If you’ve ever wanted to make your own first-person time-lapse video with a GoPro, Google Glass or similar mounted devices, but you don’t think you have the skills necessary to make it look good, this Microsoft Research project is worth some investigation.
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We’re due to get one more “blood moon” occurrence later this year but last night we were treated to a lunar phenomenon that doesn’t look quite so apocalyptic. The so-called “supermoon,” which occurs when the moon comes closest to the Earth during its regular orbit, lit up night skies around the world on Sunday evening and the BBC has collected a series of pictures from across the globe that show off just how amazing this astronomical phenomena looked.
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In addition to the standard Galaxy Note 4 model that it’s expected to unveil next month, Samsung may also unveil a special version of the Note 4 that will supposedly feature a wraparound display that we’ve read about in leaks and patent applications. And instead of Galaxy Note 4, Samsung may end up calling it something entirely different: The Galaxy Note Edge, a trademark Samsung has just applied for.
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Microsoft quietly announced that it now has over 300,000 apps in its Windows Phone Store, with hundreds more added every day. While that certainly seems like a lot, and might make switching to a Windows Phone a bit easier, it has a long way to go to catch up to Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
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That sound you hear is BlackBerry executives cackling madly. N4BB points out that hacker @TeamAndIRC managed to root the Blackphone in just five minutes by enabling the Android Debugging Bridge (ADB) without unlocking the bootloader.
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Apple’s dedication to simplicity and elegance has been evident for quite some time. From the company’s first computers to its most recent portable devices, Apple has always put design first. But how does it instill those same values in its employees decades later? Reporting for The New York Times, Brian X. Chen was able to spend a day inside Apple University, the company’s internal training program which includes full-time faculty members who create and teach their own courses and attempt to pass on the values of the founders from one generation of employees to the next.
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Comcast’s PR issues are far from over following that customer care call from hell that went viral. A similar recording published online by a Comcast customer reveals that anyone who wants to make sure that their problems with the company get fixed just has to do one simple thing: Record the call and play it back to them if they give you problems at a later date.
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Anyone who has set up a SecuritySpy network on their Mac will definitely want to check out this new iPhone app from SK Dev Solutions. Spyglass is an app that just launched on the App Store this week that will give you the ability to watch all of your SecuritySpy camera feeds directly from the comfort of your iPhone.
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Apple may have dumped its Mac vs PC ads a long time ago, but that doesn’t mean such ad comparisons are over. It’s now Microsoft’s time to troll Apple with comparison ads, this time using the Surface Pro 3 to take on one of Apple’s most iconic laptops out there in the MacBook Air.
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Now that the date of the iPhone 6 announcement has been confirmed by everyone but Apple itself, we should finally see what Apple has been working on for the past year in less than 30 days. Until then, the steady stream of leaks is likely to pick up, as it has in previous years. On Monday, Nowhereelse.fr published dozens of new photos of what the site claims to be previously unseen iPhone 6 components.
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