As part of its move away from consumer gear towards professional cinema hardware, Lytro has killed off the site that once hosted “living pictures,” still photos taken with its cameras that could be refocused after the fact. This will turn a handful of those pictures, where they had been embedded on the web over the past few years, into empty frames. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The partnership aims to make it “easier for people to play any song, anywhere in the home.”
Source: CNET
The addition makes Apple TV one of the most complete streaming platforms.
Source: CNET
If there’s any sort of trend in robotics this year it’s soft hands. Robots with soft pinchers are quite useful in picking up – and not breaking – objects and now you can enjoy a soft-handed robot at home. The robot is called Gomer and it’s available now on Indiegogo. The little robot had an expressive face and a big claw on top. You can play games with Gomer… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
HQ Trivia — the twice-a-day live streamed trivia game built by the founders of Vine — continues to be a big thing. Recent games have had upwards of 200,000 players per session, each hoping to go home with the cash prize (or, at least, a share of it) for answering every question right. And yet… it’s iOS only. Type “HQ Trivia” into Google, and “HQ… Read More
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Firefox’s default search engine has become the subject of a hotly contested legal battle, a few weeks after Mozilla announced it would be moving from Yahoo to Google. Yahoo’s new parent Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla in a California court on December 1, alleging a breach of contract. Now Mozilla has filed a counter complaint, stating that the switch back was in line with a… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
When so many Marvel shows treat abilities as a burden, Hulu’s teen ensemble runs the other way.
Source: Wired
Video editors using Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects now have access to a new tool for stabilizing 360 with the CyberLink VR Stabilizer. The tool uses algorithms and sliders to help steady shaky 360 footage.
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Source: Digital trends
The Movi, a stabilizing gimbal for shooting mobile video, is powered by some advanced software.
Source: Wired
Today, each bitcoin transaction requires the same amount of energy used to power nine homes in the US for one day.
Source: Wired