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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood (wired.com)

2026-08-26 | by Molly Taft | tags: nepal, glaciers, satellite imagery

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Seeing through murky waters (technologyreview.com)

2026-08-25 | by Jennifer Chu | tags: sonar, woods hole oceanographic institution, amy phung

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Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-25 | tags: northwestern university, antibody manipulation, lab techniques

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More than 18,000 questionable images found in antibody catalogues of 15 companies (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-25 | by Garisto | tags: thermo fisher scientific, antibodies, western blots

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Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: container runtime, kern, oci images

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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-24 | tags: ms paint, microsoft, guid

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The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | by T. R. Napper | tags: blade runner, ridley scott, neo-noir

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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-22 | tags: hdiutil, macos 27, diskutil

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I found a free, open-source Android app that replaced 8 other apps I used to rely on (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-22 | tags: android, image toolbox, open-source

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Pixel Watch 5 factory images are here with one convenient change (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: pixel watch 5, google, factory images

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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: deepseek-v4, flash-vision, openai

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Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Shibasis Rath | tags: tiktok, instagram, neuroimage

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Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | by Shibasis Rath | tags: tiktok, neuroimage, magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: people-finder, claritycheck, amazon s3

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Roblox still allows predators to contact children, says regulator (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-20 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: roblox, esafety commissioner, parental consent

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Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: smartphone imagery, wearable sensors, homa-ir

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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces (wired.com)

2026-08-19 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: people-finder, amazon s3, face recognition

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Mirrorless vs DSLR: Which camera type is better? (engadget.com)

2026-08-18 | by Husain Parvez | tags: mirrorless, dslr, autofocus technology

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Researchers Use Ordinary WiFi Connections to Create Images of Nearby People and Their Surroundings (slashdot.org)

2026-08-16 | by Posted | tags: wifi, researchers, images

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We’re reaching peak camera with the Sony A7R VI (theverge.com)

2026-08-15 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | tags: sony a7r vi, bionz xr2, in-body image stabilization

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Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from AI content (engadget.com)

2026-08-14 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: google, ai-generated images, nano banana

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Instagram Just Changed Its Logo for the First Time in a Decade. The Reviews Are Mixed. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | by Jon Small | tags: instagram, adam mosseri, logo

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Ukrainian drone attacks force Russia to protect its nuclear submarines with low-tech netting (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: ukraine, russian submarines, vladimir putin

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How To Convert Or Upscale A Photo (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Manuviraj Godara | tags: adobe photoshop, pixel art, image upscaling

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'Godmother of AI' Says Biggest AI Risk In Schools Is Students Losing the Desire to Learn (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: fei-fei li, ai in education, imagenet

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Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-12 | by Lauren Forristal | tags: camera, google, image

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Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mass Werk | tags: commodore 8-bit, 5¼" disk images, pet 2001 emulator

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The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest AI risk in schools isn't cheating – it's students losing the desire to learn (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Rob Thubron | tags: fei-fei li, chatgpt, stanford

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Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes (theverge.com)

2026-08-11 | by Jess Weatherbed | tags: apple, iphone, reference image

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Apple may introduce a photo authentication tool in iOS 27 (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Anna Washenko | tags: ios 27, apple, reference image