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‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Mad Men’ photographer warns that digital cameras can be ‘too clear’

As reported on The Verge. By Vlad Savov Frank Ockenfels III has built up a glittering résumé of photographing some of the best known actors, musicians, and celebrities around, and though you might not have heard his name, you’ll most surely have seen his work. Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Hellboy, Thor, and Sly Stallone’s Expendables crew are just a few of the characters he has immortalized with his camera. Most recently, Ockenfels worked on promo imagery for the final…

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Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today

As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing. Microsoft had pulled…

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Microsoft’s Upcoming Sculpt Keyboard Is The Coolest Piece Of Hardware From Redmond So Far This Year

As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM I suspect that you spend quite a large percentage of your life typing. Before work over email, on your smartphone during your commute, on your main computer at work, after work trying to find something on Netflix, and so on. It’s part of our daily flow, week in and month out. Given that the thing we touch more than anything else is a set of keys that we must…

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Samsung Hennessy is official: a dual-screen flip-phone with a quad-core CPU

As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos While we’d like to feign surprise at Samsung’s official reveal of another dual-screen Android flip phone, yesterday’s leak gave us ample warning. Samsung’s Chinese website has officially outed the Hennessy (W789), and it boasts a pair of 3.3-inch 320×480 touch displays and runs Android 4.1 on a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU. The outer screen is bordered by a trio of capacitive keys, allowing folks to zip through Google’s OS, as per usual. When it…

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Honda intros Project Drive-In to save outdoor movies through digital projectors (video)

As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Drive-in theaters outlasted VHS tapes, but they may not survive the transition to digital-only movies — many drive-ins can’t afford the professional digital projectorsthey need to stay in business. Honda wants to give those outdoor venues a second chance through its new Project Drive-In rescue effort. At a minimum, the endeavor will donate digital projectors to five theaters based on web voting; further donations will depend on the results of an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. While…

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