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26 September 2016

Pro Photographer's Review of the iPhone 7 Plus (video)

A Pro Photographer's Review of the iPhone 7 Plus:

Bloomberg followed photographer Benjamin Lowy around the streets of New York City to test out the new iPhone 7 Plus camera and see how it fairs as a professional image-making tool. Published Sep 20, 2016.

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16 July 2012

Review: Google+ iPad app a photographer's dream

Review: Google+ iPad app a photographer's dream
USA TODAY
It might not be the hottest virtual watercooler around, but Google is by no means giving up on its social darling, Google+. Quite the contrary: Google makes the leap onto the biggest iOS screen around with Google+ for iPad. The Google+ 3.0 release is ...

USA TODAY

Google CEO Page 'Recovering,' Back in the Office
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Google CEO Larry Page was back at the office last week after a mystery ailment causing the loss of his speaking voice forced him to miss last month's Google I/O developer conference, according to the company's chairman Eric Schmidt.

Symantec antivirus software update crashes some PCs
CNET
Bug in software used by businesses caused some Windows XP-based machines to crash repeatedly with a "blue screen of death." by Steven Musil A recent update to Symantec's antivirus software rendered some Windows-based PCs inoperable, the security ...

Apple Returns to Green Registry After Dropout 'Mistake'
Businessweek
By Adam Satariano and Kathleen Chaykowski on July 13, 2012 Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) said it's rejoining an environmental rating system after its exit from the group threatened to halt sales to governments and universities that use the registry when ...

Tiny quad-core ARM Linux/Android computer delivers serious power for $129
VentureBeat
The tiny $35 Raspberry Pi set off a surge of demand for tiny Linux computers earlier this year. But a Korean hardware manufacturer called Hardkernel is launching a high-end computer board that measures just 3.5 inches by 3.7 inches.
 
VentureBeat

An X1.4 class flare erupted from the center of the sun, peaking on July 12...
ABC News
A geomagnetic storm from a solar flare that erupted on the sun's surface earlier this week will likely collide with Earth this weekend, scientists say. The coronal mass ejection on Thursday, caused by the release of excess solar energy, is classified ...

ABC News

Nokia Lumia 900 Drops to $49.99 as Phone Maker Seeks Comeback
Businessweek
By Nick Turner on July 15, 2012 The price of Nokia Oyj (NOK1V)'s Lumia 900, which the company is counting on to challenge the iPhone and Android devices, was cut in half to $49.99 at AT&T Inc. (T) (T) stores. The product is available at that price with ...

Digg's Demise: A Lesson in How Not To Run a Social News Site
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: We can't be reminded of this basic tenet of business too often: If you don't listen to your customers, you're history. In Digg's case, it also alienated them. This is not often a good business strategy. Digg, one of the first successful ...

Not a Dwarf: Is Pluto a Binary Planet?
Discovery News
The Hubble Space Telescope discovery brings the tally of icy moons orbiting Pluto to five. A reader wrote to me to make the case that Pluto really has only four moons (all discovered by Hubble over the past seven years). He argued that the largest moon ...

Texas man tracks down stolen car 42 years later in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
The cream-colored 1967 Austin Healey — a classic in its own right — has special meaning for Bob Russell. The 66-year-old retired salesman and his wife went on their first date in the British roadster back in 1970, when they were graduate students at ...

Local Scientists Bask in Higgs Boson Celebration
Patch.com
An overflow crowd packed a UC Berkeley auditorium Friday to hear campus physicists explain why the recently discovered Higgs boson represents a major scientific milestone and the pioneering role played by Cal starting long ago.

Yahoo account users: Do not ignore 400k stolen passwords
Alaska Dispatch
Yahoo confirmed Thursday that more than 400000 user e-mail addresses and passwords have been compromised and posted online. The hackers claim to be do-gooders, breaking into Yahoo to shine a light on its potentially lax security.

Tech For Less Than $100 Allows Eye-Control of a UI
Tom's Hardware Guide
While gesture control of a user interface may be an enticing UI control choice for a combination of Kinect and Windows 8, there is an inherent benefit to this idea for those who cannot use a keyboard and mouse. Researchers are proposing gesture control ...

iPhone 5 To Release in Fall
ValueWalk
By Saqib Khan According to the reports of Japanese blog Macotakara, the next generation of iPhone has now entered the production process in China. If the reports are true, which like most other blogs claim to be from their “reliable Chinese sources”, ...

ValueWalk

Halo 4 Xbox 360 bundle becomes official
SlashGear
We already had a feeling that Microsoft was planning to roll out a limited edition Xbox 360 bundle to go along with November's release of Halo 4, but this weekend the bundle got an official reveal at the San Diego Comic-Con.

SlashGear

RIM ordered to pay $147M for patent infringement
Gant Daily
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E) – A jury in California ruled on Friday that Research in Motion (RIM) infringed on a patent of New Jersey software firm Mformation Technologies and ordered the BlackBerry maker to pay $147.2 million in damages.

Mechanical engineers develop an 'intelligent co-pilot' for cars
MIT News
In clinical trial, mixture developed at MIT appears to help overcome loss of connections between brain cells. Barrels and cones dot an open field in Saline, Mich., forming an obstacle course for a modified vehicle. A driver remotely steers the vehicle ...

Richard Branson confirms Virgin Galactic's first space tourism flight will ...
Engadget
By Donald Melanson posted Jul 15th 2012 4:10PM Richard Branson has long said that he'd be on board Virgin Galactic's first commercial space tourism flight, and he's now confirmed that will take place sometime next year with his two adult children along ...

Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station
Newsday
Nation Newsday > News Print Aa Soyuz rocket launches on mission to space station Published: July 15, 2012 2:34 PM By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — A Russian Soyuz craft launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan on Sunday, ...

Newsday

Jak, Daxter and Sony's inFamous Hero Tapped for PlayStation All-Stars Roster
Kotaku
At Comic-Con today, another two (three?) playable characters were revealed for the roster of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale—Cole McGrath, from inFamous, and Jak and Daxter from, well, Jak and Daxter. Per the PlayStation Blog, Jak and Daxter fans ...

WWSJD? Why even Steve Jobs would support a 7-inch iPad today
Digitaltrends.com
The iPad Mini rumors cannot be stopped, even though the device's originator infamously declared war on 7-inch tablets. But the times they are a-changin', and it's safe to argue that Steve Jobs would be in favor of shrinking the iPad.

Digitaltrends.com

Russian hacker exposes flaws with Apple's 'in-app' purchases
The Hindu
Apple prides itself in putting out mobile gadgets that offer best-in-class security for both users and developers that any news of breach or hacks inevitably becomes a surprising event. Over the past few days, online technology forums are abuzz about ...

The Hindu

Video Game Sales Have Been Down For 7 Consecutive Months
Huffington Post
AP | Posted: 07/12/2012 7:04 pm Updated: 07/13/2012 9:32 am NEW YORK (AP) — A new report says US retail sales of video-game hardware, software and accessories fell for a seventh consecutive month. Sales of console and portable software — the video ...

Oregon Artifacts Stir Up Debate On Earliest Americans
RedOrbit
Artifacts found in Oregon have once again stirred up the debate surrounding the earliest Americans and how they came to live in the Western Hemisphere. A team of mostly American researchers led by Dennis L. Jenkins, a University of Oregon archeologist, ...

Fla. space workers struggle a year after last shuttle flight; many can't find ...
Washington Post
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A year after NASA ended the three-decade-long US space shuttle program, thousands of formerly well-paid engineers and other workers around the Kennedy Space Center are still struggling to find jobs to replace the careers that ...

Mystery of 500 penguins washed up on beach in Brazil
Telegraph.co.uk
The bodies of more than 500 penguins have washed up on beaches in southern Brazil over the past week. A penguin swims on Arpoador beach in Rio de Janeiro. Penguins traditionally migrate north between March and September along the Rio Grande do Sul ...

Telegraph.co.uk

When and how will users get the next version of Microsoft's Office?
ZDNet
Summary: Office 365 prepaid cards for sale at Walmart? That could be just one of the new distribution strategies Microsoft has up its sleeve for its next wave of Office 15 products. As interesting as what's in the next version of Microsoft's Office are ...

Nasa set for seven minutes of terror from Mars
New Zealand Herald
An artist's impression of the Nasa Curiosity rover examining a rock on Mars with its 2m arm. Photo / NASA, AP A giant space probe will plunge into the atmosphere of Mars at a speed of more than 21000 km/h in a few weeks. For the next seven minutes, ...

New Zealand Herald

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The best tech writing of the week, July 15th ... out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future?
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Romney, with iPad and iPhone - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
FORTUNE -- On Saturday, BuzzFeed Politics published a collection of 12 AP pool photos from the day of rest Mitt Romney spent at his beach house on the shores of New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. In two of the photos, the Republican ...
Fortune Tech: Technology blogs,... 

RIM hit with $147.2M patent payout
Inquirer.net (blog)
In this June 29, 2012, photo, the Canadian Flag flies in front of the Research In Motion (RIM) company logo on one of their many buildings,in Waterloo, Canada. A California jury has ordered the BlackBerry maker to pay $147.2 million in damages for ...

FEATURE-The brave new world of tomorrow's tablets
Reuters
The main attraction of OLED at first are their ruggedness, but the technology could one day allow tablets to be folded or rolled up like a newspaper. Reaching that point poses challenges like making the delicate chips and components inside them more ...

Clean start: Green technology companies, united by 'acceleration network ...
Florida Today
Three of Florida's clean-tech and technology entrepreneurial endeavors will be highlighted: the Florida Cleantech Acceleration Network, the Igniting Innovation Capital Acceleration Program and Megawatt Ventures. Early-bird tickets may be purchased for ...


Goldman Sachs and the $580 Million Black Hole
New York Times
The deal, the $580 million sale of a highflying technology company, Dragon Systems, had just been approved by its board and congratulations were being exchanged. But even then, at that moment of ... L.& H. had been founded by Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie ...

Give your passwords a security check-up
USA TODAY
... Your Life · Tech · Weather · Tech: Blogs. Technology Live · Game Hunters · Science Fair ... however, does not offer this option. —. Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob at rob ...

25 March 2012

Canon EOS 5D Mark III pre-review round-up

Canon 5D Mark III pre-review round-up
SlashGear
The super powerful Canon EOS 5D Mark III is starting to make waves among photography buffs around the world. The new 22-megapixel juggernaut is sure to excite anyone interested in digital photography, and several sites have already posted test pictures ...

SlashGear

New iPad complaints pile up
Washington Post
In the week since customers have gotten their hands on the new iPad, complaints have piled up. Owners have said Apple's newest tablet overheats, has WiFi connectivity issues and takes a long time to recharge, to name just a few of the problems.

Digging into Verizon DBIR: Hacking, Malware, Cyber-Threats
PC Magazine
By Fahmida Y. Rashid While we all seized on the fact that hacktivists were reponsible for more than half of the data records stolen in 2011, Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report had a few more gems. For the first time since Verizon began ...

GameStop CEO doesn't believe in Xbox 720 pre-owned blocking feature
SlashGear
The man at the top of the #1 video game retailer in the US does not believe all the hype about rumors Microsoft's next home console will be able to block consumers from playing pre-owned games. Rumors surrounding this mechanic have said that Microsoft ...

SlashGear

Sony Vaio VCC111 Chromebook gets FCC support
SlashGear
Sony's flagship Chrome OS-powered computer has just been given the green light by the Federal Communications Commission. This means as far as the regulatory paperwork goes, the device is ready to go on sale in the US, and obviously Sony wouldn't have ...

SlashGear

Video: 45-foot paper airplane needs a helicopter to throw it
DVICE
The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, Arizona decided what the world really wants to see isn't a man pretending to fly, but a helicopter getting forced out of the sky by the weight of a 45-foot-long paper aircraft. Good news: there's a video and ...

Employers ask job seekers for Facebook passwords
Nashua Telegraph
By MANUEL VALDES and SHANNON McFARLAND AP SEATTLE – When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So, he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook ...

Facebook To Digest Feedback Over Controversial Privacy Policy Update
ITProPortal
On Thursday, the social network posted a draft of its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (SRR) with some tweaks made. These changes to the privacy policy have already been implemented in the company's privacy guidelines quite some time ago, ...

Venus, Jupiter, crescent moon meeting up this weekend
Washington Post (blog)
Look to the west after sunset Sunday night and, unless clouds impede the view, you'll see three worlds. One is the moon, a thin crescent, upturned like a smiley face. The second is Jupiter, a gas giant reduced by distance to a bright dot.

Mass Effect 3 Review (Xbox 360)
GamersDailyNews
In all reality, the Mass Effect series needs no introduction. BioWare has created an immersive experience with a great story and the gameplay to go along with it. In this third and final game, Mass Effect 3 tries to improve on an excellent foundation ...

GamersDailyNews

2012 Chevrolet Volt Review
AutoTalk
Within the automotive world, there are two camps. One lives, breaths and dreams by the internal combustion engine and its screaming, gas snorting, road ripping abilities. They stand by it so much so, that they couldn't be bothered with any other option ...

Space junk forces astronauts into escape capsules on International Space Station
Q13 FOX
A piece of a debris from a Russian Cosmos satellite passed close enough to the International Space Station on Saturday that its crew was ordered into escape capsules as a precaution, NASA said. The six crew members were told to take shelter late Friday...

James Cameron May Dive Mariana Trench This Weekend, Weather Permitting
National Geographic
The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER during March tests off Papua New Guinea. Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic. After years of preparation, James Cameron may be just hours from attempting his unprecedented solo dive to the ocean's deepest point, ...

National Geographic

Adobe releases public beta of Photoshop CS6
ZDNet (blog)
By Janice Chen | March 23, 2012, 9:42pm PDT Summary: Sporting a redesigned interface and a slew of new features, a free public beta of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop is available for download. Let the celebrating—and inevitable ...

BlackBerry Loses Top Spot to Apple at Home: Corporate Canada
Bloomberg
Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg A visitor tests a Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) Blackberry 9900 smartphone at the company's promotional stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Canada's love affair with the BlackBerry is waning.

Bloomberg

Facebook Is Said to Buy 750 IBM Patents to Boost Defenses
Bloomberg
You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com Play Facebook Said to Acquire 750 Patents From IBM Facebook Inc. (FB) acquired 750 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), adding intellectual property that may help it ...

Bloomberg

'Angry Birds' Space Edition Skips Windows Phone in Blow to Nokia
Bloomberg
The new “Angry Birds Space” edition of the world's most popular mobile-phone game won't appear on Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Phone platform in a blow to handset maker Nokia Oyj. (NOK1V) “We're the No. 1 app in the Windows Phone app store, ...

Bloomberg

The iPad's charging challenge, redux
Macworld
by Dan Frakes, Macworld.com Editor's note: We've revised this article to include information about charging the third-generation iPad. If you've recently taken possession of a shiny new iPad, you may have noticed an odd message when connecting the ...

Lost cellphones added up fast in 2011
USA TODAY
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY Americans lost about $30 billion worth of mobile phones last year, says a new industry report. By Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images A woman uses the Siri voice-activated assistant software built into the Apple iPhone 4S.

USA TODAY

Instagram opens Android pre-registration page – still doesn't give a date
Android Community
If there's on iOS app that's more anticipated by Android users than the long-delayed Temple Run (yes, yes, we know, put down your pitchforks) it's Instagram. The smash hit social photo sharing service is the choice of Twitterati, hipsters and ...

Android Community

YouTube announces Space Lab winners
Washington Post
The results are in and two teens from Troy, Mich. and one from Alexandria, Egypt will have the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see their science experiments performed on the International Space Station. In a Friday ceremony at the Newseum in Washington, ...

Apple's new iPhone will use bigger 4.6-inch display: report
Reuters
| SEOUL (Reuters) - Apple Inc's new iPhone will have a sharper and bigger 4.6-inch "retina" display and is set to be launched around the second quarter, a South Korean media reported on Thursday. Sales of the iPhone, first introduced in 2007 with the ...

AT&T/T-Mobile merger opponents silent in wake of T-Mobile USA layoffs
Daily Caller
By Josh Peterson AT&T - T-Mobile merger Photo: AP AT&T senior executive Jim Cicconi's rebuke on Friday of the FCC's opposition to last year's proposed merger with T-Mobile USA was met only with silence from the agency and other major political players ...

Daily Caller

Kid Icarus: Uprising – review
The Guardian
Kid Icarus was last seen as a Mario-style platformer on the Gameboy 20 years ago, and while its original audience might since have become parents and homeowners, the game itself has grown into a frantic 3D shooter with unique stylus controls.

The Guardian

Hate the New Apple TV UI? So Did Steve Jobs, Allegedly
PC Magazine
By David Murphy An update to the Apple TV summoned forth a brand-new user interface for the set-top box earlier this month. And the jury's still out as to whether the change is sitting well with Apple aficionados. While the more staple elements of the ...

Samsung: "fast executioner" seeks killer design
Reuters
By Miyoung Kim | SEOUL (Reuters) - When Samsung Electronics rushed its first smartphone to market in a panicky response to the smash-hit debut of the Apple iPhone, some customers burned the product on the streets or hammered it to bits in public ...

20 Great Retina-Ready New Apple iPad Apps
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan Apple's new iPad ($499-829, 4.5 stars) has the highest-resolution screen we've ever seen on a tablet. And while all the existing iPad apps run just fine, apps with graphics designed for the new Retina display look especially spectacular ...

T-Mobile To Lay Off 1900 Call-Center Workers, Hire Back 1400
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman On Thursday, T-Mobile said that it would slash 1900 jobs as part of a consolidation of its call centers, although it will hire back as many as 1400 of those employees who were laid off. The company said that it would trim its ...

Giant black holes called cosmic 'gluttons'
UPI.com
LEICESTER, England, March 23 (UPI) -- Black holes a billion times heavier than our sun may have gotten that big by being gluttons and eating several "meal courses" at once, UK researchers say. Researchers from the University of Leicester and Australian ...

20 Iconic Tech Sounds Bound for Extinction
PCWorld
Boy, does technology evolve fast. How many of these now-historic sounds do you remember? By JR Raphael, ITworld François Barraud - His Master's Voice flickr/Cea.From the hum of an old car's engine to the galunk! of a fictional plumber's fireball, ...

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