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Top US Air Force general isn’t ready to buy E-7 Wedgetail just yet

February 27, 2021
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force’s top general wants to take a deliberative approach to replacing its aging E-3 airborne early warning and control planes. In other words, he isn’t ready to commit to the Boeing-made E-7 Wedgetail, despite support from the service’s top general in the Asia-Pacific region. “I want to actually look at what options do we have,” Air Force Chief of Staff…
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More missiles, dispersed forces are key to stopping Chinese invasion of Taiwan, says former US Navy official

February 27, 2021
MELBOURNE, Australia — The U.S. military needs to quickly deploy more anti-ship missiles capable of targeting invading forces heading to Taiwan, and ensure American assets within range of Chinese missiles are sufficiently dispersed or hardened against a preemptive strike. At least that’s the recommendation made by Thomas Shugart, a former U.S. Navy submarine commander, during a Feb. 18…
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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes are coming to Switch

February 26, 2021
Today’s Pokémon Presents event revealed that remakes of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are on their way to Switch. They are called Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, and they’re coming out late this year. These games first debuted for the Nintendo DS in 2006 in Japan and…
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MIT Engineers Create Camera Lens That Focuses With No Moving Parts

February 26, 2021
Using physical glass elements for camera lenses has been at the core of imaging technology for centuries, but MIT engineers have now fabricated a new “metalens” that can focus on objects at multiple depths without changing its physical position or shape. This new lens is not made out of solid glass, but transparent “phase-changing” material that can rearrange its atomic structure when…
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Moody Pano Photos of Waves Shot on Waterproofed Hasselblad XPan

February 26, 2021
Surf photographer Ben DeCamp has captured a beautifully moody series of black-and-white photos of waves using a waterproofed Hasselblad XPan film camera, considered by some to be a “holy grail” camera that DeCamp leveraged for his enthralling panorama-style images. DeCamp is known for his stunning images of surfers and waves, but his latest series comes after experimenting with panoramic…
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