MPB and Sigma are Giving Away Up to $1,000 to You Folks

This weekend at the 5 Boro Foto Fest, MPB and Sigma are sponsoring two giveaways. MPB's can be entered into here, and Sigma's requires you to come to the festival to be a part of it. MPB is giving away a $750 voucher to be spent on their website and Sigma is giving away $1,000 f…

Ambient Earth

Ambient Earth is a 7.5-hour, real-time, 4K, remastered video of the orbital view from the International Space Station. Seán Doran took almost 49,000 images from 27 time-lapse sequences captured from the ISS by astronaut Butch Wilmore, repaired, remastered, and interpolated t…

Help set Go's priorities for next year

The Go Blog Help set Go's priorities for next year Cameron Balahan, on behalf of the Go team 21 October 2026 Hi Gophers! The 2026 Go Developer Survey is now open. We run this survey every year to understand how you use Go and the challeng…

Nikon Small World 2026 Honors Ink Droplets in Stunning Microscopic Detail

The Nikon Small World contest has long showcased the unseen beauty of the microscopic world with zest and dedication. This year, the company announced the 20 winners of the 52nd edition. The winning images capture the artistic side of science, giving the millions who follow this…

The Problem Photographers Don’t Realize About Social Media

You may be aware of this if you read the Phoblographer often: I started something called the 5 Boro Foto Fest that's happening in October 25th, 2026. It's a culmination of many of the ideas that I had over the years: primarily how photographers need to get off of social media. I…

Vulnerability

“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a...

“Japan launched a $578 million mission Monday on a five-year expedition to land on the largest moon of Mars and retrieve samples for return to Earth.”

Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward...

Find the Place You Love. Then Move There. “The reward from moving just because you want to is hard to defend logically. Some people will think you are crazy…”

The LUMIX S1R II’s New Firmware Helps Real Photographers

Something that I really love about the latest S1R II update is the fact that they're taking real photographers seriously with flash. In a world where too many people are called content creators, it's wonderful to acknowledge that a device like this is still meant to take still p…

The LUMIX S9 Got an Update. Some Photographers Will Love It

Photographers who love to use as many function buttons as they can are probably going to adore the latest feature that Panasonic added to the S9. In my opinion, all they need now are clicked rings for their lenses. Very recently, Panasonic announced that the LUMIX S9 would get a…

I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a...

I remember this 90s TV commercial for 93.7 The Edge, a Minnesota alternative radio station, very well. It features very non-alternative old people reciting lyrics like “bow down before the one you serve” and “Winona’s got herself a big brown beaver”.

Why Do Some Places Just Feel Right?

Gregory Wieber does these engaging, info-rich videos on tech history — I posted his HyperCard Changed Everything video back in the spring. For one of his latest videos, Wieber goes through a short history of Christopher Alexander’s landmark book, A Pattern Language (Bookshop…

New book from James Gleick about the history of the...

New book from James Gleick about the history of the telephone. “It gave us the party line, the busy signal, dial tones, wiretapping, the late-night DJ, and the booty call. It magnified the possibilities of government, of business, of friendship, of love.”

“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green...

“Astronomers for the first time have identified a green star, documenting a dense stellar remnant called a white dwarf that became a ghostly shade of chartreuse after ingesting rocky ​debris from planets that once had orbited it.”

Why the 5 Boro Foto Fest Still Says No to AI

With the 5 Boro Foto Fest less than a week away now, on Sunday, October 25th at Culture Lab LIC, it's worth repeating the thing that started this whole festival in the first place: a hard guarantee that nothing on the floor is generative AI. Every print, book, and zine for sale…

The Best Monopoly Strategy, Tested on 300 Million Games

Perfect Play ran over 300 million games of Monopoly to determine the best strategy and the most common mistakes players make. I turned eight classic Monopoly strategies into computer players and made them play 312,898,560 games against each other. At a table of four, the be…

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First. “It’s disgusting to put workers at risk by looting. You do it by chipping away at their health benefits and eventually laying them off.”

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First, and most importantly, don't miss Peter Kaminsky's talk today at 4 PM Eastern. Required Viewing I EXPOSED what big tech knows about you by becoming… a data broker, by Chris the Producer, on YouTube. It's brilliant. More about him here. And here. And here. Hat's off to Do…

Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through...

Using an LLM’s “superhuman ability to parse through galactic quantities of data”, a very amateur astronomer has found a possible exoplanet candidate. MIT is going to point their satellite at the candidate planet to collect more data soon.

How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made

This workshop founded in 1882 still makes dried bonito like they did back in the Edo period. How katsuobushi — Japanese dried bonito, said to be the world’s hardest food — is made in Nishi-Izu, Japan. Inside Kanesa Katsuobushi Shoten, a workshop founded in 1882, 5th-g…

Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the...

Brewster Kahle argues against news sites blocking the Internet Archive from archiving their sites. “Impeding the Wayback Machine’s preservation work will not prevent powerful AI companies from gathering training data.”

Meet Flashback ONE75, the Half-Frame-Inspired Camera for $179

Compact cameras, especially screen-less models, are some of the most loved options on the market. Flashback is one company that has created a “re-disposable” camera, the ONE35, which has won over many millennials and Gen Z. Today, they have announced pre-order for their late…

What the Pixii Camera Company Liquidation Means for Rangefinder Fans

Pixii cameras, a French brand known for creating screen less digital rangefinder cameras, has now entered judicial liquidation. The report comes following a series of challenges over the years, and the move is said to cease the functioning of its trades. The camera was also comp…

nikitonsky is being grumpy

nikitonsky: What are you? A slider? Radiobuttons? Switch/toggle? Thanks esp for the picture #Slider #Radiobutton #Switch #Toggle #Settings #Preferences #SendGrid

Old Micro Four Thirds Sensors Were Peak

I, like many of you, are completely bored by modern cameras. And so in my 20th year of doing photography, I've started to dive back into my archives. One thing that I keep falling in love with is the look of old Micro Four Thirds sensors. It explains to me why I was so in love w…