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Samsung’s ‘Repair Mode’ Keeps Your Photos and Data Hidden from Techs

Samsung has launched a new “repair mode” for its Galaxy S21 phones that keeps photos and data hidden from repair technicians and assures privacy. While only available in Korea for now, the feature assures that personal data on the mobile device is not readable by repair technicians and remains secure even when it is out of a user’s hands, SamMobile reports. Previously, the best…
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Photos That Document The Holocaust Were Taken by a Nazi, Book Reveals

Herman Heukels’ photographs of Jewish people being rounded up in Amsterdam in 1943 are some of the strongest visual evidence used by historians to illustrate the Holocaust in the Netherlands. 102,000 Jewish Dutch people died in the Holocaust, of an estimated 140,000 population. And the haunting, but important images, have been used in books and films, often to educate people on the…
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Zelensky’s ‘Vogue’ Photoshoot in War-Torn Ukraine Raises Eyebrows

Annie Lebowitz’s latest Vogue photo shoot of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena has sparked condemnation with many feeling the article was inappropriate amid the Russian invasion. The presidential couple featured in a digital edition of the fashion magazine which focused mainly on Olena, titled “Portrait of Bravery: Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska.”…
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Samyang announces second-generation $799 85mm F1.4 AF lens for Sony E-mount

Samyang, which also goes under the Rokinon brand name, has announced the release of a second-generation Rokinon 85mm F1.4 AF lens for Sony E-mount camera systems. The lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including four high-refractive elements and one extra-low dispersion element. This appears, as least based on the specifications, to be the same optical formula used in its…
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