We may have bid farewell to skeuomorphic design in mobile and desktop interfaces for now, but an ex-Apple engineer is taking another shot at mimicking reality in UIs to great effect. In a video released earlier this week, Bob Burrough showed off his work in progress on an ‘environmentally-lit user interface.’ Essentially, a fisheye lens
Read MoreLast year, Samsung gave us a glimpse of its highly anticipated Galaxy F foldable phone. Now, a new leak suggests that Xiaomi might be working on an ambitious triple-fold phone. Reporter Evan Blass tweeted a video of the mysterious device allegedly made by Xiaomi. It shows a version of a mapping app spread across three screens,
Read MoreSally Hubbard / CNN: How big tech platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use exclusionary conduct to acquire and maintain monopoly power and thus possibly violate antitrust law — Sally Hubbard is a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau who heads up big tech and monopolization for The Capitol Forum.
Read MoreLike many other hobbies, astronomy can be pursued on many levels, with equipment costs ranging from the affordable to the – well, astronomical. Thankfully, there are lots of entry-level telescopes on the market, some that even come with mounts that automatically find and track heavenly bodies. Finding a feature is as easy as aligning to
Read MoreLondon-based game development shop Slightly Mad Studios – which is behind the Project CARS racing sim series, as well as the Need for Speed: Shift franchise – is living up to its name with the announcement of its next project: a game console to rival the Xbox and PlayStation, and support VR content, in three years’ time.
Read MoreThe annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is just around the corner, and announcements of new products have already started to roll in, including a bunch of high-end monitors from Samsung. But among the lot, the Space Monitor that can be attached to your desk with a clamp seems particularly intriguing. The minimally designed screen can
Read MoreOur galaxy may be headed for a crash that could create space fireworks and exile our whole solar system. Fortunately, we have a little time to prepare. Cosmic collision billions of years off could fling Earth out of Milky Way – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe amazing three Indy movies are streaming right now. Also that fourth one. Ugh. Indiana Jones series joins Netflix – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOSIRIS-REx breaks records as it begins orbital surveys of the 4 billion year old space rock. NASA drops spacecraft into orbit around potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKate Clark / TechCrunch: Square hires Blizzard Entertainment’s Amrita Ahuja as CFO three months after long-time CFO Sarah Friar exited for the CEO job at Nextdoor — Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey says Square has poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment, a division of the gaming company Activision Blizzard … Square hires Blizzard Entertainment's
Read MoreRecomposting would let people skip traditional burial and cremation practices for a greener option. Washington bill would make it legal to compost human remains into soil – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNew York Times: Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes — The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers … Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel
Read More“I’m not very good at the detailed design phase. I’m good at concepting and setting up the initial phase of the project. But when we get to the point where we need to iterate on smaller updates to the product, I’m not great.” Well, then you’re not good at doing your job. Design is about making
Read MoreAI today is like a super fast kid going through school whose teachers need to be smarter than if not as quick. In an astonishing turn of events, a (satelite)image-to-(map)image conversion algorithm was found hiding a cheat-sheet of sorts while generating maps to appear as it if had ‘learned’ do the opposite effectively[PDF]. The CycleGAN
Read MoreVlad Savov / The Verge: Apple and Samsung struggle to adapt to stalling sales as smartphones reach market saturation, plateau technologically, and face unstinting competition in China — The two biggest phone makers are having to adapt to stalling sales and unstinting competition from China Apple and Samsung struggle to adapt to stalling sales as
Read MoreThe funding comes as the startup prepares to release a Harry Potter-themed AR game. Pokemon Go creator Niantic captures 0M in funding – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKelvin Droegemeier is an extreme-weather specialist. Senate confirms Trump's science adviser after two-year vacancy – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreWill Poulter, Millie Bobby Brown, Wil Wheaton and more. Here are celebs who’ve cited mental health issues, racism, sexism and fan drama as reasons to say sayonara to social media. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch star the latest celeb to take social media break – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreYes, it’s isolating, but at least you won’t have to listen to fellow moviegoers who can’t stop yapping. Film fest's grave proposition: Watch sci-fi film from inside a coffin – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIn a lawsuit on Thursday, the city attorney said tracking was used not just for local forecasts but also for commercial purposes like targeted marketing. Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLucas Matney / TechCrunch: Niantic has closed a $190M funding round, according to an SEC filing, bringing total raised to more than $415M — Mobile AR gaming startup Niantic has closed a $190 million round of funding according to newly-filed SEC docs. — The filing comes after a WSJ report last month suggested … Niantic
Read MoreVirtual reality systems have been at the forefront of development for several decades. While there are commercial offerings now, it’s interesting to go back in time to when the systems were much more limited. [Colin Ord] recently completed his own VR system, modeled on available systems from 20-30 years ago, which gives us a look
Read MoreWill Sommer / The Daily Beast: YouTubers popular with kids are promoting a shady gambling site selling “mystery boxes” filled with supposed prizes — Paul and Bryan “Ricegum” Le are among the popular children’s entertainers promoting “mystery boxes” filled with supposed prizes the site says underage users are ineligible to win. YouTubers popular with kids
Read MoreA new year, another phone leak. It’s no secret that Samsung is launching the Galaxy S10 this year, likely sometime in late February. By now the rumor mill is running in full force. We’ve seen many renders of the device and some sketchy leaks, but now we have a clear look at the device courtesy
Read MoreAt CES 2019, VESA added DisplayHDR logo certifications with reduced brightness requirements so that laptop displays and OLED monitors can join the club. VESA updates DisplayHDR logo spec to accommodate laptop, OLED screens – CNET Source: CNet
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