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The Sigma 14mm F1.4 Art is the best Ultra Wide Lens

December 22, 2023
My gear of the year is the Sigma 14mm F1.4 Art lens: a big, heavy and glorious ultra-wide prime lens with a fast aperture. Recent Videos I know, I know. I did it again. I picked another fast, ultra-wide lens as my Gear of the Year. At this point, you could call it a trend. If you haven’t read my Gear of the Year articles over the past few years, now is probably the best time to point out…
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Fujifilm X-T5: Top 5 Settings to Optimize Your Camera

December 22, 2023
l The Fujifilm X-T5 offers a ton of features. Here are five settings you might explore to get your camera set up right. Photo: John Greengo The Fujifilm X-T5, like most of the company’s cameras, is known for the dials and tactile controls, at least on the outside.
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The Leica Q3: A Game-Changer in Photography

December 22, 2023
The Leica Q3 was the most fun I had with any gear in 2023. Photo: Shaminder Dulai No camera stood out to me more this year than Leica’s Q3. But it’s not for the reasons you may imagine. Recent Videos It’s expensive, and the fixed 28mm lens limits…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake

December 22, 2023
Marking its 1,000th Martian day on the Red Planet, NASA’s Perseverance rover recently completed its exploration of the ancient river delta that holds evidence of a lake that filled Jezero Crater billions of years ago. The six-wheeled scientist has to date collected a total of 23 samples, revealing the geologic history of this region of Mars in the process. One sample called “Lefroy Bay”…
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NASA’s NEOWISE Celebrates 10 Years, Plans End of Mission

December 22, 2023
NASA’s NEOWISE has had a busy decade. Since its reactivated mission began on Dec. 13, 2013, the space telescope has discovered a once-in-a-lifetime comet, observed more than 3,000 near-Earth objects, bolstered international planetary defense strategies, and supported…
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NASA’s Tech Demo Streams First Video From Deep Space via Laser

December 22, 2023
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beamed an ultra-high definition streaming video on Dec. 11 from a record-setting 19 million miles away (31 million kilometers, or about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance). The milestone is part of a NASA technology demonstration aimed at streaming very high-bandwidth video and other data from deep space – enabling future human missions beyond…
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As the Arctic Warms, Its Waters Are Emitting Carbon

December 22, 2023
When it comes to influencing climate change, the world’s smallest ocean punches above its weight. It’s been estimated that the cold waters of the Arctic absorb as much as 180 million metric tons of carbon per year – more than three times what New York City emits…
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A free AI image dataset, removed for child sex abuse images, has come under fire before

December 22, 2023
A massive open-source AI dataset, LAION-5B, which has been used to train popular AI text-to-image generators like Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, contains at least 1,008 instances of child sexual abuse material, a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory found — with thousands more instances suspected. The Stanford Internet Observatory is a program of the Cyber Policy…
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