8 of the best online courses to kickstart your photography career

There is more to a photography career than you might think. With everything from night time shooting, photo editing in Lightroom, and drone shots, the world of cameras is constantly expanding and there is always something new to learn. A few tips and tricks will certainly improve your photographic skills, but sometimes it is worth taking your abilities to the next level. 

If you're passionate about photography and want to expand your knowledge, there is no better place to start than online courses. Whether you're excited about your hobby or want to pursue a new career, online courses can provide a wealth of new and exciting ideas for you to explore. Read more...

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BEST FOR GETTING STARTED

A Complete Guide to Photography

Get started with photography and learn all the basic skills required to shine above the rest.

£16.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR TAKING PORTRAITS

Posing For Photographers

Setup, shoot, direct, and edit the very best portrait photos with this expansive course for beginner and intermediate photographers.

£18.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR SOCIAL INFLUENCING

Take Professional Photos On Your Phone

Learn how to expand your Instagram account and take the very best photos on your mobile phone.

£12.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR AERIAL SHOTS

Using Drones: Aerial Photos and Videos

Make your portfolio stand out with this guide on how to capture the perfect drone photos.

£12.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR LOW-LIGHT PHOTOS

Shoot Stunning Night Photos

Show off your photography skills with the increasingly more difficult low-light shot.

£15.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR PHOTOGRAPHY CAREERS

How to Be a Commercial Photographer

Earn money with your photography skills and learn how to find new clients.

£12.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR SELLING ONLINE

License Your Photos Online

Keep track of your online portfolio and make a little extra cash along the way.

£12.99 from Udemy

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BEST FOR EDITING

Adobe Lightroom CC Photo Editing

Make your photos stand out with these useful editing tips for Adobe Lightroom CC.

£12.99 from Udemy

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Senate approves $1 billion budget to help rural carriers replace Huawei gear

The US Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would give rural carriers access to a $1 billion fund meant to help them remove and replace Huawei gear. According to The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch, the Senate has voted to send the bill to the President a couple of months after the House approved its own version. If Trump signs it -- and a previous Politico report said top administration figures expressed their support for it -- then 40 rural carriers currently using equipment from Chinese tech giants like Huawei and ZTE will have access to the fund.

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U.S. wireless carriers face $200 million in FCC fines for mishandling customer data

Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T can definitely hear the FCC now. 

The nation's largest mobile providers are facing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in fines after the Federal Communications Commission determined the companies didn't adequately protect customers' location data. At issue was the practice of selling customers' real-time location data to third parties — data which then ended up in the hands of bounty hunters, debt collectors, and other questionable parties. 

The news, reported by the Wall Street Journal, follows a Jan. 31 announcement by the FCC that at least one phone carrier had violated federal privacy protectionsAccording to Reuters, the FCC is set to propose fines of $200 million in total for the four mobile carriers tomorrow.  Read more...

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Latin America roundup: Softbank adds $1B, Stori raises $10M and Grow Mobility puts on the brakes

After investing nearly $2 billion of its Innovation Fund in Latin America in 2019, Softbank announced this month that it would add an additional $1 billion into the fund to continue supporting tech startups across the region. While the Japanese investor faces the challenge of raising a second global fund after its Vision Fund, Softbank is still investing heavily in Latin America. One of its early Latin American investments - and the first in Colombia - Ayenda Rooms, is performing particularly well, raising $8.7 million from Kaszek Ventures this month.

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Immigrants trusted Maryland to give them licenses. Then ICE betrayed them.

Today in corrosive public policy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been running warrantless facial recognition searches of Maryland driver's licenses allegedly as a way to hunt down undocumented immigrants, according to a report from The Washington Post.

Why Maryland? In 2013, the state passed a bill that allowed undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses, a policy intended and proven to increase public safety. The state has issued more than 275,000 of these licenses to date.

ICE says that it mostly conducts the license searches to look for child exploitation or cybercrime and that it does not "routinely" use it for immigration enforcement. However, immigrant activists reportedly began to suspect something was amiss when ICE conducted raids on individuals who had recently obtained the special licenses. Read more...

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Facebook has paused election reminders in Europe after data watchdog raises transparency concerns

Big tech's lead privacy regulator in Europe has intervened to flag transparency concerns about a Facebook election reminder feature -- asking the tech giant to provide it with information about what data it collects from users who interact with the notification and how their personal data is used, including whether it's used for targeting them with ads. Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch it has paused use of the election reminder feature in the European Union while it works on addressing the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)'s concerns. Facebook's Election Day Reminder (EDR) feature is a notification the platform can display to users on the day of an election -- ostensibly to encourage voter participation.

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Moving into an apartment with a crappy kitchen? Get a toaster oven.

Apartment hunting season has crept up once again, making many of us face the decisions we've pretended weren't happening for the past few months: Do I care about a dishwasher or laundry in unit? Is the fridge in this kitchen even full-size?

If you've found the perfect, affordable place but can't shake the idea that the kitchen looks like one that kids would play house in, the simple purchase of a toaster oven is a smart compromise. A microwave can't do everything, and that precious block of counter space could be put to better use with an appliance that can air fry, toast breakfast sandwiches, roast meat, or bake pizza and small casserole dishes. Read more...

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