Are you ready for the eclipse? Whether you’re bound for the path of totality or set to see a partial eclipse from Europe, Canada or the northeast U.S. on Wednesday, Aug. 12, there’s a dirty word eclipse chasers hate to utter during an eclipse season, and yet become completely obsessed with — clouds.
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The citizen scientists keeping an eye on the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse
Two teams of Dynamic Eclipse Broadcast volunteers with observe totality on Aug. 12. (Image credit: Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)
Countless eyes will…
Google has announced the launch of Ask Maps in Hindi so to make it more accessible to the users. Aside from this, you can now get personalised recommendations based on your travel and reservation details (when you choose to connect Gmail), and access trusted, real-time…
HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company track and contain its AI spending. One of the most interesting features is that it maps how much individual employees, teams, and roles are spending and if they are genuinely more productive, or generally producing more AI slop.
The company promises the tool will show “which…
Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly adopting the tech to build product. Earlier this year, the company said AI is writing 60% of its code. In its latest earnings call, co-founder and CEO Brian…
A New Mexico Court judge on Thursday ordered Meta to pay a fine of $567 million, on top of the $375 million levied in March, in a case regarding social media harms and addiction. This brings the total fines the company has to pay to $942 million.
The court also ordered Meta…
I have photographed seven solar eclipses, and it was the internet that changed everything for the last three – and not in a good way!
August 10, 2026
I have been photographing solar eclipses for the last 47 years, and in the first two parts of the series I recounted my first four efforts at photographing them on land and sea around the American continent.
My next, and last, three solar eclipses were experienced in the last ten years, and were very different. First because I was not using digital cameras, rather than film. But more importantly…
These photos look like another world. The top news photos of the week prove the power of perspective, texture, and storytelling
August 10, 2026
Amid record-breaking drought and unusually high wildfire risks the photographs coming from the lenses of the world’s photojournalists this week look almost like otherworldly si-fi. A pink landscape that isn’t from an infared camera. A desert-like shot that’s actually…
This cinematic photo of Australian drovers is honored at a major awards – and it’s a masterclass in visual storytelling
August 10, 2026
Storytelling. Storytelling. Storytelling. You always hear this in photography, but what does it actually mean? Well, just take a look at this image, which was recently selected as an honorable mention at the Australian Photography Awards 2026, and it’ll become clear.
Taken…
NYC declares war on fast e-bikes, sends cease-and-desist letters to Amazon and Walmart
August 10, 2026
Micromobility regulation continues to tighten in New York City, and now Mayor Zohran Mamdani is taking aim at the online retailers that have become a major source of high-speed electric bikes and scooters.
The mayor’s office has sent cease-and-desist letters to 40 online retailers, including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Temu, Wayfair and others, demanding that they stop selling electric bikes…
