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Fujifilm Fujikina is coming to the US, turning NYC into “a living gallery space,” along with photo walks, workshops, and talks

August 19, 2026
Fujifilm’s global festival celebrating photography is returning to New York City for the first time in four years. Fujifilm Fuijikina New York will bring award-winning photographs, photo walks, portfolio reviews, talks, gear checks, and more to New York’s Lower East Side October 16-18. Fujifilm’s Fujikina events are a global celebration of photography that brings together the latest gear…
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BYD's cheapest EV spotted with an upgraded interior and a single large display screen

August 19, 2026
BYD’s low-cost Seagull EV, sold as the Dolphin Surf in Europe and Dolphin Mini in other overseas markets, is due for an upgrade. Here’s a sneak peek. BYD prepares to launch the new Seagull EV The current 2026 Seagull starts at just 69,900 yuan in China, or about $10,000, making it BYD’s most affordable pure electric vehicle. It’s also among BYD’s most popular models. According to data…
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DefenseNews

DARPA came close to finding a drone that can lift four times its own weight

August 19, 2026
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) concluded its Lift Challenge last week, and although none of the participants achieved the desired goal of building a drone capable of lifting four times its weight, they came close. The agency announced that the company AVIDrone pushed the limits with its electric helicopter design that lifted an unprecedented payload-to-weight ratio of 3.84…
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How US military funding propelled China’s robot dogs

August 19, 2026
China’s Unitree Robotics — among the world’s biggest producers of humanoid and quadruped robots — based designs for its most successful robot dogs on innovations funded by the U.S. military, according to a former U.S. defense technology official and three top…
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Mortal Shell 2 Review

August 18, 2026
As a fan of Mortal Shell’s scaled-down approach to the soulslike back in 2020, I was very skeptical of Mortal Shell 2’s enthusiasm for making everything about it way larger, because bigger is not always better. If you felt the same, then allow me to assuage those fears from the top here: besides being bigger, Mortal Shell 2 is also better in almost every way. It still has its rough edges…
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