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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…
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Judge Rules HP Must Face Class Action Lawsuit Over Disabled Printers
Printers are one of the great necessary evils in our modern world, much to the chagrin of consumers. Now a U.S. federal judge has ruled that HP must face a class action lawsuit, in which the plaintiffs argue that the company’s all-in-one printers brick themselves when the ink runs low. The lawsuit was filed in…
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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…
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11 Early Smartwatch Attempts That Were Extremely Dumb
It’s only been five or six years since the smartwatch evolved into a device that truly delivers what most of us expect from a smart wearable, including features like texting, calling, fitness-tracking, and viewing news alerts and other notifications. But it was a long, long road to get here.