Google Nexus 6P Can Now Rival The Best In Mobile Photography!

The IPS LCD screen is extended at 5-crawl that is much the same as phablet profile with the showcase determination set at 1080p. Four years later, the Taiwanese manufacturer returned with an 8.9-inch tablet (Nexus 9) featuring dual front-facing speakers with HTC BoomSound, and Google has given this company another chance.

Here is the Android N release news for HTC, LG, Huawei, BlackBerry and Samsung. That implies the Best Buy promo for the 32GB adaptation of the gadget means mind boggling funds of $150. In addition to this, you'll also find slow motion video capture on the hamburger menu as long as your phone supports it (The Nexus 5X supports slow motion at 120 FPS and the Nexus 6P also supports slow motion at 240 FPS). Dieter Bohn reports for The Verge that the Android rumor mill has decided that HTC will make two Android Nexus phones this year.

The Google Nexus 7 has been the subject of rumors for quite some time now. Sony is the first OEM to test Google's new OS on a non-Google device.

A range of handsets were launched in various parts of the world - but by the end of that year, it was already clear that things weren't going entirely to plan, even in India's massive budget-focused smartphone market. The speed at which these companies now release Android One devices is entirely up to them. Interestingly enough, The Information reported back in February that Google was interested in enlisting HTC to build a Google-branded Nexus device.

Google has always been speculated to be working on a refreshed version of the Nexus 7 (2016). Notwithstanding, there are bits of gossip expressing that Google may likewise choose to deal with the assembling obligations simply like what they did to the Pixel C tablet.

The same benchmark listing also revealed that the Moto XT1650 was running a 1.59GHz Snapdragon 820 processor along with 4GB of RAM and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. An improvement in the RAM aspect and battery capacity would also be expected.

There's not a lot of solid information now available regarding the upcoming Nexus 7 (2016), as the rumor mill spins a myriad of different theories.

As existing apart from everything else, there is still no official points of interest discharged by the organization.

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Head On Photo Festival announces winners

"The Fallen", winner of the Head On Landscape Prize 2016. Photo: David Chancellor

The winners of the 2016 Head On Photo Festival awards have been announced, with Antonio Heredia taking the Head On Portrait Prize for his evocative image of a brain cancer survivor's scarred crown.

The subject, Oscar Prieto, endured surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy to beat the cancer and now carries the memento of a deep scar, which travels from the back of his skull to the nape of his neck.

David Chancellor took first prize in the landscape category, with a peaceful yet confronting image of a dying giraffe, photographed in the South African savannah.

''Losing Independence'', the winner of the Head On Mobile Prize. Photo: Andrew Robert Morgan

The mobile photography prize went to Andrew Robert Morgan for his photograph entitled Losing Independence, a portrait of an 87-year-old man sat in the back seat of a car, like a child, no longer able to drive.

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More than 4000 entrants were in the running across the four categories: portrait, landscape, mobile and student, with a prize pool worth $50,000.

Head On Photo Festival is on now in Sydney, with a busy program of talks, workshops and exhibitions.

''Survivor'', winner of the Head On Portrait Prize 2016. Photo: Antonio Heredia

Head On Portrait Prize and Head On Mobile Prize finalists are on exhibition at the Museum of Sydney until June 5, Head On Landscape Prize finalists are on at NSW Parliament House Fountain Court Gallery until June 5.

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Photo radar speed cameras coming to four Portland streets

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -

Slow down or say cheese.

New photo radar cameras will be going up along four of Portland's most dangerous streets.

The city council approved spending 4.5 million dollars to buy eight cameras as a part of a pilot program aiming to slow down drivers on Wednesday afternoon.

Cameras will be installed on Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale Highway between 30th and Southwest 39th, Northeast Marine Drive, Southeast 122nd between Foster and Powell, and outer Southeast Division.

The streets have been designated as high crash corridors, where the majority of serious crashes occur.

According to PBOT, the pedestrian crash rate on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is double the city-wide average.

Doug Rogers, who lives in the Hayhurst neighborhood of SW Portland, said the neighborhood has been pushing for safety improvements on the highway for years.

"It's very scary because you've got a four foot margin there to walk in," he said. "Traffic's driving 50 miles an hour, literally six feet away from you."

The speed limit on that stretch of Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is 40 miles per hour, but 45 percent of drivers go over the speed limit, according to PBOT.

Rogers is hopeful the cameras will slow drivers.

"Anybody who drives around Beaverton is aware of [their cameras] and they tend to be a little more modest and a little more controlled of their speed," said Rogers. "We'd like to have that here. So this is a good thing."

Kim Stone became a street safety advocate because her son, Joe, died after a car hit him while he was in a marked crosswalk at SE Division and 156th in 2013.

"The driver wasn't speeding, but at the time, the speed limits were 40 mph out there and people drive practically highway speeds," said Stone. "They've been lowered since then but it's still not enough. I think these safety cameras will really wake people up."

Portland's speeding drivers have been photographed by cameras on a mobile photo radar van, but the van must change locations every few hours. Additionally, an officer is required to be present for any speeding tickets to be valid.

State lawmakers approved fixed cameras on high crash corridors last year.

The first set of cameras will be installed on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway this summer. Drivers will begin receiving citations August 1.

The cameras will be installed on the other corridors over the next year.

There will be warning signs and electronic speed limit message signs posted 100 yards before each camera site.

PBOT evaluates their effectiveness over three years, according to spokesman Dylan Rivera.

He said they expect the number of citations issued to go down over time, which they would consider a sign of success.

The city wants people to slow down to help save lives, he said.

Copyright 2016 KPTV-KPDX Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Instagram: 10-year old boy wins $10,000 from photo-sharing platform after reporting flaw

Media reports reveal that a 10-year old boy has been awarded $10,000 dollars from Instagram after he found a security flaw in the service.

According to reports, the boy, whose name is given Jani, discovered the flaw in the Instagram app, the mobile-photo sharing service owned by Facebook, back in March.

The boy found out that he could delete people's comments when he put in malicious code into the comment field of the application.

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Jani reported the Instagram about the technical fault by email, and after a few days, Instagram replied him saying the flaw was fixed and as a reward, he got $10,000 dollars from Instagram.

According to Leadership Online, Jani said he had been enthusiastic about coding games for years. He had been building his skills on his own with his twin brother.

Jani revealed that he dreams of becoming an information security expert later on in life. "It would be my dream job because security is really important," Jani said.

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Photo radar speed cameras coming to four Portland streets

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -

Slow down or say cheese.

New photo radar cameras will be going up along four of Portland's most dangerous streets.

The city council approved spending 4.5 million dollars to buy eight cameras as a part of a pilot program aiming to slow down drivers on Wednesday afternoon.

Cameras will be installed on Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale Highway between 30th and Southwest 39th, Northeast Marine Drive, Southeast 122nd between Foster and Powell, and outer Southeast Division.

The streets have been designated as high crash corridors, where the majority of serious crashes occur.

According to PBOT, the pedestrian crash rate on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is double the city-wide average.

Doug Rogers, who lives in the Hayhurst neighborhood of SW Portland, said the neighborhood has been pushing for safety improvements on the highway for years.

"It's very scary because you've got a four foot margin there to walk in," he said. "Traffic's driving 50 miles an hour, literally six feet away from you."

The speed limit on that stretch of Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is 40 miles per hour, but 45 percent of drivers go over the speed limit, according to PBOT.

Rogers is hopeful the cameras will slow drivers.

"Anybody who drives around Beaverton is aware of [their cameras] and they tend to be a little more modest and a little more controlled of their speed," said Rogers. "We'd like to have that here. So this is a good thing."

Kim Stone became a street safety advocate because her son, Joe, died after a car hit him while he was in a marked crosswalk at SE Division and 156th in 2013.

"The driver wasn't speeding, but at the time, the speed limits were 40 mph out there and people drive practically highway speeds," said Stone. "They've been lowered since then but it's still not enough. I think these safety cameras will really wake people up."

Portland's speeding drivers have been photographed by cameras on a mobile photo radar van, but the van must change locations every few hours. Additionally, an officer is required to be present for any speeding tickets to be valid.

State lawmakers approved fixed cameras on high crash corridors last year.

The first set of cameras will be installed on SW Beaverton Hillsdale Highway this summer. Drivers will begin receiving citations August 1.

The cameras will be installed on the other corridors over the next year.

There will be warning signs and electronic speed limit message signs posted 100 yards before each camera site.

PBOT evaluates their effectiveness over three years, according to spokesman Dylan Rivera.

He said they expect the number of citations issued to go down over time, which they would consider a sign of success.

The city wants people to slow down to help save lives, he said.

Copyright 2016 KPTV-KPDX Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Photo Independent Marks its Third Year With Salute to Mobile Photography

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Back for its third year, Photo Independent takes over Raleigh Studios today through Sunday, offering a chance to see works you won't find in any gallery. Over 100 independent artists represent themselves in this sprawling exhibit and confab offering panel discussions as well as Photobook Independent, a showcase on the growing market for photo books. Boldly going where few have gone before, the fair offers an unusual exhibit devoted to cellphone photography exploring the new technology's impact, good and bad, on the medium.

Previous years featured exhibits by guitarist Andy Summers and Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-O), and averaged about 5,000 fans along with deep-pocketed collectors like Billy Idol. Photo Independent founder Chris Davies of Fabrik Media expects about the same number this year but is cautiously optimistic there will be even more. For the first time ever, the fair won't have to split its audience with Paris Photo L.A., which usually takes place right across the street at Paramount Studios. The latter recently announced they were cancelling their 2016 event and future shows due to "the absence of a mature market" in Los Angeles.

"The way Paris Photo framed it was incorrect and pretty much a lie," Davies explains about the rival show's difficulty finding a foothold. "The real reason is they couldn't get enough exhibitors. I spoke to several galleries in Arizona and New York, and they tell me the reason they're not coming is because they charge so much money for their booths. That's the real reason."

Once chosen by a six-person selection committee, artists at Photo Independent pay a nominal fee of $975 to $3,250, depending on space, to exhibit at the annual three-day event. It's an appealing price for photographers from the world of fashion and journalism, as well as gifted amateurs, affording them the chance to bypass galleries and exhibit as fine artists. That's not to imply the artists behind The Mobile Photography show are somehow inferior. Where you might expect a space dedicated to selfies, instead you'll find disposable, in-the-moment captures similar in spirit to the work of mid-century icons like Robert Frank as well as the early Polaroids of Robert Mapplethorpe.

"There are some seasoned photographers in the world that are taking mobile photography seriously," Davies says of the exhibit as well as the accompanying discussion on Saturday, Everyone's A Photographer: the Cell Phone Camera — Revolution or De-Evolution? "Just like in the old days, Polaroids was a fun thing to do. Now a Mapplethorpe Polaroid costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. I see that also with the mobile photography market. Eventually it will be taken seriously."

That covers the "revolution" part of it, but what of the "de-evolution" part? The proliferation of images has had a profound impact, changing the way we capture and consume photography. If an oil painting by one of the old masters is considered a sumptuous feast, a photo is a Happy Meal in both the way it's priced and consumed at a swipe. One solution is to change our definition. "It's not a photo unless it's printed," is a common saying of Magnum photographer Constantine Manos who, along with fellow Magnum shooter Bruce Gilden, conducted workshops earlier this month.

Programs during the fair include a conversation with gallerist Robert Berman titled Calm Cool & Collected, On Collecting & Getting Collected and a talk with photographer Jim McHugh called L.A. Street Artists & Urban Landscapes. The event concludes Sunday with a look at Alec Byrne's photos of the London rock scene in the '60s and '70s featuring images of such icons as Mick Jagger and Jimi Hendrix.

With the exit of Paris Photo L.A., Davies expects this year to be the fair's most successful yet. And as for "the absence of a mature market," don't expect Photo Independent to follow its rival's example anytime soon. "Los Angeles is an image city," he says. "It's always been focused on the image and film and photography. It's just something that has been a constant and always will be."

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Schumer wants probe of billboards that capture mobile phone data

NEW YORK >> An outdoor advertising company that owns thousands of billboards across the country, including in Times Square, and around the world, is using mobile photo data to learn about people who are passing their displays in order to cater ads to specific consumers, and U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer wants federal officials to investigate if the practice is legal.

The company, Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, which has more than 675,000 displays in more than 40 countries, insists the information it uses is anonymous. The company said it launched a service that works with partner companies to match aggregated cellphone location data to maps of its billboards, so the company can gather information about the people who pass its displays and tell whether those people eventually end up visiting the advertiser's stores.

The program, known as Clear Channel Outdoor RADAR, is a partnership between the outdoor advertiser and several companies, including AT&T and a technology corporation that uses location data collected from other smartphone apps, in order to track the travels and behaviors of consumers through their phones.

Schumer says he believes the company has created "spying billboards." The New York Democrat is asking the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation to determine whether the tracking constitutes a deceptive trade practice.

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In a video on its website, the company says it "measures consumer's real-world travel patterns and behaviors as they move through their day, analyzing data on direction of travel, billboard viewability, and visits to specific destinations." That information, the company says, is then mapped against Clear Channel's displays, which would allow advertisers to buy ads in places that would "reach specific behavioral audience segments."

Clear Channel uses "aggregate and anonymous mobile consumer information," the company said. The program gives marketers a "solution that provides a more accurate way to understand and target specific audience segments," Clear Channel's vice president, Andy Stevens, said in a news release announcing the initiative in February.

The company insists the data it is mining from its partners is used to gather information about the average viewer of specific billboards and that individual consumers cannot be identified.

But Schumer wants an investigation because, he says, most people don't realize their location data is being mined, even if they agreed to it at some point by accepting the terms of service of an app that later sells their location information.

"A person's cell phone should not become a James Bond-like personal tracking device for a corporation to gather information about consumers without their consent," Schumer said. "No one wants to be followed or tracked throughout their day, electronically or otherwise, so these new billboards not only raise eyebrows, but they raise some serious questions about privacy."

Schumer, who is set to formally announce the call for an investigation at a news conference later Sunday, said consumers should also be allowed to opt out of the location monitoring.

Clear Channel and the Federal Trade Commission did not immediately respond requests for comment.

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