ISRO India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft just captured a mesmerizing photo of its view of the moon, just weeks before it lands there. The spacecraft reached the moon’s orbit on Tuesday after launching on July 22. On Thursday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) tweeted the first photo of the moon captured by the uncrewed mission’s spacecraft. […]
Previous Next Leica has introduced the APO-Summicron-SL 50mm f/2, a full-frame L-mount lens that costs $ 4,495. Panasonic, a member of the L-mount Alliance, also has a 50mm lens available for the system — with a faster f/1.4 aperture and lower price of $ 2,300. We’ve used it, and it’s a fantastically sharp lens. So […]
In a new intelligence report on threats was released this week by Microsoft, which claims to have detected resumed activity, in the form of Internet of Things (IoT) device compromise, from Russian hacking group Fancy Bear. The group, alternatively known by its STRONTIU or APT28 designations and thought to be an arm of Russian state […]
I recently spat in a pot and sent my saliva off in an envelope for analysis. A growing number of people are willingly handing over their DNA to corporations in return for learning about their ancestry or to get health reports, Why are we prepared to make this trade with our most intimate of data […]
For amateur photographers and family memoirists, the most dreaded event is losing track of a photo shoot — or more than one. Memory cards, hard drives, even desktop programs can fail, so a cloud backup plan is always optimal. To make sure your photo collection is always safe, redundancy is the name of the game, […]
Enlarge / Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. re:publica If you’ve been grumbling about the rising cost of your Netflix account, it seems you’re not alone. Netflix shared its second-quarter financial results and the company indicated that higher prices may have led to dips in the platform’s subscriber counts. Revenue for the video streaming service totaled $ […]
The Nokia 2.2. Nokia Here you can see a closeup of the camera notch, which has the earpiece just above it. The back is plastic and removable. This side has the power and volume buttons. Notice the extra button on the side here, which launches the Google Assistant. How cheap do you like your smartphones? […]
I used to enjoy the Lego video games, but I checked out of the series years ago. After seeing a live gameplay demo of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga earlier this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, I’m ready to come back to the digital world of Lego. The Skywalker […]
Enlarge / Hulu also distributed this poster for the new season. Hulu As the premiere for a new season of fan-darling-TV-series-brought-back-from-the-dead Veronica Mars draws closer, Hulu has released the first full trailer for the show. Previous clips were just teasers, but this one really fleshes out what viewers can expect. In general, it looks like it […]
The United States on Wednesday broke with 18 governments and top American tech firms by declining to endorse a New Zealand-led response to the live-streamed shootings at two Christchurch mosques, saying free-speech concerns prevented the White House from formally signing onto the largest campaign to date targeting extremism online. The “Christchurch Call,” unveiled at an […]
The Losers Club returns to Derry as adults in IT: Chapter Two, based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel. Pennywise the murderous clown is back and scarier than ever, looking for revenge on the grown-up members of the Losers Club in IT: Chapter Two, Warner Brothers’ follow-up to its 2017’s blockbuster horror film, IT. (Some spoilers for […]
Microsoft released its Community Standards for Xbox, and part of the document is the company’s attempt on dialing back trash talk on Xbox Live. Under the “Keep your content clean” section of the new community standards for Xbox Live, players are advised to “know the difference between trash talk and harassment.” Microsoft admitted that competitive […]
Despite having access to someone’s DMs and easily being able to tell someone you like them that way, Facebook is making things even easier for the spineless and heartsick. The social platform announced Tuesday at its F8 conference that Facebook Dating, which launched last year, would now include a new feature called Secret Crush. The new […]
Julien GONG Min / Flickr In the third quarter of its 2019 financial year, which ran up until March 31, 2019, Microsoft’s revenue was $ 30.6 billion, up 14 percent year on year. Operating income was up 25 percent to $ 10.3 billion, net income up 19 percent to $ 8.8 billion, and earnings per […]
Samsung has already delayed the launch of the Galaxy Fold smartphone after review units started breaking from just two days of use. Now Samsung wants all of the review units back. As Reuters reports, Samsung is apparently searching out and retrieving all Galaxy Fold handsets it sent out to reviewers. It follows multiple reports of […]