Category: Tech

Deluge of Pixel 4 photos confirms a few of the phone’s key specs

[ad_1] Curiously, the camera app will apparently default to capturing 16:9 photos to fill the screen, rather than 4:3 photos to make the most of the sensor. Other specs in the photos show expected but welcome performance upgrades. The speedy 90Hz OLED screen remains the highlight, but you’ll also get a Snapdragon 855 processor with […]

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 may come in a 15-inch model

[ad_1] There may be more shakeups at the media gathering. The Verge expects an AMD-powered Surface Laptop 3 (the first AMD-based Surface of any kind) at the event, although it’s not certain if the new chip option would be available in the 15-inch system, the 13.5-inch variant or both. The October 2nd presentation could have […]

Mercedes’ latest high-tech concept car is a throwback to 1901

[ad_1] The grille has been replaced by a “3D display” that both displays the vintage Mercedes logo an, more importantly, displays the car’s status at a glance. The cockpit, meanwhile, sticks to the minimalist look of very early cars through projections that display context-sensitive info like speed and navigation. You could focus your attention on […]

Recommended Reading: The redesigned WWE Network

[ad_1] WWE Network 2.0: How WWE rebuilt its streaming service after a split with DisneyChris Welch,The Verge After a flashy reveal at CES a few years ago, the WWE Network is by all accounts a success, amassing well over a million subscribers by early 2019. Disney threw a wrench in the plans when it bought […]

‘Dirty bomb’ fears spawned America’s nuclear spy force

[ad_1] The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bombby Sam Kean World War II could have ended disastrously for the Allies had the Axis powers managed a breakthrough in fission technology before they did. With every nation subjugated by the Nazi war machine, the fascist […]

Apple pulls the plug on the iPod classic

[ad_1] It’s been just over five years since Apple killed off the iPod Classic (henceforth known as the iPod, because it is the One True iPod). Its death on September 9th, 2014 was no big surprise: Sales had been declining for years as the iPhone surpassed it in sales and feature set. Indeed, the notion […]

The Morning After: MoviePass shuts down

[ad_1] The end of a wild ride.MoviePass is shutting down on September 14th In a press release, the company said its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.” All options are on the table, with MoviePass parent company Helios and Matheson Analytics saying it’s considering, among other things, selling itself off entirely. […]

Amazon’s ‘Undone’ takes rotoscope animation to new heights

[ad_1] Undone’s rotoscoped animation style, which was produced by the studio Minnow Mountain and involves drawing over live-action footage, helps it stand out from everything else on TV today. Every second of the show makes it clear how far we’ve come from Richard Linklater’s Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, thanks to lush watercolor backgrounds […]

Galaxy Tab S6 review: Good notepad, bad notebook

[ad_1] Samsung also made the buttons a little deeper than before and added a function key so you can use it to trigger shortcuts that have been added to the top row. On the old keyboard, this row simply had numbers and symbols that you could trigger by pressing downshift. Now, you can also get […]