Four years after 3D Touch debuted on the iPhone 6s, the pressure-sensitive feature appears to be on the chopping block. From a report: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018. The analysts gathered this information from…
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Nvidia Unveils RTX Studio For Desktop-Style Performance on Laptops
Nvidia today unveiled the tech behind new RTX Studio laptops, which can provide desktop-level computing performance for laptop users. From a report: Aimed at creators, the machines are targeted at independent artists who are fueling growing fields like social media, digital advertising, and 3D development. Nvidia says these laptops can deliver up to seven times the performance of a MacBook Pro….
3D-Printed Guns Are Back, and This Time They Are Unstoppable
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America — and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to popularize 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralized. There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments….
Google Glass Gets a Surprise Upgrade and New Frames
Google just unveiled its newest version of Glass. It’s not made to be a widespread consumer product, but there are business users who will care. And the latest Glass Enterprise Edition 2, with key upgraded specs, shows where most smartglasses are at. From a report: You might remember Glass as a strange 2013 footnote, but Glass has stuck around: it became…
PlayStation Gamers Are Now Authoring Their Own Games With ‘Dreams’ For PS4
dryriver explains the new buzz around “Dreams” for PS4 (now in open access). Created by the studio that made PS4’s Big Little World, Dreams “is not a game. It is more of an end to end, create-your-own-3D-game toolkit that happens to run on PS4 rather than a PC… essentially an easy to use game-engine a la Unity or UnrealEngine.” Dreams lets…
Ask Slashdot: Are the Big Players In Tech Even Competing With Each Other?
dryriver writes: For capitalism to work for consumers in a beneficial way, the big players have to compete hard against each other and innovate courageously. What appears to be happening instead, however, is that every year almost everybody is making roughly the same product at roughly the same price point. Most 4K TVs at the same price point have the same…
How Much Do Babies’ Skulls Get Squished During Birth? A Whole Lot, 3D Images Reveal
Human birth canals are a tight fit for infants’ big heads. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65487-3d-image-baby-skulls-birth.html
New Chinese camera can see you 28 miles away
Scientists in China have developed a long-range camera that can take 3D photographs over an insane distance. As if mass surveillance wasn’t already en… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/327665/new-chinese-camera-can-see-you-28-miles-away…
The strangest crab that has ever lived
Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs. It’s a 95-million-year-old extinct species that, scientists say, will force us to rethink the definition of a crab. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/callichimaera-perplexa-strangest-extinct-crab…
Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…