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Amazon subsidiary Zoox is ramping up production of its robotaxis in California ahead of its commercial launch in Las Vegas expected later this year. It's flung open the doors to its second production facility that's set up to roll out over 10,000 of its driverless four-passenger vans annually.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: urban transport, Cabs, Autonomous Vehicles, Amazon, Self-Driving, Self driving cars
AI tools like ChatGPT have changed our personal and professional worlds, with around 52% of American adults regularly using a large language model (LLM). Now, a new study details the immense environmental costs of our prompts, and it might make you think twice about what chatbot you use and how you use it.
Category: AI & Humanoids, Technology
Tags: GPT, LLM (Large Language Model), Computers, Air pollution, Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, Climate Crisis, Search Technology
Researchers have uncovered another piece of the Parkinson’s disease puzzle, identifying that particular immune cells are active long before the hallmark motor symptoms become apparent. It paves the way for the development of earlier diagnostic tools.
Category: Brain Health, Body & Mind
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, The Immune System, T-cells, Autoimmune, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
A team made up of some of architecture's biggest names has completed a new airport in Sydney, Australia. The building boasts significant sustainability features and is defined by a sculpted ceiling that shades passengers and creates a pleasant dappled lighting effect inside.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Airports, sustainable design, Sydney, Zaha Hadid
There may be a new use for that urine you've been so thoughtlessly flushing. Scientists say it could be an alternate source of a valuable bone- and tooth-repair material, with a little help from a genetically modified type of yeast.
Category: Science
Tags: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Recycling, Sewage, Yeast
Since winning some award jewelry two years ago, the Life Chariot has gone on to start a family, lending its battlefield-tested platform to an incredibly versatile morsel called the Unit 1. The modular towable is a highly capable kayak trailer, rolling cargo box, pint-sized platform trailer, camper and ... whatever you need it to be. With a height-adjustable articulated hitch, shocks that appear taller than its terrain-hungry tires and a payload up to 1,100 lb, it's ready to attack extreme terrain and ensure your valuables make it in one flawless piece.
Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Caravan, Trailer, trailers, Cargo, Off-road, Off-grid, Abenteuer und Allrad, Adventure and Allwheel, RV
If there's one thing that we're already used to carrying around with us, it's the humble house key. The titanium-bodied KeyMaster 2.0 multitool was designed with that fact in mind, as it stuffs 18 functions into a familiar key-shaped form factor.
Category: Outdoors
Tags: Multitools, EDC, Titanium, Kickstarter
Portable projectors can bring moving pictures to the campsite or presentations to isolated work places. Smartphones add comms and cameras to the equation. And powerbanks can keep things going. The Tank 4 Pro from 8849 combines all three, and more.
Category: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Rugged, Projectors, smartphones
Sigma 17-40mm F1.8 DC Art @ 28mm | F1.8 | 1/5000 sec | ISO 125
Photo: Richard Butler
Sigma's 17-40mm F1.8 DC | Art is a super-fast standard zoom for APS-C mirrorless cameras. It's a slightly wider, slightly longer, appreciably lighter update on the company's breakthrough 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM lens for DSLRs.
As with that lens, the 17-40mm can expand the operational envelope of APS-C cameras, giving a fast equivalent of something approaching a classic 24-70 lens (26-60mm equiv on most mounts, in this case). Or can be seen as a tube that comes with a series of relatively rapid primes stuffed inside.
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$529 at Amazon.comThe nature of shooting a lens gallery – trying to keep ISOs down, lest noise reduction blur away the sharpness and detail capture performance we're trying to show – means we haven't been able to venture into the lower light where this lens can really shine. We've also not yet had time to shoot the kind of video project that it should lend itself to.
But we have had the chance to shoot it on both Fujifilm's 40MP X-T5 and a 26MP Sony, to see how both systems perform when focusing it, and we're glad to be able to report that it has none of the temperamental nature of its DSLR forerunner in that regard.
Sample galleryAs always, please do not reproduce any of these images on a website or any newsletter/magazine without prior permission (see our copyright page). We make the originals available for private users to download to their own machines for personal examination or printing; we do so in good faith, so please don't abuse it.
Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab.Dragon Tiny Homes is regularly improving, changing and iterating on its previous designs in response to customer feedback. Following the recent update of its Kemi model, the firm has now decided to revisit its affordable Avalon model, adding an all-new interior layout and some other tweaks and improvements.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
Catching the onset of Parkinson's Disease early can be critical to slowing the disease's progression and improving a patient's life. A new test that uses nothing more than a sample of someone's ear wax is set to do exactly that.
Category: Body & Mind
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, ear, Chemistry, Volatile Organic Compounds
If you're keen on tracking your sleep without strapping a gadget onto your wrist, Garmin says its new armband is just the thing – and it's designed for all-night comfort.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Fitness, Garmin, Sleep, Sleep monitors
A large meta-analysis has found that the drug leading the charge in anti-aging science is just as effective in protecting cells and cognitive function as cutting calories or intermittent fasting (IF). It's the most comprehensive study of rapamycin yet.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: University of East Anglia, University of Glasgow, Age-Related, anti-aging, Aging, Disease, Alzheimer's disease, Cancer, Cells, mental health, Health
The simple act of walking every day can significantly reduce a person’s risk of developing chronic low back pain, according to a new study. But, its effectiveness depends on how long you walk for, and the speed at which you walk.
Category: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & Mind
Tags: Chronic pain, Low back pain, Exercise, Walk
Eurobike 2025 is really shaping up to be the ultimate launchpad for tiny ebike motors. We've already seen the high-torquing TQ HPR60 and the magnetically geared Star Union MGM that will be pitched at bicycle manufacturers around the globe, and now we have an even tinier motor that consumers can buy directly. The all-new Kamingo is a split-component add-on e-drive that instantly turns a standard bicycle into a pedal-assist ebike. In fact, it's designed for such quick, seamless plug-and -play, riders can swap it in and out mid-ride.
Tags: ebikes, Electric Motors, Kickstarter, eurobike-2025
Bicycle lights don't do you much good if you forget to bring them or charge them. The wÿnd helmet was designed with that fact in mind, as it features a set of hand-crank-charged lights that you simply pull out and mount on your bike whenever needed.
Tags: Helmets, bike lights, Cycling, Road Safety, Kickstarter
Imagine a 2.4-ton robotic arm wielding a six-foot-seven (2-m) circular sawblade with a 12-foot (3.7-m) reach, slung onto a truck-mounted hooklift system for easy transport. It's as terrifying as it is awe-inspiring. That's Smart Production's latest creation, built on the back of Kuka's KR Fortec 480 Ultra and called the Catonator.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Machine Learning, Robotic construction, Tunnel, Automation
Adobe has quietly revealed a potentially powerful new app for iPhones named Project Indigo. The news comes from the company's research website, which provides a lot of details on the reasoning behind the app and how it works. There's a lot going on here, but Project Indigo promises increased control and more natural computational photography features to unlock better quality from your smartphone's cameras. It's also (currently) completely free and doesn't require a login.
Much of the premise of the new app is based on computational photography, which can refer to multiple processes. But, in the realm of smartphone photography, Adobe points out that it generally means slight underexposure to reduce highlight clipping and combining multiple exposures taken in rapid succession to reduce noise in shadows.
Adobe says its app has a different process for computational photography than most apps and phones. First, it underexposes more dramatically to better retain highlight detail. It also combines more frames – up to 32 – per photo to reduce noise. Adobe says the result is that it needs less spatial denoising, a process that can produce smooth textures and reduce overall detail. You've likely noticed that odd smoothness in photos you've taken in dark conditions. According to the company, images taken with Indigo should have better highlights, less noise and more natural detail.
Another feature of the Project Indigo app is that even the Raw files benefit from computational photography. Typically, phones that offer Raw file formats don't do any processing, but Adobe is taking a different approach and using the same technique for Raw files as it does for JPEGs.
The app will take longer to process than you're used to.
Screenshot: Mitchell Clark
There is a bit of a downside, though. Adobe adds that because of the different process, it "may require slightly more patience after pressing the shutter button," but that you'll have a better picture once the processing is complete.
While the Project Indigo app is relying on computational photography, Adobe says it will provide a more natural look. One common complaint from some smartphone users is that photos from phones look overly processed. There's a distinct "smartphone look" that we've come to be familiar with.
The left image is an HEIC image converted to JPEG, taken with the default iOS camera app, and the right image is a SOOC JPEG taken with Project Indigo.
Photos: Mitchell Clark
The smartphone look is a result of a few different processes, but Adobe says instead of opting for "zero-process," which some apps promise, it simply aims to provide a look similar to SLR images. It says the look is similar to the Adaptive Color profile. Images taken with the app are then fully compatible with Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. In fact, the app will allow you to easily launch the Lightroom mobile app for immediate editng, whether you are using JPEG or Raw files.
The app provides lots of pro controls, including more manual focus controls than most, including focus (with a picture-in-picture preview), shutter speed and ISO.
Screenshot: Mitchell Clark
Beyond computational photography, the Project Indigo app promises to be very feature-rich. There are two still photo modes: Photo and Night. Adobe also promises zero shutter lag, meaning the image is captured right when you press the shutter button. This works with both Raws and JPEGs. The app also offers a "multi-frame super-resolution mode," which Adobe says maintains image quality, even though you're cropping in on a center region of the sensor. There are also manual controls, giving you the ability to change shutter speed, ISO, exposure compensation, white balance and focus.
It also says that it is an "agile prototyping platform for technologies that may eventually be deployed in Adobe's flagship products." For example, there are buttons for Removing Reflections or applying AI denoising right in the camera app, saving you from opening Camera Raw or Lightroom.
Adobe makes it clear that this is an experimental camera app, so it could be very rough around the edges for now. We haven't had a chance to test it very thoroughly yet, so we don't know if it is all that Adobe promises.
For now, the app is only available for iPhone and is compatible with all Pro and Pro Max iPhones from series 12 on and all non-Pro iPhones from series 14. That said, Adobe warns that it will work best on newer iPhones since it requires "some pretty heavy computing." Adobe says it's working on an Android version as well.
Nissan just revealed details on what to expect with its upcoming 2026 Leaf electric vehicle (EV), and it's quite a step up from the current model year.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric Vehicles, Nissan, Nissan LEAF
Tiny houses are usually a compromise between livability and portability, but this model offers the best of both thanks to its clever design. Its loft roofs provide full standing height in its bedrooms when stationary, and fold down to allow for easier travel.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home, Building and Construction
