Skylum, the company that produces the Luminar series of software products, has its main development center in Kyiv, Ukraine. But, despite Russia’s invasion upsetting its normal workflow, the company has managed to push an update for Luminar Neo.
In a blog post, Skylum explains the situation that is currently affecting its team of developers and how they are managing to keep operations going…
Venus Optics has announced the new Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 MFT APO lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras. The company says that the shallow depth of field creates “dreamy” background defocus and the APO design limits color fringing.
Venus Optics says the lens features…
8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos
March 16, 2022
A leading textbook on creative photography, released in 1980, devotes more than 90% of its 460 pages to technical considerations — how cameras and lenses work, darkroom procedures, lighting — and just a few pages to aesthetics and composition.
Reading that…
NASA has announced that the James Webb telescope has completed the fourth and fifth stages of its alignment and scientists say that the performance of its imaging system is at or beyond their most optimistic expectations.
The Webb team completed the stage known as “fine phasing” on March 11, a key stage in aligning the telescope. NASA says that the team has found no critical issues and no…
DxO has announced the 2.0 update to PureRAW. It features several significant additions like support for Fujifilm X-Trans files. It also includes two new workflow options including Finder integration for Apple users (and Windows Explorer Integration for Windows) as well as…
Lensbaby has announced the Soft Focus II optic, a new 50mm lens in Lensbaby’s Optic Swap System. The Soft Focus II is a new-and-improved version of one of the earliest members of the Optic Swap System. The new version improves upon its predecessor by adding a 12-blade…
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NASA Adds Giant New Dish to Communicate With Deep Space Missions
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Part of an ongoing project to grow the capacity of the Deep Space Network, which acts as a kind of interplanetary switchboard, the new antenna is the network’s 14th.
There’s a powerful new member of NASA’s family of giant…
Tunic surprise launches on Xbox Game Pass
March 16, 2022
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Tunic released today, and it showed up in an unexpected place. The indie action-adventure game is available on Xbox Game Pass.
This means that Game Pass…
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The market for edge AI chips, designed to accelerate AI workloads offline, often in self-contained hardware, is maturing at a rapid clip. Building on converging trends like digital transformation…
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After years of frying and flipping burgers at White Castle locations, Miso Robotics’ autonomous kitchen assistant has a new gig: making tortilla chips for Chipotle. Miso today announced that the fast casual chain is testing “Chippy,” a robot customized to follow the steps for frying Chipotle chips, at the brand’s R&D…
