Green Mountain Power (GMP), a Vermont electric utility, has quietly built a fleet of 4,000 Tesla Powerwalls, and it is saving them a lot of money.
GMP has been one of Tesla’s best partners when it comes to deploying Powerwalls, Tesla’s home battery pack, in a decentralized way with electric utilities. The relatively small electric utility operating in Vermont was one of the earliest…
Google flagged photos that a concerned father took of his sick child as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and sparked a police investigation after it reported him.
A report from the New York Times outlines the case of a man known only as Mark, who was…
How to Find a Photoshoot Location
August 22, 2022
You have a photograph in mind and now you want to try and make it a reality. Or, a client has contacted you to help them realize a photograph they have in mind. What now?
The obvious first step would be to start researching the details needed to realize your…
An Australian celebrity fell foul of a nasty scam by a criminal group pretending to be a Palestinian photographer.
Bryan Dawe, 74, a noted satirist, comedian, and writer, came across a Facebook post by a woman named Sarah Murtaja who claimed that her Canon 5D Mark III had been destroyed by an Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
“Israel prevented the introduction of financial aid into Gaza…
Photographer and lens enthusiast Mathieu Stern has attached a disposable camera lens to a Sony Alpha A7 II to recreate the 1990s look.
Disposable cameras in the 90s were extremely popular for capturing life’s moments and offered a definitive look that their…
Photographer Felix Steele has created a design for a 3D-printed 164mm f/2.5 lens that has no fasteners or screws, uses affordable glass elements, and can be built at home for less than $15.
Steele created the design as the first major project of his online resource…
Photographer Cody Cobb has a knack for shifting the perception of a familiar landscape photo into an entirely new experience. His ongoing photo series Spectral takes viewers through environments that feel like something out of science fiction.
In Spectral, spotted by Colossal, Cobb morphs the American West into a sci-fi dreamscape, by using a trick of the light —UV light to be…
Canon files patent application for a liquid-cooled camera system to prevent overheating
August 22, 2022
When the Canon EOS R5 launched in 2020, the camera was an instant hit. The 45MP full-frame sensor delivers impressive image quality, and the Dual Pixel AF system excels. Among its most impressive specs is 8K/30p video, which was extremely unusual at the time and remains an…
Samsung has made great strides over the past few years with its update cadence throughout the entire device lineup. With that in mind, here’s every smartphone and tablet that Samsung has updated with the August 2022 security patch.
Samsung August 2022 security update…
Google locked parent’s account over medical photos of their child; it’s a good reminder to make backups
August 22, 2022
Our Google accounts can, in many cases, be the pillar of our digital lives. One account holds our email, our photos, our documents, and perhaps even the login to other accounts around the web. It’s for that reason that one parent has been living through a terrible situation, after Google locked him out of his account suspecting child abuse due to photos of the parent’s son that were taken to…
