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Today, Kodak announced it was bringing back one of its iconic black-and-white films, TMax P3200, which has been out of production since 2012. It’s a monochrome film that’s extra-sensitive to light, so you can shoot with it in dark settings, and it will give you a gritty, grimy look that so many smartphone filter apps have tried to replicate. But that’s not the only good news in the film photography world at the moment. Kodak is still preparing another iconic film called Ektachrome for market later this year, and a new film SLR from a company called Reflex slated to ship later this year camera just had a crowdfunding run that raised 150 percent of its goal. In short: Right now is a really great time to try out film photography. Of course, it’s not as simple as your smartphone camera, but that’s the point. It’s a process—and that’s a large part of what makes it great. Of course, the first thing you’ll need is a camera. Luckily, there are still lots of old film shooters wai...

Hurricane Irma is 420 miles wide (give or take the outer reaches of its spiraling winds). How big is that, really? That’s a little over 1/4th the diameter of Pluto. Irma is 313,087 Shaquille O’Neals from head to toe. (Or… 341,169 Charles Barkleys.) Irma is wider than every state except for Alaska, Montana, and Texas. It’s bigger than Olympus Mons, the largest mountain in our solar system. It would take the world’s fastest marathoner 32 hours to run from one side to the other. A sprinting cheetah could do it in 5.6 hours. 420 miles is 7 times the thickness of the Earth’s atmosphere. Irma is 20 miles wider than when Hurricane Katrina made landfalll. tags:  hurricane irma  climate change  hurricanes  weather environment  Read more at: https://www.popsci.com/size-hurricane-irma

When you’re a kid, practical gifts are the worst. Sure, you needed those pens for school, but you asked Santa for Nintendo or a Ninja Turtle, not office supplies. They might as well be vegetables. But, things are different when you’re an adult. Practical gifts become pretty great. You get useful gadgets that improve your life without having to shell out your own hard-earned cash. This carefully curated collection of products will turn you into Santa’s much more sensible brother, Tom, who brings useful, handy presents to the people in your life who can appreciate the value of a good pair of tube socks. 1. Anker 10 Port USB Data Hub Computers are getting slimmer, but that means they’re also getting stingier with their USB ports. This 10-port dock has seven high-speed USB-3 data and charging ports, as well as three high-power 2.1 Amp charging-specific ports for faster top-offs. Not bad for a device the size of a candy bar. Note: Actual candy bars also make good gifts, but the...

Even if you conscientiously save your data to the cloud, there always comes a time when you're away from your home or office and need to edit a file that's stuck on that computer. While you're sitting in a hotel room, you might need to run a program on your home PC, and while out and about, you may want to run a desktop app on your phone. That's where remote desktop tools come in. Once configured, these programs allow you to securely connect to a computer from another device. You can fully control your computer from any remote location, almost like actually sitting down to the real machine from afar. Just a decade ago, you'd need a degree in computing to wrap your head around the ins and outs of remote desktop programs. Now, as we'll demonstrate, you can manage these tools with just a few clicks or taps. Apple and Microsoft tools Apple and Microsoft both have their own remote desktop tools. Depending on what you want to do, however, these option...

In the middle of the 20th century, high marks on IQ tests became status symbols. Mensa members have the pins to prove it. Enrollment in the society, founded in 1946, is open only to individuals who score in the 98th percentile or higher on a pre-approved intelligence test. To join this clever club, hopefuls must demonstrate excellence in verbal-, spatial-, and mathematical-reasoning skills. These four problems are what today’s aspirants might see on a typical IQ assessment... This article was originally published in the Spring 2018 Intelligence issue of Popular Science. Read More at https://www.popsci.com/sample-questions-from-mensa-iq-test#page-2