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This award-winning 'reaction' shot proves there's a lot more to sports photography than the action itself

Despite masterfully capturing a decisive emotional moment after a boxing bout, Vladimir Tadic doesn’t even consider himself to be a sports photographer – landscapes are his specialty. But genre-swapping didn’t stop him topping the Sports category in the fourteenth season of HIPA (the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Awards), which was themed…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

This lightweight device can turn almost any bike electric in seconds

The Pikaboost electric bike conversion kit is back, this time with an even lighter version. The new Pikeboost 2 Lite was shown off last week as a more minimalist version of the popular friction drive conversion kit. As a friction drive kit, the Pikaboost 2 Lite uses a roller on the rear tire of a bicycle to turn it into an electric bike, meaning owners don’t need to install a wheel motor or a…
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DefenseNews

Former US sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling ship intel to China

A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling technical and operating manuals for ships and operating systems to an intelligence officer working for China was sentenced Monday to more than 16 years in prison, prosecutors said. A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Jinchao Wei, 25, to 200 months. A federal jury convicted Wei in August of six crimes, including espionage. He was paid more than…
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ComputersNews

Stop Windows 11 from tracking you: Reclaim privacy with this setting

By default, Windows tracks the current location of your computer. Depending on your hardware configuration, it evaluates location data from various sensors on your device. If your PC has a GPS chip, its location can be accurately pinpointed. In the rare case your PC has a SIM card, Windows can triangulate its location using the signal strengths of surrounding phone towers. Windows can also check…
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