Nikon’s Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S ‘Plena’ is designed to minimize vignetting, maintain rounder bokeh edge-to-edge and produce sharp images with exceptional clarity. Nikon seems to have put a lot of thought into making a lens that maintains a high quality of light and smooth fall-off to create depth of field with gradual gradations.
The resulting lens feels tailor-made for portrait…
Yuji Igarashi, Divisional Manager, Professional Imaging Group and Makoto Oishi, Manager of Product Planning
Photo: Richard Butler
Yuji Igarashi cuts a relaxed figure as he prepares for the public to arrive at Fujifilm’s Fujikina event in Stockholm. I caught the…
Why Call of Duty has lasted 20 years without triggering franchise exhaustion | Rob Kostich
October 2, 2023
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After 20 years, Call of Duty has hit more milestones than most other video games. As of last…
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Fresh from seeing an inspiring Gran Turismo movie, Randall Hayward got a rare chance to see a real Porsche racecar exhibition — and he won $15,000 in a Gran Turismo 7 esports tournament at the same time.
Hayward was…
Licensed crypto mining companies have urged the government in Kazakhstan to revise its taxation policy regarding the sector, which they say is in dire straits. The largest mining firms plan to leave the Central Asian nation by the end of this year, warned the members of the…
Intel threw a lot of information at us a couple of weeks ago at its Intel Innovation 2023 event in San Jose, California. The company talked a lot about its manufacturing advances, its Meteor Lake chip, and its future schedule for processors. It felt like a heavy download of…
Vitalik Buterin Discusses Ethereum Protocol 'Enshrining': 'Blockchains Are Social Systems' – Blockchain Bitcoin News
October 2, 2023
Vitalik Buterin, the co-creator of Ethereum, has discussed the next steps that the protocol is about to take and how the upcoming decisions should be the result of balancing complexity and functionality. Buterin noted that Ethereum started with a philosophy of striving for simplicity but that blockchains were “social systems” and that there are rationales for adding functionalities directly to…
Vaneck Pledges 10% of Ethereum ETF Profits to Fuel ETH Core Development – Bitcoin News
October 2, 2023
On September 29, 2023, the asset management firm Vaneck unveiled an initiative to earmark 10% of its profits from its ethereum (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) towards protocol development for at least ten years. This financial infusion will be given to the Protocol Guild, a…
As markets continue to move sideways, crypto companies are trying to increase user engagement through airdrops. Among them are some well-known names in the space as well as new projects searching for their place. They all seek to arouse interest in digital money and their…
Lambo Livestream Goes Wrong for Bitboy, Kiyosaki Says Buy BTC, Lawmakers Push ETF Approval — Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News
October 2, 2023
A livestream in which Ben “Bitboy” Armstrong is hunting down his allegedly stolen Lamborghini ends up with the crypto influencer arrested. In other news this week, Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki says to purchase bitcoin before markets crash, and U.S. lawmakers push SEC Chair Gary Gensler to approve spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products “immediately.” This and more just below, in…
