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Lunar Eclipse 2025: How to take the best blood moon photos with your phone

Mashable Tech

Thankfully, phone cameras have gotten really good over the years – and there's no reason you can't capture a solid photo with a decently modern phone. Here are some tips and tricks to help you take the best lunar eclipse photos you can, both in general, and with your specific phone.

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The Masters offers public phones as alternatives to cellphones. Here’s what attendees think

Fast Company Tech

It was kind of cool, said Abraham, who phoned a friend while attending the Masters Par 3 competition on Wednesday with his father, Sid. If I had to use one of those (rotary) phones I probably would’ve had to ask my dad. ” The line at the public phone bank can stretch up to 10 people deep at the height of the Masters.

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Save over $330 on the Google Pixel 9 Pro at Target

Mashable Tech

There are tons of great phones out there, in fact, and many of them are much more affordable than the flagships out there from the biggest names in phones. For instance, you might consider trying a Pixel phone, part of Google's lineup. You have more options beyond an iPhone or the latest and greatest Samsung offering.

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Samsung Galaxy S22 leaks paint a picture of a refined S21

Digital Trends

Samsung's Galaxy S22 is expected to launch in early 2022, but early reports paint a picture of a phone that's more of an evolution than a revolution.

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Google inexplicably takes away wide-angle astrophotography from Pixel phones

The Verge

Pixel 5 and 4a 5G users can no longer use their ultra-wide cameras to take pictures of the stars: Google apparently removed the lens’s astrophotography capabilities with the Google Camera 8.1 Google Pixel Phone forum user’s posted comparisons of the ultra-wide (top) and standard angle lenses shooting in astrophotography mode.

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Facebook users’ phone numbers are for sale through a Telegram bot

The Verge

Someone has gotten their hands on a database full of Facebook users’ phone numbers, and is now selling that data using a Telegram bot, according to a report by Motherboard. That’s relatively old, but people don’t change phone numbers that often. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. This obviously has a huge impact on privacy.

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No penalties even when deputies share a woman’s nudes after an illegal phone search

Ars Technica

In 2019, Haley Olson's life in Grant County, Oregon, was upended when people in town appeared to know about private nude photos that Olson kept on her phone. In July, for instance, a stranger in a sheriff's office uniform approached her to say that he had "heard theres some pretty smokin pictures of you going around the sheriffs office."

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