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Firmware & software · 111 stories, +56 vs last week

Firmware & software: 111 stories in seven days, +56 on the week before.

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Indian TelevisionIndiaGodrej takes its Diwali acceptance message from homes to workplaces MUMBAI: This Diwali, Godrej Industries Group is lighting up a conversation that goes beyond diyas and decorations.

11.06

AnimationXpressIndia‘Mashle: Magic and Muscles’ brings muscle to the magic world Magic meets muscle as Japanese-American actor Mackenyu Maeda steps into the shoes of Mash Burnedead in the live-action film Mashle: Magic and Muscles, a Japanese adventure-comedy fantasy manga and…

11.06

AnimationXpressIndiaSnoopy races to escape Santa’s naughty list in new Apple TV special Snoopy has landed on Santa’s naughty list, but the beloved beagle still has 12 days to make things right.

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Indian TelevisionIndiaIndia came to buy, not browse: How festive shopping changed in 2026 MUMBAI: India’s festive shoppers were not browsing for bargains this year. They were shopping with a plan, a preferred brand and, increasingly, a willingness to pay for value.

11.06

Improve PhotographyReviewsHow to Choose a Wi-Fi Digital Photo Frame for Your Photography A practical guide to displaying a portfolio at home, in a studio, or at an event — what to check for screen size, resolution, workflow, and Wi-Fi setup.

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80 LevelVFXRockstar Shares 39 New GTA 6 Screenshots Two Weeks Before Launch Take a closer look at Vice City, Leonida, and the game's protagonists, Lucia and Jason.

11.06

Indian TelevisionIndiaMondelez posts 2.1 per cent organic growth as India leads emerging markets MUMBAI: Mondelez may have had a mixed bag of chocolates to unwrap in the third quarter, but India added a distinctly sweet note.

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British CinematographerCinemaPanalux Cape Town expands power offering with Cinergy’s non-fossil-fuel solutions Motion-picture lighting and power rental provider Panalux, a division of the Panavision group, now offers access to Cinergy’s full suite of modular, non-fossil-fuel power systems exclusively through…

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Amateur PhotographerReviews18 magnificent big and wild cats show the beauty and power of nature’s majestic predators Entries to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition are always a stunning collection of life in our natural world.

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Anime News NetworkVFXRainy Day Serenade Anime's Teaser Reveals Cast, Staff, April 2027 Debut Yume Miyamoto, Takeo Ōtsuka star in anime

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Cinema ExpressIndiaSoni Razdan hits back at critics after backlash for her anti-firecrackers stance: ‘This is not about religion…’ Earlier this week, Dia Mirza received widespread backlash for her social media posts where she requested people to not burn firecrackers this year on Diwali.

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Cinema ExpressIndiaAdam Driver on Heat 2: Confirms antagonist role, shares update on Michael Mann after accidental shooting Actor Adam Driver has confirmed that he will be playing the antagonist in Heat 2 , filmmaker Michael Mann's upcoming follow-up to his 1995 crime thriller Heat .

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo