Android 12 Beta 2 rolled out this week with a ton of changes, and Google is now asking users to participate in a feedback survey.
Like last month’s form, the Beta 2 survey starts by asking users to rate their satisfaction with Android 12 Notification and Quick Settings and the Volume Panel. The latter was slimmed down, while the former now adapts to your wallpaper, among other layout…
White House to nominate retired commander, business leader Carlos Del Toro as Navy secretary
June 12, 2021
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced Carlos Del Toro as its pick to be the next Navy secretary.
Del Toro is a retired U.S. Navy commander and a business leader, and if confirmed he would be the second-ever Hispanic Navy secretary.
A decision on who should…
Venus Optics has announced an updated version of its Laowa 7.5mm F2 Micro Four Thirds (MFT) lens that has electronic aperture control and an onboard chip for transferring metadata from the lens to the camera.
The new lens features the same optical construction as its…
Venus Optics has launched a version of the Laowa 7.5mm f/2 for Micro Four Thirds (MFT) that includes a chip that provides metadata in EXIF as well as allows aperture control digitally through the camera.
Originally launched in 2017, Laowa claimed the 7.5mm f/2 MFT was the widest rectilinear f/2 lens for micro four thirds. The company claims that this is still the case to date. This new version…
Photo by Suzanne Kreiter. Winner of “Feature Picture Story”
As 2020 brought a society-altering worldwide disruption, press photographers were able to document the monumental changes in every aspect of that “new normal.” The Boston Press Photographers Association…
In the morning hours of June 10th, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse greeted sky observers in the northeast United States, northern Canada, Europe, northern Asia, Russia and Greenland. While most photographers captured single photos of the eclipse, Göran Strand decided to…
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Facebook today introduced TextStyleBrush, an AI research project that can copy the style of text in a photo from just a single word. The company claims that TextStyleBrush, which can edit and replace arbitrary text in images, is the first “unsupervised” system of its kind that can recognize both typefaces and…
Latest Apple Arcade games for iPhone, Mac, Apple TV [New for June 11: Legends of Kingdom Rush]
June 11, 2021
Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 180 games now in the library. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service.
June 11: a new RPG has launched called Legends of Kindom…
Apple Tower Theatre opens June 24 in Los Angeles. Let’s celebrate the grand opening of Downtown L.A.’s first Apple Store and the premiere of a significant historic restoration project years in the making.
We’re inviting you to share your best L.A. photos shot on…
The Weather app is attracting quite a bit of attention with this year’s release of iOS 15. It’s getting an all-new design, new real-time notifications, and more. Head below as we take a closer look at the all-new Weather app in iOS 15 including maps, design, and more.
Hands-on: The new Weather app in iOS 15
One of the headlining changes in the iOS 15 Weather app is the interface. It…
