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Sean Wolfe/Business Insider Mobile phone cameras are incredibly powerful now, and although they still aren’t as powerful as modern DSLR cameras, you shouldn’t let your phone’s photo capabilities go to waste. However, there are still certain things mobile cameras can’t do on their own. One of the advantages of having a standalone, DSLR camera is […]
When the PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi’s younger daughter, Tara, was a child, she would call her mother’s office to ask for permission to play Nintendo. The receptionist would answer the phone and run down a list of questions Nooyi had prepared—“Have you finished your homework?” and so on. “She goes through the questions and she […]
On a bright, hot afternoon in early July, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel stood in the backyard of Le Penseur, a youth-and-family-services center on the South Side, and dipped a brush into sky-blue paint. He filled in a stripe of the Chicago flag sketched on a wooden box resembling an oversized birdhouse. More unfinished boxes sat […]
America has created a cult of the entrepreneur — from the daring Elon Musk to the visionary Steve Jobs to those Main Street small business owners glorified in political speeches. But for the 10 percent of the country that is self-employed, the truth is different from the heroic picture. Self-employed people report lower life satisfaction […]
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks about the new Apple headquarters during a media event in Cupertino, California, on September 12, 2017. (credit: JOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty Images) Apple reported very strong earnings to investors on its quarterly earnings call today. The company beat most analysts’ predictions for the quarter with a 17-percent increase in revenue […]
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design/Flickr A psychology study suggests that we underestimate how much people pay attention to us. We think we walk around in an "invisibility cloak." But when they do pay attention to us, people aren't necessarily focusing on the flaws that we're fixating on. There are some benefits to realizing […]
The new horror movie is very frightening—but not entirely because of its occult twist. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4796c7554d241659edeb7a/master/pass/hereditary_SCREENSHOT_6_edit.jpg
Rat invasions ripple across an island ecosystem into places you’d never expect—including all the way into surrounding coral reefs. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b4538689c437f0b55a3383f/master/pass/bird.jpg
Back in May, Upload reported on the launch of the second season of the VR League (VRL), an esports tournament run by Oculus, Intel and ESL that sees players going head-to-head across a range of games for cash prizes. One of the major games to focus in the event was Insomniac Games’ magical multiplayer game, […]
Fox News is one of three top news websites that are not encrypting content. In February, Emily Schechter, the Chrome Security Product Manager at Google, announced in a blog post that beginning with the release of Chrome version 68, “Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’.” This means that Chrome users will see […]
