Last month, Google announced that Photos would drop free unlimited backups as part of cross-service changes to storage that also impacts Docs/Sheets/Slides. This means that more people will be paying for cloud space, and Google One is now getting a significant price cut on higher-tier plans.
Moving forward, Google One’s 10TB plan is $49.99 per month from $99.99, which is what the 20TB tier now…
Herbert Diess, the head of the Volkswagen group, forced a vote of confidence over his leadership at Volkswagen after facing some pushbacks due to his more aggressive stance on electric vehicles.
Now Volkswagen’s board confirmed that it is backing him and his team over the…
You didn’t ask to learn about bellows extension factors, but we’re going to cover it with the most absurd camera that you may ever see!
Built from over two sheets of plywood, scraps of 2x6s, old drywall screws, and the cheapest 610mm lens that I could find on eBay…
A camera collector recently discovered photos on a roll of film shot with a vintage Leica camera. The images, which seem to show a couple’s travels through Europe, are estimated to have been shot around 70 years ago, and they’ve sparked a worldwide hunt for information about the couple and the locations.
Nearly 7 years ago, Irish camera collector William Fagan purchased a Leica III camera that…
Regarding Photographs: Reading Photos I
December 15, 2020
This is the third essay in this series, and it begins a smaller sequence of notes running over the ways we as viewers make sense of pictures. We spend, I think, too much time thinking about what happens before and during the making of a picture, but not enough on what…
AIStorm raises $16 million for low-powered AI edge computing chips
December 15, 2020
AIStorm, an AI startup developing chipsets that can directly process data from devices, has raised $16 million. The company says the funding will enable it to scale manufacturing to deploy its hardware for devices like handsets, notebooks, smart speakers, remote controls…
Google Photos Can Now Turn Your Shots Into 3D Cinematic Images
December 15, 2020
Google Photos is rolling out a new feature it is calling Memories, which lets viewers “relive the moments” from photos uploaded to the platform by transforming them into 3D cinematic images.
According to a blog post, using machine learning, Google Photos predicts an image’s depth and produces a 3D representation of the scene, even if the original image doesn’t contain any depth…
Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G appears on TENAA, confirms most rumored specs
December 15, 2020
Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G is expected to arrive on December 24, blurring the lines between midrange and flagship. Rumors were claiming the phone will have a Snapdragon 865 chipset, four cameras with one of them bringing along a periscope lens, and plenty of storage options.
The…
Apple iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max get ProRAW with iOS 14.3
December 15, 2020
Apple has released iOS 14.3 that enables the ProRAW feature on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. What that does is give you all the standard RAW data with the photos, while also retaining the information generated by the phone’s processing algorithms.
Additionally…
Huawei nova 8, 8 Pro, and Enjoy 20 SE specs tipped
December 15, 2020
Huawei is set to introduce the nova 8 and nova 8 Pro smartphones on December 23. While no official specs have been teased yet an image shared by reveals the specifications of the nova 8 duo.
The nova 8 Pro will be powered by the Kirin 985 SoC and support dual-mode 5G. It will pack a 120Hz curved screen and feature a quad camera on the back comprising a 64MP primary, 8MP ultrawide, and two 2MP…
