LONDON — British F-35B combat jets are to be equipped with a new mini cruise missile following the signing of a £550 million (U.S. $750 million) production contract by the Ministry of Defence and contractor MBDA, the company announced Jan. 6.
The deal should see the Spear 3 missile achieve initial operation capability on the aircraft in 2025, making it the primary air-to-ground weapon for…
One of the big news stories of the day — which has now been massively eclipsed by the US Capitol being stormed by domestic terrorists — are the Senate race results in Georgia. Democrat Raphael Warnock has been declared the winner of one Senate seat, defeating Republican…
Field review: Sigma 35mm F2 DG DN
January 7, 2021
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The Sigma 35mm F2 DG DN is a fairly compact, weather-sealed medium-wide prime lens for L-mount and Sony E-mount mirrorless cameras. It’s designed as a more compact, reasonably priced alternative to ultrafast prime…
Looking Glass Factory, the company that brought you the extremely successful Kickstarter for the hologram photo frame back in December, has announced a new cloud-based service that can turn any 2D image into a 3D hologram in seconds, no programming knowledge required.
The Looking Glass Portrait photo frame absolutely crushed its $50,000 Kickstarter goal with over $2.2 million pledged ahead of…
BCN+R has published its final sales numbers of interchangeable lens mirrorless cameras sold in Japan in 2020, and the winner is likely to surprise: the Olympus E-M10 Mark III outsold all others last year.
BCN+R (also called BCN Retail) is a major national consumer…
CIPA has published its global camera shipment and value numbers for November 2020 and the recovery seen in October appears to be stabilizing. Though volume has decreased year over year, the value of shipments is nearly in line.
Below are the charts that CIPA has published…
Honor is working on 5G phones powered by Qualcomm chipsets
January 6, 2021
Huawei sold its Honor brand in an attempt to save the subsidiary’s business and employees. The now-independent company is not hindered by the US sanctions anymore, meaning it could get back on track in launching smartphones with US technologies in them.
According to insiders from China, this is exactly what is happening right now – Honor is working with Qualcomm to develop a 5G…
Robot vacuums can automatically empty themselves, but what if you prefer to clean your home yourself? LG might have you covered. It just introduced the CordZero ThinQ A9 Kompressor+ vacuum cleaner (yes, that’s a mouthful) with a charging station that automatically empties…
HTC only released two phones last year, but the first one of 2021 might come shortly suggesting a bigger turnout this year. The Desire 21 Pro 5G midranger is the alleged name of the phone that stars in today’s leak.
The original source of the leaked images has been…
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) released on Monday its latest iPhone 12 series sales report. The data shows the four new models combined for 76% of all US iPhone sales in the October-November period. Last year’s iPhone 11 series accounted for 69% of all iPhone sales for the same period. The survey was based on 243 US Apple customers who purchased an iPhone right after the launch…
