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Pictures of the Week (slideshow)

Lego towers and futuristic designs are just a few of the highlights from the best tech photos of the week.

James Martin
James Martin is the Managing Editor of Photography at CNET. His photos capture technology's impact on society - from the widening wealth gap in San Francisco, to the European refugee crisis and Rwanda's efforts to improve health care. From the technology pioneers of Google and Facebook, photographing Apple's Steve Jobs and Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai, to the most groundbreaking launches at Apple and NASA, his is a dream job for any documentary photography and journalist with a love for technology. Exhibited widely, syndicated and reprinted thousands of times over the years, James follows the people and places behind the technology changing our world, bringing their stories and ideas to life.
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1 of 6 Mauricio Hernandez

Blue moon

When a giant, full blue moon rises, it's bound to capture the imaginations of sky watchers the world over. What does it really mean, though?

According to the now-defunct Maine Farmers' Almanac, each season has three full moons, but when a fourth appears, it's considered a blue moon. Due to an error in the March 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, however, people commonly interpret a blue moon to mean the arrival of a full moon in a month that already had one. Regardless of rival definitions, a blue moon only occurs once every two to three years and is a spectacular sight to witness. We've collected some mesmerizing images of the August 2013 blue moon snapped by moonstruck photographers around the globe.

Mauricio Hernandez, located in the super-dry Atacama Desert in South America, grabbed this sensationally sharp image of the blue moon.
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2 of 6 Hannah Perner-Wilson

Sound-reactive LED necklace

A maker built an eye-catching necklace that flashes to the beat of any music it hears.
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3 of 6 ESO/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/H. Arce. Acknowledgements: Bo Reipurth

A star is born

Everyone welcomed another newborn to our galaxy. For now, we only know her as the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47, and she's already a beauty.
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4 of 6 Chiu Chih

Plant-powered breathing

Designer Chiu Chih created an artistic version of an air tank using a plant as a filter and oxygen generator. It's ready for a post-apocalyptic world.
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5 of 6 NASA/JPL-CalTech

Waving to Saturn

NASA released a collage of people around the world waving to the Cassini spacecraft as it took pictures of Earth through Saturn's rings.
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6 of 6 Red Clay Consolidated School District/Facebook

11-story-tall Lego tower

Students and teachers celebrated at Dickinson High School in Milltown, Del., as their 11-story-tall Lego tower, which qualifies as the tallest in the world, topped its way into the Guinness World Record books.

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