Sony unveils world’s first 48-megapixel smartphone sensor
Is it best to have a high-resolution smartphone camera or a lower-resolution one with better light sensitivity? Sony says you can have both with its latest stacked CMOS image sensor.

July 23, 2018 at 12:52PM
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This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Broke A World Record
As large as a Midwestern McMansion, Trinity’s main job is to ensure that the cache of US nuclear weapons works when it’s supposed to, and doesn’t when it’s not.

July 23, 2018 at 09:33AM
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Risky Thailand Cave Rescue Relied On Talent, Luck — And On Sticking To The Rules
Professional safety diver Chris Peterman explains the joys and terrors of cave diving.

July 23, 2018 at 06:47AM
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The Elon Musk Impersonators Of The Internet
For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud.

July 23, 2018 at 06:35AM
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The One Thing Windows Vista Did Right
Vista was bad. But it did one thing very, very right, and 11 years later, it’s never been more in fashion. So what was Vista actually prescient about? Translucent design elements.

July 22, 2018 at 04:07PM
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3 Urban Legends Of Bitcoin Debunked
When I started my first company in the cloud computing space in 2011, much of it was similar to what I see in cryptocurrency today. It’s a seemingly complicated subject that has terms and acronyms that the average person can’t wrap his or her head around, which leads to confusion and misrepresentation.

July 21, 2018 at 03:45PM
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Venmo’s Public Feed Is Bad And They Should End It
If you can come up with a reason for Venmo to still have a public feed of users’ transactions — other than, “Ummm, they had this feature since the start and probably haven’t reconsidered it” — please, tell me. I’d love to know.

July 21, 2018 at 02:44PM
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Driver For Uber And Lyft Live-Streamed Hundreds Of Riders On Twitch Without Their Consent
An Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis, Missouri has given around 700 rides since March 2018, and nearly all of them have been live-streamed on Twitch, without passenger consent.

July 21, 2018 at 02:44PM
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Slack made work sound cool. Can it keep up the illusion?
The jokey way Slack talks is one of its most defining features. But what happens when the joke’s on you?

July 20, 2018 at 02:05PM
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Can You Guess What’s Inside A Scientology E-Meter?
Scientologists use these contraptions for “auditing” sessions to “see thoughts” using electrodermal currents. Is there any efficacy to “electropsychometers,” or are the guts of these machines as full of crap as L. Ron Hubbard?

July 20, 2018 at 01:57PM
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