Jan 22
Smartphones, smartwatches, smart home appliances
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Jan 22
Apple is readying a firmware update for iOS 7 which the company says will address unexpected reboots that users of the iPhone have reported in considerable numbers since the latest … Continue reading
Jan 22
Gawker Former Pro Football Player Reflects on Brokeback Romance with Teammate | Jalopnik The Ten Wei
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Jan 22
Say what you will about these sperm-like bio-bots; they’ve got heart. The beating of live heart cells propels a tail back and forth, so that these self-powered swimming bio-bots—the first of their kind—could one day wriggle through your body delivering drugs. No batteries needed.
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Jan 22
Daily Roundup: Snapchat’s adorable captcha, T-Mo’s ‘Mobile Money’ and more!
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You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all …
Jan 22
Yesterday, Hasselblad announced plans to launch the first-ever camera with a medium format CMOS sensor. With the camera will come a generous 50-megapixels, though no other specifications for the new … Continue reading
Jan 22
Old mental institutions. Haunted houses. Cemeteries at night. Clown conventions. They’re all terrifying. But I’m pretty sure I’d rather sleep overnight in those places than spend a single minute in this abandoned veterinary school. At this horrifying school you see animal heads trapped in formaldehyde, organs floating around, death surrounding you and monsters in the hallways (presumably).
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Jan 22
LED local dimming explained
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Sony’s expensive, high-performance XBR-HX950 from 2012 was the last TV CNET reviewed with full-array local dimming. More are coming out this year.
One of the top buzzterms in LED LCD marketing is “local dimming.” Ostensibly, local dimming can dim the area of the screen that needs it, while keeping the bright parts of the screen bright. This technology can really increase the contrast ratio to make a better image.
But not all local dimming works the same, and certain types of local dimming work better than others.
Here’s what to look for.
This article is a distilling/expansion of a sliver of the longer LED LCD backlights explained. Check out that article for even more info, or if you’re really only interested in local dimming… read on!
What it is LED LCDs don’t have the contrast ratio potential of plasma and OLED. As such, their images don’t have quite the depth and three-dimensionality as the other technologies.
Local dimming was developed to improve this aspect of LED LCD performance. By dimming the parts of the screen that should be dark (a character in shadow, perhaps), and kee… [Read more]
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Jan 22
I woke up this morning and saw an article detailing Snapchat’s new verification system designed to help cut back the snap spam that seems to be slowly infiltrating the service.
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Jan 22
Google’s Chrome browser is under fire after speech recognition researchers identified a vulnerability that allows websites to clandestinely record users through their computer’s microphone, though some have questioned quite how … Continue reading
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