It’s easy enough to put an always-on camera somewhere it can live off solar power or the grid, but deep in nature, underground, or in other unusual circumstances every drop of power is precious. Luckily, a new type of sensor developed for DARPA uses none at all until the thing it’s built to detect happens to show up. That means it can sit for years without so much as a battery top-up. Read MoreDaily Archives: September 11, 2017
It’s easy enough to put an always-on camera somewhere it can live off solar power or the grid, but deep in nature, underground, or in other unusual circumstances every drop of power is precious. Luckily, a new type of sensor developed for DARPA uses none at all until the thing it’s built to detect happens to show up. That means it can sit for years without so much as a battery top-up. Read More It seems like just the other day that Reddit finally banned a handful of its most hateful and deplorable subreddits, including r/coontown and r/fatpeoplehate. While the move was at the time derided by some as pointless, akin to shooing criminals ...
Study finds Reddit’s controversial ban of its most toxic subreddits ...
As a fan of electronic guitars — as opposed to plain-old electrics — the Jammy seems like a very interesting piece of kit. Designed to be played like a regular guitar, you fret on the top part of the neck and strum the strings on the bottom half. Because it has only five frets you change the octave by pulling the neck out from 0 to the full length of 12 inches. Read MoreThe Jammy is a steel string guitar that fits in ...
Eevo‘s goal, in the words of co-founder and CEO Alejandro Dinsmore, is “democratizing the creation and delivery of immersive experiences.” In other words, the Brooklyn startup aims to help publishers and other content creators build virtual reality experiences for smartphones without making a big investment. In fact, to use Eevo’s “Composer,” they only… Read MoreEevo, a startup powering VR apps for the BBC and ...
Facebook doesn’t want you to burn through your mobile data plan just to keep watching its videos. That’s why its testing a new feature called Instant Videos that downloads and caches Facebook videos to your phone while you’re on WiFi so you can watch them later on the go for free. Users will see lightning bolt icons on pre-loaded videos. The Instant Video feature is… Read MoreFacebook tests pre-loaded “Instant Videos”
The Chinese giant has redesigned its popular Mi Mix, and now offers a ceramic version.
Xiaomi’s Big Mi Mix Phone Is Back, Now Just a ...
Whether you’re an older gamer who remembers the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis with great fondness or a doting grandparent who doesn’t remember exactly what the grandkids wanted (the Nintendo Swamp or something?), the new AtGames portable consoles will either excite you to no end or cause deep disappointment. These crazy little consoles contain dozens of Atari or Genesis games. The… Read MoreTwo new handhelds will help you relive the golden age ...
Qualcomm is leveraging this essential patent to distort the market for new smartphones by forcing companies that need to license the technology into paying unfair licensing fees and blocking competitors from any size from getting into the busines...
When modern day innovators begin to stray
Qualcomm is leveraging this essential patent to distort the market for new smartphones by forcing companies that need to license the technology into paying unfair licensing fees and blocking competitors from any size from getting into the busines...
When modern day innovators begin to stray
A leak of the iOS 11 GM tells you everything you'd want to know about the new iPhone and more.