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Looking for a moment of zen? We suggest spending a couple of minutes playing with Land Lines, a game that draws on Google's satellite images of Earth.

So maybe it's not quite a 'game.' Its creators Zach Lieberman and Matt Felsen call it an experiment, one that analyzes basic scribbles (zig zags and curves, nothing fancy) and finds a satellite image of Earth with matching features. It runs on either a mobile or desktop web browser.

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Episode 139 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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DJI is celebrating the Chinese New Year with a brightly colored, special edition Phantom 4. The drone features bright red body work and propeller blades, which may prove easier to see against a bright sky than the regular white Phantom 4. The drone and... more

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It's snowy season here in the Northern Hemisphere, so Fujifilm's release of its XP120 is well-timed. The XP120 has a 16.4MP BSI-CMOS sensor and a 28-140mm lens, and is waterproof to 20m/65ft, shockproof to 1.8m/5.7ft and freezeproof to -10C/+14F. 

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Fujifilm is now offering new 'graphite' bodies for the X-Pro2 and X-T2, produced using a multilayered coating. The graphite X-Pro2 will come bundled with a matching XF23mm F2 R WR lens and hood.  The X-T2's color is more silver, which is... more

Every time you upload a photo to Facebook, the social network analyzes it and adds tags so that a computer can “describe” your photo to any visually impaired friends who run across it with their screen reader. Now, you too can see what Facebook is “seeing” in your photos.

A free Google Chrome extension called, aptly enough, “... more

It’s only four days into 2017, and already we have a contender for the most cinematic drone footage of the year. This short clip, shot by FPV drone user Gab707, would be right at... more

Moving from using only natural light to flash photography is a big step for an outdoor photographer, but before you ditch ambient light entirely, give this video a look. As photographer Francisco Hernandez explains,... more

Joshua Musselwhite, an underwater photographer and software developer, has launched a free, open source Adobe Lightroom plugin called Focus Point Viewer. With this plugin, Lightroom users can view the active focus point of their photos, a feature similar... more

The Snapdragon 835 pictured between the Snapdragon 820 (left) and a penny

Chip maker Qualcomm, whose processors power the vast majority of high-end Android smartphones, has announced the successor to its Snapdragon 820 chip: the Snapdragon 835. The chipset will be the first to be commercially manufactured using the 10nm FinFET process, which means it is 35% smaller than its predecessor. The technology also reduces power consumption by 25%.

The Snapdragon 835 has been designed with... more

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