Taking Pictures Without a Camera: The World of Scanner Photography
I took this flower photo without a camera. It was my first experiment in scanner photography.
Devices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with new ‘interscatter’ technique
If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting, processing and especially transmitting data — but that last one might not be a problem anymore, thanks to a new technique called […]
HP gleams the gaming cube with powerful Omen X desktop
HP Omen X Desktop It’s been nearly a decade since HP purchased VoodooPC as a way to bring a boutique touch to its desktop lineup. In the subsequent ten years, Voodoo’s signature Omen brand, logo, and aesthetic have grace a number of systems, even going “Pro” in the form of a mobile workstation last year. […]
Amazon launches a dedicated shop for items featured on Product Hunt
Amazon has teamed up with Product Hunt — the San Francisco-based startup that helps curate and surface the hottest new apps, websites, gadgets, tech creations and more — by offering a collection of products for purchase that have previously trended on Product Hunt’s website. This new collection, called “Featured on Product Hunt,” is available as a […]
Facebook rolls out a personalized Olympics section in the News Feed, plus Olympic filters and frames
Not to be outdone by Twitter – who, yesterday introduced followable Moments and other means of tuning into Olympics news via its network – Facebook is rolling out a number of ways for its users to show support for their favorite teams plus track the Olympics news they care about in a dedicated section of the News […]
Boston Dynamics Founder Marc Raibert and the SpotMini robot will be joining us at Disrupt
In an age dominated by short attention spans, Boston Dynamics has managed to capture our imaginations time and again through sometimes frightening, sometimes adorable and always fascinating robots. But the company’s creations are far more than viral video machines. And now the founder and CEO Marc Raibert will join me for a fireside chat at […]
All Windows 10 PCs will get Windows Holographic access next year
Windows 10 users will be able to dive into mixed reality starting next year, with an update planned that can let any “mainstream” Windows 10 PC run the Windows Holographic shell the company first revealed in January 2015. The update will allow users to multi-task in mixed reality environments, which combine traditional 2D Windows 10 […]
Harassment of Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones shows Twitter needs to change
Leslie Jones, the star of the new “Ghostbusters” reboot and a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” announced she was leaving Twitter after trolls bombarded her with racist comments. “I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” Jones tweeted before going silent on her account, where she’d spent the last several days […]
Uber’s launch of self-driving cars mimics its approach to ride-for-hire
Uber revealed today that it would put self-driving Volvo SUVs on the road in Pittsburgh, picking up actual passengers, with a driver on board only to make sure everything goes smoothly. It’s a launch of near-complete autonomous vehicles that seemed to come out of nowhere – just like Uber itself. In Bloomberg’s telling of the launch […]
Reigns is a medieval game of life or death (mostly death)
Reigns is a new gaming app, currently featured as a favorite by Apple. You are a king and the answer to whether you live or die — and how — is in the cards. Quite literally. As ruler, you are presented with a deck. Each card is someone in your kingdom who is asking for […]