With Tokyo 2020 well underway, there’s just a barrage of news about various events, results, and medal standings. Google Discover is highlighting a hub of sorts that’s quite a nice way to keep track of all things Olympics.
For some, the Discover invites them to “Follow the 2020 Olympics” with an inline card. Others that have been heavily searching about Olympic developments look to be…
House bill would allow Navy to retire cruisers early, adds funds to build second destroyer
July 28, 2021
WASHINGTON — One panel of lawmakers is coming around to letting the Navy decommission its aging cruisers and reinvest the money into new ship construction, even as its Senate counterpart took the opposite approach, setting up a debate that puts at stake billions of dollars…
Vision Research has announced a new model in its Phantom TMX ultrahigh-speed camera lineup, the TMX 5010. The new camera is an ‘entry-level’ slow-motion camera. By ‘entry-level,’ we mean less expensive than the TMX 7510 and TMX 6410 cameras, but…
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Employees at Activision Blizzard are staging a walkout to protest the company leadership’s response to being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing for sex discrimination in the workplace. This information comes from reports by Bloomberg and IGN.
The two-year investigation by the State of…
Blaize raises $71M for AI edge hardware
July 27, 2021
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now.
Blaize, a company developing AI edge computing platforms for automotive, enterprise, and computer vision markets, today announced that it raised $71 million in series D funding led by Franklin…
A massive ten-year-long biodiversity study that represents the largest camera trap effort ever has now been turned into a free mobile game called Unseen Empire.
Oxford professor David Macdonald and his Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) undertook the study to…
Mt. Fuji’s 5 Best Landscape Photography Locations
July 27, 2021
I have been visiting the surrounding areas of Mt. Fuji for the last ten years and would have to say the easiest way to get around quickly is in a hire car. Most of the best viewing points are from the lakes and hilltops. The distances to each lake with public transport are far and not frequently available.
Most tourists take a day trip from Tokyo, but I would suggest an overnight stay. This will…
Retro Game Couch made this 3-minute video showing how you can convert an old Game Boy Camera into a “modern” webcam. It may not have the best resolution — it’s 8-bit, after all — but it will certainly guarantee you a lot of attention in your next Zoom meeting.
Why…
Sony has announced the ZV-E10, an interchangeable lens APS-C camera that targets vloggers. With a larger sensor and the ability to swap lenses, Sony believes this camera steps up what the ZV-1 started.
While the ZV-1 was largely based on the RX100 pocket cameras, this new…
The 2020 Olympics in Tokyo may be devoid of fans this year, but photographers are still in attendance and companies like Canon and Nikon still have rooms filled with camera gear from floor to ceiling to support them.
Belgian sports photographer Vincent Kalut of Photo News shot and shared some photos of the Nikon Professional Services (NPS) gear room at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo this year.
