Drone Pilot Who Flew Into Firefighting Airplane Attempts to Avoid Prison
The co-founder of an influential video game company has pled guilty to flying his drone into a firefighting aircraft operating above the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
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UK Introduces ‘World-First’ Laws to Ban AI Tools That Create Child Abuse Images
The U.K. will become the first country in the world to make it illegal to use AI tools that create child sexual abuse images.
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Apple Scraps AR Glasses, Backing Out of Competing With Meta’s Ray-Bans
Apple has reportedly scrapped plans to develop augmented reality (AR) glasses powered by its Mac computers.
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Intense Ring Doorbell Footage Captures Plane Crash in Philadelphia
A Ring doorbell camera captured the moment a medical airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia on Friday night.
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Are Camcorders About to Make a Big Comeback?
2025 has so far proved to be the year of comebacks. Point-and-shoot compacts are flying off shelves faster than camera stores can restock them. But there could be another resurgence set to occur, and this one has flown well under the radar: camcorders.
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Our Favorite Weird Zoom Lenses That Buck Conformity
The photographic world tends to flow into a state of normality, order, and conformity. Certain lenses just work for most situations, and the popular choices of the professionals quickly become the traditional tools of the masses. It seems everyone starts with a general-purpose lens that covers a rough full-frame range of 28mm to 70mm or so, and then eventually, you end up with something wider and something longer.
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NASA’s SPHEREx to Capture First All-Sky Spectral Survey and Explore Universe’s Origins
The megaphone-shaped SPHEREx space observatory may launch into space next month, ushering in a new era of cosmic exploration. These are the key things to know about SPHEREx and how it works.
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Boris FX Optics 2025 Brings New AI-Driven Masks to Lightroom and Photoshop
Boris FX released a new version of its popular Optics plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Classic that add new AI-driven masking for still images.
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Inside a Covert Cold War Army Base Built Beneath a Greenland Glacier
More than 60 years ago, in the far northern reaches of Greenland, the United States Army built an underground scientific research base, Camp Century. Carved into the ice and snow, the nuclear-powered base operated from 1959 until 1967 and comprised 21 tunnels, totaling three kilometers in length.
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