprisingly, the European Parliament isn't happy to hear that the NSA and other US agencies are allegedly snooping on communications in Europe and elsewhere. It isn't just complaining loudly, however -- the Parliame...
Roamz Hits The Deadpool, But The Team Stays Together With A New Focus
TechCrunch - 4 Jul 2013 23:47I Was a Staff Photographer at Newsday for 22 1/2 Days
PetaPixel - 4 Jul 2013 23:21
Categories: Editorial Industry Walkthroughs Tags: experienceindustryjournalismprintstaffphotographertestimony Avoid all the signs that it's a hard time for photojournalists. Four years later your determination may pay of...
Newswire: 4 July 2013 - JAI - FLASHForward to the future - Helmholtz Virtual Institute
Interactions - 4 Jul 2013 23:15
At the beginning of July 2013, the Helmholtz Virtual Institute (VI) in which JAI is one of the partners, officially started. This VI is aimed at research on plasma wakefield acceleration of highly relativistic electrons....
Samsung on track for record second-quarter profit as smartphone peak looms
Reuters - 4 Jul 2013 23:13
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Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access
Slashdot - 4 Jul 2013 23:03
Mark.JUK writes "The European Union and Japan have unveiled a joint investment of 18 million Euros that aims to build more efficient fibre optic broadband networks that are '5000 times faster than today's average Europea...
Samsung unveils 20-megapixel WB110 bridge camera with 26x optical zoom
Engadget - 4 Jul 2013 23:02
While its mostly been busy blurring the lines between smartphone and camera lately, Samsung's still churning out regular shooters as well. Case in point: it just launched the WB110, a 20-megapixel successor to last year'...
This USA Chalkboard Map Takes You Back to Geography Class
Gizmodo - 4 Jul 2013 23:00
This wipe away USA chalkboard map reminds me of those pull-down maps you had in grade school. Except you won't get in trouble for drawing all over this one.