Duane Michals, who died on June 09 in New York aged 94, was the kind of photographer who makes people uneasy. He wrote directly on his prints. He blurred things deliberately. He arranged images like comic strips and called them art.
When the street photographer Garry Winogrand saw Michals’ first sequence show in the 1960s, he reportedly said: “What is this? This isn’t photography.” Michals…
These are the most heartbreaking wildlife photographs of 2026 – and they're going on an international tour
June 15, 2026
A sea turtle with a human handprint. A koala hit by a car. The 2026 Environmental Photography Award recognized some of the most heartbreaking wildlife images of the year – and now those images are going on an international tour.
The Environmental Photography Awards…
RIP David Hockney: the famous artist who also pushed forward photography, with a little help from Picasso
June 15, 2026
Throughout my lifetime, I’ve seen David Hockney described as the “world’s greatest living painter”. Sadly, that no longer applies: the artist born in Bradford, England in 1937 died yesterday, one month short of his 89th birthday. Most tributes will focus on his…
New Jersey’s controversial new e-bike law was pitched as a way to improve safety, but with its July 19 implementation date rapidly approaching, a growing number of riders, advocates, and even lawmakers are arguing that the state may have gone too far.
A rally at the New Jersey Statehouse last week drew a large crowd of supporters calling for the law to be amended or replaced. At the center of…
America’s most affordable EV offering over 315 miles of range, as GM calls it, just got significantly more expensive to lease this month.
Chevy Equinox EV lease prices climb in June
Just two months ago, you could score a $10,000 discount, or 20% off a new 2026 Chevy…
The Hilux BEV arrives as Toyota’s first fully electric pickup and body-on-frame EV.
Toyota launches the Hilux BEV, its first electric pickup
With over 27 million models sold over the past seven decades, the Hilux is not only Toyota’s most popular pickup but also one of…
The F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter’s readiness rates continued to decline through fiscal 2025, with the fleet’s full mission capable rate falling to 25%, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
The mission capable rate, which measures the percentage of time aircraft can perform at least one of their tasked missions, dropped from 67% in fiscal 2021…
KYIV — Warfare in Ukraine and beyond faces a paradigm shift in the coming years as artificial intelligence systems integrate into unified networks that speed up decisions on the battlefield, a senior Ukrainian official said.
Ukraine, in the fifth year of fighting a…
PARIS — This year’s Eurosatory defense show near Paris may be the last chance for European countries to shop for weapons that will still be delivered in time for a possible conflict with Russia, according to the retired French general who heads the company running the…
The AI PC era has a benchmarking problem
June 15, 2026
I like numbers. Data feels sure. What could be better than measurable progress, a way of quantifying the world to stop arguments before they start?
But as we all know, people find plenty of reason still to fight about performance, even in spite of PC benchmarks. (Half the time, it’s because of the benchmarks.) Neither the humans referring to the results nor the companies producing the hardware…
