Month June 2018

iStockphoto Well, all of us boozehounds are destined to die a painful, miserable death. Condolences. It seems that while many of us, these days, are laying off the Taco Bell, consuming more fruits and vegetables, exercising more, cutting back on…

Barbara Alper via Getty Images Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison has died at 84. Ellison, who was an author of novellas and short stories, wrote for shows including Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. He passed…

NASA/ESA/STScI Last October, researchers spotted a long, skinny object speeding through our solar system, and they initially pegged it as a comet from another solar system. But as they continued to observe the object, dubbed ‘Oumuamua, its properties — namely…

Banksy is back with 9 new fiery murals in Paris Image: Chesnot/Getty Images By Rachel Thompson2018-06-29 11:09:27 UTC A load of new Banksy murals have popped up in Paris, France, in the past week.  The works — which are Banksy’s…

In this, the next installment of our dPS ultimate guides, learn what you need to know to get started doing night photography. Introduction Tower Bridge, London. Exposure: shutter speed 2.6 seconds, aperture f, ISO 100. Night photography immediately solves a…

That moment when you drop your phone and everything stops. You can hear your heart beat — the buzz of the world around you is silenced — all cognition stops — you see as if in slow motion the pirouette…

Could Canon be planning to make the camera do all the work for photographers with an AI-powered system? AI-powered everything seems to be the hot stuff that gets anything tech-related going these days, especially photography. We’ve come to…

Millennials know what they want out of their phone, and it has nothing to do with making traditional calls. A majority of the 1,180 millennials and Generation-Z respondents surveyed said they would rather have unlimited data and give up calling…

Casio Chairman and CEO Kazuo Kashio passed on June 19, 2018 at the age of 89. The cause of death was pneumonia. Kashio was the third eldest of the four brothers who founded Casio Computer in 1957. Their first product,…

Blasting into space at nearly 18,000 mph seems unnerving. But three space station-bound astronauts appeared profoundly tranquil as they sped through Earth’s atmosphere on June 6. On Monday morning, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst tweeted out a video…