Dubbed 'Concept Luna,' Dell's new proof-of-concept laptop is designed to last longer, be easier to fix and have less impact on the climate, notes DP Review. While there's not a new 'product' yet, Dell's design team has shown off some impressive ideas, including a flax-based PCB and a motherboard mounted behind the display. Read the full Story >>
Haiti is beset by overlapping crises, including the assassination last July of its president, Jovenel Moïse, in circumstances that remain mysterious. in the political vacuum, as many as 165 gangs continue to terrorize residents. “Port-au-Prince is almost entirely controlled by gangs, and we wanted to show the efforts of people that are running businesses to survive,” says Rodrigo Abd, 45, a staff photographer with the Associated Press who has been documenting the trouble. But, notes The Guardian, he also wanted to show another side of Haitian life. Read the full Story >>
The chip shortage continues to hamper Sony’s ability to produce cameras. The company has announced that it is no longer accepting orders for the Alpha 7C and a6600 and has “completed production” on the Alpha 7 II and a6100, notes PetaPixel. Sony published an apology note on its Japanese website and has noted that four cameras are either temporarily suspended or will no longer be produced to an already relatively long list of previously discontinued or suspended products. DIY Photography has more. Read the full Story >>
We live in a deep-fake world. It's not a nice place. Sensity, an online fraud-detection service, found 85,047 deepfake videos circulating online in December of 2020--a number that had been roughly doubling every six months. So you can extrapolate how many deepfakes are floating around the internet at the current time. Experts studying this phenomenon have found that well over 90 percent of deepfake … Read the full Story >>
