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How to create Actions in Affinity Photo 2 to enhance your landscape photographs

There are some things you always tweak when editing landscape photos. Sure, you’ve straightened the horizon and cropped that dodgy looking bloke out of the corner of the photo, but the color, contrast and sharpening adjustments tend to be very similar, making them ideal to implement as macros. That’s just the start though, because whatever ideas you can come up with, you can create and save a…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Battery boom: 5.6 GW of US energy storage added in Q2

The US battery storage market just had its biggest quarter ever. In Q2 2025, a record 5.6 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity came online, according to the latest US Energy Storage Monitor report from the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie. Image: Wood Mackenzie Utility-scale storage leads the charge Most of that Q2 growth came from utility-scale projects, which added 4.9 GW…
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DefenseNews

Germany pursues multi-pronged quest for long-range missiles

COLOGNE, Germany — Germany is prepared to host advanced U.S. missiles meant to deter Russia under a Biden-era plan, but final confirmation of the move by the Trump administration is still outstanding. At issue is the future of a July 2024 declaration by Germany and the…
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European navies test new drone tech for undersea operations

SESIMBRA, Portugal — An hour from Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, on a clear sunny day in late September, a large, penguin-like robot peeks above the sea surface. It circles a Portuguese Navy ship from a distance, hardly visible to the human eye, concealed by the deep blue waters of the Atlantic ocean. The system is the Greyshark from Germany’s EuroAtlas, an autonomous underwater vehicle…
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Windows 11’s new-look Start menu is a huge upgrade. Let’s dive in

With Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, Microsoft is introducing a fundamentally revised Start Menu that runs on all devices with the same code base. The new functions are activated by an enablement package. This enables the new features without a complete reinstallation and makes the switch to Windows 11’s big 25H2 update as quick as a single restart. Immediately you’ll notice in the settings…
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