Recently it seems like smartphones have been having all the fun when it comes to computational imaging tricks. Portrait mode, bokeh, and synthetic telephoto are all the rage. But high-end camera maker Hasselblad doesn’t want to be left out. Its new H6D-400C MS is a multi-shot version of the H6D that couples the company’s 100MP sensor with a camera body that can slightly shift the sensor and lens mount, enabling advanced multi-capture modes that improve color and increase resolution. A six-shot mode provides both a cleaner image and resolution up to 400MP, while a four-shot mode provides a higher-quality 100MP image.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to roll back regulations several weeks ago, leaving consumers on their own when dealing with heavy-handed ISPs. The FCC suggests that public outrage will prevent ISPs from doing truly objectionable things with data traffic, but how are we supposed to know what’s happening without the FCC’s transparency rules? There’s an app from researchers at Northeastern University that might help, but Apple has . The app is called Wehe, and it was designed to further research conducted by David Coffnes at Notheastern University. Coffnes has spent years reverse-engineering the network technologies used by carriers and ISPs to throttle certain traffic.
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Cybersecurity is an ongoing problem, with critical flaws and weaknesses ranging from ongoing research into how best to break fundamental aspects of CPU architectures to users perennial terrible choice of passwords. All in all, it’s not a cheerful situation, and new data from Google doesn’t exactly improve things. In a presentation at Usenix’s Enigma 2018 security conference, Google engineer Grzegorz Milka revealed that less than 10 percent of Gmail users have two-factor authentication enabled and just 12 percent have a installed on their browsers. Given the high-profile security failures of password managers, including LastPass, I can’t exactly blame people for not using them — it’s not as if they’ve got great reputations — but using password managers is one way to create strong passwords that have less chance of being cracked.
The value of Bitcoin has skyrocketed over the last year, reaching nearly $20,000 several weeks ago before dipping back down. That’s far from the first price spike for — the naturally volatile cryptocurrency has been up and down for its entire existence. Economists recently took a look the spike that first sent Bitcoin over $1,000, finding it was most likely the result of a single person using bots to make a quick buck. Researchers Neil Gandal, JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Tali Oberman used data from the now-defunct Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange. That was still the premier place to store and trade Bitcoin back in late 2013 when the value of a single Bitcoin jumped almost 10-fold in a matter of two months.
NASA’s long-running James Webb Space Telescope project is nearing completion, but it needs a lot of testing before the agency sends it up into space where any undetected issues could prove disastrous. Several months ago, the completed telescope optical hardware was loaded into a vacuum chamber and cooled to extremely low temperatures. After , NASA now reports that all systems are go. About $10 billion has been spent building the , but the construction phase was finished way back in late 2016. Since then, NASA has been conducting tests on the hardware to ensure it will operate correctly once in space.
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Over the weekend, residents of Hawaii endured 38 searing minutes after a false alarm was broadcast to the entire island chain. A message claiming ballistic missiles were already inbound on Hawaii wasn’t rescinded for nearly three-quarters of an hour, leaving residents to prepare for what many thought could be the end. The threat might have been received differently if tensions with North Korea were lower, but repeated rounds of threats between North Korea and the United States have raised concerns about the real potential for an attack. The mistaken warning has been characterized as a push of the wrong button, but it’s better understood as a catastrophic failure of the UI.
DETROIT — You could smell the big-truck testosterone wafting in the air early and often, as the traditional “Big Three” US automakers launched new pickup trucks at the this year’s heartland auto show: full-size pickups from Chevrolet (Silverado) and Ram (Ram 1500), plus a revived midsize pickup from Ford (Ranger). Each may be able to attain 30 mpg fuel efficiency with new engine-transmission combinations. All three had been unveiled by 9:30 a.m. of the show’s opening Monday. No sense waiting. Silverado and Ram are the second- and third-best-selling vehicles among 300 cars, pickups, and SUVs offered in the US, behind only Ford F-150.
