Plastic shopping bags are remarkable feats of engineering, and consumers have taken them for granted this whole time.
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Sam Barlow, creator of the lauded live-action mystery game, shows a heavily redacted proposal for ‘Her Story 2’ on Twitter.
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Judging from Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Taika Waititi will bring a much-needed new style to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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In some cases, the snow accumulation from the snow storm Jonas must be melted. How much power would it take to melt the snow on the roads?
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With the grant, non-profits will be able to purchase Google Chromebooks for refugees in Germany.
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Activists are putting pressure on Yahoo to curb the sale of ivory products on its sites in Japan, arguing the company is fueling illegal elephant poaching.
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At CES this week, Nikon announced the KeyMission 360, its first-ever action camera. Now, the company has released the first videos shot with the 360-degree 4K camera, which is the first in what Nikon is calling a “family” of action cameras.
The three videos were shot in appropriately rugged locations, featuring climbers, mountain bikers, and kayakers. You can use your mouse or keyboard to shift perspective on the videos, which were shot and edited entirely with the KeyMission 360.
Nikon still hasn’t announced a price or release date for the KeyMission 360, but check out our previous coverage for a closer look.
GoPro has laid off 7 percent of its workforce, and warned investors of poor sales of the company’s action cameras. The news comes just a few weeks before GoPro is set to officially announce its fourth quarter earnings for 2015.
The company is also downgrading its guidance for the fourth quarter from about $500-$550 million in revenue to $435 million. GoPro blames that drop on what it’s calling “lower than anticipated sales of its capture devices” in the final quarter of 2015. That would represent only 70 percent of the company’s revenue in its big fourth quarter in 2014, when it pulled in $633.9 million. Industry analysts were originally projecting that GoPro’s Q4 revenue in 2015 would be somewhere closer to $690 million.
Poor sales…
VSCO, the company behind popular apps VSCO Cam, DSCO, and VSCO Film for Lightroom, announced today that it now has 30 million monthly active users across its platform. This is the first time that VSCO has revealed statistics of this sort, and the company says its number of accounts have grown 802 percent year over year. Images published to the platform are up 952 percent, and 5 billion images are viewed (or “consumed,” in VSCO parlance) each month. VSCO says that 80 percent of its userbase is international, and that it’s seen “explosive growth” in China in the past year.
Still, 30 million active users doesn’t compare too favorably to the 400 million Instagram, the app most often compared to VSCO, reported back in September of last year,…
As a child of the ’80s many of my memories were made with polaroid pictures — lots of instant family photos, huge grids of them pinned to the wall of my dorm room. The Polaroid of my youth stopped making film in 2008, though by then I had largely moved on to digital and medium format film photography. There are many twists and turns to the Polaroid story between then and now, but the device securely has a place in my heart. So while The Verge was in Vegas for CES I jumped at the chance to try it out, and I knew the perfect test shoot location.