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€40,000-winning photo series reveals was shot using a DSLR and mirrorless combo

Alejandro Cegarra’s powerful black-and-white series, The Two Walls, recently won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025, earning the Venezuelan photojournalist €40,000 and €10,000 worth of Leica equipment. Recognized as one of the industry’s most prestigious competitions, LOBA honors powerful visual storytelling that engages with humanity and the environment in profound, socially…
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Matt Damon reveals how Stanley Kubrick was obsessed with studying 8x10in stills of a model film set when shooting his horror film classic, The Shining… "The level of artistry/insanity and obsession is just so beautiful"

Cameras, photography and printing go hand in hand with making motion pictures, and none more so for legendary Stanley Kubrick, famous for his meticulous attention to detail when it came to creating his brilliant movies. From A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980)…
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Enter the 'Spooky Swamp,' Rivian's costume theme for Halloween 2025 [Video]

BOO! It’s Halloween 2025 and Rivian is helping its owners get in the spirit. Did I scare you? We are now ten days away from Halloween 2025 and Rivian is rolling out a fun little software update that converts your R1S or R1T into a unique theme it calls “vehicle costumes.” While most of the year is dedicated to more robust updates that fix bugs and introduce new features (which we also…
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DefenseNews

Should the Army bring back the Pentomic Division?

In the late 1950s, when everyone expected World War III to go nuclear, the U.S. Army had to contemplate operating on a battlefield sprouting atomic fireballs. This put Army planners in a dilemma. Military theory said that forces had to be concentrated to overwhelm the enemy…
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Zelenskyy heads north for possible Swedish arms deal

MILAN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Sweden on Wednesday to discuss a “defense export,” according to the Swedish government, widely expected to be related to a potential deal involving Gripen fighter jets. Zelenskyy met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Oct. 22 in Linköping, home to the defense aerospace company Saab, which manufactures the aircraft. “A…
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ComputersNews

Wyze Palm Lock review: Futuristic security, down-to-earth price

Wyze has made a name for itself by delivering affordable smart home devices that punch well above their price tags, and its latest addition to its smart lock offerings continues that trend. The Wyze Palm Lock brings a more advanced form of biometric security to the front door, swapping a fingerprint sensor for a more advanced and hygienic alternative: palm vein recognition. Using infrared imaging…
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