QIVIKA Launches AI-Powered Smartphone Telescope For Bird Photographers

Bird photography is a genre that needs additional gear to work with. In this case, a good telescope is a great start for many. Not only does it help spot the bird, but it also helps study its behavior. QIVIKA is one of the few companies that has created a compact optical telesco…

Platform-independent SIMD in Go

The Go Blog Platform-independent SIMD in Go David Chase and Junyang Shao 24 September 2026 Go 1.26 and 1.27 include experimental APIs for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. SIMD is a native feature of many modern CPUs tha…

Scans of City Textures

Using a handheld scanner, designer/illustrator Noah Nolet captures textures from surfaces in cities around the world, including Tokyo, LA, Paris, Kyoto, NYC, and Berlin. On his website, he offers city packs of hundreds of scans for sale and free sample packs as…

Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the...

Homer’s Catalogue of Ships from the Iliad. Where the Greek ships that set out for Troy were from and what they may have looked like. “No Homeric ship survives. What we have are pictures: a handful of painted sherds of the twelfth century BC…”

The summer of ’26

It was the autumnal equinox a few days ago. For a moment our planet was balanced perfectly, with everyone experience twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days will get shorter and the nights will get longer until the winter…

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at...

Practical Engineering: Are beavers actually good at building dams? (A: Yes, duh.)

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt...

The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth. Brad Pitt returns as Booth, the character he played in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but 8 years later. Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, directed by David Fincher.

Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe”...

Trace is a daily puzzle game where you build a “recipe” of up to 4 steps to turn a starting set of numbers into another set of numbers.

Jo Ann Chaus Delivers Photographs That Force You to Slow Down

When I look at the photos of Jo Ann Chaus, I'm sort of transported to a fantasy land of sorts involving a time now long lost. Her obsession with color and what appears to be a love of something almost around the Mad Men era speaks to a romantic side of us that's rooted more in o…

The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen,...

The lessons four Islamic polymaths — al-Biruni, Alhazen, Avicenna and al-Khwarizmi — hold for students today: “breadth over specialisation, and never let constraints get in the way”.

50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on...

50 Songs That Explain America. “The songs were chosen on the basis that they told me something, sonically or lyrically or emotionally or vibrationally, about America and the idea of America.”

The 🔥🔥🔥 New Social App: NPR Podcasts Comments Section on Spotify

{Ira Glass voice} On this week’s episode of This American Life, the story of middle schoolers too young for social media chatting in the comments section of NPR’s podcasts on Spotify. From the transcript: And it was just, like, gibberish. There was a bunch of new commen…

How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby...

How to rescue an orphaned baby elephant. “The baby elephant needs a mother to run to. And the fact is that the mother is a 30-year-old Nigerian man right now.”

Leica Expands iPhone Ecosystem With LUX Grip, New Gallery and McCurry Filter

Leica has created some fantastic accessories for the photography community. From flash units to camera straps, bags, and even film stock, Leica has a varied range of items in store for its users. As part of their growing lineup, especially for phone photographers, Leica is now l…

Jimbōchō Book Town

I visited Jimbōchō today, a neighborhood that’s home to more than 100 used bookstores. Many sell only Japanese books, but some of them have books in English or sell magazines, posters, or visual books that are interesting to browse no matter what language you speak. I vis…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I consumed 31% more electricity this month. Should the finger point up because the consumption went up, or down because it’s not good news for me? #Icon #Report #ThumbsDown

Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to...

Robert Eggers is doing Romeo & Juliet. “When it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Elizabethan English (aka early modern English), with lines straight from the play.”

Why Manual Focus? The Guide for Photographers Only Shooting Digital

Autofocus does a great job; but it's a tool that should really only be used sparingly. As a high-functioning blind man, I can attest to the idea that manually focusing a lens will make you compose a scene differently as well as make you rethink how you're making the photograph.…

Nikon Z5 II C Review: They Made Another Street Photography Camera

The Nikon Z5 II C is a fantastic camera in so many different ways mostly because of the form factor. The influencers will tell you that it's not a real camera because there is no viewfinder, but truthfully, you don't really need one if you know how to zone focus for street photo…

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Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98...

Play Solitaire Alone Together. “It’s Windows 98 solitaire, but you can play with everyone else on the internet.” A little more social than solitaire, but not by much.

The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is...

The Museum of Time-Based Art. “My idea for this site is to build an exhaustive, authoritative compendium of every art project that uses time as part of the work.”

Reading Without the Clutter: Why We Built an Ad-Free Subscription

Banner ads are one of the more dependable ways a website like this stays funded, but they also come at a cost to the reading experience: more clutter, more distraction, more things loading on the page than the article you actually came for. Our ad-free subscription exists to giv…

I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by...

I can’t remember where I heard about this, but judging by the trailer, Hope by Korean director Na Hong-jin looks pretty good.

When’s the Last Time You Cried?

For New York magazine, Emily Gould writes about her quest to cry again: I Miss My Tears (archive). I looked over at my husband, Keith, whose eyes were red, and felt … nothing. Not a clench in my chest, not a pang, not an incipient burning behind my eye sockets. It wasn’t t…

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately...

Chimpanzees use tools to collect food and deliberately teach other chimps (often their offspring) to use them for ant dipping, algae fishing, and termite fishing.

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: I get it. Everything is new. #YouTube #Badge #DesignForDesignsSake

How Long Will Your Canon Camera Really Last?

Canon cameras are rarely destroyed due to a single failure. It's usually with slower challenges, such as using the shutter a thousand times, a weather seal that is way past its limit, or a battery that does not last a whole day. The company has been very clear about how long a c…

Can You Draw a Perfect Circle?

This maddening little web toy on vole.wtf challenges visitors to draw a perfect circle and judges them on how well they do. After dozens of tries with a mouse, I could only manage 92.9% perfection (which looks more like 80% tbh). Then I tried it on a touchscreen and got muc…

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation...

Some advice on giving good advice. “Not every situation warrants advice. Sometimes, the person just wants to gauge a reaction or to share.”

The Earth in the Sky

I love these black & white photos of Devils Tower by Zac Henderson. A butte of a rare kind of volcanic rock that formed a mile underground 50 million years ago, Devil’s Tower is visible now thanks to erosion of sedimentary rock. The tower features the world’s largest…

TIL they can do wing replacements on injured...

TIL they can do wing replacements on injured butterflies…just take a look at this repair video.

Canon R4 Spotted on Adobe’s Camera List, But What Does It Mean

Canon has some wonderful cameras in their portfolio. The R1 and the R5 series are designed for full frame users, while the R6 and R8 series are for beginners who want a full-frame camera. It now appears a new camera now appears, the Canon R4, on the radar, which briefly appeared…

Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera,...

Engaging read on how the Bugs Bunny cartoon What’s Opera, Doc? was made. “To get the extra work done, Jones and his crew secretly shaved a couple weeks off other, easier films and faked their time cards. It was something they did on occasion.”

The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t...

The 25 Photos That Changed Fashion Forever. “It didn’t matter if an image was meant as a fashion photograph, so long as the picture later inspired a designer, collection or trend, or it changed how we might think about style.”