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 Apple's latest iPhones include several headline camera features that are worth using, such as Portrait Mode and Photographic Styles. But if all you want to use is the standard photo mode, there are still several tools and settings that can improve the composition of your pictures and help you capture the perfect shot using more traditional techniques.
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Reddit is back after a major outage forced the entire site offline. All told, the outage lasted under an hour before company techs fixed the backend problem, according to an official status page. This outage impacted each and every page of the internet's favorite collection of disparate community forums. Reddit's fix looks to be working just fine, as everything is loading on my end.
The site experienced another outage last year, which also was patched in under an hour. Those Reddit engineers do good work.
Update, April 25 2024, 1:39PM ET: This story has been updated to include the fact that Reddit engineers have fixed the problem and that the site is back.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/reddit-is-completely-down-so-good-luck-finding-cute-cat-pictures-172755445.html?src=rss
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The University of Maine just unveiled the world's largest polymer 3D printer. The new printer, named Factory of the Future 1.0 (FoF 1.0), can print objects as large as 96 feet long by 32 feet wide by 18 feet high. It's also quite speedy, relatively speaking, as it can print up to 500 pounds per hour. That's like three people, every hour.
It can dynamically switch between printing techniques to suit different aspects of complex jobs. The printer can flip between large-scale additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, continuous tape layup and robot arm operations. These technologies make the printer uniquely suited for a number of industries, including housing, infrastructure and the development of military vehicles.
Most of the stuff it makes is recyclable, so "you can basically deconstruct it, grind it up if you wish" and "do it again", according to Dr. Habib Dagher, the Director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine. To that end, the printer prioritizes biobased materials, like wood residuals.
This tech seems like a great way to build a ton of affordable housing quickly and that's exactly what some proponents have in mind. "Maine needs an estimated 80,000 additional homes by 2030, many specifically for households with incomes at or below the area median income," said MaineHousing's Development Director Mark Wiesendanger. "This effort creates another means of producing quality affordable housing, while further driving costs down, and using abundan
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Google keeps promising to phase out third-party cookies on Chrome but not actually doing it. The company vowed to deprecate cookies back in 2020, pushing the date back to 2023 and then 2024. We did get some traction earlier this year, when Google disabled cookies for one percent of Chrome users, but those efforts have stalled. Now, the company says it won't happen until next year.
It's easy to drag Google for this but it's not entirely in the company's hands. The tech giant is working closely with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to ensure that any tools it implements to replace the cookie's tracking and measurement capabilities aren't anti-competitive. These tools are known collectively as the Privacy Sandbox and Google says it has to wait until the CMA has had "sufficient time to review" results from industry tests that'll be provided by the end of June.
Google's Privacy Sandbox has stirred up some controversy in recent years. The proposed tools have drawn complaints from adtech companies, publishers and ad agencies, on the ground
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 Apple's upcoming 12.9-inch iPad Air will feature an LCD display like its smaller sibling, according to Display Supply Chain Consultants CEO and analyst Ross Young.
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