Planting boots on Mars is hard enough. But getting “breathing room” on the Red Planet without inhaling toxic dust is yet another issue.
Given NASA’s plans to eventually put astronauts on the Red Planet, the agency assembled a Martian Dust Limit Working Group earlier this year to review what’s known and unknown about the toxicological hazard to human crews from exposure to…
Leaked: Google Pixel Watch 5 Specifications, Pixel 11’s Thinner Camera Bar, Pixel Glow To be Called HiLight
August 6, 2026
A new set of leaks have emerged online, leaving little to the imagination about what’s to come from Google at its August 12 event. The new leaks reveal the detailed Google Pixel Watch 5 specifications, a new look at the Pixel 11’s thinner camera bar, along with…
Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup.
Coming with him as co-founders are several other top researchers at the company, including Sanjay Ghemawat, a top engineer…
E-commerce software maker Shopify seems to be benefiting handily from people using AI to search.
On the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Shopify President Harley Finkelstein said AI has become a “complement to search, rather than a substitute for it,” and had particularly benefited the long tail of e-commerce, including the smaller merchants that make up the majority of…
The new deep learning techniques behind LLMs have also given us weather simulations that can run on laptops instead of supercomputers, changing meteorology. But the bigger task for AI may be making it easier for people and organizations to put those forecasts to…
"We're returning control to the photographer" – Capture One CEO on bringing Hasselblad workflows to professionals
August 6, 2026
A high-resolution Hasselblad file is only the beginning of the creative process. For professional photographers, the software that interprets those images can be just as important as the camera itself.
Now, Capture One is expanding its professional workflow with support for…
The TourBox controller models have been around for a while now, since 2018, and these compact devices are aimed at photographers, videographers and digital artists. There is a range of different models available, with some coming in at entry-level prices, while others, such as the top-of-the-range TourBox Elite Plus, are much more expensive.
The TourBox Elite Plus is identical to the TourBox Elite…
I absolutely love this scene captured by Indian photographer Manas Khasnabish, who was a finalist at the inaugural edition of the Living With Wildlife Photography Competition last year.
Entitled Monkeys in the Window, the scene depicts a young boy taking an online class at…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches superhuman performance.
He never said the word Tesla.
Audi is reviving the A2 name for its new entry-level electric vehicle. With its debut just around the corner, Audi revealed a few more details about the new ultra-efficient EV.
Audi A2 e-tron is the brand’s most efficient car
After the original A2 first arrived over 25 years ago, it quickly became known as the “world’s first four-door three-liter car” with a combined fuel efficiency of…
