New Google Maps satellite imaging rolling out

Posted on by Jules Wang

If you happen to be sightseeing remotely on Google Maps, perhaps for a future actual vacation, turn on the satellite imaging and check it the imaging. You might need to turn off the 3D feature.Google said that it now uses images from Landsat 8, an imaging satellite launched by the US Geological Survey and NASA in 2013. Landsat 7, launched in 1999, is still running. It’s just been tough work putting a global mosaic ...

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Oppo Find 7 to sport a 50 megapixel camera?

Posted on by Jaime Rivera

Many of us were expecting MWC 2014 to be full of the innovations that we didn’t get. Smartphones with 2K displays, and significant camera improvements were just some of the things we predicted, and no company delivered. By contrast, the only company that has teased these features on an upcoming handset is Oppo with its Find 7, and a new rumor has just made this device even more attractive. A leaked image taken by this phone according to the EXIF data claims that the resulting photo is of 8160×6120 resolution. If you do the math, this would require a 50 megapixel sensor in order ...

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