First look at LG's 360 Cam accessory

By Gadjo C. Sevilla

360' cameras come in all shapes and sizes. There's the expensive Ricoh Theta line and the durable 360Fly devices and there's LG's $299 360 cam which does basically the same thing. The above demo shows what the 360 cam looks like, how easy it is to depoy as well as some videos it made. Photos coming from the LG 360 Cam were quite seamless and designed to give a reall immersive 360 degree experience when used with VR glasses or shared on smartphones, tablets and PCs. 

Verizon buys Yahoo for US $5 billion

It's an end of a long, grueling era for dot com pioneer Yahoo. The long suffering company was purchased for $5 billion in cash by Verizon who adds the search portal as another of its growing list of media properties under the AOL brand (which also owns Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget). 

Yahoo's diverse core internet business which is made up of web properties like Yahoo Mail, Fantasy Sports, the photo storage site Flickr ,Yahoo search and Tumblr as well as the company's advertising technology are now all part of Verizon.

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO said that, "Yahoo is a company that has changed the world, and will continue to do so through this combination with Verizon and AOL." Meyer, who was hired from Google in 2012, says she plans on staying on for the next phase of Yahoo's assimilation into Verizon.

Source: BBC

‘Sherlock’ enters into darker territory in new trailer

SDCC gives us one big trailer after another. This time, we hear news about Sherlock and a look at the new season, which is possibly the last for the show. The trailer is ominous and possibly the darkest one yet, as Amanda Abbington said at their Comic-Con panel. Abbington was joined by Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Gatiss, and show co-creator Steven Moffat. Maybe it’s Moriarty, maybe it isn’t. We can’t say. But it’s looking like it’s going to be another great season.

Source: The Guardian

Prisma is now official on Android

Have you been seeing selfies that look like paintings on your social media feeds? Well, that’s most likely courtesy of Prisma. The app makes use of artificial intelligence and neural networks to turn your photos into works of art. It’s been popular over on Apple devices but is now officially available on Android, too. It started out in beta about five days ago on Android. The app can turn any of your photos into works of art using modern art filters or using styles of famous artists.

Source: Gizmodo