Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Leica has announced a new iPhone accessory called the Leica Lux Grip designed to make using its iOS-only Leica Lux app feel more like shooting with… Read more
read more...Leica made a $329 iPhone camera grip
By: The Verge
Rooster Teeth is coming back
By: The Verge
Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Rooster Teeth — the studio behind animated web series such as RWBY, Red vs. Blue, and Gen:Lock — seemed like it was shuttering… Read more
read more...Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor
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Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Google Photos is adding its digital SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using the Magic Editor’s generative AI feature. The new feature is rolling out “this week” according… Read more
read more...Microsoft Teams is getting a Facebook-like feed and follow button
By: The Verge
Meta is shutting down its Workplace platform next year, but Microsoft is planning to keep the dream of Facebook at work very much alive. Multiple sources at Microsoft tell me the company has started testing a fully integrated Facebook-like feed inside Microsoft Teams recently. Teams users will be able to post to the feed, known… Read more
read more...Gamer reportedly received an RTX 5080 with RTX 5090 branding — it turns out to be an RTX 5080, after all
By: Tom's Hardware
One of the few people who was able to buy an RTX 5080 was surprised to see that their card was an RTX 5090, at least according to the engraved name on the cooler. Reddit user EssDee3D posted an image showing what appears to be an RTX 5090 Founders Edition GPU in an RTX 5080… Read more
read more...Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50
By: The Verge
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Researchers managed to create a low-cost AI reasoning model rivaling OpenAI’s in just 26 minutes, as outlined in a paper published last week. The model, called s1,… Read more
read more...This vintage-looking camera has a button for computational photography
By: The Verge
OM System has announced a new Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera called the OM-3 with a design inspired by the Olympus OM-1 film camera that first debuted in 1972. Despite its vintage appearance, the OM-3 offers features similar to last year’s OM System OM-1 Mark II in a more compact and affordable body. These include… Read more
read more...Prusa CORE One Review: Better in a Box
By: Tom's Hardware
Tom’s Hardware Verdict Prusa literally transformed their classic i3 printer into a Core XY machine with more speed and all the outstanding quality we expect from an industry leader. The enclosure has a clever design that allows for creative modding, but it oddly lacks expected premium features like a built-in camera. Pros + Core XY… Read more
read more...ASUS ROG Harpe Ace Extreme Review
By: Tech Power Up
1 on Feb 6th, 2025, Manufacturer: ASUS Packaging, Weight, Cable & Feet » Introduction ASUS is a Taiwan-based computer hardware and electronics company founded in 1989. Unlike the regular Harpe Ace, which came with a bio-based Nylon (plastic) shell, the Harpe Ace Extreme has its top shell made out of fully CNC-machined carbon fiber, whereas the… Read more
read more...Ryzen 5 7400F uses thermal paste instead of solder, chip hits max temps at stock TDP
By: Tom's Hardware
A user review of the Ryzen 5 7400F at Bilibili suggests performance similar to the 7500F with superior binning, at least when the processor is not thermally constrained (via Harukaze at X). Further inspection by delidding the CPU reveals that AMD has opted for simple thermal paste instead of Solder Thermal Interface Material (STIM) between… Read more
read more...Qualcomm claims it owns 10% of U.S. Windows PC retail market for devices priced $800 and up
By: Tom's Hardware
Qualcomm just released its first-quarter financial results for fiscal year 2025, covering the period from October to December 2024, and it has made some bold claims to investors. According to analyst Sravan Kundojjala, the company said that 10% of Windows PC sales in the U.S., worth $800 and above, are powered by Snapdragon X chips…. Read more
read more...Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service
By: The Verge
Andrew J. Hawkins is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests. Claude is already being put… Read more
read more...Microsoft is bringing major MIDI improvements to Windows 11
By: The Verge
Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Windows 11 is rolling out the biggest update to MIDI since the musical communication format was first released in 1983. Microsoft announced that its latest Windows 11 Canary test build… Read more
read more...How to Run DeepSeek R1 on your Raspberry Pi 5
By: Tom's Hardware
You can’t have missed the seismic event that saw Nvidia lose $589 billion in market cap as confidence in AI took a hit after DeepSeek claimed that its open source R1 model could provide rival OpenAI’s o1 model performance, with 11x less compute to train its latest models. The fallout from this is still being… Read more
read more...AT&T customers can now see why a business is calling
By: The Verge
Allison Johnson is a reviewer with 10 years of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. Customers on AT&T’s network are getting one more tool to help them decide when to pick up the phone: an indication of why a business is… Read more
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