WASHINGTON ― President Joe Biden’s nominee for Air Force secretary and six other top Pentagon picks advanced out of the Senate Armed Services Committee by a voice vote June 10. The Senate must consider them before they can be confirmed. The nominations are as follows:
· Frank Kendall ― a former Pentagon acquisition official ― for secretary of the U.S. Air Force.
· Heidi Shyu ― a…
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Hands-on with Nikon’s new Nikkor Z MC 105mm F2.8 VR S and 50mm F2.8 macro lenses
Nikon recently announced its first native macro lenses for its Z mount cameras: the Nikkor Z MC 105mm F2.8 VR S…
Samsung has announced that it is beginning mass production of what it claims has the smallest pixels in the industry: 0.64μm-pixels. The 50-megapixel sensor is called the ISOCELL JN1 and is equipped with ISOCELL 2.0, Smart-ISO, and “Double Super PDAF.”
Smaller pixels…
An Ohio wedding photographer recently found herself working the “best maternity session ever” when one of the couple’s horses decided to join in on the shoot, smile for the camera, and crack everyone up.
Cincinnati photographer Kristen Zaffiro was conducting the photo shoot for Phil and Amanda (Zaffiro’s cousin) on the couple’s pasture.
“We tried the photo shoot two other times and got…
Researchers from the University of Ottowa have developed a concept that would reduce the size of lenses by a huge margin and effectively eliminate the size of modern optics if combined with a metalens. The team tackled not lens elements themselves, but instead the space…
A reporter from a Univision affiliate in Arizona has accused police of illegally seizing his phone and threatening to access its contents by “brute force” during an incident in April.
In a 28-page motion filed in Gilbert Arizona’s Municipal court, journalist León…
NASA has shared the first two images from Juno’s June 7th, 2021 flyby of Ganymede that shows dark and bright terrain and long structural features possibly linked to tectonic faults on the surface of Jupiter’s giant moon.
The images captured by Jupiter orbiter’s JunoCam imager and its Stellar Reference Unit star camera have captured images from “closer than any spacecraft has come to this…
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Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus Mission
As a key partner in the mission, NASA provides the synthetic aperture radar, called VenSAR, to make high-resolution measurements of the planet’s surface features.
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Voilà, a new mobile app that is available both on iOS and Android, has exploded in popularity. It can to turn selfies and portraits into quick 2D and 3D cartoons, caricatures, and paintings using artificial intelligence (AI).
The Voilà AI Artist Cartoon Photo app, released…
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In a study published today, OpenAI, the lab best known for its research on large language models, claims it’s discovered a way to improve the “behavior” of language models with respect to ethical, moral, and societal values. The approach, OpenAI says, can give developers the tools to dictate the tone and personality…
