NewsPhotography

Martin Parr in his own words: "People are funny"

December 9, 2025
Parr sadly passed away on December 6, 2025, aged 73. Back in 2016, Professional Photography magazine sat down with prolific Parr to discuss his photo books, wedding photography, and his “laboratory”, the beach. “You have to laugh. People are funny, aren’t they?” Martin Parr has a keen eye for quirky human behaviour. Where you or I might dismiss an everyday scene of supermarket…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

I got a 5-ton electric tractor from China. Here’s what showed up

December 9, 2025
When a 40-foot container rolled up to my property and the doors swung open, I finally got to meet a machine I’d only last seen half-finished on a factory floor in China. Sitting up front, nose practically pressed against the container doors, was my new 10,000-plus-pound (4,700 kg) electric tractor: the NESHER L3000 wheel loader. Technically, it’s part of a class known as articulating front…
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DefenseNews

Tanks, howitzers galore: Australian Army embraces influx of new armor

December 9, 2025
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — The Australian Army fired an AS9 Huntsman 155mm self-propelled howitzer on home soil for the first time this month, as crews have begun intensive training on the new artillery system before it rolls into service. The Huntsman will eventually equip the Australian Army’s 3rd Brigade, a formation undergoing a dramatic transformation as a plethora of new equipment is…
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DefenseNews

The disarming of Hezbollah tests fragile government in Lebanon

December 9, 2025
BEIRUT — One year after Lebanon and Israel signed a ceasefire agreement to end hostilities that had spilled over from Gaza, the Lebanese government is walking a tightrope between disarming Hezbollah and containing local resentment over continued Israeli strikes aimed at…
ComputersNews

AI video descriptions are coming to Blink security cameras

December 9, 2025
AI is already crafting natural-language summaries of what Amazon’s Ring and Google’s Nest cameras are seeing, and now the AI-generated descriptions are coming to Blink cameras, too. Slated to begin rolling out today in beta to U.S. users, Blink Video Descriptions will…
ComputersNews

16 new features coming in Windows 11’s huge December update

December 9, 2025
On Tuesday the 9th, Microsoft will release December’s monthly patch for Windows 11. The last Patch Tuesday in 2025 will be huge, because according to Windows Central, there will be no fewer than 16 new features included in the update (though given the nature of Windows 11 previews, none of these are guaranteed until they appear on home PCs). These include various design changes to important…
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