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In August, we saw Northrop Grumman unveil (slightly) its contender for the US Navy's F/A-XX competition. Now, Boeing is stepping in with a misty rendering of its entry for the sixth-gen carrier-based fighter plane to replace the aged F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Category: Military, Technology
If you were afflicted with a balance disorder, would you rather use a walker at all times or simply wear a backpack? Dutch scientists have developed a special version of the latter, which utilizes two gyroscopes to keep its wearer standing straight and stable.
Category: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and Mind
Tags: Radboud University, Delft University of Technology, Gyro, Self-balancing, Walk
The Capucine tiny house, by Quadrapol, is a two-person tiny house for people who don't like to climb. While many tiny houses rely on loft bedrooms and ladders, the compact dwelling arranges everything on one floor, making it well-suited to those looking to age in place or who just don't want to deal with the hassle of stairs.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Micro-House, Tiny Footprint, House, Home
The expression bush telly is low-key Australian slang for a campfire – in fact, for whatever you’d look at on an evening when you’re sleeping in the countryside and without a TV. I’ve always thought of the usage as somewhat ironic – implicit recognition that when we travel, we don’t leave our habits behind.
Tags: Fire, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Grilling, Stoves, Cooking
Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli have built-in gatekeepers, porins, and pumps that decide what gets in or out, including antibiotics. The bacteria's genetic control room tightly regulates these microscopic bouncers. But we still don't fully understand how chemicals, like food ingredients or medications, tweak these systems.
Category: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Antibiotic, Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Coffee, Caffeine, Bacteria
Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing inflammation to the organ. This bacterial invasion is a key driver of the inflammation and injury seen in alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD).
Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: university-of-california-san-diego, Alcohol, Gut Bacteria, Liver disease, Chronic illness
It's been a busy week here at DPReview, and we've published a variety of sample galleries. They range from photos from Google's latest smartphones to shots from Hasselblad's new 100MP medium format camera.
With all the stories, we wouldn't be surprised if not everyone saw all the galleries, so we're rounding them up here. There's a table of contents below so you can jump around to catch the ones you haven't seen (or the ones you'd like to revisit?), and each gallery will have links to our main coverage.
Index: Hasselblad X2D II 100C + XCD 35-100mm F2.8-4 Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Samples: Richard Butler and Mitchell ClarkThis week's first release was the Hasselblad X2D II 100C, an update to its medium-format line that adds continuous autofocus, upgrades the controls and adds deep support for outputting HDR JPEGs or HEIFs.
Hasselblad also announced the XCD 35-100mm F2.8-4, a standard zoom lens alongside the X2D II. While we haven't produced a gallery with our standard processing for lens samples for it yet, you can see plenty of shots taken with it in the X2D II's gallery.
Note: All the out-of-camera JPEGs in this gallery are Ultra HDR JPEGs. If you're viewing on an HDR-capable device, click the "Original" link on the right of the preview to see the version with the HDR effect.
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Buy at AdoramaBuy at B&H Photo Google Pixel 10 Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Samples: Dale BaskinLast week Google announced the Pixel 10, whose cameras are a relatively substantial departure from the Pixel 9. For one thing, it now has an extra one: a telephoto camera is joining the main and ultrawide ones. However, those latter two cameras have been downgraded compared to the ones found on the 9, and now use smaller sensors.
Does it matter? Take a look at the sample gallery and decide for yourself.
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Buy at Amazon Buy at Google Google Pixel 10 Pro Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Samples: Abby FergusonAlongside the Pixel 10, Google announced the 10 Pro and Pro XL. Unlike with the regular models, the actual hardware remains mostly unchanged. However, Google has introduced a new "Pro Res Zoom" mode that lets you take a picture at 100x, while the standard 10 tops out at 20x.
We use the term "picture" loosely. It takes the image from the tiny, tiny crop of the sensor and attempts to enhance it with AI. You can see the originals and the "enhanced" versions in the gallery.
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Buy at Amazon Buy at Google Ricoh GR IV Sample galleryThis widget is not optimized for RSS feed readers. Click here to open it in a new browser window / tab. Samples: Mitchell ClarkFinally, this week we got our hands on a copy of the Ricoh GR IV that we could publish the pictures from. We'll be shooting more with it over the coming weeks, but wanted to get some samples out for people to look over so they can get an impression of how the new lens, sensor and processing engine work.
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Buy at Amazon.comBuy at AdoramaBuy at B&H PhotoTougher than steel, lighter than cotton, and stubbornly elusive to produce. For decades, spider silk has been the material science has long promised but never quite delivered at scale. Now, a Michigan biotech company claims it has cracked the code by turning the familiar silkworm into living factories for one of nature’s most desirable fibers. The question is whether this is the long-awaited spider silk breakthrough that will spin its way from the lab bench to the marketplace.
Tags: Spiders, Silk, new material
Most modern timber towers, like the 230 Royal York and Ascent, feature a concrete core for stability. However, the Fyrtornet office tower by Wingårdhs rises to an impressive height of 51.5 m (169 ft) without the need for concrete, highlighting the sustainable possibilities of timber construction.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Office, Skyscrapers, Timber, cross-laminated timber, sustainable design, Building and Construction
In a meeting of the cutting-edge and the mundane, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to purchase Reliable Robotics' autonomous flight technology and integrate it into an ordinary Cessna 208B Caravan utility aircraft for uncrewed cargo missions.
Category: Military, Technology
Tags: US Air Force, Autonomous flight
A new breath-based sensor from researchers at Penn State could soon offer an easy, pain-free, quick way to diagnose diabetes. The sensor was created through a technique that basically toasts a polymer until it turns into porous graphene.
Category: Diabetes, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Diabetic, Diagnostic devices, Breath, Pennsylvania State University
While machines have mastered both sight and sound, the sense of taste has proved harder to digitize. We've seen the creation of highly specialized artificial tongues targeting sweetness, chocolate, beer, wine or whisky, but now researchers in Beijing have developed a more generalist graphene oxide “tongue” that doesn’t just detect chemicals, it learns them. During laboratory tests, the system identified sour, salty, bitter, and sweet with nearly 99% accuracy, demonstrating that taste can be captured in digital form.
Earlier this month, Fujifilm announced that it would be raising its US prices on its products across the board, citing "volatile market conditions," but it didn't mention by how much. Now that retailers have started updating their listings, though, it's clear what the impact is. Here's what you need to know.
Several of its cameras have been affected. At retailers like B&H and Adorama, the X-T5 has gone from $1899 to $1999, while the GFX100RF has gone from $5399 to $5599. The GFX 100S II has seen a similar jump, going from $5499 to $5699.
This is Fujifilm's second price increase within the last month; at the beginning of August, the company raised the prices on some of its cameras and lenses by up to 15%.
Aug 30 priceAt time of writing, the X-M5, X-T50 and X100VI all appear to have stayed at the prices they rose to at the beginning of the month. However, two cameras have been unaffected by both of the price changes: the X half and X-E5.
Unlike the rest of Fujifilm's lineup, they were released after the tariffs were announced. It seems like Fujifilm built plenty of room into their prices to avoid having to raise them again before people had even received their pre-orders. The company did say, however, that its goal was to maintain its overall pricing structure.
The X half and X-E5 were released after the tariffs were announcedOf course, some of Fujifilm's lenses have also been affected by both waves of price adjustments. The venerable 16-55mm F2.8 II has gone from $1349 to $1399, and the company's more affordable standard zoom, the 16-50mm F2.8-4.8, is also now $50 more. Some of its premium primes, like the 23mm F1.4, 56mm F1.2 and 90mm F2 have gone up by $100, and while the 35mm F2 has gone up by $50, several of the company's more entry-level primes appear to be unaffected.
Obviously, having to do a second price increase in a row isn't ideal for anyone. It's now more expensive for Americans to get the company's cameras, which could lead to decreased demand, though Fujifilm is far from the only camera company having to raise its prices in the US.
Plant-based microbeads made from everyday ingredients like green tea and seaweed have helped mice shed weight by trapping fats in the gut, reports a new study published in Cell Biomaterials. Researchers see these microbeads as a potential “structured, drug-free therapy” to treat obesity, with fewer side effects than the current medications.
Category: Obesity, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Weight, Weight Loss, Obesity
Amid ongoing debate about red meat’s role in human health, a new risk has emerged. Researchers have shown that a gut-bacterial byproduct of eating red meat and other animal products is linked to the development and progression of abdominal aortic aneurysms – particularly in older men.
Category: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind
Tags: Cleveland Clinic, Cardiovascular disease, Age-Related, Gut Bacteria, Gut health, Blood, Blood Pressure
This week, Hasselblad announced the X2D II, its latest medium format camera. While its "end-to-end" HDR capabilities are perhaps the most eye-catching feature, there are other upgrades that make it a more versitile camera than its predecessor.
In this week's roundtable discussion, editors Abby Ferguson, Dale Baskin and Mitchell Clark sat down to discuss the camera and what it means for the industry. Of course, there are some bits about the moon in there, too (we couldn't resist).
If you're looking for more info on the X2D II, check out our first look video, presented in HDR, or read our initial review.
Sweden's historic Kiruna Church needed to be relocated due to an expanding iron ore mine in the area. Rather than demolishing it or trying to carefully disassemble it for the move, the decision was made to simply jack it up and wheel it across town.
Category: Architecture, Technology
Tags: Building and Construction, Church, Engineering, Kiruna, Sweden
We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving surgeries. That's all well and good. The space part is certainly cool, sure ... but it doesn't look like us. It doesn't feel human.
Category: Robotics, Technology
Tags: Dance, Humanoid, Tesla Robot, Figure, Aldebaran Robotics, Evolutionary robotics
We started the week off by previewing the Ford Nugget High Roof camper van, and we're closing it out with all the details about the adorable small (but high) van that now sits atop Ford's camper lineup. Designed with winter road tripping in mind, the new Ford Nugget High Roof is a versatile year-round mini-adventure machine. While priced above an equivalent long-wheelbase Nugget pop-top, the Nugget High Roof still rolls to market at under €85,500 (US$100,000).
Category: Campervans, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors
Tags: Ford, Campervan, RV, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2025, Camping, Westfalia-Automotive, Outdoors and Camping
A decades-old scientific controversy and a small bench-top apparatus at the University of British Columbia (UBC) could be the key to more efficient fusion reactors by increasing the chances of a nuclear reaction occurring.
Category: Energy, Technology
Tags: University of British Columbia, Nuclear Fusion, Nuclear
