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Japan’s moon lander took this eerie photo before being enveloped by lunar night

Against all odds, Japan’s SLIM lander managed to turn back on more than a week after it plopped upside down onto the surface of the moon — but now, it’s gone dormant for the duration of the lunar night, and it may not be able to wake up again. The SLIM team from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, on Thursday shared the last image the lander captured at the moon’s Shioli crater before dusk, as night encroached. Lunar night lasts the equivalent of two Earth weeks and can get colder than -200 degrees Fahrenheit.

The team has confirmed that the solar powered lander is in a dormant state that will last at least the duration of the lunar night. Its chances of resuming operations afterward aren’t great, but then again, it’s already surprised us once. “Although SLIM was not designed for the harsh lunar nights, we plan to try to operate again from mid-February, when the Sun will shine again on SLIM’s solar cells,” the team wrote on X. If this truly is SLIM’s last photo, it sure is a spooky one.

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Apple’s free My Photo Stream service will shut down on July 26th

Apple plans to shut down its My Photo Stream service on July 26th, 2023, the company announced on Friday. The free service has been available since the release of iCloud in 2011. You can use My Photo Stream to upload the last 30 days of images and videos – up to a limit of 1,000 – from your Apple devices to iCloud. My Photo Stream predates iCloud Photos and gave Apple users a way to access their images and video clips on more than one device. Notably, content uploaded to iCloud through My Photo Stream do not count against your iCloud storage cap, though they’re not saved at full resolution.

In a support document spotted by MacRumors, Apple says My Photo Stream will stop automatically uploading photos to the company’s servers on June 26th, 2023. At that point, your photos and videos will remain on iCloud for 30 days until the official shutdown on July 26th. Since every image and video uploaded to iCloud through My Photo Stream is stored in its original format and resolution on at least one of your Apple devices, you won’t lose any cherished memories as part of the shutdown process. That said, if you want to have access to a specific image on a particular device, Apple recommends you save it to that device’s Photo Library before July 26th.

On iPhone and iPad, you can save an image from your My Photo Stream by opening the Photos app, navigating to the My Photo Stream album, selecting the photo you want to save and then tapping the Share button to save it to your Library. Apple ends the support document by noting, “iCloud Photos is the best way to keep the photos and videos you take up to date across all your devices and safely stored in iCloud.”

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Sony’s Xperia 1 V is official with a focus on photo and video creation

Sony has today unveiled its brand new Xperia 1 V flagship which packs in a number of vlogging features taken from the brand’s Alpha camera range. Sporting a brand new “Exmor T for Mobile” camera sensor which promises to be faster and better thanks to its computational photography chops, the Xperia 1 V also sports […]

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Windows 11 preview brings the Photo app’s ‘gallery’ view to File Explorer

Microsoft is making it easier to view your photos in File Explorer. The latest Windows 11 developer preview rolling out today includes Gallery, a new feature that lets you view the Photos app’s image library while browsing files and folders.

The Gallery view, the shortcut to which is found in the File Explorer’s navigation panel, arrives in Windows Insider Build 23435. After selecting Gallery, the main file-browsing window will show thumbnails of the same images from the All Photos view of the Photos app. Microsoft says it’s optimized for accessing your most recent photos if you have OneDrive Camera Roll Backup activated on your phone; they’ll display right up top.

It should also make it easy to find content from specific folders. “You can choose which folders are shown in Gallery through the Collection dropdown,” Microsoft’s announcement reads. “You can also add subfolders of existing sources to filter to a subset of your content, such as desktop backgrounds and SD card/camera imports.” In addition, Gallery will appear as an option in the file-picking dialog, which should simplify attaching images to emails, PowerPoint presentations or social posts.

Screenshot of the Windows 11 file picker, showing the Gallery highlighted in the navigation panel (left side of Explorer window), with an array of image thumbnails in the main window. Microsoft Paint (the app calling up the file-picker) is open behind the picker window.
Gallery in the Windows 11 file-picker view
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Microsoft says the feature is rolling out gradually and won’t be available to all Dev Channel Insiders immediately. Instead, the company will “monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.” Although it seems like a feature that will make its way to future stable releases, it’s still in beta and could (theoretically) end up on the cutting-room floor if the company receives negative feedback or changes course.

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How to create and share iPhone photo albums with ease

With iCloud album sharing, you can create an online gallery and invite others to contribute their own media to it. Even those without an iPhone can play a role.
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How to turn a Live Photo into a video on your iPhone

When you shoot an iPhone Live Photo, it captures 1.5 seconds before and after you tap the shutter. We show you how to convert that photo into a video.
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Here’s what a photo from a 200MP smartphone camera looks like

The Motorola X30 Pro (aka. the Edge 30 Ultra) boasts an impressive camera, but now that we’ve seen a sample image taken by it, it’s looking better and better.
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I tried iOS 16’s photo background remover and it blew me away

One of iOS 16’s standout features is a tool that removes the background from photos. It’s quick, convenient, and seriously impressive.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S20 FE is $150 off at Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo

Samsung’s Galaxy S20 Fan Edition (FE) only debuted at the end of September, but the affordable flagship has already seen substantial discounts. With Black Friday fast approaching, Amazon, Best Buy and B&H Photo are now offering a $ 150 off the han…
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B&H Photo knocks $250 off Lenovo’s high-powered Legion 7 laptop

While the Razer Blade 15 with NVIDIA’s RTX 2060 GPU is $ 400 off today, you may be itching for a gaming laptop with a slightly better graphics card. If that’s the case, you can grab a Lenovo Legion 7 machine with an NVIDIA RTX 2070 GPU for $ 1,599 righ…
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News anchor sues Facebook, Reddit after creepy photo appears in ads

Internet giants are about to face another test of their liability for the content they host. The Verge has learned that Fox 29 News anchor Karen Hepp filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Giphy, Imgur, Reddit and porn outlet XNXX for allegedly violating…
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OnePlus leaked user emails through ‘Shot On OnePlus’ photo sharing app

The Oppo spinoff’s latest in a long line of blunders involves the leaking of hundreds of user emails through the insecure servers of their photo sharing app. OnePlus has a long history of being caught up in lies, deceits, and other needless controversies; from confusingly pointless and offensive schemes such as ‘Ladies First’ awarding the […]

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Ads galore: Google starts to push the “Photo book store” in Google Photos

Google is, at its heart, an advertising company. They have their hands in many, many different projects, products, and services, but fundamentally they’re all different ways to serve up ads to users. That’s not a bad or nefarious thing, either; it allows Google to craft up some remarkable products and let the whole world use […]

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NASA’s Insight lander delivers its first clear photo from Mars

Earlier today the Insight lander successfully touched down on Mars, and it's already crushing the 'gram. Signals indicating that its solar panels had opened and were generating power came back to Earth at about 8:30 PM ET, along with a few photograph…
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Google Home Hub Review: More than just a photo frame

With Lenovo, LG, Sony, and JBL announcing at CES 2018 that they would launch smart displays with the Google Assistant built-in to take on Amazon’s Echo Show, it was just a matter of time before Google threw its hat into the ring with a device of its own. And sure enough, a little later than […]

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First photo from the OnePlus 6T camera is released online

OnePlus likes to hype up their cameras ahead of launches, and CEO Carl Pei is hopping in to get everyone excited for their latest flagship. He’s shared a photo directly from the OnePlus 6T over on Weibo so everyone can see just what the phone is capable of. That’s if you trust him to upload […]

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Rosetta probe’s last surprise: a photo of its landing site

Since it's been a year since Rosetta landed on the comet it orbited for a couple of years, you'd think the ESA had already decoded everything the vessel sent back before its demise. Apparently, the probe has one last surprise for all of us: a close-u…
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Former Googler Vic Gundotra extols iPhone 7 Plus camera, pans Android photo ecosystem

In some Facebook postings over the weekend, Vic Gundotra shared his opinion about the state of smartphone photography and it is sure to rankle Android fans. Gundotra, who is mainly credited with the Google+ social network although he also played a big part in evangelizing Android, opined on the how well smartphones compare to traditional […]

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Instagram adds photo and video replies to Stories

Instagram's ephemeral Stories has been around for less than a year, but it's already beaten Snapchat at its own game. Today, the photo-sharing network is taking yet another swing at its rival with a new feature that lets you reply to Stories with a p…
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Next-gen Nissan Leaf launches September 5; new photo teased

Nissan has been slowly teasing the next-generation Leaf EV, and will continue to do so over the course of the summer. We now know, though, when the teasing ends and the feature presentation begins, as the automaker announced on Twitter that the new L…
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Pinterest’s app can identify multiple items in one photo

Last year, Pinterest started encouraging its users to buy things with just a photo. Last February it gave everyone in the US access to its new Lens beta, which lets you search for pins of cool things with a snapshot. Today, Pinterest continues to imp…
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Alcatel Idol 5S shows up in leaked photo

Last year, continuing a trend, the Alcatel Idol 4S was a potential sleeper phone offering a solid choice for mid-range budget shoppers. Judging from a new leaked photo, Alcatel appears to be planning to stick close to the game plan for 2017 with the successor phone, the Alcatel Idol 5S expected to be available in […]

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Google is reportedly working on a new social app for photo editing and sharing

Google is reportedly working on yet another photo-based app. Unlike Google Photos, this app may be for groups to edit and share their photos. Google says that it’s “just experimenting” and that there aren’t any release plans yet.

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Snap and edit pictures like a pro with these great Android photo apps

They say the best camera is the one in your pocket. That said, check out a selection of our favorite photo-editing apps for Android, whether you need to crop a photo or outfit it with a old-school filter.

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Fujifilm launches faster Instax instant photo printer for mobile

Fujifilm’s Instax Share SP-2 is the company’s latest mobile printer that works with smartphones and tablets to make instant prints. Fujifilm says it is faster and quieter, and offers better image quality.

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22 photo apps to supercharge your iPhone camera

Apple’s latest iPhone boasts one of the best smartphone cameras around. Give it a boost with the our favorite photography apps for iPhone, whether you want to apply a filter or manually adjust the exposure.

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Customize your Nexus with a photo case

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Google has made it easier for you to personalize your phone with the launch of My Live Case, which lets users create customized snap cases for their Nexus 5X, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P phones.

The design studio in the Google Store lets you take a photo or a special place on Google Maps and put it on a case. A bunch of filters let you make the image your own and as a bonus, the image also gets made into a live wallpaper for your home screen.

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LG 360 VR and LG 360 Cam up for pre-order at B&H Photo

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As LG suddenly starts lurching forward with the release of their latest line of flagship devices that were announced at MWC 2016, like the LG G5 that is now dropping on April 1st, some other hardware is also starting to surface for buyers to place pre-orders. The latest to join the field are the LG 360 VR virtual reality headset and the LG 360 Cam spherical camera device that are now listed on the B&H Photo site.

Unfortunately, B&H Photo does not list an expected availability date for the devices, though we can hope they will match the LG G5 and be available at the end of next week. B&H Photo does provide the list prices for the devices and both of them come in at $ 199. For comparison, the Samsung Gear VR is currently priced at $ 99.

One of the big differences between the LG 360 VR headset and other virtual reality headsets is the method of connecting a smartphone. Most units, like the Gear VR or Cardboard require the phone to be place in the headset itself. LG has gone a different route and uses a cable connection between an LG G5 and the headset. This means the unit is not as big and bulky as other options, but it also means LG had to pack in the electronics for the display instead of using the smartphone’s display.

Meanwhile, like so many other devices hitting the market, the LG 360 Cam is designed to simplify the process of capturing immersive content that can the be delivered via virtual reality headsets.

If you are interested in placing a pre-order for one of the devices you can hit the source links below. Anyone out there planning to invest in LG’s versions of these tech accessories?

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Shorts is a Periscope-like app for real-time photo sharing

Want to share as many photos as you want in real time with your friends? Shorts is the right app for you. The iOS app scans your camera roll and lets you swipe up on photos you want to share.

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The LG G5 shows up in a leaked photo (again)

lg g5 profileRemember that photo of the front and back of the G5 that we saw yesterday? Want another look at the device before its official announcement? You’re in luck. 

Evan Blass has released yet another photo of the device, front and back, showing what’s probably the always on display and the rear camera module and fingerprint scanner. It doesn’t reveal anything new, but it does give a great look at the fantastically sleek design that LG is going with for their 2016 flagship. Even if you miss the volume buttons on the rear, it’s hard to argue that this isn’t one of the most attractive designs LG has come up with in recent years.

Fortunately, we aren’t too far out from the actual announcement of the device. There isn’t much left for LG to shock anyone with, but it’ll be nice to get some high quality images and complete clarification on what the G5 can and can’t do.

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