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Earlier this week, we shared the news that Apple had admitted to slowing down older iPhonesan accusation originally leveled at the company by several Redditors and bloggers who found their phones' performance had been cut in half, and would only return to full performance with a battery replacement.

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Trees invoke a sense of timelessness, of grandeur. Most species grow many centuries older than humans ever will, so lets make trees look the part with these tips on capturing them with a wide-angle lens.

Reach the Beech – A glistening beech tree bathed in verdant sunlight. These are some of the oldest trees in the area where I live. While there aren’t many of them left because of logging, these sentinels of time leave a lasting impression on me.Previsualization

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Instagram is testing and rolling out features at a quick pace. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app started letting users follow Hashtags in addition to Profiles. And now, after testing the feature with a limited number of accounts, Instagram has confirmed to... more

Want an unusual camera that you can pretty much guarantee that no one around you has? A rare World War II German “gun camera”... more

Lensrentals has released its most rented gear of 2017 list, and the results are very interesting. You can check out the full list here, but we thought we'd point out the three things that immediately caught our eye.

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Hey look, it's our whole planet, just a tiny speck floating in a vast nothingness. This image is courtesy Cassini, a spacecraft we sent to its demise in September. Photograph copyright NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

September is the month when we finally accepted that 2017 was really happening and it wasn't all a bad dream. We also found out what it looks like when you don... more

Photographer Jason Siegel is still using old camera equipment to share an anti-violence message in a creative way. Since we... more

Astronaut photographers on the International Space Station have dazzled us for years with eye-popping photos and videos shot from orbit. To learn more behind-the-scenes details of photography on the space station, photographer Jared Polin interviewed NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik.

In the 21-minute interview above, Bresnik discusses everything from his favorite camera equipment onboard the ISS to the radiation damage that happens to the Nikon DSLR sensors in space.

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In 2014, a viral story being circulated online reported that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) had coined “selfitis” as a new mental disorder for people who obsessively shoot and share selfies online. That story turned out to be a hoax, but it sparked new research. Now, three years later, selfitis is real.

Researchers Janarthanan Balakrishnan of the Thiagarajar School of Management in Madura, India, and Mark D. Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University in... more

Forget Nigerian princes: email scammers are now pretending to be famous photographers looking for collaborators. Photographer Michael Glenn just received an email from someone claiming to be... more

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