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This nose-to-lens giraffe photograph earned a major award for its dramatic camera phone perspective

July 21, 2026
There’s a particular kind of photograph that only a curious animal and a very wide-angle lens can produce together. German photographer Marcel Ohneberger’s giraffe portrait is exactly that: an enormous, looming head fills most of the frame, its neck curving away into a distant landscape of grassland and hills, while a single dark eye stares down the lens. The image has earned Ohneberger an…
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“We’ve learned not to trust bright blobs in images.” This is one of the most photographed planetary systems, but a faint planet still played hide-and-seek in more than a decade's worth of photos

July 21, 2026
Beta Pictoris, located about 63 light-years away from Earth, is one of the most photographed planetary systems outside of our own – yet despite all the data coming from that part of the sky, a faint planet remained hidden. After researchers noted a bright spot in new…
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“It’s more important to click with people than to click the shutter.” The photographer behind one of history's most iconic photographs understood something that too many modern photographers do not

July 21, 2026
I can still remember the first time that, standing with a camera around my neck and aching feet, one of the members of the bridal party told me that I had done a great job. I must have looked confused. The wedding wasn’t even over yet, the photographs had yet to leave my…
Cleantech & EV'sNews

Trump's dumb idea to tariff Canada over smoke could set a useful precedent

July 21, 2026
The latest dumb, hypocritical “idea” to come out of the idiot running the US into the ground could actually set the precedent we need to solve climate change. Hear me out for a minute. Right now, much of the east and midwest US is shrouded in smoke due to wildfires in Canada. The wildfires are the natural result of a summer heat wave that has swept across most of the continent – and indeed…
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DefenseNews

Thunderstruck: Anduril unveils autonomous attack rotorcraft

July 21, 2026
LONDON — The U.S. military will soon field a drone wingman that expands well beyond the fixed wing platforms of the Combat Collaborative Aircraft program. Anduril started the 2026 Farnborough Airshow with a splash on Monday when it unveiled an autonomous attack rotorcraft, dubbed Thunder, designed to operate with current and next-generation crewed attack helicopter platforms. Developed in…
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Think you can spot fake AI photos? They’re now a security risk

July 21, 2026
I have a challenge for you. Can you spot AI-generated content? And more importantly…. Can you identify such photos and video right now? Here’s the problem: Generative AI keeps improving, so the clues that let you know it’s not real change continually, too. Back in December, I took an NPR quiz that tested my ability to identify AI slop videos (and failed). I used what I learned there to…
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