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London police issue head-mounted cameras to armed officers In October 2016, the MPS announced it would be giving cameras to more than 22,000 London police officers. To date, more 17,500 cameras have been issued, covering frontline bobbies in 30 of the city’s 32 boroughs. Together, they’ve […]

The Morning After: Monday, August 14th 2017 You won’t need to switch phones to get improved HDR photos.Google Pixel’s camera trick comes to other phones through a mod Much of the Google Pixel’s photographic prowess comes from its software — it’s particularly good at high dynamic […]

Study finds massive volcano range hidden in Antarctica’s ice Due to the ice sheets that cover its terrain, geologists have found it extremely difficult to study Antarctica for signs of volcanic systems. To overcome the obstacles posed by nature, the team of scientists remotely surveyed […]

Netflix signs Shonda Rhimes away from ABC in huge coup Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but money is reportedly not the main reason Rhimes jumped ship. “I’m thrilled by the idea of a world where I’m not caught in the necessary grind of network television,” […]

The TRAPPIST-1 star system may be too old for life As the team’s Adam Burgasser explains: if there is life, it’s the “hardy” sort. It would have to survive extreme conditions for billions of years, he says. The upshot? If there is life, humans will have […]

Android Wear updates leave glitches with Assistant and reminders The other flaw has been hanging around for a while. Android Wear users have had problems with Android Wear falsely markign recurring reminders as completed, and this was supposed to have been fixed in a patch. However, […]

Amazon offers refunds for dodgy solar eclipse glasses It won’t shock you to hear the reason why Amazon is taking the initiative: as with its reaction to unsafe hoverboards, it’s exhibiting an “abundance of caution.” The last thing Amazon wants is thousands of customers damaging their […]

Algorithm shows the data you give away when clicking suggested links The team fed their algorithm datasets from recommendation engines Movielens and Jester. Essentially, their math weighs the value users get by clicking against the personal info they’re disclosing, and points out when users would be […]

After Math: Come out and burn As the current presidential administration keeps trying its best to be America’s last, let’s take a moment from the existential horror of nuclear annihilation at the hands of the world’s other wannabe king-baby and see who’s been killing it in […]