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Cheap $20 GPS jamming devices can make your drone fall out of the sky but solutions are out there
Dec 22, 2020
John Aldred
For years, companies have been working on finding ways to safely (and sometimes not) take out drones doing things they shouldn’t be doing – whether…
End of DJI? Company goes under United States blacklist
Dec 19, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Chinese drone manufacturer DJI has been added to the US economic blacklist. According to the US Government’s Commerce Department, DJI is one of four…
Luminar AI is now available and wants to automate your editing
Dec 16, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Skylum has already introduced some of the features of Luminar AI, the new software that aims to automatize and speed up editing. It’s now officially…
Ansel Adams’ famous print sells for record-breaking $988,000
Dec 16, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Ansel Adams’ iconic print has just set a new record. The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming was sold at…
Woman plunged 260 feet to her death after trying to take a selfie at Grampians National Park
Dec 14, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
A 38-year-old woman lost her life on Saturday 12 December when she fell at Boroka Lookout in Victoria, Australia. The tragedy occurred when she reportedly…
One of three Leica prototype lenses sells for $290,300 at an auction
Dec 10, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
I guess we’re all used to Leica gear being expensive. But when it’s rare as this Vario-Elmar-M 3.5-5.6/28-75mm ASPH. prototype lens, it gets even pricier….
Canon patents a Dual Pixel AF Back-side Illuminated sensor (finally)
Dec 10, 2020
John Aldred
It’s taken a while for Canon to jump on the whole BSI train, although the company appears to have filed a patent in for what…
Watch: Arecibo Observatory destruction captured on control room camera and drone
Dec 8, 2020
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
The Arecibo Observatory’s telescope in Puerto Rico, the second-largest radio telescope in the world, collapsed on 1 December. The massive platform crashed into its disk…
New Google Photos storage rules could delete your Gmail and Google Drive files too
Dec 7, 2020
John Aldred
Google recently announced they were killing off free storage for Google Photos from June 1st, 2021. A lot of people haven’t been happy with Google’s…
Don’t open this email from “Adobe”
Dec 7, 2020
John Aldred
There’s a new phishing scam going around, targeting Adobe users, according to a report from TechRadar. It involves sending an email from the “Adobe Cloud”…