Month: May 2013

Pics.io to bring Lightroom-like software to browsers

Pics.io plans to offer a service for editing raw images in a browser. (Credit: Pics.io) At startup Pics.io, a Ukrainian trio thinks it’s time for the Web browser to take on a computing task that thus far has resisted the inexorable shift toward cloud computing: raw photo editing. Eager for higher quality and flexibility, photography enthusiasts and pros have gravitated toward raw photos formats, which record cameras’ image data directly without processing into a more convenient but limited JPEG

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Watch the enormous QE2 binary asteroid pass by Earth

Don’t worry, this big boy isn’t on a collision course. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) An asteroid the size of a small town, and its smaller satellite “moon,” are zooming past Earth this week, and you can watch on Friday afternoon as binary asteroid “1998 QE2” reaches its closet point to Earth for the next 200 years. The 1.7-mile-long asteroid and its smaller satellite, which was just discovered this week, will come closest to Earth around 2 p.m.

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