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Samsung starts selling certified refurbished Galaxy S20 from $650; Note 20 and S20 FE coming soon

July 7, 2021
Refurbished smartphones are a common way to save a few bucks on an upgrade, and this week, Samsung is expanding its list of official offerings. Now, you can buy a refurbished Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra that’s certified by Samsung itself. Starting at $650, these have been refurbished by Samsung and “thoroughly inspected and updated to like-new condition.” The refurbishment takes place…
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Raytheon wins $2B contract for new nuclear cruise missile

July 7, 2021
WASHINGTON — Raytheon Technologies will get up to $2 billion to develop the U.S. Air Force’s Long Range Standoff Weapon system, a new nuclear-capable, air-launched cruise missile that will be carried by B-52 and B-21 bombers. The service on July 1 awarded Raytheon a…
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Google app beta loses built-in browser and returns to Chrome Custom Tabs for now

July 7, 2021
Google has been working on an in-app browser for Search on Android for quite sometime now. After being widely rolled out to the beta channel for the past few months, it has disappeared and reverted to Chrome Custom Tabs. In late 2019, Google began work on a custom browser for the Google app that first appeared live for users in April of last year. It briefly disappeared at the start of July 2020…
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Macro Photos of Plant Growths Caused by Tiny Wasps

July 6, 2021
Photographer Timothy Boomer captures beautiful macro photographs of plant galls, which are growths that form in response to some outside stimulus. For his work, Boomer focuses on growths caused by the tiny gall wasp. Boomer is a natural history photographer based in…
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25 Year Later: Revisiting the One-Third Megapixel Nikon COOLPIX 100

July 6, 2021
The COOLPIX 100 was Nikon’s first consumer digital camera. It launched in 1996 at around $500 and sports a one-third-megapixel sensor, a fixed 52mm equivalent lens, and one megabyte of memory. The COOLPIX 100 solved the thorny issue of connectivity by building the entire camera into a PCMCIA card that could slot directly into compatible laptops of the day. One-quarter of a century after it was…
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Photography Instructor Bans Kit Lenses

July 6, 2021
It’s often said that “the best camera is the one that’s with you,” but one college photography instructor doesn’t seem to agree: she has banned the students in her course from using kit lenses. In case you’re not familiar with camera equipment, entry-level…
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How I Converted My Afghan Box Camera Into a 4×5 Slide Projector

July 6, 2021
I have been shooting 4×5 color transparencies or commonly known as color slide film for many years but the best that I could enjoy them was to put them on the light table and viewing them through a loupe. Unlike my 35mm and 120 slides, I have never seen them projected big simply it is not easy to locate a 4×5 slide projector. 4×5 slides on a light table For the last few years, I tried…
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