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An Argentine captured naked in his yard by a Google Street View camera has been awarded compensation by a court after his bare behind was splashed over the internet for all to see. The policeman had sought payment from the internet giant for harm to his dignity, arguing he was behind a 6 1/2-foot wall when a Google camera captured …

Deep in the Tangkulap Forest Reserve in Malaysia, conservation organization Panthera has an array of cameras set up, hoping to catch glimpses of different animals. While reviewing photos from cameras meant to document the elusive and endangered Flat-headed cat, researchers did a double take. A camera had captured someone unexpected — someone who hadn’t been seen in Malaysia in 11 …

From CCTV and smartphones to dashcams and smart doorbells, cameras follow your every step in the 21st century. While the constant threat of ever-watching eyes may be turning us into a self-conscious surveillance society, it does make for some interesting science occasionally. Case in point: a security camera in Myanmar captured something never before seen on film: a strike-slip fault …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which launched in 2011 to investigate Jupiter’s origin and evolution, travels through the solar system’s most intense planetary radiation fields. When the spacecraft’s JunoCam—a color, visible-light camera—began to suffer the consequences in December 2023, the mission team back on Earth had to think of a remote fix before they lost their chance to photograph the Jovian moon, …

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some very, very, remote hardware hacking. As explained in a Monday post, NASA designed the visible light JunoCam to survive for eight orbits of Jupiter – about 400 days – but wasn’t confident it would last much …

An experimental technique rescued a camera aboard the agency’s Juno spacecraft, offering lessons that will benefit other space systems that experience high radiation. The mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance save were presented during a …

Sometimes you don’t have to wait for Prime Day or Black Friday to score the lowest prices on Amazon. And actually, it just dropped a record low price on one of the most popular and easy-to-use outdoor cameras available: the eufy Security SoloCam S220. For a short while, this 2K solar-powered security camera can be yours for $69 which is …

It appears that Google will be adding a third back camera to the base Pixel 10 this year, based on what Android Headlines reports are official renders of the rumored phone. The third camera will be a telephoto camera, Android Headlines says, with the other two cameras being a primary sensor and an ultrawide. This isn’t a total surprise, as …

Apple’s upcoming iPad Pro could appease fans of both landscape and portrait mode by including two front-facing cameras. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple is adding a camera to the top of the device, in addition to the one it introduced lengthwise last year. The last-gen iPad Pro swapped the tablet’s conventional portrait-oriented camera …

I’ve always loved shooting photos with my phone. However, like most people, I’ve often been frustrated by one feature, the zoom. No matter how good the camera is, zooming in has always been a gamble. You either get a grainy mess or a photo so soft it looks like a watercolor painting. Yes, you get a solid 5x telephoto zoom …