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

September 24, 2025
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?

September 24, 2025
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?

September 24, 2025
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

September 24, 2025
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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