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Quick Charge Podcast: May 23, 2022

May 24, 2022

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as…

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell defends Elon Musk to employees after allegations of sexual misconduct

May 24, 2022

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email last week responding to a report of allegations of sexual assault against CEO Elon Musk, claiming she doesn’t believe the allegations to be true. The email, first reported by CNBC and reviewed by The Verge, also…

Starlink’s new RV plan lets buyers skip the line if they pay more for worse service

May 24, 2022

SpaceX’s Starlink is still scaling up its constellation of internet satellites, and the service is only intended for use at the specific location where the user is registered. But as we noted earlier this month, for an additional $25 per month, it will let users take their…

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Kipon’s Third-Gen 40mm f/0.85 Lens is Available for Six Camera Mounts

May 24, 2022

Kipon has announced the third-generation Ibelux 40mm f/0.85 APS-C lens that it claims features a new lens coating that removes flare and purple fringing. Rated as one of the fastest lenses in the world, the 40mm f/0.85 Mark III is designed with art and portrait photographers in mind. The nearly $1,800 lens is designed with ten elements in eight groups and a 10-bladed diaphragm to produce…

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Canon Patents AI That Optically Zooms a Lens to Reframe Photos

May 24, 2022

Canon has been awarded a patent for new artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology that will automatically zoom in to better frame a photo before capture. Canon’s new AI Zoom technology seeks to identify subjects within a photo’s frame and then either…

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Powerful Photos Taken by Ukrainian Soldier Show Last Stand in Mauripol

May 24, 2022

Dmytro Kozatsky, an Azov Regiment fighter and photographer, has shared the pictures he took during the last days of the siege of Mauripol before it was captured by the Russians. Kozatsky’s powerful images are taken from inside the grim Mauripol steel plant where…

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Clearview AI Fined $9.5 Million for Illegally Collecting People’s Photos

May 24, 2022

Clearview AI is facing a £7.5 million (about $9,444,250) fine after the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found the company has broken data protection laws. The US-based Clearview AI collected more than 20 billion images of people’s faces globally to create an international online database for facial recognition. The majority of its database came from scraping…

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Canon Launches R7 and R10 Cameras, Bringing APS-C to RF-Mount

May 24, 2022

Canon has announced two new APS-C crop-sensor RF-mount cameras, the R7 and the R10. The R7 is the spiritual successor to the 7D series while the R10 brings a Rebel-like camera to Canon’s mirrorless lineup. Both cameras feature Canon’s RF-mount but use a…

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Canon EOS R10 First Impressions: A Lot of Camera for $1,000

May 24, 2022

Canon’s first APS-C mirrorless cameras are here, three and a half years after its first full-frame RF-mount option. After a brief time with what is effectively the Rebel replacement, there is a lot of camera here for $1,000. Build Quality and Design As with the…

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Canon EOS R7 First Impressions: The Performance King of APS-C

May 24, 2022

APS-C cameras from other manufacturers have grown stagnant and unexciting, but the Canon EOS R7 aims to change that with more megapixels, faster continuous shooting, and better autofocus. Build Quality and Design The Canon EOS R7 features a new body design that sits somewhere between the EOS R10 and Rebel T8i in complexity. It’s not quite a 90D replacement in this sense since it lacks…