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How OnePlus uses robotic hands, mannequin heads, and a tiny carnival ride to test its phone cameras

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


As tech writers, we get to play with a lot of phones. But, it’s not often that we get to peek behind the curtain to see how engineers are working on the product. That’s why I was pretty excited when OnePlus invited us to visit its camera lab in Taiwan. This testing lab, which is the center of OnePlus’ camera development, was established in 2014 under Simon Liu, who heads the company‘s imaging team now. Carl Pei, OnePlus’ co-founder, told a bunch of reporters at a briefing in Taiwan the company‘s philosophy behind its camera is to take ‘natural’ photos…

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God forgive us, we made cocktails using Soylent

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 11:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


The idea behind Soylent is simple: why waste time cooking when you can replace meals with a powdered drink? “Don’t be lame,” the concept seemed to say, “it’s the future now — food’s dumb.” Generally, this is all well and good(-ish), but it leaves out one vital ingredient of life: getting shitfaced. It’s terrible oversight, right? A borderline unforgivable mistake. Imagine it — waking up on Sunday without a thumping headache, dry mouth, and a deep, endless sense of shame. It hardly bears thinking about. So, if Soylent is meant to be the nutrition of those with no time —…

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Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 Pro will have 3 rear cameras and no notch, for only $400

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 11:13 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


After last year’s Poco F1, Xiaomi is once again gunning for the top spot in the affordable premium smartphone ($400-$700) segment in India – which is currently held by OnePlus. It’s hitting back with the new Redmi K20 Pro, which features top-of-the-line specs, a pop-up selfie camera, a rear triple-camera set up, and a competitive price: Rs 27,999 ($406). The K20 Pro is packed with flagship-grade hardware components under the hood: Specifications: Screen: 6.39-inch full-HD+ Processor: Snapdragon 855 (2.84 GHz) RAM: 6/8GB Rear camera: 48-megapixel with f/1.8 + 8-megapixel telephoto lens with f/2.4 + 12-megapixel ultrawide lens with f/2.4 Front camera:…

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Why empathy won’t get automated anytime soon

Jul17
by on July 17, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, Podium


Depending on who you ask, AI is either going to put us all out of a job or create more jobs than ever before. Either way, tech education is touted as the path to career success.  But computer science majors keep launching startups that are technology- rather than people-centered. For example, in San Francisco (where else!) two restaurants opened in the last few years. Eatsa had fully automated ordering and service while human chefs prepared the food out back. Creator automated the food creation, but staffed the restaurant with friendly greeters to create what they call “an intimate, social, human-interaction-rich…

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