Huawei P30 Pro vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max camera shootout: iPhone takes the crown

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The iPhone is king of smartphone cameras again. 

At first, I was skeptical. When I got my iPhone 11 Pro Max a few weeks ago, the camera was buggy, slowish, and — at first glance — appeared to be no match to Huawei’s excellent cameraphone in several key departments, such as zoom and low-lit photography. 

With an unprecedented onslaught of software updates, Apple slowly but surely fixed the bugs on the iPhone camera. It got faster, it stopped blacking out, and it gained Apple’s secretive new Deep Fusion tech, though only in iOS beta at that point.

Since I found the Huawei P30 Pro to have the most versatile and overall best camera around, I decided it was time for a side-by-side comparison to see whether Apple was able to catch up with Huawei’s camera. And while a TL;DR will never do justice to this type of text, the short answer is yes. The camera on the iPhone 11 Pro Max is better, in many important aspects, than the one on the Huawei P30 Pro.  Read more…

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Jack Dorsey trashes Facebook’s Libra, say it’s not even a cryptocurrency

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Jack Dorsey has some thought on Libra. Namely, it’s bullshit. 

Speaking at today’s Twitter News Summit in New York City, the pro-Bitcoin CEO took Facebook’s so-called cryptocurrency project to task for being, essentially, a gimmick. He insisted that Libra isn’t even a real cryptocurrency, and that his company will have nothing to do with it. 

Dorsey’s comments, in response to the question if Twitter would ever join Libra, were captured by CNN media (and ex-Mashable) reporter Kerry Flynn. 

“Hell no,” said Dorsey. “Nothing within Libra had to be a cryptocurrency to do what they want to do. They use that label liberally. It’s completely incorrect.”  Read more…

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Wait, is this congressman’s phone passcode just 777777?

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A congressman, responsible for leading the lawmaking process and representing the interests of the American people, has a comically weak phone passcode. 

An eagle-eyed viewer spotted Lance Gooden, a Republican representative from Texas, typing in his phone’s passcode on camera on Wednesday during Mark Zuckerberg testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Although Gooden can easily be targeted as a weak link in national security, his passcode appears to be a simple 777777. 

SEE ALSO: A Congresswoman addressed Mark Zuckerberg’s dumb haircut mid-hearing

The GIF has over 146,000 views on Gfycat at the time of writing, and also hit the Frontpage of Reddit on Thursday.  Read more…

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Twitter quietly killed its secret ad-free version for fancy people

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Influencers — they’re just like the rest of us. Or, at least their Twitter ad-experience now is. 

The minds behind everyone’s favorite apocalypse-themed ticker tape confirmed today that Twitter has done away with a little-known version of the service that displayed no ads to certain high-value users. In other words, previously if your account met a certain list of criteria, then you never saw promoted tweets in your timeline. 

Not anymore. 

“Historically, people with high follower counts have seen fewer ads,” a company spokesperson explained over email. “Recently, we’ve taken a more consistent approach of showing ads to everyone who uses Twitter and as a result, people with higher follower counts will notice an increase in the number of ads they’re seeing.” Read more…

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Two daring pranksters allegedly hacked a billboard to play pornography

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Michigan drivers got more than they bargained for after two pranksters allegedly took over a billboard with some rather risqué material. 

According to Michigan’s Auburn Hills Police Department, at 10:49 p.m. on Sept. 28, the two individuals pictured above broke into a small building underneath a digital billboard on the side of I-75. Once inside, they somehow managed to hack the billboard and used it to play pornography. 

Some drivers were surprised and delighted at the unexpected sight, while others were likely confused. 

The video reportedly ran for about 15 to 20 minutes before it was eventually shut down.  Read more…

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