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"For plant portraits, it has to be this beautiful prime, which has great bokeh capability," explains multi-award-winning photographer

What does it take to make it as a photographer? I’ve been following the career path of a seasoned garden and landscape professional to find out what it really takes to break into the industry. I caught up with Annie Green-Armytage – who works exclusively with Canon gear – to hear how she carved out a name for herself behind the lens. Annie Green-Armytage (Image credit: Annie…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

The Kia EV4 hatch looks stylish and roomy, but will SUV buyers bite?

Kia’s first electric hatchback stands out in its class. The Kia EV4 hatch arrives with a bold new design that almost looks like a Lamborghini and a surprisingly spacious interior, but can it fill the void for an EV option that isn’t an SUV? The Kia EV4 hatch delivers a non-SUV EV option Sick of all the new SUVs hitting the market? Kia wants to shake things up with its first all-electric…
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DefenseNews

China and Russia conduct joint sub patrols — should America worry?

Chinese and Russian submarines have conducted a joint patrol, in the latest step in a growing Sino-Russian partnership. While the exercise only involved two subs, the warning was clear: America should contemplate the prospect of confronting a China-Russia alliance. “I’d say this is simply an effort at deterrence,” Lyle Goldstein, director of the Asia Program at the Defense Priorities think…
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ComputersNews

I ditched my laptop for a mini PC and couldn’t be happier

Sometime after my social feeds started to fill up with ads for mini-PCs, I realized that there’s a silent revolution going on in desktop PCs. Welcome to the era of the mini-PC, where you can do all your computing from a PC smaller than a box of Pop-Tarts and much cheaper than a fully fledged desktop PC in many cases. Naturally, I wanted one, so I bit the bullet and bought a GMKtek G5 mini-PC…
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