Leica’s cheapest compact camera just got a successor with Leica Q-series features
Compact cameras aren’t dead – at least that’s if Leica has anything to do with it. Following the full-frame Leica Q3, which was one of our favorite cameras in 2023,…
PlayStation’s Days of Play sale is reportedly set to return this month
PlayStation‘s annual Days of Play sale is reportedly set to return later this month. As reported by Deadlabs and translated via VGC, reliable leaker “billbil-kun” has claimed that this year’s…
5 Best Cooling Mattresses (2024): Hybrid, Soft, Foam, and for Couples
There are a ton of mattresses on the market that claim to have cooling benefits. Here are a few others I’ve tested and liked, but not as much as the…
Everyone’s Pumped About Heat Pumps
Lauren Goode: Yeah. You recommended a podcast episode with her too. Michael Calore: I did, yeah. Lauren Goode: Was it the Fresh Air one? Michael Calore: Yeah. To you. Yeah.…
Inside the Reluctant Fight to Ban Deepfake Ads
This is all great, but voters are probably going to encounter more digital fakes online than over broadcast. And for digital ads, the government hasn’t issued any solutions. The Federal…
‘Furiosa’ Crystalizes the Power—and Limits—of Cli-Fi
The title card that opens 1979’s original Mad Max places the action in a very near future, looming just “a few years from now.” George Miller’s cult action-thriller captured the…
Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System
On Wednesday morning, a small group of people huddled over their phones at the foot of the giant glass skyscraper that houses Uber’s London headquarters. They were running an experiment…
Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson
OpenAI could face legal consequences for making a ChatGPT voice that sounds a lot like Scarlett Johansson — whether the company did so intentionally or not. And the fact that…
Google Meet’s adaptive audio connects mics from multiple laptops for clearer audio
Google has introduced “adaptive audio,” a new Google Meet feature that offers Google Workspace users an alternative to dedicated videoconferencing equipment — if their package includes access to new AI…
Google could cut funding to more US news publishers
After threatening to remove links to California news outlets due to a new bill in the state, Google could cut back its investments in the industry even more. The tech…