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DxO's snap-on smartphone camera is coming to Android
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 16:27
DxO, the company best known for its lens and camera scores, is also behind one of the nicer smartphone-attached cameras out there, the $499 DxO One. Up until now, it has only supported the iPhone and iPad, but the compan...
Researchers use AI to banish choppy streaming videos
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 17:41
Nobody likes it when their binge watching is disrupted by a buffering video. While streaming sites like Netflix have offered workarounds for connectivity problems (including offline viewing and quality controls), researc...
Critical Microsoft database breach was kept secret from the public
Slash Gear - 17 Oct 2017 17:27
Back in 2013, Microsoft suffered a rather critical security breach. The company’s internal bug reporting database was compromised, giving those who hacked into it access to a list of unresolved bugs and vulnerabilities...
Huffington: Uber 'very likely' to close Softbank deal in the next week
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 07:44Qualcomm mid-range Snapdragon 636, X50 5G modem debut
Slash Gear - 17 Oct 2017 05:02
If it seems that the smartphone chipset market has been quiet for a while, Qualcomm is here to stir things up a bit. It has just announced two new chips that try to move the mobile market, especially mid-range devices fo...
A Mars-Bound Astronaut Risks Everything for the Future in Others Will Follow
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 02:00
Andrew Finch's Others Will Follow is about a mission to Mars gone awry, but this isn't The Martian. There are no alien potatoes, and no jokes about space pirates--just a lonely astronaut reflecting on his fate, and decid...
Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 00:05
This summer, people got really frothy about the super-hyped Essential Phone from Android co-creator Andy Rubin. Then, Essential screwed up one thing after another, tainting the phone's reputation as the company seemingly...
Microsoft resurrects its most iconic mouse
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 23:45
The Surface Precision Mouse isn't the only new input device in Microsoft's arsenal. The company's Surface site has quietly teased the Classic IntelliMouse, a wired peripheral directly inspired by the legendary IntelliMou...
Nude app uses AI to automatically hide your most sensitive images
Slash Gear - 17 Oct 2017 23:40
It’s a horror story for the modern world: you show someone an image on your phone, only for them to start browsing uninvited. You snatch your phone away, hoping they didn’t stumble across one of the intimate photos t...
Drink Up: High Lead Levels Found in Two InfoWars Supplements
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 23:30
The most accurate description of the shrieking pageantry we've come to know as InfoWars is that it's a dietary supplement business hiding behind a debased, unreliable, and exhaustingly stupid news network. Unfortunately ...
'GTA Online' transforming vehicle races start today
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 23:27
There are plenty of new racing games to choose from this fall (Forza 7, GT Sport, Project Cars 2 and Need for Speed: Payback), but none of them will let you change vehicles mid-race. Nor are they anywhere near as crazy a...
Adequate Man Where Do You Start Shaving Your Face?
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 23:19
Adequate Man Where Do You Start Shaving Your Face? | Jezebel Bob Weinstein Accused of Sexual Harassment | The Root #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, Part 2: On Rose McGowan and the Continued Failure of White Feminism | Earther...
Levi's is already working with Google on a second smart jacket
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 23:17
Levi's connected denim jacket went on sale three weeks ago, but CEO Chip Bergh said it's already working with Google on a version 2.0. At Wall Street Journal's D. Live conference, Bergh said that the new one will have ev...
Greenpeace blasts Amazon over poor environmental practices
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 23:11
Greenpeace has made a tradition out of raking companies over the coals when their environmental practices fall short of its standards, and that's truer than ever in the activist group's latest electronics report card. Th...
What Happens to Facebook's Mind Reading Project Now That Its Leader Is Gone?
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 23:05
Regina Dugan, a tech exec with roots in the government sector as the former director of DARPA, is leaving Facebook and her departure calls into question the status of one of the craziest things Facebook has been working ...
There's Never Going to Be a 'Right Time' for The Punisher TV Series
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 23:00
Netflix and Marvel made the right decision a few weeks ago when the companies decided to cancel The Punisher panel at New York Comic Con in the wake of the October 1 shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and 489...
Amazon Studios head resigns after sexual harassment allegations
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 22:57
A few days ago, Amazon suspended the VP leading its film and TV projects after Isa Dick Hackett told The Hollywood Reporter that Roy Price sexually harassed her. Now, CNN and others report that the exec has "resigned." H...
Facebook snags a Kerry Washington-produced drama
Engadget - 17 Oct 2017 22:55
Facebook continues to add to its slate of original content and the latest show to join the lineup is a Kerry Washington-produced drama called Five Points, Variety reports. The show follows high school students living on ...
Plex users can now stream music with Android Auto
Slash Gear - 17 Oct 2017 22:48
Android Auto users now have another music streaming app option: Plex. The app can be used by Plex users to stream music from the user’s personal music library, giving them in-car access to their favorite albums directl...
Watch This Photoshop Master Use a Clever Trick to Make an Ugly Crane Disappear
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 22:45
A crane left parked in front of a sugar factory for months in Baltimore, Maryland, prevented photographer Paul Frederiksen from getting the exact shot he wanted. He had assumed that using Photoshop to erase the obtrusive...
Escape This Wretched Earth With Google's Sweet New Solar System Maps
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 22:40
If you, like me, are tired of this world--these people--tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives, Google now allows you explore 16 other planetary bodies that are more serene than this one.
Scientists Uncover a Clue About How Bacteria Develop Antibiotic Resistance
Gizmodo - 17 Oct 2017 22:40
In recent years, superbugs have become one of the biggest threats to modern human health. At present, the CDC estimates that some 23,000 people die every year from multidrug-resistant infections in the United States. The...