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Polaroid Founder Edwin Land Foresaw the Smartphone Camera in 1970

Polaroid founder Edwin Land was a visionary tech titan of his time, and as is common with pioneering entrepreneurs, Land had unusual foresight into where technology was headed. Here’s a neat video from 1970 in which Land accurately predicts the coming age of smartphone cameras in everyone’s pocket. The film was shot for Polaroid’s shareholder meeting in 1970, and it shows Land giving a tour…
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Photos of Squirrels Jumping with Nuts

Photographer Niki Colemont has spent a considerable amount of time over the past five years photographing the red squirrel, and one of his focuses has been catching the little creatures in mid-air as they jump from tree to tree. Colemont is a Belgium-based photographer finds…
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Used Camera Retailer MBP Raises $69M to Expand its Business

The used camera market is booming if a recent cash investment of £49.8 million (~$69 million) that MBP.com just raised is any indication. The company claims to “recirculate” about 300,000 pieces of equipment a year and expects to pass $139 million in revenue in 2021. The latest funding round, classified as a Series D as noted by TechCrunch, was led by Vitruvian Partners with participation…
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Strong demand for iPhone 12 sees Foxconn revenue jump 44%

Strong demand for iPhone 12 models in the first quarter of the year saw Foxconn’s revenue increase by 44%, said the company. Apple’s primary iPhone assembler has, however, warned that chip shortages are likely to constrain supply into 2022 … Bloomberg…
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OxygenOS 11.2.3.3 rolls out for OnePlus 9/9 Pro w/ battery, camera boosts

OxygenOS 11.2.3.3 is already the second update rolling out for the recently released OnePlus 9 and 9 Pro aimed at improving some of the more problematic areas of the flagship duo — namely the battery and camera performance. The update is first rolling out in India, with a wider rollout in North American and Europe to follow in the coming days. Two of the main areas we had issues with on the…
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WhatsApp begins testing chat migration between iOS and Android

Switching a smartphone is fairly easy in 2021, but the migration of chat history and messages between iOS and Android devices is practically nonexistent in apps like WhatsApp — at least for now. There are a few apps and services that claim to be able to fully transfer…
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OnePlus Pay could expand to India in the coming months

OnePlus Pay could be expanding outside of China in the coming months as an Indian trademark filing hints that the payment platform is coming to the region. A trademark application has been accepted by the Indian trademark authorities, and shared by a tipster, which is a…
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VW will switch to mass-producing electric vehicles with bidirectional charging next year

Volkswagen has confirmed that it will switch all of its MEB-based electric vehicles to support bidirectional charging starting next year. It could give a big boost to vehicle-to-grid technologies. Vehicle-to-grid During the early days of the electric vehicle revolution, the industry was cautious about the use of battery packs as longevity was a big question. But now the industry as a whole is…
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