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As we continue our misadventures on the Sony press trip, we were able to test out the new Zeiss 55mm f1.4 Otus lens a bit on the Sony A7r. The post Quick Samples: Sony A7r and Zeiss 55mm f1.4 Otus appeared first on The P...

With diagnosis, hepatitis C becoming treatable disease for many.

It was only a matter of time before someone driving with Google Glass got pulled over. But it's what the police officer included on the ticket that makes for such an interesting case study. On Tuesday night, self-proclai...

Howdy y’all! Time for another major giveaway to thank you for reading PetaPixel! This week we’re giving away a brand-spankin’-new Sony Alpha a7. It’s a full frame mirrorless camera that packs a 24.3MP sensor, a 3...

However, the cameras have a couple of issues that we believe that Sony will try to work on in some way or another. The post What We’re Finding Wrong With the Sony A7 and A7r So Far appeared first on The Phoblographer. ...

Another week, another batch of photoshop champs. This time, we asked you to show us what the upcoming Instagram ads are actually going to look like. While this particular challenge didn't require too much skill, there wa...

The 1,050-foot-tall MoMA Expansion Tower will start rising on West 53rd Street in 2014--holding 145 luxury condos and 36,000 square feet of museum space. Maybe it's mistake, but not for the reasons you imagine.

Like 56 percent of the American adult population, I used to be a dependent smartphone user who never went anywhere without Yelp-ing it first. That was, until a fateful day in June, two weeks after I moved to New York Cit...

Scientists say they've produced "the clearest evidence yet" the SARS virus originated in Chinese horseshoe bats and that direct bat-to-human transmission is "plausible." The 2002 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronav...

A digital reconstruction of the world's largest known land animal, the Cretaceous dinosaur Argentinosaurus, has allowed it to take its first steps -- albeit virtually -- in over 94 million years.

Parent thieves are the worst. They’re even more despicable when they kidnap your parents and fill the scary, nebulous cave system behind your house full of monsters! Callys Caves by Jordan Pearson Category: iOS Games W...

Shortages of drugs for lethal injection are forcing states to switch to new combinations of drugs, untested for how painlessly they kill     

A year ago this week Superstorm Sandy devastated the New York area. The Museum of the City of New York looks back in an exhibition featuring images taken by professional photographers and everyday people. The inclusion ...

Crossword puzzles, sudoku, and listening to classical music won't keep your mind as sharp as you once thought. New research found people who only participated in passive activities such as playing games got little memory...

You no longer need to be a star athlete or a pop diva to get a vanity URL on Google+. Even if you're but an Average Joe, you can now get a custom link that's possible to memorize, so long as you meet a handful of (easy) ...

The Quadrantids are a meteor shower in January that peak for only about six hours, are named for a constellation that no longer exists and come from an asteroid rather than a comet.

(PHASE II INTERNATIONAL) Led by La Fondazione Italiana Linfomi, a non-profit Italian professional lymphoma research organization, and supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Celgene Corporation, the Lymphoma ...

(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The first clinical trial in the United States to study the use of drug coated balloons for femoropopliteal artery disease found the procedure is promising for safety and efficacy at s...

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Nikon may be announcing a new camera soon. The post Report: Nikon Announcing the New Nikon DF on Nov 5th? appeared first on The Phoblographer.     

Remember the smog that paralyzed Harbin, China – a city of 10 million last week? Here is what that looks like from space: NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE MODIS Rapid Response ... --

We know Thomas Edison to be the inventor of many modern commodities, but here's one invention you probably didn't know was on his list: the cat video. The video above, which features two cats boxing (complete with gloves...