The solar eclipse is this week — but dont take photos of it with your phone
Home > Tech The solar eclipse is this week — but don't take photos of it with your phone Enjoy the 2026 solar eclipse with glasses instead. By Kimberly Gedeon Kimberly Gedeon East Coast Tech Editor Kimberly Gedeon, at Mashable since 2023, is a tech explorer who enjoys doing deep dives into the most popular gadgets, from the latest iPhones to the most immersive VR headsets. She's drawn to strange, avant-garde, bizarre tech, whether it's a 3D laptop, a gaming rig that can transform into a briefcase, or smart glasses that can capture video.
- ▪Home > Tech The solar eclipse is this week — but don't take photos of it with your phone Enjoy the 2026 solar eclipse with glasses instead.
- ▪By Kimberly Gedeon Kimberly Gedeon East Coast Tech Editor Kimberly Gedeon, at Mashable since 2023, is a tech explorer who enjoys doing deep dives into the most popular gadgets, from the latest iPhones to the most immersive VR headsets.
- ▪She's drawn to strange, avant-garde, bizarre tech, whether it's a 3D laptop, a gaming rig that can transform into a briefcase, or smart glasses that can capture video.
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| Original publisher | Mashable |
| Canonical URL | https://mashable.com/tech/solar-eclipse-2026-dont-take-photos-phone |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-10T09:20:42.721Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-10T09:20:42.721Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Home > Tech The solar eclipse is this week — but don't take photos of it with your phone Enjoy the 2026 solar eclipse with glasses instead. By Kimberly Gedeon Kimberly Gedeon East Coast Tech Editor Kimberly Gedeon, at Mashable since 2023, is a tech explorer who enjoys doing deep dives into the most popular gadgets, from the latest iPhones to the most immersive VR headsets. She's drawn to strange, avant-garde, bizarre tech, whether it's a 3D laptop, a gaming rig that can transform into a briefcase, or smart glasses that can capture video. Her journalism career kicked off about a decade ago at MadameNoire where she covered tech and business before landing as a tech editor at Laptop Mag in 2020.
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