iPhone XS vs $10K Canon C200 cinema camera || Ed Gregory

Photos In Color || iPhone XS vs CINEMA Camera – Can you spot the DIFFERENCE?

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In conclusion the iPhone camera is a smartphone camera and always will be. It is incredibly small but to be honest give completely mind blowing results. If you are shooting to video that is intended to be viewed on a smartphone and you don’t want to do any post processing then the files strait from the app are impressive. Apple has done a great job of optimizing the output to make the files look great instantly. Does it come close to a cinema camera, not at all.

Is it as good as a cinema camera, not at all. Is it the best camera I have ever seen on a smartphone? 100%.

AnandTech’s iPhone XS and XS Max review

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The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets

by Andrei Frumusanu

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The Apple A12 is a beast of a SoC. While the A11 already bested the competition in terms of performance and power efficiency, the A12 doubles down on it in this regard, thanks to Apple’s world-class design teams which were able to squeeze out even more out of their CPU microarchitectures. The Vortex CPU’s memory subsystem saw an enormous boost, which grants the A12 a significant performance boost in a lot of workloads. Apple’s marketing department was really underselling the improvements here by just quoting 15% – a lot of workloads will be seeing performance improvements I estimate to be around 40%, with even greater improvements in some corner-cases. Apple’s CPU have gotten so performant now, that we’re just margins off the best desktop CPUs; it will be interesting to see how the coming years evolve, and what this means for Apple’s non-mobile products.

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iMac Pro pushed to the limit by six visionary artists.

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To demonstrate the power of iMac Pro, Apple invited a group of renowned filmmakers, CG artists, and motion graphics designers to create a personal piece of work using its advanced technologies. The project was an opportunity for each of them to use this incredibly capable tool to define power through the films they made. From concept development through final preparations for render, iMac Pro proved to be the ultimate creative partner.

Why the Drinking Bird Toy Is Actually a Brilliant Piece of Thermodynamic Engineering

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Sploid:

At some point in your life you’ve almost certainly marveled at the classic drinking bird toy, and probably lost a few brain cells trying to figure out how it works. Don’t be ashamed if you never successfully unravelled the science, though, as engineerguy Bill Hammack explains, even Einstein apparently couldn’t crack it.

So how does it work? Einstein refused to disassemble the toy to reveal its secrets, but Hammack did, and the science and engineering that power it are utterly fascinating. Invented in 1946 by a Bell Labs scientists named Miles V. Sullivan, the drinking bird’s most interesting illusion isn’t its thirst, it’s the liquid inside.

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Owning a dog makes you live longer, says science || ScaryMommy

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ScaryMommy:

Dogs. We already know that they are very good boys and girls. Who’s a good dog? They are. But a new study out of Sweden shows that not only do dogs add joy to our lives, they also add years to it.

A study published in today’s Scientific Reports shows that owning a dog reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Researchers found, after looking at data from over 3 million people, that the increased social support and physical activity that comes from having a dog lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease by 11% and death from any cause by 15%.

Watch A Fully Autonomous Tesla Drive Through the City and Find A Parking Spot || The Verge

Full Self-Driving Hardware on All Teslas from Tesla Motors on Vimeo.

The Verge:

The self-driving software is not finished and has yet to be approved by regulators, but the four-minute clip is nonetheless impressive, showing a Tesla leaving a garage, driving across town, and finding its own parking spot — all autonomously. There is someone sat in the driver’s seat, as per current legal requirements, but they never touch the wheel. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who posted the clip to Twitter, notes that the car is even smart enough to driver past a disabled parking spot, knowing it’s not allowed to park there.

Add to that, this Elon Musk tweets:

When you want your car to return, tap Summon on your phone. It will eventually find you even if you are on the other side of the country.

Apple Sends Out Invite For October 27 Event

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Apple on Wednesday sent out an invite to press for a special event the company will hold at its Cupertino, Calif. campus on October 27. I will be at the event and will bring you all the news.

It is widely expected that Apple will update its Mac line-up during the event. Nobody knows for sure which Macs are scheduled for updates, but there is hope among users that the MacBook Pro will be among them.

This will most likely be the final product update of the year for Apple as we head into the holiday shopping season.

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• The Year’s Best New Adventure Camera? The Apple iPhone 7 Plus by Jakob Schiller ( outsideonline )

To review the camera in the new iPhone 7 Plus, I chased Outside editors up rivers, down dusty singletrack, through the woods, and into classic New Mexican burrito joints. Over four days of in-the-field testing, I’ve found it to be the best small, lightweight camera you can get for the money, ideal for shooting outdoor adventures when you don’t want to lug around pounds of heavy equipment.

Bruce Lee’s Philosophy of Learning

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• Bruce Lee’s Daughter Shares Her Father’s Philosophy of Learning

Learning is discovery, the discovery of the cause of our ignorance. However, the best way of learning is not the computation of information. Learning is discovering, uncovering what is there in us.

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Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one.

These women sent a generation of astronauts into space. Now Hollywood is telling their story

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“Hidden Figures” tells the story of mathematician Katherine Johnson and the other black women from NASA’s early days.

Although mathematician Katherine Johnson was honored last year with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, few know just how integral she was to the U.S. space race.

Fortunately, many more soon will. Her story is being made into the movie "Hidden Figures," which tells the tale of how Johnson and several other black women played a pivotal role in helping the U.S. send men into space and bring them back safely.

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11 Quick Fixes for Common Mac Problems and Quirks || makeUseOf

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