Professional photographers know the drill: every few years, Canon or Nikon announces a game-changing DSLR, often prompting top photogs to unload their complete kits and switch to another system in a never-ending attempt to shoot with the best. This time, Canon is first out of the gate, with its flagship EOS-1D X — the latest in a series that dates back to 2001 with the EOS-1D.

Tough, good-looking and versatile. The new Hero2 is the James Bond of cameras GoPro has launched a big update to its sports cam line. The HD Hero2 jumps from 5MP to 11MP, will shoot 1080p video at all angles of view (90, 127 and 170-degrees) and can now beam video via Wi-Fi to a new accessory. Apart from being rugged and sport-friendly, the Hero line will also mount on just about anything

Following up on the contentious NewsCorp shareholder meeting where the independent shareholders were to express their displeasure with the crimes committed on the Murdoch family’s watch: the majority of the independent shareholders voted against continuing James and Lachlan Murdoch (Rupert’s sons) continuing employment as senior execs in the company. Due to NewsCorp’s odd structure the Murdochs get to overrule their shareholders, but if the upcoming shareholder meeting for BSkyB goes the same way, it will see some serious Murdoch tail-kickage. Michael Wolff, Murdoch biographer and author of The Man Who Owns the News, said it was now inevitable that James Murdoch would leave. “James will probably go by himself, that’s what everybody will be waiting for.

Before and after. Orange disappears just in time for pumpkin season If you want an orange Smart Cover for your iPad 2, you’d better hurry to a third-party reseller and buy one now — Apple has discontinued the fruit-flavored plastic cover in a reshuffle of the Smart Cover lineup. As you can see in the before and after picture above, the presumably unpopular orange has gone, replaced by a dark gray polyurethane version. This means that the dull and unadventurous buyer will no longer be forced to pay for an expensive leather cover if they want to express their inner insipidness.

Redditor Junkyardmessiah has a proposal for dealing with neighbors with very large stereo systems: Simple suggestion here, I had the same issue with a neighbor that no matter how nicely or how well I explained the situation he refused to stop playing death metal at 4 am. Frequent calls to the police only ratcheted up the harassment.