Some people are walking around with 200 million pixels in their pockets, but a recently launched space telescope doesn’t need nearly that many. NASA partnered with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to produce a new X-ray imaging chip called Resolve for the XRISM satellite. It has a whopping 36 pixels—not …
Read More »Etsy AR Shopping Feature
Etsy adds an AR shopping feature on iOS designed for use with wall art Retailers like Target, Home Depot, Wayfair, IKEA, and others have embraced augmented reality to help shoppers make decisions about products they’re interested in by visualizing the items in their own homes. Today, Etsy is hopping on …
Read More »Sony’s new sensor is designed to help self-driving cars see better
Quality cameras, as we’ve written before, are essential to any self-driving car. There are certain crucial tasks, including lane line detection, reading street signs, and accurately interpreting street lights, that only a camera can make possible. Until now, companies working on autonomous vehicles have mostly been limited to using either small …
Read More »T-Mobile’s Digits calling service is designed to make phone numbers device agnostic
T-Mobile’s pitch is simple, “We’re dragging the phone number into the internet age.” The actual functionality is a bit trickier, which is why the carrier looked to do a little bit of analyst handholding and a consumer Twitter QA (at 10:30AM PT today) ahead of launch. The underlying idea is to tie …
Read More »Dropbox “partial leak” from Anonymous-linked group is a fake, designed to troll tech press
The Anonymous-linked hacking group 1775 Sec has now confirmed that their attack on Dropbox is a fake. While the group claims that the DDOS attack was real, the data breach claim was designed to troll the tech press. “That was some serious Lulz. We DDoS attack DropBox! After it’s down …
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