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Lindsay Adler and Erik Valind, both working professionals and educators, have written a beginner’s guide to photographic lighting with an unusual conceit at its core. By structuring a book around a list of common challenges - what they call the 'top ten worst situations' - they've created a digestible, useful 'lighting 101' guide. In this short review, Adam Koplan takes a look at their book 'Shooting in Sh**ty Light: The Top Ten Worst Photography Lighting Situations and How to Conquer Them'.

Jaws dropped at the Coachella music festival in 2012 when rapper Tupac Shakur arrived on stage to perform. After all, he died in 2006 from multiple gunshot wounds. Modern technology brought him back from the dead six years later as a life-sized hologram to spit verses alongside his old friends Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre The virtual stunt begged a question: "Who's next?" Since Tupac's digital reincarnation, we've seen plans for an Elvis Presley comeback and rumors of a TLC reunion aided by a virtual Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. And fans aren't the only people wanting to see these ideas come to life Artists want to make magic onstage with their deceased musical brethrenWill.i.am, whose new music video "#thatPOWER" features Justin Bieber as a hologram, recently revealed which artists he'd like to revive. Read more...More about Music, Entertainment, Michael Jackson, Celebrities, and Technology

Apple has released a document containing CEO Tim Cook’s testimony ahead of his scheduled appearance tomorrow before US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Responding to questions about the company keeping more than $100 billion overseas, Apple used the testimony to state that it does not use tax gimmicks, and “has substantial foreign cash because it sells the majority of its products outside the US.” The company…

AT&T has made a statement suggesting the carrier will allow all mobile video chat apps over cellular on its network by the end of the year. In a statement made to The Verge, AT&T said that pre-loaded Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry’s video chat apps will be enabled by mid-June “over cellular for our unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices from those three manufacturers.” Additionally, “Throughout the second half…

Believe it or not, Juice Pack Plus ($120) is actually the third all-but-identical iPhone 5 battery case in Mophie's extended rollout of the line. As the name suggests, it offers a larger capacity battery than either Juice Pack Helium or Juice Pack Air; this one is packing 2100mAh, and Mophie claims that it offers up to 120% battery life -- our prior tests suggest that it'll come in considerably lower than that. Physically, it looks a lot like the…

Samsung responds to the Galaxy S4's storage space controversy, after being criticized on BBC One.

LG is showcasing a 5-inch flexible OLED screen this week at SID 2013.

Hardware that tracks your head, eyes and hands will make the follow up to Second Life very different to the pioneering virtual world.The founder of once-popular virtual world Second Life, Philip Rosedale, is working on a new 3D digital world that looks like it will be operated using gestures and body-tracking hardware. Rosedale declined to talk about his new company, called High Fidelity, just yet. But videos and other material posted online by the company suggest it is working on an impressively immersive virtual reality experience where you control an avatar using head and hand movements.

Hulu has consistently flailed and suffered from incomplete show catalogs because the company's owners, with a vested interest in the status quo, really don't have much of an interest in Hulu truly disrupting or succeeding. Now Disney and News Corporation, after years of bickering about what to do with the property, are again pushing for a sale on the heels of departures of top company executives last January. An outright sale is a tall order, given that whoever shells out money for Hulu, immediately has to shell out more money to renew a flood of soon-to-expire licensing contracts. Still, Hulu has had suitors -- most notably former News Corporation Peter Chernin, who it was rumored has bid around $500 million for the company. Now Time Warner Cable and another un-named cable company have thrown their name into the hat, but only as added joint owners alongside Disney, Comcast NBC Universal, and News Corporation:A deal would make New York-based Time Warner Cable a co-owner with Walt Disney Co., News Corp. and Comcast Corp., which each hold about a one-third stake, said the people. Time Warner Cable could offer Hulu to its customers as a bundled service inside and outside of the home with its current products, one of the people said. The company is focusing more on its broadband business as traditional pay-TV growth stalls.Adding Time Warner Cable to the mix does nothing to fix Hulu's problem that its owners don't really want to disrupt the apple cart -- and therefore don't really want to truly succeed at Internet video (which is precisely why company executives abandoned ship). In other words, Hulu can probably look forward to flailing for another half a decade as a glorified advertisement for traditional television. Update: a separate report in the Wall Street Journal suggests that DirecTV is another possible suitor.