If you’ve been looking for a great full-frame mirrorless camera to capture the cosmos, you’re in luck. Walmart is currently offering a deal on the Canon EOS R8 with an RF 24-50mm lens for $1316, a huge saving from the original price of $1,699. This is a good time to buy, as you’ll be able to capture some stunning images of the Milky Way before the galactic core disappears from…
Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor
August 25, 2025
New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide.
The findings, described in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may also help to…
The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is underway.
The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida tonight (Aug. 21) at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 GMT on Aug. 22).
The…
Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
August 25, 2025
Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image and video generation space, Midjourney, the bootstrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it to generate the “header” art to many of our articles.
Apparently, the leaders of Facebook and Instagram parent company…
OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic
August 25, 2025
A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling…
Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
August 25, 2025
Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the ‘EM dash,’ that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to drop in your sentences like it’s getting paid per dash. Seriously…
This week, I did a shoot with a client who didn’t know how to smile. I would say, ‘Now give me a big smile’, and her lips would twitch but remain in a straight line. I tried variants of this directive such as ‘smile and show me your teeth’ and ‘say cheese’ to no avail. I finally got her to smile by saying, very literally, ‘Turn the corners of your…
What is Adobe's obsession with making Photoshop worse?
August 25, 2025
They say “Don’t drive angry” but no one has ever said “Don’t write angry” to me (or most of the users of social media, it seems), which is why I’m about to vent about one little – but, I feel, very indicative – experience…
I was going to throw away this failed photo. Adobe Lightroom rescued it in less than a minute
August 25, 2025
When I traveled to New York City earlier this summer, the only time I was able to see that iconic skyline was at the airport, thanks to fog and a jam-packed schedule. I took a quick snapshot with my iPhone – but the glare off the windows ruined the snapshot to the point…
With just over a month left until the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles expires, automakers are pushing the savings. We’ve put together a list of all the EVs you can still lease for under $300 a month in August.
Which EVs can you lease for under $300 in August?
Over 607,000 electric vehicles were sold in the US in the first half of 2025, but sales are expected to pick up over the…
