Samsung has announced a new 50-megapixel camera sensor called the ISOCELL GN1. It’s Samsung’s first sensor to include both dual-pixel autofocus and Tetracell pixel-binning, which the company says should offer a combination of fast performance and good low-light image quality. The pixel size is 1.2μm, closer to what you’d find on a conventional phone camera…
Last week, Epic Games Store did the unthinkable and made GTA 5 available for free on PC. Despite the game approaching its seven-year anniversary, it remains one of the most popular games around. In fact, Epic underestimated the demand it would get; soon after the game featured on the store, the website crashed. Things have smoothed…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 series is still a few months from debut, but early leaks are confirming some details about the upcoming smartphones. Tonight, known Samsung tipster Ice Universe posted a first look at the Galaxy Note 20, giving us some idea of what the design Samsung is going for. As always with early leaks like…
Chrome browser users take heart: Google developers are rolling out a feature that neuters abusive ads that covertly leach your CPU resources, bandwidth, and electricity.ARS TECHNICAThis story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED’s parent company, Condé Nast.The move comes…
Time, as many people living in Covid-19 lockdown are beginning to realize, is losing all meaning. This seems especially true on weeks like this past one, during which none of the major news stories felt all that new. The coronavirus continues to spread; unemployment is still rising; and US attorney general Bill Barr is making…
My household growing up was a PC household. We all used Windows computers every day. I stayed with Microsoft throughout my college and grad-school years too. It was what I knew, and it worked. Then, in 2008, I was producing a video series, and it suddenly fell on me to start editing. The team had…
In December 2017, the New York Times published a front page story about a ”shadowy” UFO Pentagon program that investigated encounters between Navy fighter pilots and mysterious, gravity-defying objects. Illustrated with several grainy cockpit videos posted to the Times website, the scoop was captivating. ABC News called it a “bombshell.” Brett Baier of Fox News…
Touch, like getting a hug, releases oxytocin in your brain. This hormone contributes to our overall well-being and ability to handle stress. It’s why Thundershirts help anxious pets, and it’s one of the reasons we swaddle newborns. We don’t always have someone to squeeze us, especially nowadays, and that’s where weighted blankets come in.These blankets…
Every last particle in the universe—from a cosmic ray to a quark—is either a fermion or a boson. These categories divide the building blocks of nature into two distinct kingdoms. Now researchers have discovered the first examples of a third particle kingdom. Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of…
Life in the Covid-19 pandemic has taken on some unpleasant and unexpected contours. Time has lost all meaning. Dreams have become assailingly vivid. That is, if you’re able to sleep at all, which many people cannot. At least, not as well as they did before it felt like everything was unraveling, all of the time,…
