The world’s largest panoramic image.
The 320 gigapixel image, taken from the top of the BT Tower in London, comprises 48,640 individual frames which have been collated into a single panorama by a supercomputer. It breaks the previous record set by a 281-gigapixel electron micrograph of a zebrafish embryo taken in 2012.
A glimpse into the past: Kodak’s early test footage for full color Kodachrome film, shot in 1922.
Some incredible frozen waterfalls worldwide.
Some beautiful color images from World War II America.
Many of these images were staged, but some were not. All give a good feel for what life was like during the war.
For the first time a giant squid has been filmed in its natural habitat.
In hopes of drawing the animals in, [Edith] Widder [of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association] used a different sort of light. Although very little sunlight penetrates to the deep sea, many deep dwellers produce a bioluminescent light. Past research by Widder suggests that the bioluminescence can act as a sort of burglar alarm, among other functions. The idea is that the bioluminescence produced by some prey when they are attacked may serve to attract larger predators — such a giant squid — that will then eat the attacker.
Widder and her colleagues therefore fitted Medusa with an electronic device that mimicked the bioluminescence that jellyfish produce when attacked to serve as a lure. It worked: Medusa first encountered a squid during its second deployment, igniting jubilation on the ship. “I just was blown away,” says Widder,” I couldn’t have been happier.”
The reason why NASA’s planetary probes still use black and white photography.
That didn’t take long: Instagram has said it will withdraw language from its terms and conditions that would have given it ownership rights to users’ photography.
How nice of them. But note that the article above also points out that the actual language has not yet changed.
Facebook’s Instagram has updated its terms and conditions in order to claim “perpetual” ownership to all photographs posted by users.
“You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services, sponsored content, or commercial communications as such,” the new terms say. That may let advertisers use teenagers’ photos for marketing, raising privacy and security concerns, Jeffrey Chester, executive director for the Center for Digital Democracy, told Bloomberg.
And people wonder why I am not on Facebook.
Some spectacular pictures inside the caves of eastern Austria.
Check out this incredible image of yesterday’s storm over New York City, taken by an amateur photographer.
And now for something really important: Cat photos taken at just the right moment.
