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US Navy Shares Photos of New Laser Weapon in Action

December 16, 2021
The US Navy has shared photos and videos of a powerful new laser weapon system that it has been testing to take down both drones and small crafts. The latest reddish photos were captured with a special camera equipped with a short wave infrared lens and an optical filter, and they show the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland firing the laser on December 14th at a training target on…
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Revisiting the Canon 1D, 20 Years Later

December 16, 2021
It was my first year in college. I was going out every day to teach myself photography, Harry Potter had just come out in theaters, and Canon entered the digital photography world with its very first fully backed flagship, the Canon EOS 1D. At the time, I was shooting on the Canon EOS D30, and didn’t see any way in sight of affording the 1D, but also didn’t think I really needed it either.
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Pixelmator Photo is now available on iPhone

December 16, 2021
The Pixelmator team is perhaps best known for Pixelmator Pro, the richly-featured Mac image editor and graphics tool. However, the company has been quietly iterating on a streamlined photo-focused app on the iPad, Pixelmator Photo. Today, Pixelmator Photo is expanding to the…
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Uniter is a new iPhone and iPad app that converts units of measure in real time

December 16, 2021
If you’re from the US or are trying to understand American units of measure, there’s now an easier way to do that with Uniter. This is a new iPhone app that can convert measurements in real-time in your preferred unit system. Developed by Arek Holko, what called my attention with Uniter is this automatic conversion for units of measurement feature that other apps that I already covered, like…
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OnePlus Nord 2 CE renders showcase the upcoming budget Android

December 16, 2021
The latest set of 3D renders of an unreleased device have been shared online, and this time it’s the turn of the OnePlus Nord 2 CE. While it’s unclear just how popular the original Nord CE was, it looks like OnePlus is doubling down with the Nord 2 CE in early 2022.
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Shield TV’s Android TV 11 update shows up in recovery images as launch nears

December 16, 2021
Android TV 11 hasn’t rolled out to many devices, but it really looks like Nvidia is about to push the update to its Shield TV lineup. After two other leaks in recent memory, Nvidia briefly posted the recovery images for the Shield’s Android TV 11 update this week. Spotted by Redditors and the folks over at XDA, Nvidia’s download center briefly posted the recovery images for Android TV…
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