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Caught on camera: Katy Perry experiences frightening midair mishap during Lifetimes Tour concert at San Francisco’s Chase Center

Caught on camera: Katy Perry experiences frightening midair mishap during Lifetimes Tour concert at San Francisco’s Chase Center

SAN FRANCISCO — Katy Perry experienced a frightening midair mishap Friday night during her Lifetimes Tour stop at the Chase Center in San Francisco. While performing her hit song “Roar,” the pop star was seated atop a large butterfly-shaped prop that was designed to fly above the crowd. Midway through the song, the mechanism unexpectedly jolted, tilting and dipping in …

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Gear News of the Week: Chrome OS Will Merge With Android and Sony Surprises With a New Camera

Gear News of the Week: Chrome OS Will Merge With Android and Sony Surprises With a New Camera

It’s been speculated on. It’s been rumored. It’s been hoped for. And according to an interview with TechRadar, it’s happening. Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat says Google plans to combine Chrome OS and Android “into a single platform.” Google has kept its phone and tablet operating systems distinct from its laptop platform. There has been plenty of crossover over the …

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Is your Ring camera showing strange logins? Here’s what’s going on

Is your Ring camera showing strange logins? Here’s what’s going on

Maria Diaz/ZDNET If a TikTok trend has you spooked about your Ring camera’s security, there’s good news — everything is OK and nobody is watching your videos. Over the past 24 hours, videos of a strange problem with Ring cameras have flooded TikTok. The videos make some fairly unsettling claims and urgent warnings. If you check your device history, people …

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A camera flew through the sun’s corona, didn’t melt, and sent back these first-ever close-ups of the sun

A camera flew through the sun’s corona, didn’t melt, and sent back these first-ever close-ups of the sun

Cameras on the ground need strong solar filters to photograph things like an eclipse, yet NASA has made a camera that was capable of flying through the sun’s corona without melting – and it just published its first close-up images. The Parker Solar Probe passed through the sun’s corona late last year, coming within 3.8 million miles from the surface …

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Enormous wildfire tears through world’s largest tropical wetland. Then camera traps capture something odd

Enormous wildfire tears through world’s largest tropical wetland. Then camera traps capture something odd

In 2020, a huge wildfire struck the Brazilian Pantanal – the largest tropical wetland area in the world. Driven by extreme drought, high temperatures and human activities, the blaze cut through more than 44,515km² of habitat and killed an estimated 17 million vertebrates. Yet, despite the devastation, a new study published in Global Change Biology has found that, once the fire …

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Foldable iPhone’s Preliminary Specifications Shared By Analysts Include The Advanced 2nm A20 Pro, & New C2 5G Modem, But Camera Hardware Could Miss Out On Telephoto Unit To Reduce Cost

Foldable iPhone’s Preliminary Specifications Shared By Analysts Include The Advanced 2nm A20 Pro, & New C2 5G Modem, But Camera Hardware Could Miss Out On Telephoto Unit To Reduce Cost

The internal specifications surrounding the foldable iPhone share some polarity. On one hand, Apple’s most cutting-edge smartphone will be loaded with top-end hardware, but the company is also reported to make compromises elsewhere, such as the device supposedly lacking Face ID due to design complexities. The Cupertino firm could make trade-offs in other areas, such as camera configuration, with analysts …

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Sony’s pocket-sized RX1R camera returns with its first update in 10 years

Sony’s pocket-sized RX1R camera returns with its first update in 10 years

After nearly a decade, Sony has announced a new version of its fixed-lens compact RX1R camera that was last updated in 2015. The new third generation RX1R III arrives with the same 35mm full-frame Exmor R sensor as its predecessor, but with a bump from 42.4 to 61 megapixels. It also benefits from Sony’s latest Bionz XR and AI image …

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Sony’s RX1R III Premium Compact Camera Arrives After Nearly 10 Year Wait

Sony’s RX1R III Premium Compact Camera Arrives After Nearly 10 Year Wait

Sony has announced the RX1R III, the highly anticipated third generation of the company’s beloved premium full-frame all-in-one camera series. The premium compact RX1R III features Sony’s excellent 61-megapixel image sensor and a Zeiss Sonnar T* 35mm f/2 lens. “The RX1R III combines Sony’s design savvy with the latest innovations in imaging technology to produce a new flagship in our …

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Galaxy S26 codenames surface alongside early camera details

Galaxy S26 codenames surface alongside early camera details

A new leak offers some insight into Samsung’s Galaxy S26 series, including that there will only be three models, and they might debut alongside a new Galaxy Ring. WinFuture, citing “relevant databases,” says that the Galaxy S26 series carries the codename “Next Paradigm.” This acts as a direct sequel to the “Paradigm” codename of the Galaxy S25 series. From there, …

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