Officials from Orion Township, Michigan approved a 12-year tax abatement for a proposed $1.3 billion investment by General Motors Co. (GM) to build out the Orion Assembly plant in Lake Orion to build the coming wave of electric GM cars.
GM requested the maximum 12-year period permitted for the tax abatement on its investment in the Orion plant, plus three years during the planned construction…
Photographer Steven Shultz has been experimenting with the Brenizer Method on digital cameras for years, but as he has shot more film throughout 2021, decided to see if there was a way to mix that method with his Mamiya 645AFD.
The Brenizer Method
The Brenizer…
A closer look at the Leica M11 (photo gallery)
January 20, 2022
The new Leica M11 looks about as you’d expect – pretty similar to the M10 variants that preceded it, and not dissimilar to M-series rangefinders going back decades. In this photo gallery we’re taking a visual tour of the M11, and comparing it against two…
Vision Research has announced the Phantom S991 high-speed camera. The new specialized camera combines impressive Phantom sensor technology and CoaXPress-over-Fiber (CXFPoF) with CXP-12 to deliver 9Gpx/sec (70 Gbps) throughput to record 4096 x 2304 video at a blazing-fast 937 frames per second.
Like other Phantom cameras, the S991 can record much faster than 937 frames per second with reduced…
Disassembly: Take a look inside the OnePlus 10 Pro
January 20, 2022
The OnePlus 10 Pro is now 7 days old and selling well in China. Seeing how it’s topping our popularity charts we imagine people outside of China are clamoring for the flagship to reach them.
But while we need to do a bit of extra waiting, here’s a disassembly…
Xiaomi Redmi K50 series to adopt industry's best haptics motor
January 20, 2022
As Xiaomi is gearing up to announce the Redmi K50 lineup next month, teasers from the company’s official Weibo account keep the hype going. The latest one is all about the haptics motor called CyberEngine.
In a separate Weibo post, the manufacturer of the CyberEngine…
These days people in a lot of places need a health certificate to enter establishments such as restaurants, gyms and congress centers, and for that we need to have the QR code, proving its authenticity on our mobile phones. But having it displayed on the display is too pedestrian – how about having it engraved on the phone’s back instead?
Caviar, the luxury gadgets brand, is now…
Oppo Find X5 and Find X5 Pro certified with 80W fast charging
January 20, 2022
Oppo is working on three new Find X flagships, two of which – the Find X5 and X5 Pro – received 3C certification for their SuperVOOC chargers. The third model, the Find X5 Lite, appears to be an international release of the Reno7, so it there shouldn’t be any surprises…
Apple iPhone SE+ 5G and new iPad Air listed by Russian EEC
January 20, 2022
Three unreleased Apple devices have been certified by the Russia-based EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) regulator. Those carry the identifiers A2595, A2783, and A2784 – likely the third-gen iPhone SE (to be called SE+ 5G), and A2588, A2589, A2591, A2696, A2757…
Samsung is getting ready to unveil its next-generation flagship smartphone family, the S22, and the S22 Ultra will be the top dog in this line. It will be the first S/Note hybrid, with its support for a built-in stylus, and its boxy style that’s very similar to the Galaxy Note20 Ultra from 2020, the last Note ever made.
Today a prolific tipster has leaked a new set of official-looking (if…
