HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Army’s critical missile defense system will play a small role at the service’s major campaign of learning this fall — Project Convergence — in order to focus on the system’s progress through a challenging initial operational test, the head of Army Space and Missile Defense Command told Defense News.
The Integrated Battle Command System will not only link…
Comment: Google Now, Glass, & Wear — The future we lost by making watches miniature phones
August 11, 2021
Tomorrow will hopefully mark the beginning of the Apple Watch getting a serious competitor in the form of Samsung hardware running Google software. The wearable space is in serious need of competition, but it’s unfortunate how the two competing efforts are fundamentally…
Google Tasks is a straightforward organization tool that’s tightly integrated with Gmail, Calendar, and other Workspace apps. A small redesign of Google Tasks for Android and iOS introduces tabs that let you quickly jump between lists.
Tasks now leverages tabs to display…
Nintendo will showcase more indies on August 11
August 10, 2021
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Nintendo announced today that it will host another Indie World showcase at 9 a.m. Pacific tomorrow, August 11.
The 20-minute show will give Nintendo a chance to highlight some of the biggest indie games coming to the Switch for the rest of this year and beyond. The console has some major first-party releases on the way…
Krafton shares close 9% down after PUBG maker’s IPO
August 10, 2021
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Krafton raised $3.75 billion in on public offering, but the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) saw its share price close 9% down in the first day of trading Tuesday.
The South Korean…
Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them
August 10, 2021
There’s a lot of misinformation about radioactive lenses – from scare stories about growing an extra arm and getting cancer, all the way to saying that radioactive lenses are entirely harmless. The truth is somewhere between the two extremes and requires careful…
Elinchrom has announced the Elinchrom One, its new portable off-camera battery-powered monolight that the company says has been requested for a long time. It features an integrated battery, 725 full-power flashes per charge, high-speed sync, and 131 watt-seconds (Ws) of power.
Elinchrom says the One is a “rugged and dependable” flash that is also small and lightweight. It weighs 1.5 kilograms…
Use ‘The Two-Minute Rule’ To Create More Interesting Photos
August 10, 2021
Click. Press the playback button. Look at photo. “Mehhhh.” We’ve all had it happen — the photo on the back of our camera does not match the vision or intent we had when we clicked the shutter button. To help myself in these situations, I follow “the two-minute…
Nikon’s Z9 has concluded its testing at the Olympics and a new report has surfaced that promises some rather impressive specifications for Nikon’s forthcoming sports-focused camera, including a 45-megapixel sensor and somewhere between 120 and 160 frames per second burst…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
OpenAI today released OpenAI Codex, its AI system that translates natural language into code, through an API in private beta. Able to understand more than a dozen programming languages, Codex can interpret commands in plain English and execute them, making it possible to build a natural language interface for existing…
