Seeing what’s happening on the other side of a corner isn’t as impossible as it sounds. Scientists have been working on the problem for years, using lasers to bounce light off unseen objects and detect what’s going beyond their line of sight. Now, researchers from MIT’s CSAIL have gone one step further: they’re using footage from an ordinary smartphone to “see” around corners by spotting subtle changes in light and shadow.
The premise of the work is simple: all objects reflect light, and, by closely studying the floor near a corner, you can see if something is moving on the other side based on changing shadows.
These fluctuations are invisible to the human eye, but researchers were able to spot them by tweaking the footage from ordinary commercial cameras, and even an iPhone 5s. Read More
Brother of famous drug lord, Pablo Escobar, Roberto Escobar has unveiled a new smartphone with flexible screen and stainless steel case. The Escobar Fold One smartphone, was claimed to be developed as a bid to rival Apple technology.
Similarly to other android phones released this year, the new fold phone has a screen, which uses the android operating system, allows the phone to be used like a tablet. Escobar claimed the phone is completely indestructible.
‘Roberto Escobar, just like his brother Pablo, has always wanted the best,’ said Olof Gustafsson, CEO of Escobar Inc.
“They have always been very innovative people,’ he said. ‘We believe we can beat Apple and now we will see soon.’
The gold folding smartphone has gained a lot of attention regarding the ‘raunchy’ marketing campaign. Wearing lingerie, and sometimes nothing at all, the models pose with the Escobar Fold One showcasing the phone’s folding technology.
Samsung made clear that the foldable technology is beneficial because ‘When it is open, it is a tablet offering a big-screen experience. When closed, it’s a phone that fits neatly inside your pocket,’ said Samsung Mobile Product Marketing Senior Vice President, Justin Denison.
To make this technology, a transparent organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is used, and in-between them are two thin films of organic material between two electrodes. To make the conductive material transparent as well, the industry often use indium tin oxide (ITO).
An analysis last year from BCC Research indicates that the global market for flexible OLED displays more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, now topping two billion dollars. It expects the flexible display market, specifically, to quadruple over by 2022.
How your phone documents your abortion experience and what to do about it! By: the Digital Defense Fund
Risk: receipt for payment for your abortion and/or travel in your inbox Alternative: Make an email account just for this purpose, then delete it after
Risk: period tracking app shares your data Alternative: Use a privacy-driven period tracker like Euki App
Risk: search history saved in your phone’s browser, and with your ISP (internet service provider) Alternatives: - Use a privacy-driven search engine, ex: DuckDuckGo - Install a paid VPN to hide websites you visit from your ISP - Browse with Tor or Firefox - Use a private browsing window, or delete your browser history
Risk: payment history for your abortion in a banking or payments app Alternative: use cash or pre-paid gift cards where possible
Risk: ad tracking & location tracking from apps, browser history, & social media activity Alternative: in your phone settings turn off location tracking & mobile ad ID
Risk: sensitive text messages about your abortion experience are kept forever Alternative: use an encrypted chat app, ex: Signal or Wire, with disappearing messages turned on (important!)
El once de octubre, la mítica banda Red Hot Chili Peppers, tocaba en Turín, Italia como parte de su tour europeo. Mientras tocaban Californication, una de sus canciones más conocidas, se podía ver el típico mar humano que convoca esta banda en todas sus presentaciones, y como ya es de costumbre, un manto de pantallas de smartphones y cámaras digitales. Al llegar al solo de guitarra, el…
I remember my first mobile telephone, which was more like an offensive weapon than a transitional object, an effective brick to break a skull with. It was prestigious to own one, however, for in those far-off days that now seem to us to be of a totally different historical epoch, they were comparatively uncommon, and anyone who had one could consider himself to be at the very cutting edge in the use of technology.
I despise myself for having become so quickly dependent on my phone. The reason for this is snobbery. When I see how dependent others are on their phones, how for example they look at them even during supposedly convivial meals (in the days when there were convivial meals still), I think how foolish and degraded they are, and how little I want to be like them.
A sensible person does not have to be permanently contactable, and indeed, when I look back, some of my happiest times have been the months in which I was totally incommunicado. My recent dependence on my phone, however, has revealed to me that I am exactly like others in my folly, no worse but no better. I am humbled, if not humiliated, by my phone.
12 tech gifts for the geekiest people in your life
There’s one in every family: The uber geek who pretty much has it all when it comes to tech basics. They don’t need a laptop or a fancy TV. But don’t worry, there’s always some gap in their collection of gadgets that you can easily fill. And remember, the more niche the product, the better gift it is for these folks.
You could get them started on building out their smart home with a lock like AugustorKevo. Or maybe they need a central hub to control their sprawling network of connected goods from, like an Amazon Echo Dot. If the nerd in your life is too young for a smart home, you can always pick them up a high-tech take on the paper airplane or a box of tinker toys likeLittleBits, to get them start on their journey to become the next great inventor.
For our full list of recommendations in all categories, don’t forget to stop by our main Holiday Gift Guidehub.
It’s official: Pokémon Go has taken over the world. The game utilizes the GPS capabilities of smartphones, allowing players to “catch” Pokémon in real locations — be it war-torn Syria or pedestrian-packed Times Square.
Love it or loathe it, it seems like the game has caught us, not the other way around.
Netmarble has announced The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, an open-world game planned for release across console, pc, and smartphone devices.
Following the success of “The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand-Cross,” “The Seven Deadly Sins: Origins” will act as a sequel, offering a multiverse original story and an open-world with a high level of freedom, as well as a new protagonist alongside various characters who appear in “The Seven Deadly Sins Four Knights of the Apocalypse.”
If yesterday the idea of North and South Korea coming together was something out of a wild fictional dream, today we can claim it’s a project with solid foundations. The two countries have now better chances of a sweeter future than a decade or so ago.
Now imagine Seoul and Pyongyang are part of the same borders in the next future; what is going to happen? There are great opportunities in the unification process, starting from the humanitarian side which will bring adequate infrastructure and well being to millions of people.
The other set of opportunities will come in the shape of commercial venues, where large Korean brands will have their say first. Samsung, LG, KIA, Hyundai, will be the very first brand to invade North Korea because the mobile and car industry are going to reshape the country.
Cellphones and cars are the two examples of units which have high scalability, thus they yield to large population chunks with great sale opportunities. Millions of North Koreans are ready to become the next market target of different corporations, starting from those in Seoul.
Here we will have to see how Apple reacts to this shift, but unless they anticipated a great deal of moves there’s the risk of manufacturing and sale opportunities being left out. This will seriously impact Apple’s hegemony in the years to come.
Pyongyang will become the new manufacturing territory to employ those who will build the next Korean technological wave, but also from other countries too. It will be the new labor capital taking high production volumes, directly competing with China.
At the same time China will evolve with new challenges. By the time North and South Korea will be one country again, things will be different in Beijing. China will replace their labor force with Artificial Intelligence governing robots, thus creating the next wave of ultra cheap labor.
All this will represent the Asian booming of the Industry 4.0 age, which will revolutionize the way we understand production, automation, and the future relations that will come with. An upcoming social, cultural, and economical shift is within reach and it has already happened.
Google has launched its Bulletin service allowing users to report local stories within a community level base. So far this service appears to be available on selected areas and through early access. This might open a whole new scenario where people will gain the ability to craft news stories regarding a well-defined geographical volume they dwell.
According to their official launch page the info goes:
Impactful: Bulletin helps you tell the stories that aren’t being told
Open: Bulletin stories are public and easy to discover: on Google search, through social networks, or via links sent by email and messaging apps
Effortless: No setup is required to create a story - all you need is a smartphone
This new reporting system will likely allow Google to understand more of the user movement in data sharing along with its behavior. From micro data production of the individual to the macro evolution of the information. The architecture of information is being constructed to understand how the single individual acts and reacts in its private environment, all the way to the local level with other peers.
This will grant a whole new level of understanding how society moves and communicates with the following:
news source- every user can provide a set of information package ranging from events happening within their geographical volumes. This could generate true sources but it will carry a steady stream of fake news;
user behavior- each person can broadcast movement, purchasing information, collateral data, that Google can use to its own advantage. This will generate new and updated profiles on what the user does inside a specific environment, thus more accurate details on all levels;
data- all in all the free usage of this services revers to the gathering, analysis, trading, selling, of the users’ profile and everything in it from Google.
Each smartphone with the outputting data that provides and with the addition to this new service, will grant Google a whole new architecture platform onto which extrapolate user behavior, financial data, and everything necessary to upgrade their information grip on the population.
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