[VIDEO] Hackers Infect DVRs to Pull off Internet Breach
Posted: September 30, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Politics, Science & Technology | Tags: AC power plugs and sockets, Camera, Closed-circuit television, Digital video recorder, Home security, Internet, Internet access, Internet of Things, Internet Protocol, Motion detection Leave a comment
Hackers took control of home security cameras and video recorders to launch one of the biggest Internet attacks in history this month. The unprecedented attack raised questions about how the Internet will cope with a flood of connected and vulnerable devices expected to come online in the next few years.
Another Day in Obama’s America: Man Shames Panhandlers Who Refused His Job Offer
Posted: December 16, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: begging, Camera, Christmas, CNN, Facebook, Iowa, United States, WQAD-TV Leave a comment
Facebook Mobile Uploads – Michael Wooldridge | Facebook
Standing next to two panhandlers in Iowa, one man held a sign that read, “Don’t give money.”
He had apparently offered them a job at his business and they refused.
“My Uncle Mike offered these guys a job said he was busy right now could use the help they said no so he did this!!”
“I said, You’re hired,’ and they said, ‘We’re not from around here.’ I said, ‘Well, you’re here,’ and then they just smirked and turned around,” Mike Pothoff told WQAD-TV.
A photo posted by Michael Wooldridge, who says Pothoff is his uncle, on Dec. 12 on Facebook has since gone viral with over 24,943 shares.
Wooldridge wrote, “My Uncle Mike offered these guys a job said he was busy right now could use the help they said no so he did this!!”
Pothoff told WQAD that the job offer is still valid. He shared his reason for shaming them with the station.
“There’s a lot of women and kids that aren’t going to have a lot for Christmas – might not have anything – and it upsets me that we have younger kids, or people who can work, that are doing that,” Pothoff said….(read more)
Source: USAToday
[VIDEO] Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Cam E-8
Posted: October 14, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo, Apollo 11, Apollo program, Buzz Aldrin, Camera, Moon, Moon landing, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Spacecraft Films Leave a comment
This clip is raw from Camera E-8 on the launch umbilical tower/mobile launch program of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969.
[PHOTO] Don Draper with Camera
Posted: May 4, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: 1960s, Camera, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Photography, Television, vintage Leave a comment
[VIDEO] First Self-Powered Camera Developed
Posted: April 17, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Camera, Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, Computational photography, Computer vision, Digital imaging, Image sensor, Internet of Things, Shree K. Nayar, Video camera 1 CommentResearchers at Columbia University have created a new type of smart camera that operates without any external power supply. Photo: Computer Vision Laboratory, Columbia Engineering
Apple Buys Israeli Camera-Technology Company LinX
Posted: April 14, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Global, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple Inc, Boston, Camera, Chief marketing officer, CNBC, iPhone, Israel, Samsung, Single-lens reflex camera, The Wall Street Journal 1 Comment
Acquisition of LinX deepens the Apple’s position in Israel
Apple confirmed the acquisition with its standard statement when it has bought a company. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” said an Apple spokesman.
The companies had been discussing an acquisition price of about $20 million, according to people familiar with the matter.
LinX didn’t respond to requests for comment.
LinX develops and markets miniature cameras for tablets and smartphones. Using an array of sensors that capture multiple images at the same time and proprietary algorithms, LinX says its cameras can gauge depth and create three-dimensional image maps.
Last year, the company said its tiny camera modules allow for better-quality pictures in low light and faster exposure at standard indoor conditions. It said the technology offers single-lens-reflex (SLR) camera image quality without the need for a bulky device. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] What Happens When You’re Using a Selfie Stick and Your Phone Rings?
Posted: April 5, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Camera, iPhone, Mobile phone, Photography, Selfie, Selfie Stick, Smart Phone 1 Comment
What Day Is it?
Posted: January 30, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Camera, Friday, Photography, Pinup, poster, vintage 1 Comment
[PHOTO] Selfie Nation
Posted: January 23, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Camera, firearms, Instagram, iPhone, Millenials, Narcissism, Photography, satire, Selfie, Selfie Stick, Snapshots, Social media, Twitter 2 Comments
NASA: On Space Station, Earth’s Bee-ooty is in the Eyeball of the HD Beholdin’ Beholder
Posted: September 8, 2014 Filed under: Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Camera, Earth, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, Space, Space station, Streaming media Leave a commentOn space station, Earth’s beauty is in the eye of the HD beholder. Details: http://t.co/2niZQc1Ceo @ISS_Research pic.twitter.com/yYE9KJ3BVO
— NASA (@NASA) September 9, 2014
Analysis: What Happens When Police Officers Wear Body Cameras
Posted: August 24, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Mediasphere, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Calif, California, Camera, Police, Police officer, Rialto, Rialto California, Thomas Jefferson, Wall Street Journal 1 CommentWhen officers in one California town wore body cameras, complaints against police fell 88%. http://t.co/L9CzmzIsmO pic.twitter.com/I8AVOmwUmm
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 24, 2014
Use of force by police officers declined 60% in first year since introduction of cameras in Rialto, California
With all eyes on Ferguson, Mo., in the wake of the death of Michael Brown, a renewed focus is being put on police 
transparency. Is the solution body-mounted cameras for police officers?
“Thomas Jefferson once advised that ‘whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.'”
Sometimes, like the moments leading up to when a police officer decides to shoot someone, transparency is an unalloyed good. And especially lately, technology has progressed to a point that it makes this kind of transparency not just possible, but routine.
“One problem with the cameras, however, has been cost.”
So it is in Rialto, Calif., where an entire police force is wearing so-called body-mounted cameras, no bigger than pagers, that record everything that transpires between officers and citizens.
“Unfortunately, one place where expenses can mount is in the storage and management of the data they generate.”
In the first year after the cameras’ introduction, the use of force by officers declined 60%, and citizen complaints against police fell 88%.
Sign on support of Officer Darren Wilson, Barney’s Sports Pub, South City MO pic.twitter.com/vBY0bFGNbR
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) August 24, 2014
It isn’t known how many police departments are making regular use of cameras, though it is being considered as a way of perhaps altering the course of events in places such as Ferguson, Mo., where an officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. Read the rest of this entry »
REWIND: Police Cameras of the 1950s
Posted: August 15, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History, Mediasphere | Tags: 9×19mm Parabellum, Camera, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Handgun, Pistol, Semi-automatic pistol, technology, Trigger (firearms) 1 Comment
Doryu 2-16 Pistol Camera ~ This realistic automatic pistol-shaped 16mm camera was developed for police and surveillance tasks in 1954, and was produced until 1956. – atomic-flash – mudwerksmudwerks
[VIDEO] Camera Falls From Airplane and Lands…Where?
Posted: February 13, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, U.S. News | Tags: Camera, Earth, GoPro, Mia Munselle, Parachuting, Pig-Pen, Viral video, YouTube Leave a commentLee Moran reports: A viral video captures a camera — being used in a plane carrying skydivers — dropping to the Earth and landing in a pigpen, where one of the farm’s residents gives the gadget a good lick. Some are speculating if the clip is authentic…
One of the passengers aboard the skydiving plane apparently dropped the camera out of the vehicle. MIA MUNSELLE
Researchers Find a Way To Look People in the Eye During Skype Calls
Posted: September 5, 2013 Filed under: Science & Technology | Tags: Camera, Computer graphics, Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich, ETH Zurich, Eye contact, Kinect, Skype, Videoconferencing Leave a comment
Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich
Apparently this little pet peeve of mine is the subject of some pretty intense academic research. A group of students and scientists at the Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich have created a relatively inexpensive way to maintain eye contact during Skype chats. There are two main components to the system: A software program and a Microsoft Kinect movement sensor.
A Hidden Camera Show Goes To Texas. It Did Not Expect To Find This.
Posted: August 12, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Business, Camera, Cameras and Camcorders, Hidden camera, Photography, Rollie Williams, Shopping, Texas Leave a commentSo much for all those stereotypes.
via A Hidden Camera Show Goes To Texas…
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