DP Review Wednesday May 11, 2022
Researchers have developed a nanophotonic light field camera that delivers an extreme depth of field, and, notes DP Review it’s based on the eye of an extinct Cambrian-era trilobite, Dalmanitina socialis. The camera has a depth of field ranging from a centimeter to a kilometer scale. Dalmanitina socialis have been extinct for several hundred million years. However, investigations of fossil remains have revealed that the trilobite was one of the earliest arthropods to have compound eyes. Read the full Story >>
The New Yorker Wednesday May 11, 2022
In the 1930s, Norman Baker’s Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas became a hub of flagrant medical disinformation, notes The New Yorker. Baker—a radio announcer and vaudeville magician, but not a doctor—offered miracle cancer cures, and many of his patients died. Now the Crescent Hotel is considered one of America’s most haunted places. In 2017 photographers Lara Shipley and Antone Dolezal discovered Baker’s story and tied it to modern charlatans spreading harmful falsehoods. Read the full Story >>
GIZMODO Wednesday May 11, 2022
Snap the parent company of the photo-sharing app Snapchat, made its foray into hardware products with their augmented reality-powered glasses Spectacles, which, notes DIY Photography, never caught on with a mainstream audience. Now Snap has announced that it will release a handheld mini drone called Pixy, a tiny semi-intelligent autonomous drone with cameras, adds Gizmodo. Pixy is meant to capture content suited for Snapchat's audience that shares temporary, short-lived content clips. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday May 11, 2022
A wedding photographer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for endangering national security after he was found providing 384 photos of Chinese warships and military ports to a person overseas
that he met via WeChat, according to Global Times, a Chinese state-operated media and propaganda outlet. The Chinese government is warning its citizens that foreign governments may trick them into
becoming spies, … Read the full Story >>
