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...Huygens probe will be released by Cassini on Christmas Eve 2004 and will reach Titan three weeks later. It carries a camera and five sensors, all of which must work fast. Three hours after entering Titan's airspace, the probe will run out of power...
...first visits here, on holiday (not vacation!) were no less mythic than these imagined landscapes. I spent my time strolling around the secretive gardens of Westminster, pressing my camera against the iron of Buckingham Palace, throwing my lanky frame around an exorbitant mega-disco, spinning dumbly at the continuous vroom of oblivious Ferraris. A few years ago, staring despondently across Kensington Gardens through a late spring haze, I found myself looking into the far reaches of the old, overgrown empire—fertile Punjab farms, the plains of Kenya, the plantations of Virginia. The finished postcard canvas was cold...
...that I won’t be doing anything this summer. I’ll be doing what I’ve done the past two summers—freelance as a photographer for a small local newspaper in the Bay Area, putting my camera, lenses and photojournalistic skill (honed from seemingly infinite hours spent at The Crimson) to use whenever my editor needs me, typically a few hours a week...
DIED. EDMUND M. DIGIULIO, 76, inventor of the Steadicam, a camera-stabilization system, and other innovations in cinematography; of congestive heart failure; in Malibu, Calif. He worked for many years with the director Stanley Kubrick, making possible the gliding camera work in films like The Shining. At the 2001 Oscars, he received a lifetime-achievement award for his technological advances...
...develop more advanced products and provides a testing ground for new technologies. LG has outpaced Nokia and Motorola in cramming the hottest new features into its mobile phones. Its latest model, the SC8000, which came out in Korea in April, combines a PDA, an MP3 player, a digital camera and a camcorder. The advantage is paying off. In May, LG launched a new mobile phone in Korea with a 2-megapixel color screen simultaneously with Samsung. In the past, LG lagged at least several months behind its competitor's phone launches, missing out on higher prices and margins. LG became...