TTArtisan’s Ultra-Affordable Full-Frame 85mm f/1.8 Lens Costs Just $99

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TTArtisan has announced the AF 85mm f/1.8 Neo, a new extremely affordable full-frame portrait prime lens for Sony and Nikon mirrorless cameras. The 85mm f/1.8 prime costs just $99.

The Chinese lens maker is positioning its new, aggressively priced prime lens as prioritizing image quality and little else. “Pure image. Nothing extra,” TTArtisan says.

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尖沙咀中間道警員大追捕 事源觀塘孟加拉漢遇伏擊 警半小時鎖定疑犯

社交平台Threads今日(8月20日)流傳尖沙咀中間道大批警員行動,引起討論。據了解,事源於觀塘今日下午5時許一名孟加拉籍男子遭人持武器襲擊,兇徒得手後乘坐接應車輛逃去。警方接報後迅速追查,於尖沙咀中間道截獲涉


The Insta360 Luna Pro Gimbal Camera Aims to Take Down the Osmo Pocket 4

Two handheld gimbal cameras, one white and one black, are positioned against a split black and white background.
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Insta360 has announced the Luna Pro, a slimmed-down, single-camera version of the Luna Ultra it launched earlier this summer. It maintains the Ultra’s biggest selling point (the detachable screen) while aiming down-market at the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 and 4.

Information is somewhat limited by this China-only launch (Insta360 is yet again opting for a staggered release starting in China and coming to the rest of the globe sometime later), but

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German neo-Nazi suspected of deadly 1970 fire at Jewish retirement home

German investigators believe they have now identified an arsonist who set fire to a Jewish community centre in Munich in 1970, killing seven people.

For decades the man's identity remained a mystery. But Munich prosecutors now believe he was a 25-year-old lone neo-Nazi with known antisemitic opinions.

The seven killed were all Holocaust survivors aged 59 to 71. Another 15 people were injured.

The prosecutors' revelations come too late to secure justice for the victims. The suspect


海關破粉嶺坪輋私煙倉 檢220萬元貨 兩男被捕包括無業內地漢

海關昨日(19日)晚上在粉嶺坪輋搗破一個私煙儲存倉庫,檢獲約68萬支未完稅香煙,市值約310萬元,應課稅值約220萬元。行動中,海關拘捕一名本地男子及一名內地男子,並檢獲一部涉案中型貨車。 昨晚11時許


Nobody’s Buying New Physical Games On Xbox In The U.S.

Nintendo runs away with it

Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.

Taiwan proposes record US$35b defence budget for 2027 as PLA’s pressure grows

The government is targeting an 18.2 per cent increase in spending, with much of the extra money needed to pay for US weapons

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Some of the extra money will go towards US-made Himars rocket launcher systems. Photo: EPA

Taiwan has unveiled a record NT$1.12 trillion (US$35 billion) defence budget for 2027, with sharp increases in spending on weapons, ammunition

Adobe Firefly’s music, voiceover, and sound effects generation tools now generally available

Users can now create fully licensed tracks, voiceover, and sound effects on Adobe’s Firefly AI assistant. Here are the details.


Former Arkane vets' new studio isn't going to try 'trend chasing', and in hindsight, thank God

Lessons learned.