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This Polaroid

What if there was an instant camera for GIFs? That’s what developer Abhishek Singh wondered and set out to discover for himself. The result is a Polaroid-like instant camera that captures a few moments and ejects a cartridge containing a moving image.  He calls the camera “InstaGif NextStep,” and says he was inspired by the Polaroid OneStep. And if you …

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Essential admits it accidentally leaked customer info

Essential, a tiny 100-person smartphone company from the man behind Android, just screwed up in a particularly embarassing way.  Last night, it accidentally shared personally identifying information — including driver’s licenses — of some customers with others, seemingly as part of an attempt to verify some would-be phone buyers’ identities ahead of shipment.  At first, some customers (at the XDA-developers …

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