The weekly photo contest is back with a new theme and a new week to show off your best work. This time around we’re asking to see your best efforts with filters. Those weird and wonderful effects that helped make Instagram so popular can be a great way to simply and effectively make your photos take on a whole new life.

Like the shot up top. I took this relatively pleasant, if somewhat uninteresting scene while catching 5 minutes after a press conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. But with a little goofing around in Camera 360 Sight it became (or so I think, at least) something worth keeping. So, as ever, read on for the full rundown on this weeks contest and to see who won last week’s!

Activision’s new trailer shows off the content from the second Exo Zombies chapter of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The chapter will be included in the upcoming Ascendance DLC pack for the hit first person shooter and will be released first for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 versions of the game on Tuesday, March 31.

Microsoft’s new trailer for the upcoming Xbox One shooter Halo 5: Guardians reveals its release date as October 27, 2015. The trailer is the latest part of the company’s viral “Hunt the Truth” marketing campaign for the game, developed by 343 Industries.

Tim Cook has taken a public stand against legislation like Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Cook penned an editorial that appeared on the Washington Post Web site in which he called such legislation “something very dangerous” happening in states across the country.

Critics of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and other similar bills and laws say that they make it easier for businesses to discriminate against gays, lesbians, the transgendered and others. Supporters of the Indiana law, which goes into effect in July, say that it protects individuals’ religious liberty.

Cook says such bills are “designed to enshrine discrimination in state law.”

These bills rationalize injustice by pretending to defend something many of us hold dear. They go against the very principles our nation was founded on, and they have the potential to undo decades of progress toward greater equality.

Cook acknowledged that he is gay in an editorial posted by Bloomberg last fall. He said faith is important to him, but was never taught that “religion should be used as an excuse to discriminate.”

I remember what it was like to grow up in the South in the 1960s and 1970s. Discrimination isn’t something that’s easy to oppose. It doesn’t always stare you in the face. It moves in the shadows. And sometimes it shrouds itself within the very laws meant to protect us.

Cook added that “Apple is open” to everyone, regardless of laws passed in states like Indiana or his own home state of Arkansas.

This isn’t a political issue. It isn’t a religious issue. This is about how we treat each other as human beings. Opposing discrimination takes courage. With the lives and dignity of so many people at stake, it’s time for all of us to be courageous.

Microsoft’s sponsorship deal with AMC’s The Walking Dead means that we get a bevy of ads that feature the Surface Pro 3, such as the one embedded above.

LG’s new mid-range lineup of devices will launch in South America, followed by markets in Europe, Asia, Middle East Africa and North America.