Herbert Diess, the head of the Volkswagen group, forced a vote of confidence over his leadership at Volkswagen after facing some pushbacks due to his more aggressive stance on electric vehicles.
Now Volkswagen’s board confirmed that it is backing him and his team over the aggressive electrification plan.
Diess came to Volkswagen from BMW in 2015 amid the Dieselgate scandal and started a…
A camera collector recently discovered photos on a roll of film shot with a vintage Leica camera. The images, which seem to show a couple’s travels through Europe, are estimated to have been shot around 70 years ago, and they’ve sparked a worldwide hunt for information…
You didn’t ask to learn about bellows extension factors, but we’re going to cover it with the most absurd camera that you may ever see!
Built from over two sheets of plywood, scraps of 2x6s, old drywall screws, and the cheapest 610mm lens that I could find on eBay…
Regarding Photographs: Reading Photos I
December 15, 2020
This is the third essay in this series, and it begins a smaller sequence of notes running over the ways we as viewers make sense of pictures. We spend, I think, too much time thinking about what happens before and during the making of a picture, but not enough on what happens when someone actually looks at it. For most of us, for most pictures, surely this is the most interesting time?
How do we…
Google Photos Can Now Turn Your Shots Into 3D Cinematic Images
December 15, 2020
Google Photos is rolling out a new feature it is calling Memories, which lets viewers “relive the moments” from photos uploaded to the platform by transforming them into 3D cinematic images.
According to a blog post, using machine learning, Google Photos predicts an…
AIStorm raises $16 million for low-powered AI edge computing chips
December 15, 2020
AIStorm, an AI startup developing chipsets that can directly process data from devices, has raised $16 million. The company says the funding will enable it to scale manufacturing to deploy its hardware for devices like handsets, notebooks, smart speakers, remote controls…
Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G appears on TENAA, confirms most rumored specs
December 15, 2020
Oppo Reno5 Pro+ 5G is expected to arrive on December 24, blurring the lines between midrange and flagship. Rumors were claiming the phone will have a Snapdragon 865 chipset, four cameras with one of them bringing along a periscope lens, and plenty of storage options.
The smartphone has finally appeared on TENAA, masked behind its model number PDRM00, confirming pretty much most claims and…
Apple iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max get ProRAW with iOS 14.3
December 15, 2020
Apple has released iOS 14.3 that enables the ProRAW feature on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. What that does is give you all the standard RAW data with the photos, while also retaining the information generated by the phone’s processing…
Huawei nova 8, 8 Pro, and Enjoy 20 SE specs tipped
December 15, 2020
Huawei is set to introduce the nova 8 and nova 8 Pro smartphones on December 23. While no official specs have been teased yet an image shared by reveals the specifications of the nova 8 duo.
The nova 8 Pro will be powered by the Kirin 985 SoC and support dual-mode 5G. It…
Meet the realmeow, Realme's official mascot and Chief Trend Officer
December 15, 2020
Today’s announcement from Realme isn’t about a product but more about the vision of future products. The company has just announced its official mascot, who is also Realme’s so-called Chief Trend Officer.
realmeow
Working with Realme’s design team, famed animator Mark A. Walsh came up with realmeow. Walsh has worked on numerous animation films like Finding Nemo and…
