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9 professional #cyclists produced enough power on pedals for an ultralight airplane to take off in Mallorca.
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Las alas de Red Bull: cómo nueve ciclistas despegan un ultraligero con sus pedales
Una formación de corredores del equipo del WorldTour, liderada por Florian Lipowitz, logra que vuele el aparato en un aeródromo de Mallorca gracias a los vatios que generan con sus piernas
elpais.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Person of the Year focuses world’s attention on the people that shape our lives, TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote. “this year, no one had a greater impact than the individuals who imagined, designed, and built #AI.”
--- ok, but is the Editor a person or AI?
www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
TIME Person of the Year 2025 announced – and it’s not a person
This is not the first time the magazine has picked a non-human as its Person of the Year, and 2025's choice reflects the domination of AI in news, public debate, as well as modern anxieties surroundin...
www.euronews.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Data from the world's leading hotel groups, travel firms and trend forecasters suggests that 2026 will be the year of quiet escapes, algorithm-shaped itineraries, ultra-personalised retreats and a return to slower, more intentional #travel.
www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
Seven travel trends that will define 2026
Data suggests that 2026 will be the year of quiet escapes, algorithm-shaped itineraries, ultra-personalised retreats and a return to slower, more intentional travel.
www.bbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It’s not the tool that matters, but the mind behind it. Perhaps the real question for any #photographer today is not what technology can do next, but what remains worth doing by hand—what still carries the trace of human attention.
fstoppers.com/opinion/how-...
How Photographers Made Themselves Replaceable
Photography isn’t being replaced by algorithms, but by its own predictability. Spend a day watching how most professionals shoot, and you’ll see the real issue: automation isn’t coming—it’s already in...
fstoppers.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is possible to do a day trip from Madrid, for instance, to Segovia or Avila, or plan a tour that covers all four cities. #Europe #travel .
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Four cities near Madrid that give visitors a taste of the real Spain
Spain’s capital Madrid has its sights and attractions, but if you want to find authentic, historic, and unique Spanish destinations that are easy to access from Madrid, here are four marvelous cities…
klaava.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Confirmed, the peak #travel season in #Europe is longer:
“Normally we expect some traffic until the first week of October and then a slow fading until early November, but it has been nonstop.” It was, he says, the busiest October he has ever known.
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/15/t...
It used to be Europe’s secret season. Then the crowds arrived | CNN
Thought you were beating the crowds by traveling to Europe in fall? So did everyone else. Welcome to the new peak season.
edition.cnn.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Data Lifeboat allows Flickr members to create archives - portable, browsable mini-websites — that package a set of Flickr photos with their metadata, comments, favorites. The idea is to preserve the context around #photos that makes them meaningful. #photography . .
petapixel.com/2025/11/12/f...
Flickr's Data Lifeboat Will Preserve Photos and Their Context for 100 Years
The Flickr Foundation has announced the beta release of a new archiving tool that is designed to preserve photos for 100 years.
petapixel.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Everything was fine until the Halloween weekend when our journey turned into a nightmare. Suddenly, I couldn’t charge the van from public chargers anymore. #EV #charger
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Nitpicker’s travel journal: Bank meddled with EV charging payments causing us a Halloween nightmare
Only a few weeks ago, nitpicker celebrated the first year with an electric van. Despite a few beginner hiccups, we had far more positive than negative experiences during our EV road trips during this…
klaava.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Compact cameras are back, primarly high-end models::
They're not competing with your iPhone. They're offering something your iPhone can't deliver: optical quality that's genuinely professional. #camera
fstoppers.com/historical/r...
The Rise and Fall of the Point-and-Shoot Camera
There's a 10-year-old Canon PowerShot in your parents' junk drawer. It was once a $300 piece of high technology, a marvel of miniaturized optics and digital sensors that could fit in a shirt pocket. T...
fstoppers.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Here we go - the first #AI powered #camera and you need an iphone to use it:
Caira is designed to negate some of photography’s learning curve by using onboard AI that allows users to talk to the camera using natural language.
www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirr...
This camera isn’t for photographers. Caira uses AI voice control to simplify photography
The Caira, by Camera Intelligence, is a mirrorless camera that uses AI to negate some of photography's learning curve
www.digitalcameraworld.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
New industry standard against, for instance, #AI image collection:
LinkedIn is currently rolling out support for Content Credentials, that attaches secure, verifiable authorship and usage information directly to an image file.c #photography #copyright
www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-...
New LinkedIn feature helps you prove authorship of your photographs
A new partnership between Adobe and LinkedIn introduces secure, traceable image attribution.
www.digitalcameraworld.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
The Dog Photography Awards have just unveiled its stunning 2025 winners, proving once again why this competition is a must-watch for photographers and dog lovers alike. #photography
www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/...
This photographer perfectly mastered dog motion, and is just one of many awarded shots that will make you smile
Explore this awarded shot and many more stunning images from the 2025 Dog Photography Awards
www.digitalcameraworld.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Copper thieves have discovered #EV chargers, self-driving European van in 2026, and other #travel news
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Electric vehicle news summary for travelers: self-driving van, lamppost chargers, strong EV sales numbers in 2025
Sales of EVs in Europe on a strong growth path while diesel and petrol cars continue to lose market share European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association has tallied up car sales numbers for the year…
klaava.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
"Compact cameras came back in a huge way, mainly thanks to Fujifilm. The X100V just blew up on TikTok. And then #camera vendors realized, oh darn – people are buying compact cameras and none of us make them any more."
www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/comp...
The compact camera conundrum: Why do Canon, Kodak, Sony and Fujifilm all have different solutions to the same problem?
"Dig UP, stupid": Compact cameras have dug a hole that manufacturers are all trying to dig out of in completely different ways
www.digitalcameraworld.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
The problem is: which country and which city is the best for retirement? Well, if you ask expats who have experience on how is it like to live in other countries, their answer is the city of Valencia on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. #expat #Europe #Valencia
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The best country to settle down after your active working years are behind
If you have spent most of your working years in a country where the climate isn’t as pleasant you might hope, or living costs are higher than you like, you may have been considering moving to another…
klaava.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
But for every real innovation, there’s a graveyard of gimmicks — features and products that sounded futuristic, won headlines, and then died in obscurity. Here are five of the quirkiest gimmicks that promised to change #photography but went nowhere. #camera
fstoppers.com/historical/5...
5 Photography Gimmicks That Went Nowhere
Every few years, camera companies roll out something meant to grab attention. Sometimes, those ideas turn into revolutions: autofocus, in-body stabilization, and mirrorless mounts all began as risks t...
fstoppers.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Is the electric van the reason for the increased travel? I wasn’t sure, so I decided to list the pros and cons of road trips in an electric van. #EV #campervan #roadtrip #Europe
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Road trips in an electric van: the good and the bad experiences
I traded my trusty old campervan powered by diesel engine to a modern electric van about a year ago. Since then, it looks like our road trips have become more frequent. We have completed multiple…
klaava.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The impressive outer and inner walls with 52 towers are the main attractions of #Carcassonne, but it is inside the walls where local life, restaurants, bars, galleries and shops, as well as the Gothic Cathedral and the Comtal Castle await visitors. #France #travel #Europe
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The medieval fortress of Carcassonne in southern France features a complete 3 km long double wall
In the southern France, not far from the Mediterranean Sea nor from the Pyrenees mountain range, the walled town of Carcassonne continues to amaze visitors as it has done for two thousand years.
klaava.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Excellent initiative, but will giants like Airbnb or Booking.com change behavior? #tourism #EU
"Ensure the authenticity of reviews, distinguishing reviews from guests who experienced the accommodation and those who did not.
transport.ec.europa.eu/news-events/...
Commission welcomes Code of Conduct for reliable online reviews for tourism accommodation
Several stakeholders of the EU tourism ecosystem took an important step to ensure trustworthy and reliable online reviews and ratings of hotels and other types of tourism accommodation, by endorsing t...
transport.ec.europa.eu
September 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
But these so-called “bad” photographs that break all the rules aren’t just trending; these “terrible” photographs are what’s going to save photography from AI. #photography #AI
--- hmm, I don't think AI can be dismissed so easily; new skills can be taught
www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artific...
Terrible images are going to save photography from AI. This is why
AI is becoming increasingly capable of generating "perfect" images… at a time when no one wants perfect photographs any more
www.digitalcameraworld.com
August 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Looks like #train #travel is trending in #Europe. Here is the roundup of latest news on the development of railways, routes, and ticketing systems.
klaava.com/european-rai...
European railway news summary: unified train systems, off the beaten rail tips, Mr Bean restaurant
An overview to the high-speed trains connecting European countries and cities Deutsche Bahn to have a ticketing system in late 2025 that lets you purchase a trip to multiple European countries Train…
klaava.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Other key findings in the study were that professional criminal groups are taking over business from independent amateurs, and scammers are making extra revenue by grabbing tourists’ personal data as well. #travel #scam
klaava.com/vacation-apa...
August 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On their own, each individual bit of information in EXIF data might not seem significant. But when combined with the photo itself and other information — like your social media profiles — they can start to paint a much bigger and more personal picture. #photography
proton.me/blog/exif-data
EXIF data in shared photos may compromise your privacy | Proton
EXIF data in your photos can reveal more than you think, including your location. Learn how to protect your privacy before sharing online.
proton.me
August 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A new bucket list #travel destination?
Chongqing’s architecture style is unique. The concrete and mountain terrain, with lots of industrial design, make it seem like a futuristic movie set, but at night, lights elevate the city into a true #cyberpunk dream.
edition.cnn.com/travel/chong...
The mindbending ‘cyberpunk city’ in China that exists on so many levels | CNN
Younger travelers are skipping Beijing in favor of Chongqing due to its unusual, Instagram-friendly terrain.
edition.cnn.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM