Amazon was sued on Monday over alleged privacy violations from its Ring doorbell cameras. The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring’s Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
Ring announced the Familiar Faces feature last September and faced pushback from consumer protection organizations like the EFF, as well as…
OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace.
Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is…
Impulse Space, a startup founded by SpaceX engine guru Tom Mueller to build highly maneuverable spacecraft, announced a $500 million Series D this week that it will use to hire as many as 200 new employees.
The round, led by 137 Ventures and BANNER VC, with participation…
Photographing David Bowie: "He'd built up all the evidence. So then I had to destroy them…"
June 3, 2026
Few musicians shaped their visual identity as carefully as David Bowie. From Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane, his collaborations with photographers helped create some of the most iconic images in rock history.
So when six eminent photographers got together at the atmospheric Lightroom centre in London, England, to talk about their photos of Bowie to rock journalist Miranda Sawyer, it made for a…
The World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini has revealed the competition’s overall winner – a prestigious honor going to British video journalist/photographer Jo Kearney for an image showing a quiet moment of a woman eating in the…
Award-winning photographers all started somewhere – these are the 10 photo contests to enter this June
June 3, 2026
Whether you’re a seasoned photographer, a beginner just getting started or someone who loves capturing beautiful moments, submitting your images to photo competitions is one of the best ways to gain exposure and recognition.
Entering competitions isn’t just about winning…
Kia's affordable EVs are catching on fast, but this could be the one to sell like 'hotcakes'
June 3, 2026
Kia credited its growing lineup of mass-market EVs and hybrid SUVs after posting its third straight month of sales growth in May.
The Kia EV2 is poised to sell like hotcakes
The Korean automaker sold 277,715 vehicles last month, up 2.7% from May 2025, marking Kia’s third straight month of year-over-year global sales growth.
Kia’s SUVs and electrified vehicles led the demand, including the…
BYD says it will assume full financial liability for at-fault accidents that happen while its “God’s Eye” urban driving system is active in China — with no cap on the payout.
It’s a commitment Tesla has never made for “Full Self-Driving,” and it flips the…
In a fascinating case that is sure to spark more casual arguments than it settled, a judge was recently forced to make a ruling on whether or not “mime pedaling” counted as truly pedaling an electric bike.
Mime pedaling, or the act of casually moving the pedals on an…
JERUSALEM — France barred Israeli government officials from participating in Europe’s biggest defense show, prohibited the country from opening a national pavilion and restricted its arms makers from exhibiting offensive weapons, according to the show organizers and Israel’s Ministry of Defense.
Following a French government decision, Israeli exhibitors at the Eurosatory defense exhibition…
