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The Camera That Recorded the First Spacewalk is Up for Auction

A pair of Soviet film cameras that were among the first to ever go into space is up for auction and one of the vintage 35mm cameras captured the world’s first spacewalk. Two Konvas Automat cameras that were involved in early Soviet space missions are up for sale tomorrow, June 2, in Heritage Auctions’ Signature Space Exploration Auction. The current seller is a Soviet camera collector…
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‘Copyright Trolls’ Are Suing People Over Creative Commons Photos

A student website received a letter demanding thousands of dollars for a copyright infringement after using a Creative Commons image. Despite downloading the image from a popular Creative Commons (CC) website, the student outfit now owes the photographer several thousand dollars, according to SPLC. The picture in question is of a generic medical syringe and it was used in an article…
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EA honors John Madden with a trio of covers for Madden NFL 23

Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Watch now. If you’ve ever followed the NFL, you’ve heard of John Madden. Madden was a player, coach, commentator, and the face of Electronic Arts‘ NFL game series. More than…
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Google Messages disables RCS ads in India as it attempts to stop abuse

Last month we reported on the rampant abuse of RCS in Google Messages that was flooding users in India with ads, and now, Google is stopping that abuse to address the problem. Google Messages RCS ads are paused, for now For over a year now, ads have been hitting Google Messages users with RCS enabled in India. While the problem is common across both RCS and traditional SMS, the problem was…
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Google Duo is becoming Meet to cover every single way you video call

In August of 2020, 9to5Google reported that Google was planning to replace Duo with Meet. This development was finally made official today – and will see the app that the vast majority of Android users have installed on their devices get renamed to Google Meet later this year. Tower of (video) Babel If you asked a user of free Google services in the early to mid-2010s how to call somebody over…
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