UPDATE: Lumix Japan has publicly apologized after discovering that it had used photos taken with a Nikon camera on its website and spread like wildfire across the internet. As the story spread, more online sleuths started digging, revealing that the company had also used images taken with Canon and Tamron equipment. (There’s a good summary … Read more
Last week, some iPhone users reported that Apple’s iOS 17.5 update introduced a bug that caused old photos that had been deleted to reappear in the Photos app. Apple quickly released an iOS 17.5.1 update to fix the problem, but for many users, the explanation of “database corruption” in the release notes was all too … Read more
Mars’ moon Phobos could be a comet — or at least part of it — that was captured by the Red Planet’s gravity long ago, according to a new preprint study based on previously unpublished images. For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin brother, Deimos. Some have theorized that … Read more
The internet is on fire with images of a meteor streaking through the night sky over Portugal and Spain, lighting up the sky in a blue-green fireball. The meteor was confirmed by the European Space Agency (ESA), which caught the fireball with its cameras in Cáceres, Spain, on Saturday (May 18) at 6:46 PM EDT … Read more
Moonwalking in the Arizona desert? No, it’s not a remake of Michael Jackson’s signature move; it is a training exercise for NASA astronauts that will be part of the future Artemis mission program to the lunar surface. The weeklong expedition across the San Francisco volcanic field near Flagstaff, Arizona, will bring in NASA astronauts Kate … Read more
A bug in iOS 17.5 apparently causes deleted photos to reappear, and the problem even seems to affect iPhones and iPads that have been wiped and sold to other people. A Reddit user swiped an iPad in September 2023 following Apple guidelines before selling it to a friend. That friend updated the iPad to iPadOS … Read more