The Latest in IT Security

Although its Windows Phone platform may stuck in the mud, that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from developing some killer smartphone camera technologies over the last week. Just a few days ago we wrote about the amazing new technology that Microsoft has developed to help you make incredibly steady time-lapse videos while you’re walking around with your smartphone camera or GoPro. And now Technology Review brings us word that Microsoft engineers have figured out a way to modify ordinary smartphone cameras and give them the ability to take 3D images. How did Microsoft’s team accomplish this impressive feat? Apparently they started by removing a smartphone camera’s infrared filter and replaced it with a filter that only allowed infrared light to get through — in