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Leica Japan announces price increases for nearly all of its current cameras and lenses

April 21, 2022
Photographer Shunpei Osugi holding a Leica inside Leica Store Kyoto, where his exhibition for ‘I see this world with Leica‘ is currently being held. If you thought Leica were expensive already, you might want to pad your camera savings account a little more if you live in Japan. Leica Japan has announced (translated) it will raise the prices of select Leica products starting May…
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Google Doodle shows the brutal realities of climate change over time

April 21, 2022
Out of respect for Earth Day, Google has replaced their homepage logo with a series of timelapse animations showing the harsh realities of climate change. From time to time, Google temporarily replaces their homepage logo with another that’s usually made to be fun or delightful. Typically, these alternate logos — called Google Doodles — always incorporate some aspect of the usual design…
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Google Search touts ‘major reductions’ against hacked and gibberish spam in 2021

April 21, 2022
Google’s annual Webspam Report is here to highlight progress in keeping “spam and malicious content away from Search” over the course of 2021. Most of it is a recap about various changes, but new stats today include how Google’s SpamBrain “identified nearly six times more spam sites than in 2020.” This AI-based spam-prevention system was introduced in 2018 and is being continually…
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Apple’s M2 chip nears as Samsung beats LG as processor packaging partner

April 21, 2022
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is collaborating with Apple on creating the M2 chip, beating out LG Innotek. Samsung is developing the flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) for the new generation of Apple Silicon for 2022. According to ET News, Samsung previously supplied FC-BGA parts for the M1 chip that was released in November 2020. The M1 is the first system on a chip (SoC) designed by Apple. The…
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