Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art

“In its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan another 1,000.”

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New Documents Show How Canadian Cops Use Secret Phone Surveillance Technology

“New court documents are shedding more light on the controversial use of mobile phone surveillance technology by Canadian police, the second such case to emerge this year.”

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Samsung updates the Galaxy S7’s Always on Display to allow for time settings

“This year, both Samsung and LG sought to bring the marvelous magic of Always on Display functionality to their flagship handsets. The idea behind the thinking is that users will be able to check the time and notifications simply by looking at their phone’s display even when it’s turned off.”

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Apple kills app that could tell if your iPhone was hacked

“Released little more than a week ago, an app dubbed System and Security Info aimed to deliver core details about your iPhone, including your CPU, memory and disk usage along with a list of all running processes.”

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This is a no-fuss way to add USB ports to your wall outlets

“It’s super convenient to have USB ports integrated into your wall outlets — it makes charging your smartphone, tablet, fitness tracker, smartwatch, or whatever as easy as plugging it into the wall.”

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Amazon’s new Dash Button can be configured to perform pretty much any task

“Amazon’s Dash Button could just be a piece of hardware that would order you some toilet paper with the click of a button when needed, or perhaps some more dog food, but the company’s new Dash button isn’t for re-ordering products at all — it’s a programmable button that hooks users into”

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