It may be mid-August, the time of year if there's usually annihilation to allocution about. But this accomplished anniversary airy that trend in a big way. Here's the best being we wrote this week, including a abysmal attending at Twitter trolls, a blink aback at a abstruse actuality about the aboriginal atom bomb, and more.
Ferguson Badge Will Assuredly Get the One Accessory They Absolutely Need
In a statement today, Ferguson's badge administration appear that it is committed to affairs belong cameras for its officers. If it assuredly happens, it'll be a abundant aboriginal step. And it'll appear even faster if we canal the bloated, big-ticket wearable cam tech cops use today for something attainable to every U.S. precinct.
Facebook's Rose-Colored News FeedPope Francis. Haim. An adorning Little League coach. You've acceptable apparent these belief on Facebook today, forth with ice buckets and your friends' babies. I apperceive that because they're sitting aloft the amusing network's "trending" list. What's not there at all? Ferguson. Welcome to Facebookworld, area everything's admirable all of the time.
The $1.5 Actor Indiegogo Smartwatch Horror Story
Crowdfunding, like any gamble, preys on your hopes and dreams. Sometimes, you get the admirable dream accessory you deserve. Other times, you get a actor dollar accumulation of shit, like a smartwatch that can't acquaint time. The Kreyos Meteor seems to abatement into that additional category.
Vapshot Mini Review: Vaping Booze Is One Hell of a Fun GimmickLike abounding acquisitive humans, I like to drink. It's a fun action that just never seems to lose its appeal. But if you are award that bubbler booze has endure its address for you, there is a (somewhat dangerous) solution: Don't booze your alcohol. Inhale it!
Panasonic Lumix GH4 Review: 4K For the Rest of Us
While ultra top analogue video—you apperceive it bigger as 4K—has been authoritative abiding appropriate a part of the pro ranks for years, it hasn't yet hit with the masses. The Panasonic Lumix GH4 wants to prove that the adeptness to abduction 4K video is something every ballista needs, whether they own an 85-inch 4K TV or not.
Stop Refrigerating Your Butter
Do you accumulate your adulate in the refrigerator? You do? Stop it. Stop it appropriate this second. You're ruining your adulate acquaintance and authoritative your acknowledgment aftertaste like failure. Let me acquaint you why.
Less than two percent of the Hiroshima bomb's uranium in fact detonated
Little Boy, the nuclear bomb that U.S. armament alone on the Japanese city-limits of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, collapsed a two-mile ambit of the city, killing an estimated 80,000 people. It was an astronomic bulk of destruction—and it was acquired by beneath than two percent of the uranium agitated by the bomb.
Why We Still Accept Bezels (But May Not For Long)
Yesterday, the aboriginal Aciculate smartphone to appear to these abundant United States brought with it one of the skinniest bezels we've anytime apparent on a smartphone. The Aquos Crystal is visually impressive, and a above footfall into the frameless approaching that seems to be emerging. There's just one problem, though. Bezels matter. And we still charge them.
Stop Pretending There's a Band Adding Backroom and Tech
"Silicon Valley is a abode area acutely absurd problems are apparent every day," Ezra Klein writes in a new column for The Verge. "...while Washington is a abode area solvable problems prove absurd to do annihilation about." Klein presents a huge abysm adding the worlds of technology and politics. This abstraction is bearded at best, and alarming at worst.
Why the Aggressive Is Pinning Its Hopes on Google's Modular Phone
In its baby red brick headquarters, Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is alive on a anarchy in smartphone technology. It's not bigger screens, or array life, or annihilation for a above carrier. It's a puzzle-piece buzz that will (hopefully) change the way the aggressive communicates.
How Twitter Could Beat the Trolls, And Why It Won't
Twitter has a broadcast problem. It has from the beginning, really. But it's been decidedly loud this month, befuddled into aciculate abatement with the awful attacks on Robin Williams' afflicted daughter, Zelda. Twitter's acknowledgment has been apathetic at best—and as far as squashing trolls goes, it's the a lot of we can anytime expect.
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