Like many others, [volzo] loves playing with photography in a playful and experimental way. Oddball lenses, vintage elements, and building from kits is what that world looks like. But that kind of stuff is really the domain of film cameras, or at least it was until [volzo] created his Digital Toy Camera design. The result?
Read MoreZeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review: Gamers in China, where online porn is banned, are using the Steam app Wallpaper Engine as a cloud drive and a video player to exchange adult-only content — Wallpaper Engine has become a haven for ingenious Chinese users who use it to smuggle adult content as desktop wallpaper. But
Read MoreNetflix Though the first glimpses of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman were already plenty promising, it was difficult to get a sense of how much the show would lean into the graphic novel’s focus on the macabre. Along with teasing out some of the more eye-popping moments that’ll shape The Sandman’s first
Read MorePhoto by Loren Grush / The Verge Omead Afshar, the Tesla executive tasked with overseeing operations at the company’s Texas factory, is reportedly the subject of an internal investigation over a glass purchase deemed “suspicious,” according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources close to the situation told Bloomberg that Afshar will likely go on a
Read MorePreetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: DoorDash and Uber Eats are moving beyond food, focusing on groceries and alcohol, as users cut spending due to high inflation and a potential economic downturn — Delivery apps look to move beyond food as they face high inflation, a potential economic downturn — Grubhub CEO on the Postpandemic
Read MoreNewborn babies can be tricky to figure out, especially for first-time parents. Despite the abundance of unsolicited advice proffered by anyone who ever had a baby before — and many who haven’t — most new parents quickly get in sync with the baby’s often ambiguous signals. But [Caleb] took his observations of his newborn a
Read MoreImage: Paramount The new Star Trek: Picard trailer gives us a first look at the stars set to reprise their roles in the series’ third and final season. Paramount Plus debuted the one-minute trailer at San Diego Comic-Con, which features most of the main cast from Star Trek: The Next Generation, including Patrick Stewart, LeVar
Read MoreJonathan Stempel / Reuters: Uber admits it failed to inform the FTC of the November 2016 hack that affected 57M passengers and drivers, as part of a settlement to avoid US criminal charges — Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) on Friday accepted responsibility for covering up a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million passengers …
Read MoreImage: Helen Sloan / HBO Game of Thrones in 4K HDR is set to arrive on HBO Max this August. You’ll get to stream all eight seasons with support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, making for a nice way to bide the time before the series premiere of House of the Dragon on August
Read MoreCredit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority I grew up as a trilingual person, speaking Arabic natively, French quasi-natively, and English since I was eight years old. I was pretty happy with this versatile knowledge until I met my husband and he started teaching me some basic Spanish too. I spent a few months parsing
Read MoreFrank Chaparro / The Block: Blockchain infrastructure company Chain acquires Measurable Data Token, including the cash-back app RewardMe and the financial data protocol MeFi, for $100M — – Chain acquires Measurable Data Token ecosystem for $100 million. — The deal is unique inasmuch as it will involve a merge between Chain’s XCN and MDT.
Read MoreDinesh Nair / Bloomberg: Sources: British satellite internet company OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France’s Eutelsat, valuing OneWeb at $3B+ — British satellite firm OneWeb is nearing a deal to combine with France’s Eutelsat Communications SA in a transaction that would create a pan-European operator …
Read MoreDwayne Johnson as Black Adam. | Warner Bros. During the Black Adam panel at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, star Dwayne Johnson emphasized that even though his character has no problem killing or maiming people who get in his way, he’s really more of an antihero than a proper villain. Watching Black Adam’s latest trailer,
Read MoreShortcuts on the Apple Watch lets you do a lot from a little screen — here are a few categories you should consider when building your own shortcuts for the watch.
Read MoreIt seems like most hackers have never played a game without at least wondering how to cheat at it. It’s not that we’re a dishonest lot, at least not as a rule. It’s more that most games hold less challenge for us than does figuring out how to reverse engineer the game’s mechanics. We don’t
Read MoreSeveral Pokémon Scarlet and Violet “leaks” have appeared online over the last few weeks. It’s also gotten so hot that Nintendo has issued a Switch heat warning. There’s even more in this week’s Nintendo recap.
Read MoreAndy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: Epidemic Sound, which provides royalty-free music, sues Meta for allegedly letting Facebook and Instagram creators use 94% of Epidemic’s tracks without licenses — Meta has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit demanding at least $142 million in damages.
Read MoreShazam! brought a lighthearted tone to DC’s theatrical run when it debuted in 2019, and the sequel looks to do much the same later this year — at least if the debut trailer is anything to go by. It’s called Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, DC revealed a
Read MorePhoto by Alex Chan Tsz Yuk/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Dough is fantastic. You can make bread with it! Not to mention biscuits, cookies, pies, pizzas, pasta, and pastry. But — to the best of our knowledge — you cannot make a PC monitor with the stuff. Perhaps that’s why I can’t stop giggling at
Read MoreWelcome to the 442nd edition of Android Apps Weekly. Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google announced a new audio switching technology for its Fast Pair feature. The feature will switch your audio to another device in specific scenarios. For example, you won’t hear a notification on your phone if you’re paired
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: The Dutch Ministry of Education suspends the use of Chrome OS and Chrome browser until August 2023 over concerns about student data privacy and GDPR violations — The Dutch Ministry of Education has decided to suspend the use of Chrome OS and Chrome web browser until August 2023 over concerns about
Read MoreA dose of monkeypox vaccine is prepared on July 23, 2022 | Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images Monkeypox is now a global public health emergency, the head of the World Health Organization decided on Saturday. The viral disease is officially a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, putting it in the same league as polio
Read MoreSpeculation is that some investors have turned to bitcoin in order to protect their holdings from the impacts of hyperinflation. But what exactly does that mean? People are drawn to everything they can run to in order to protect themselves from inflation, which has reached unprecedented highs. The bitcoin assets are assumed to be inflation-resistant,
Read MoreWindows 11 began rolling out to devices late last year, shaking up the formula that made Windows 10 so long-lived. Among the multitude of changes, good and bad, is the taskbar. The new design is contentious to say the least, but Microsoft is testing a feature that could make the taskbar a power user’s best
Read MoreRichard Waters / Financial Times: Meta closed down 7%+ and Alphabet closed down 5%+ on Friday, as Snap’s weak earnings, inflation, and other factors lead to worries about online advertising — Weak earnings raise fears that inflation and interest rates are starting to hit social media companies
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