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Camera Sales Shrank 40% in 2020

January 12, 2021
While monitoring the camera market over the past year has been like riding a volatile roller coaster, now that 2020 is behind us it can be properly evaluated as a whole. BCN+R, a major Japanese camera retailer, has released its data from the whole of 2020 and it is unsurprisingly pretty bleak. Because of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the photography market was largely upended from its usual…
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Nikon Has Likely Discontinued the D3500 and D5600 DSLRs

January 12, 2021
Nikon Japan has designated the D5600 and D3500 as “old product,” which has historically meant that the cameras were being discontinued. This news comes after the Nikon D5600 was Japan’s top-selling DSLR of 2020. Though it continues to sell well, Nikon’s designation…
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User successfully runs Ubuntu on a jailbroken iPhone 7

January 12, 2021
The jailbreak process lets users run several tweaks and other iOS modifications, but one user recently decided to go further and install the Ubuntu operating system on an iPhone. The experiment was shared by the user identified as “newhacker1746” on Reddit. According to the user, the iPhone 7 used during the process was no longer working due to a problem in its internal storage. That’s…
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US Navy rolls out new strategy for expanding Arctic operations

January 12, 2021
JUNEAU, Alaska — The U.S. Department of the Navy released details of a new strategy for operations in the Arctic as competition for resources among nations increases in the region. Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation have expressed support for the increased focus on the Arctic, the Juneau Empire reported Saturday. The Navy statement titled “A Blue Arctic” provides an outline…
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 11, 2021

January 12, 2021
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Sony shares more details of its VISION-S electric car concept, starts road testing

January 12, 2021
Sony released multiple videos showing off their Sony VISION-S electric car concept, which they first unveiled in a surprise move one year ago at CES. The videos provide new insights on the design and engineering of the car, comments from partners Sony is working with, and reveal that Sony has started testing their vehicle on public roads near their engineering center in Graz, Austria. We…
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