Not only is there a good chance that Chinese authorities are watching citizens at any given moment in the country, where surveillance is so pervasive that it’s given rise to a social credit scoring system there. But hackers are also apparently getting creepier than ever, thanks to the sale of footage from home security cameras …
The Silicon Valley security startup Verkada which suffered a major security breach that was disclosed a few days ago — in which hackers were able to compromise more than 150,000 security cameras that connected to everything from gyms, jails, schools, hospitals, and Tesla factories — said on Wednesday that it now has everything back under …
Slo-mo video capture has become a staple feature on high-end smartphones in the past few years. But even though 120fps slo-mo is a good start, all the current image sensors can only capture footage at 720p, which isn’t really good enough for the modern HD world. Luckily, new sensors starting to enter production are going …
Late last week, photographer Ryan Heywood posted an utterly strange video to YouTube that defies explanation. Titled “How to clean expensive camera gear”, the video shows Heywood running a Red Epic Dragon 6k, Canon 1DX, and some L series lenses through some water. It also shows him smothering the aforementioned equipment in sand.
Cameras have become an absolute necessity in the modern era, where everything is about sharing. While smartphones can often do the trick, the point-and-shoot market has been improving over the past few years. Now might just be the time to pick one up for when your smartphone camera just can’t cut it, so let’s run …
The International Trade Commission has ruled that camera technology used in HTC devices does not infringe on patents registered to former Apple subsidiary FlashPoint Technology. HTC is currently locked up in a number of patent spats, and the Taiwan-based company most recently was found to be infringing on a patent owned by IPCom. That ruling …
Apple’s latest media-rattling event has come and gone, and we’re now left to sort through all that magic and focus on the product itself. We also need to process any tidbits we might have missed amid the fracas. The star of the show was Apple’s new iPad 2, of course, and initial reactions are obviously overwhelmingly …
A new report Friday cites news from component suppliers in claiming Apple’s next-generation iPad tablet will include front and rear-facing cameras. The report reaffirms rumors that have existed since the summer, shortly after Apple introduced FaceTime alongside the iPhone 4. FaceTime, which is now supported by the iPhone 4 and Apple’s most recent iPod touch …
The BendDesk is a new multitouch workspace created by the talented minds at The Media Computing Group, and it’s absolutely incredible-looking. It’s a fully curved display that looks to form a 90 degree bend and makes use of two projectors, 3 cameras, and loads of IR lights to view and track up to 10 touch …
