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TechRadar CamerasTechA huge amount of employees are being encouraged to use AI at work - but most still don’t know why Nearly all employees are being encouraged to use AI in the workplace.

TechRadar CamerasTechPre-capture is the best wildlife photography trick you’re not using — here’s how I use the handy tool and which Canon, Nikon and Sony cameras support it Sometimes your reactions aren’t up to speed to capture the key moment, and it's gone before your finger has pressed the shutter button.

TechRadar CamerasTechHeroes of the Storm made a surprise return at BlizzCon 2026 — and I still think it's secretly the best MOBA out there Blizzard's surprise reveal of a new character in Heroes of the Storm at BlizzCon got me to reinstall the game once again, and after playing it for a week, I'm reminded why I think it's secretly the…

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch Bengals vs Texans: Free Streams & TV Channels for 2026 NFL Week 2 game All the ways to watch Bengals vs Texans for free online, with Joe Burrow and CJ Stroud set to star in the 2026 NFL Week 2 game at Reliant Stadium.

TechRadar CamerasTech7 things to expect at Meta Connect 2026 —from camera-less smart glasses to Meta Ray-ban glasses updates Meta Connect 2026 kicks off soon and we're likely to see new smart glasses, AI improvements, and price hikes.

TechRadar CamerasTechIf you spot this new 'hello' sign hidden away in your local Apple Store, it's there because of the new iPhone 18 Pro Apple has made a small addition to its stores worldwide, so you can better test out the zoom of its new handsets.

TechRadar CamerasTechFive things that the Steam Deck 2 needs to feature to compete with its rivals in 2027... and beyond I go through everything that a prospective Steam Deck successor would need to include to be viable against the fierce competition that has emerged in the last half-decade.

TechRadar CamerasTechThe Split Up creators want three seasons to tell full Split spinoff story on BBC iPlayer — and won't rule out a future Nicola Walker crossover If you loved The Split, spinoff The Split Up arrives on BBC iPlayer from September 20. Could there be a full crossover in the future? Creators won't rule it out.

TechRadar CamerasTechGavin Verhey explains the biggest difficulties of adapting Universes Beyond into Magic: The Gathering — from avoiding five-color soup, to ‘Figuring out what Green means’ The biggest difficulties of adapting Universes Beyond into Magic: The Gathering.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid: Free Streams, Team News & TV Channels for La Liga 2026/27 We'll show you how to watch Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid live streams from anywhere in the world with los Blancos seeking a victory over their city rivals

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch Man City vs Sunderland: Live streams, TV channels for Premier League 2026/27 All the ways to watch Man City vs Sunderland live streams in the Premier League 2026/27 as Enzo Maresca's men aim to maintain their 100 percent start.

TechRadar CamerasTechOne does not simply walk through this quiz: test your Lord of the Rings knowledge with these 30 questions A big fan of The Lord of The Rings? This 30-question quiz will work out just how well you know the franchise.

TechRadar CamerasTech'The test isn’t whether AI can do something. It’s whether it can make the process measurably better': We hear why businesses need to be more selective about where they’re using AI Does every business process really need AI?

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch Celtic vs Rangers: Free Streams & TV Channels for Old Firm Derby 2026/27 All the ways to watch Celtic vs Rangers for free, with Haissem Hassan and Dan Neil set to star in the 2026/27 Old Firm Derby in the East End of Glasgow.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch time trial at UCI World Road Championships 2026: free streams & TV channels All the ways to watch the elite time trial at the 2026 UCI Road World Championships from anywhere and with free live streams.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to give your shed a DIY upgrade this autumn with an off-grid solar power station — for lights, heaters, tools and much more A solar expert explains why it's the best way to to power your shed, and how to get started right now.

TechRadar CamerasTechI tested the LaserPecker LX2 for weeks, and its swappable heads make this laser cutter and engraver ideal for small businesses With my 40W diode and 2W IR heads, I tested the LaserPecker LX2 fully enclosed desktop laser cutter & engraver with a 500 x 305mm work area and swappable lasers.

TechRadar CamerasTechThe Blame is the 'brutal' new ITV Michelle Keegan crime drama using shocking real texts exposing misogyny in the police — but the original opening was 'so explicit' that it was cut The Blame on ITV is shocking enough in its storyline — but its original opening scene was so explicit, that it had to be dropped and refilmed.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch UCI Road World Championships 2026 for FREE: Live Streams & TV Channels As the world's best riders take to the roads of Montreal, see how to watch 2026 UCI Road World Championships cycling from anywhere and with free live streams.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch The Split Up online for FREE — stream legal drama from anywhere A family tragedy sheds new light on the successor to the Kishan family law firm in new legal drama from the world of The Split. Here's how to watch The Split Up online from anywhere.

TechRadar CamerasTechHow to watch Warriors vs Knights: FREE streams, TV channels for NRL Semi-Final 2026 All the ways to watch Warriors vs Knights live streams – including for FREE – in this NRL Semi-Final 2026 that takes place in Auckland on Sunday.

TechRadar CamerasTech‘It's just attacks on price every single time we launch a product… If you want the best engineering, you have to pay’ — Jake Dyson is fed up with the criticism of Dyson's prices 'You can't do things like this cheaply', says Jake Dyson — and he kind of has a point.

TechRadar CamerasTechPSA: free Amazon Prime Day perks are already live — here's how to get $275 / £90 in freebies You can get some serious freebies if you know where to look ahead of this Amazon Prime Day — even if you're not a Prime member.

TechRadar CamerasTechChina's autonomous 'bionic robot' fish looks just like the real one, perfect for covert military operations — Robocean BG5 could also be used to track poachers China's viral robot "spy fish" is lifelike and steers itself around a tank, but it has been on sale since 2023 and tops out at 5 meters deep

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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