What a week ! We got to ogleeverything Google showed at I / O , we learned that pig ca n’t search your smartphone without a warrant , and we learned aboutBugJuggler , the car - flinging elephantine robot you see above . Let ’s take a looking back at the better stuff we write this week .
HDR Is Ruining Your Photos
eminent Dynamic Range photography represents the incredible feat that can be accomplished with digital imaging . But ! HDR abuse is also responsible for some of the most frightening displays of photographic over - indulgence . This must stop .
What Material Design Means For the Future of Android
Today at Google I / O , we wereintroduced to a fresh design languagecalledMaterial Design . It ’s Google ’s first design pronunciamento , and within it lies a message about how the fellowship sees its users interacting with everything from watches to cars . Here ’s how to decipher it .
Google’s Design Mastermind Explains the Future of Android
Two years ago , as Google first showed off Android Jelly Bean , we sit down with then - Director of Android User Experience Matias Duarteto discus where the operating organization was direct . Fast forward this workweek ’s Google I / O , where Duarte — now Google ’s Vice President of Design — introducedMaterial Design . We had the chance , once again , to require him about Android ’s latest design gambit , and what it intend for Google ’s future .
Moto 360 Hands-On: This Smartwatch Will Make You Swoon
We just wenthands - on with Samsung ’s first Android Wear , the Gear Live . It was lovely and very promising . But then we just amaze to strap Motorola ’s Moto 360 on , and oh man , it ’s gorgeous . GORGEOUS . Here are our fast first impressions .
Ugh Fine, I’m Buying a Moto 360
I do not need a smartwatch ( no one does ) . I do not think smartwatches are anywhere near fully usable yet , or if they ’ll ever be . But after attend theMoto 360 yesterday , I know one truth that supercede those others : I am going to buy one as shortly as they let me .
Aereo Down: Supreme Court Kills the Cord-Cutter’s Dream
Today , the Supreme Court has turn back the decision of the Second Circuit in ABC vs. Aereo . version ? Aereo lost big . It ’s now illegal . And that fellate .
10 Hidden Details in Your City and What They Mean
There was plentitude of outrage earlier this month when aLondon storefront revealed sidewalk spikesmeant to keep the homeless from getting too intimate . While these shiny prickles did seem specially Temple of Doom - ish , they were n’t all that unusual : There are plenty of fiddling detail designed into our cities that tell us what to do , where to go , and give us tinge of what came before .
Tracking Brooklyn’s Rapid-Fire Gentrification With Google Street View
Open any issue ofThe New York Times , and you ’re all but guaranteed to strike a go through source to the mecca of all things gentrified and hip joint : Brooklyn , New York . But the real testament to the borough ’s modify face lie not in trend pieces , but in the virtually unrecognizable streets and buildings themselves .
9 of the Most Expensive Things You Can Find on Amazon
It ’s pretty gentle to blow all your money purchase clobber on Amazon ( and Amazon ’s newFire Phonewill make iteven wanton ) . But if you desire to clear out your savings account decently now in one fell slide , here are some of the biggest - ticket item we could observe in the Everything Store .
4 Things You Need to Know If the Police Try To Search Your Phone
In a rare unanimous Supreme Court decision yesterday , all nine Justices agreed that , yep , look for your phone without a warrant is indeed illegal . So if a police military officer ever does essay to stab through your digital turd unlawfully , this is what you need to do .
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