Category: Tech

Researchers create electronic lens that works better than the human eye

[ad_1] All of this is thanks to an earlier technology a team of some of the same researchers developed. The flat lens design this new artificial eye takes advantage of is called a metalens. It uses tiny nanostructures to focus light. In this way, it’s able to focus the entire visible light spectrum at a […]

Porn bots are now storming Twitter’s trending topics

[ad_1] One account Tweeted, “Marzia Pewds KickItOut Tusk Will Keane Irish Sea Phil Lynoott Chopra josh kroenke Lavazza Joe Sugg Dulux Nick Timothy Ben Unwin Amy Adams US Steel Little Brother USA Network Congrats Felix.” US Steel was trending on Twitter on Tuesday after reports that the company plans to lay off hundreds of workers […]

Waze adds easy access to YouTube Music while you drive

[ad_1] The integration is rolling out now, and should “soon” reach all 50 markets where both Waze and YouTube Music are available. This probably won’t persuade you to switch to YouTube Music if you’re happy with another streaming service (especially if it’s already supported in Waze). It could, however, make life decidedly easier if you […]

Waymo shares some of its self-driving car data to help researchers

[ad_1] The Waymo team explained this as an opportunity to improve the industry as a whole. It hoped he data would improve not just other self-driving vehicles, but also general concepts like perception, behavior prediction and scene understanding. Those could help with computer vision tasks, particularly robotics and other areas where recognizing objects could prove […]

MSI’s new ‘content creator’ laptops are powered by Intel’s 10th-gen chips

[ad_1] The new laptops pack powerful guts, but also offer colorful, accurate screens to cater to creators’ workflows. MSI made what it’s calling True Pixel displays that render 100 percent of the Adobe RGB wide color gamut, and have a Delta-E color accuracy rating of less than two (the closer to 0 the better). The […]

‘Need for Speed Heat’ isn’t anything like ‘Payback’

[ad_1] Unsurprisingly, the new game is vastly different to Payback. You no longer need Speed Cards, for instance, to upgrade your ride. “Speed cards were a little abstract,” Riley Cooper, creative director on Need for Speed Heat, told Engadget. “So we’re leaning much more grounded and straightforward [this time]. You get money, you buy the […]

Google Docs ‘live edits’ feature helps the visually impaired

[ad_1] Designed to be used with screen readers or Braille displays, the Live Edits sidebar lists real-time updates made on a document by others, allowing these changes to be read aloud by a user’s preferred voice device. You can follow a single collaborator, or track changes made by everyone working on the document. The feature […]

Google and Mozilla to block web surveillance in Kazakhstan

[ad_1] Turns out that the root certificate was a Trojan Horse. It allowed the Kazakhstan government to perform a “man-in-the-middle” or MitM attack against HTTPS connections to a list of 37 domains, including Facebook, Twitter, Google and more, according to a study published by University of Michigan’s Censored Planet. Normally, HTTPS websites are encrypted in […]