Comic: The Crazy Reach of Superzoom Cameras

Comic: The Crazy Reach of Superzoom Cameras

The Nikon. Why do I use The Nikon? The only real answer is that if you don’t already know, I can’t explain it, you just have to do it yourself. But I’ll try. The folks at National Geographic just did a solid favor for all the adventurous outdoor photographers out there. They put every US […]

Qubie is an open hardware solution for tracking wait times at voting places

Qubie is an open hardware solution for tracking wait times at voting places

With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials informed. […]

Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones

Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones

Amazon today announced that it has partnered with the U.K. government to test some of the technologies that may one day enable its Prime Air drone delivery service. In a partnership with the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Amazon now has the permission to explore beyond-line-of-sight operations in rural and suburban areas (something the U.S.’s Federal […]

Facebook’s next big platform: Your camera

Facebook’s next big platform: Your camera

Facebook can’t build everything. For a decade, its strategy has been to provide the canvas, then let developers paint it however they want. That’s because there’ll always be another game. Another app. Another… selfie filter? The hot trend in consumer social networking has progressed from text update sharing to gaming to one-off utilities to basic […]

Disney enlists Google Cloud’s Vision for a ‘Pete’s Dragon’ AR mobile game

Disney enlists Google Cloud’s Vision for a ‘Pete’s Dragon’ AR mobile game

It’s no Pokemon Go, but it’s charming nonetheless, employing Google’s Cloud Vision to add a little bit of CGI dragon magic to your immediate vicinity. The “Dragon Spotting” game is free and accessible through a mobile browser designed to promote Disney’s upcoming Pete’s Dragon remake. The page offers up the player simple instructions through a […]

Microsoft Flow, the company’s IFTTT competitor, comes to Android

Microsoft Flow, the company’s IFTTT competitor, comes to Android

Microsoft Flow, the company’s workflow management tool, has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more services in order to create workflows – like getting a text when you receive an important email, or copying images from Instagram to […]

Twitter for Android gets a “Night mode”

Twitter for Android gets a “Night mode”

Well it took a while, but Twitter for Android users can finally enjoy their tweets when the sun dips past the horizon, throwing the world into darkness. Yes, Twitter has added a “Night Mode” to its official Twitter for Android app. Long have we suffered with a Twitter usable window tied to the arc of […]

Crunch Report | Beam is acquired by Microsoft

Crunch Report | Beam is acquired by Microsoft

Disrupt NY winner Beam gets acquired by Microsoft, study shows VR and exoskeletons can help paraplegics, soon even our tattoos will be smart, Facebook delivers the latest adblocker punch, and a new Star Wars Rogue One trailer. All this on Crunch Report. Read More Source link