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This $9 key physically locks your most addictive apps

Screen-time apps aren’t effective for many people because, in the end, they depend on your willpower. They remind you to stop scrolling or let you set timers, but such notifications can be easy to ignore. Autonomous Key takes a different approach to this issue simply by being a physical device. It’s an NFC key that pairs with a companion app to let you lock away distracting apps. So…
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The Photography & Video Show 2027: everything you need to know

The Photography & Video Show is heading back to London for 2027 – returning to the London ExCel exhibition center for four days from Saturday, March 13 to Tuesday, March 16. The show will be open from 10:00 to 17:00 every day. The Photography & Video Show is the must-attend UK event for anyone with an interest in photography or filmmaking, from complete beginners to working…
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Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never built for the job

Ask most photographers today what you need for unguarded, intimate documentary work and they’ll say something small, quiet and fast. A rangefinder, a compact, anything you can raise and lower before a subject has time to arrange their face. To say that Chris Killip…
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His neighbors “thought him mad to spend so many hours staring into a coffin.” James Clerk Maxwell wasn’t a photographer, but he created the world’s oldest color photo with an idea still used today

Many of the biggest achievements in photography’s history came from photographers and chemists, but the invention of color photographs wasn’t initiated by a photographer at all but a physicist obsessed with the science of colors. James Clerk Maxwell was a mid-1800s…
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Musk says Tesla Semi self-driving is a year away, so truckers are safe

Elon Musk says Tesla expects to have self-driving working on the Tesla Semi “probably around the end of this year or early next year.” Going by Tesla’s record on self-driving deadlines, it is: their jobs are safe for a long time. Musk sells the autonomous Semi as a favor to truckers The comment came on Tesla’s Q2 2026 earnings call on July 22, after LightShed analyst Walter Piecyk asked…
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Pentagon calls for cheaper long-range strike weapons, with testing in just 3 months

With the U.S. running low on expensive guided munitions, the Pentagon is pushing yet another project to develop cheap, long-range weapons that can be mass produced. But this time, the Pentagon is in a hurry. The Iran war has exposed the problem of relying on costly long-range missiles such as the Tomahawk. To remedy that, DoD is putting out a call for long-range, autonomously guided Ground-Based…
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