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BBC News By David Silverberg image captionTom Ang has written more than 30 books on digital photography "Today's smartphone cameras can make a better image than cameras I paid NZ$10,000 ($7,110; £5,165) for only 20 years ago," says Tom Ang, an Auckland-based professional photographer and author of more than 30 books on digital photography. The cameras embedded in our smartphones have become so good, many of those too young to remember anything different would scoff at the idea of carting around a separate camera. While Mr Ang is still fond of his high-end DSLR cameras, most of us rely on sm...

Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal AUGUSTA — The Kennebec County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to remove a controversial statue from county property six months after the state’s judicial branch raised the issue. The statue, which was erected outside the Kennebec County courthouse in 2013, depicts Augusta native Melville Fuller, who served as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court when it decided a case that institutionalized racial discrimination in the United States for more than five decades. “I do not believe that Kennebec County should convey to others that we in any way support...

Harvard’s metalens technology enters commercial development Mass. startup Metalenz, Inc., to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedIn An illustration of the ultra-thin planar lens. The lens consists of titanium dioxide nanofins on a glass substrate. The lens focuses an incident light to a spot  smaller than the wavelength this tight focusing enables subwavelength resolution imaging. (Image courtesy of Peter Allen/Harvard SEAS)Download Image A startup company founded by applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applie...

Kennebec County official facing sexual assault charges has history of prior job misconduct, documents say James Saucier, 58, of Belgrade, who has been on paid administrative leave since April 9, 2020, has a track record of misusing county property and violating direct orders. Share AUGUSTA — Kennebec County’s maintenance manager is being paid through Friday despite nearly a year-long sexual assault investigation that resulted in his recent arrest and a lengthy history of disciplinary actions taken against him for prior misconduct on the job. James Saucier James Saucier, 58, of Belgrade,...

Mass. startup Metalenz, Inc., to bring flat optics to consumer electronics and more CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A startup company founded by applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) intends to transform consumer electronics by introducing a powerful technology for imaging and illumination that could replace conventional lenses with an ultrathin, flat optical microchip. Harvard’s Office of Technology Development (OTD), which cultivates the University’s industrial research collaborations and oversees technology commercializ...