— OnePlus (@oneplus) September 21, 2020 The event announcement was light on details; the most we got was CEO Pete Lau saying the 8T will introduce some new features that will appear “for the first time” in a OnePlus device. One thing we do know: OnePlus definitely isn’t hiding the front-facing camera underneath the screen: At least, if there’s only one variant of the device. Based on the above image it also appears OnePlus is foregoing a curved screen for the pictured model....

The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of pirated content. The project focuses specifically on books — although this may be expanded in the future. The project’s first goal is mirroring Z-Library, an illegal repository of journal articles, academic texts, and general-interest books. The site enforces a free download limit — 10 free books a day — and then charges users when they go above this....

Front-end development gets all the press. It’s the forward-facing, sexy part of web design that gets people talking. All those colors and sleek navigation menus and other whiz-bang features of a web page or app are eye catching and instantly garner the lion’s share of attention. But oh, don’t forget about that unassuming back-end developer. Because once you scratch the surface sheen of a new digital creation, it’s the true functionality and built-in abilities of that project that will almost always ultimately decide if it’s a success or a failure....

Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan said the measure — which was initially scheduled to go into effect in March 2018 — “will not be commencing.” Instead, the government plans to accomplish the goal of “protecting children online” as part of a “propsed online harms regulatory regime.” Morgan didn’t elaborate further on what these proposals would entail. The proposed law would’ve forced pornography websites to age-verify internet users in the UK to ensure they are above the age of 18 before allowing access to pornographic material....

But what is it that gets the perpetual scroller to stop in their digital tracks? We spoke with a neuroscientist, a top designer, and a visual psychologist to find out. What’s science got to do with it? In 2017 Dr. Tedi Asher became the first ‘neuroscientist in residence’ at the Peabody Essex Museum. She was hired by PEM to enhance the visitor experience by conducting research into influencers on visual attention and perception in the museum....

The holiday season usually means running around picking up gift items and other physical purchases from store to store. But the greatest gift you could give this year could be knowledge — and there’s no law that says you can’t put some under the tree for you too. These 10 eLearning bundles can not only help you or someone you know learning an important new skill set to better crush 2022, they’re also part of TNW Deals’ final hours of Black Friday sale for 70 percent off their already discounted price when you use the code BFSAVE70....

Freelancing is a grind. You’re not only scratching to get work done. You’re also constantly trying to sell yourself to new potential clients as well as developing new opportunities to expand your mighty business of one. Considering how much those scrappy self-starters already have on their plates, we pulled together this collection of 10 different apps and services to help. These offers can assist in streamlining projects, extending outreach, and ultimately just running that freelancing operation as leanly and meanly as possible....

Finding extraterrestrial life is not just a question of WHEN we will find the first life off the Earth, but HOW we will find it. We already know of more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars, and that number will greatly increase in the coming years and decades as revolutionary instruments set their sights on alien worlds. A new study suggests that up to one-quarter of all exoplanets slightly larger than Earth could house liquid water on their surface....

We’ll probably be waiting years until Musk’s minions get FDA approval to drill into our skulls. But in the meantime, a growing list of companies are offering less invasive BCIs. The latest entry to the market comes from Neurable. The Boston-based startup today unveiled a pair of headphones — called Enten — that use brainwave sensors to measure focus levels throughout the day. Neurable’s app then provides data about your focus patterns, such as the times at which you’re most productive and when you need to take a break....

The big idea In collaboration with the United States Navy’s Underwater Archaeology Branch, I taught a computer how to recognize shipwrecks on the ocean floor from scans taken by aircraft and ships on the surface. The computer model we created is 92% accurate in finding known shipwrecks. The project focused on the coasts of the mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico. It is now ready to be used to find unknown or unmapped shipwrecks....

It would therefore be a great shame if someone offered infinite free versions of the collectibles — which is exactly what Yannic Kilcher has done. The machine learning expert has built an app that generates as many Bored Apes as your heart desires. The system is powered by generative adversarial networks (GANs), which create new content by pitting two neural networks against each other: a generator that produces new images and a discriminator that guesses which ones are fake....

The app’s sole focus is to take night-time photos. The good thing is you can run it even if you have a model as old as an iPhone 6. It takes roughly 10 to 15 seconds to complete capturing and processing the image before you get the final output. The technique is similar to what leading phone makers use for their night modes. NeuralCam captures multiple frames (8 to 12) at varying resolutions and exposure, then merges high-quality frames using an alignment algorithm to negate any hand-shake that takes places while snapping the photo....

Not too long ago, shoppers were thrilled when they saw a flying drone with an on-board camera at a reasonable price. Now, drone users expect premium quality with better than 1080p resolution images and video, but at prices under $50. Sure, we got spoiled. But thankfully, advancements in drone engineering have delivered us to just that point — staring down the barrel of a brilliant little flying drone with a professional-grade camera that doesn’t cost any more than the price of a great dinner....

Formerly dubbed Z-Triton, the polymorphous tricycle was conceived and created by Aigars Lazuis, designer and entrepreneur, who seeked to upgrade cycle-touring and find a sustainable solution for die-hard travelers that want it all. As a tricycle, it features an internal gear hub electric motor with pedal assist. Powered by a lithium-ion battery — and solar panels on the roof — it can deliver 50km of on-road range. Switching from land to water mode is said to be super quick and easy....

But a new discovery of a large planet orbiting the small star GJ3512 is worth noting. The paper, published in Science, challenges our understanding of how planets form – and further blurs the line between small, cool stars known as brown dwarfs and planets. The star itself is a red dwarf, about 30 light years away, with a luminosity less than 0.2% that of the sun. It has around 12% of the sun’s mass and 14% of its radius....

In this age of nostalgia and retro gaming, few consoles still hold the magic and allure of the granddaddy of modern handheld gaming, the Nintendo Gameboy. During the 90s, it was the undisputed king, selling over 118 million units and still holding the distinction as the third best-selling console of all time. For those with a soft spot for 8-bit gaming, this Handheld 3” LCD Video Game Console ($24.99, 58 percent off, from TNW Deals) should more than scratch that itch....

Creatives Zack Roif and Matthew Woodward have unleashed an abomination upon this world: Hellvetica, a disfigured Helvetica with truly torturous kerning. Kerning, which adjusts the spaces between letters based on how they’re shaped, is usually applied to make the text more pleasing. Hellvetica, however, turns it into its anti-thesis by randomizing the spaces between — resulting in nauseating devil script. What makes this atrocity is even more blasphemous is it distorts Helvetica, which is considered by many to be the world’s most iconic and beautiful font....

It’s not that they remind us of how far we’ve come technologically (although that’s true), they’re more reminiscent of our childhood in general, the carefree times before we became serious adults. For instance, I still have deeply fond feelings about my first Compaq Presario desktop computer, Sony Walkman, JVC dual cassette hi-fi stereo system, and yellow Ericsson flip phone. I’m sure everyone has items like this in their lives. All this got me thinking....

Whether you’re shooting with a $2,000 DSLR camera or just your smartphone, there’s an art to capturing just the right image. Today’s camera wizardry goes a long way to helping each of us shoot pictures that are in focus and lit properly, no matter how intent most of us are at unwittingly screwing that up. But even with the assist from technology, there’s a very real skill to immortalizing a perfect moment....

I exclaimed on Slack. It was the first lockdown of 2021 in Perth, and we were all working from home. And when astronomers look for something to distract themselves from looming existential dread, there’s nothing better than a new cosmic mystery. In 2020, I gave an undergraduate student, Tyrone O’Doherty, a fun project: look for radio sources that are changing in a large radio survey I’m leading. By the end of the year, he’d found a particularly unusual source that was visible in data from early 2018, but had disappeared within a few months....