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Who’s who in the smartphone camera business | AndroidAuthority

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Sony’s image sensors have found their way into numerous smartphones and tablets, even if the company doesn’t provide the whole module. The company accounted for roughly 40 percent of all smartphone image sensors in 2014. the difference is that image sensors are responsible for converting the light into digital information, which determines the number of megapixels, pixel size and density, recording frame rates, etc. The broader camera module determines focus, aperture and other attributes. Sony’s high-end image sensors fall under the Exmor RS brand name. Its latest model is the Back Side Illuminated (BSI) 21 megapixel IMX230 , which has started to find its way into the latest smartphones . It’s IMX240 powers the Galaxy Note 4 and some S6 models, while the IMX234 forms the basis of the LG G4’s camera. The company isn’t just catering to the very high-end market, Sony’s 8MP and 13MP mid-range sensors have been in high demand from Chinese smartphone manufacturers lo...

2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for theinternet | The Verge

What causes leap seconds? Earthquakes, tidal drag, the weather On June 30th at precisely 23:59:59, the world’s atomic clocks will pause for a single second. Or, to be more precise, they’ll change to the uncharted time of 23:59:60 — before ticking over to the more worldly hour of 00:00:00 on the morning of July 1st, 2015. This addition of a leap second,  announced by the Paris Observatory this week , is being added to keep terrestrial clocks in step with the vagaries of astronomical time — in this case, the slowing of the Earth’s rotation. when the last leap second was added back in 2012, more than a few sites had trouble keeping pace. As reported by  Phys.org , Foursquare, Reddit, LinkedIn, and StumbledUpon all crashed when the leap second ticked unexpectedly into place. via 2015 is getting an extra second and that's a bit of a problem for the internet | The Verge . Also read :: June 30th is a second too long to keep clocks accurate The leap secon...