TNSS 144: How Smartphone Photography Works - Tech in smartphone cameras, charging stations, DuckDuckGo, and more.

On this episode of The New Screen Savers for Saturday, February 17, 2018, with Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone:

• What makes smartphone cameras so good? Rishi Sanyal from DPReview joins us to compare two of the best, the iPhone X and Pixel 2 XL, and discuss computational photography.
• So many gadgets, where to charge them? Megan has a docking station problem, so we try out several charging stations to see what works, what's the best, and what you need to know to build your own.
• Back in 2015 on show #11, we saw amazing images of Pluto from The New Horizons spacecraft. Now the craft just sent back some record-breaking pictures. Megan talks with researcher Simon Porter about the farthest images ever made from Earth and what is in the future for the mission.
• Jason Howell has some tips for using the new features in the DuckDuckGo privacy search engine app for Android.
• In Call for Help, we find a way to separate your work from personal photos on the iPhone.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Megan Morrone

Guests: Rishi Sanyal, Simon Porter, and Jason Howell

The New Screen Savers records live every Saturday at 3PM Pacific on twit.tv/live. Episodes are available for download and streaming later that evening at https://twit.tv/shows/new-screen-savers.

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