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  • HP’s Portable Photobooth Is A Must-Have for Parties

    HP’s Portable Photobooth Is A Must-Have for Parties

    HP has finally given us what we’ve wanted for so long. A photo booth that is 1) portable and 2) doesn’t make you spend a fortune trying to get good shots. The HP Sprocket Photobooth unveiled at CES 2024 could be the next cool thing if its quality-related promises are kept. Retailing in 2024, the…


  • How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognise images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades in computer science, even inspiring…