A Post By: Erin Fitzgibbon In this article, you’ll learn how to use motion and long exposure photography to create abstract wave photography. There’s something about water. It is mesmerizing. People flock to beaches and waterfalls to photograph water. We seem drawn to its fluid beauty. If you Google “waterfalls,” you’ll find millions of images.…
Without synthetic, plasticky fabrics, we’d have no yoga pants for yoga-ing, no stretchy socks, no water-wicking sweatshirts. We may wear these plastic-infused clothes once, throw them in the washing machine, and repeat, each cycle shedding perhaps 100,000 synthetic fibers. Many of the particles end up getting dumped into rivers and oceans, where they’re embedding in…
In March, Yoshua Bengio received a share of the Turing Award, the highest accolade in computer science, for contributions to the development of deep learning—the technique that triggered a renaissance in artificial intelligence, leading to advances in self-driving cars, real-time speech translation, and facial recognition.Now, Bengio says deep learning needs to be fixed. He believes…
This week on The Vergecast interview series, The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel speaks to current CEO of Logitech Bracken Darrell. Logitech has acquired a couple of companies over the past few years, notably Blue Microphones and Ultimate Ears. Recently, Logitech bought Streamlabs, a streaming software company used by almost half of all streamers on platforms…
Tinder co-founder Sean Rad and the company’s former VP of communications Rosette Pambakian want the defamation suit filed against them last week to be dismissed. In a motion filed last night, Rad and Pambakian call former Tinder CEO Greg Blatt’s defamation suit “abusive” and a “public smear campaign against a sexual assault accuser under cover…
A huge asteroid may have hit the Earth 12,800 years ago causing global climate change and extinction, according to new evidence found in South Africa.Scientists analysed ancient soil at a site called Wonderkrater and found high levels of platinum – which they say supports the The Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis that a disintegrating meteor hit Earth…
When Microsoft announced it was developing a video game console, the industry was skeptical. In the ’90s, Microsoft was known for its software, not its hardware business.Almost two decades later, Microsoft’s Xbox has become a popular console, holding its own against Sony and Nintendo.But there’s one market where Xbox hasn’t been a hit with consumers…
Now that we’re well into October, Black Friday 2019 looms on the horizon. It’s likely that we’ll see some of the best deals on popular tech products happen in the next few weeks. And judging by a few of today’s deals, that’s already happening a little bit. Vizio’s high-end 46-inch 5.1.4 home theater system is…
Just after the launch of macOS Catalina that brought along the first wave of apps ported from iOS to macOS with Catalyst we’re already hearing about the challenges from both developer and consumer perspectives. And two of the headlining developers that Apple announced would be offering early Catalyst apps may have backed out or delayed…
Not long after he failed to show, the police showed up at his home. At a Sept. 20 hearing, Judge Kastrenakes scolded Mr. Somerville. You failed to come to court, Judge Kastrenakes said, according to a court transcript. We waited almost an hour for you to co…