Enlarge / A promotional image for a Roku TV. reader comments 110 Roku customers are threatening to stop using, or to even dispose of, their low-priced TVs and streaming gadgets after the company appears to be locking devices for people who don’t conform to the recently updated terms of service (ToS). This month, users on ..
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Enlarge / The Red V-Raptor X. reader comments 36 Nikon is buying the ultra-high-end video camera company Red Digital Cinema. Nikon has a press release saying that “RED will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Nikon” for an undisclosed sum. Nikon is typically more of a still-image camera company and wants to use Red to ..
Enlarge / A marketing image for Samsung’s 83-inch S90C, its first OLED TV to quietly use an LG Display WOLED panel. reader comments 4 Samsung rejuvenated the OLED TV market when its display manufacturing subsidiary, Samsung Display, announced QD-OLED two years ago. Quantum dot-infused OLED panels brought the promise of richer color compared to LG ..
Enlarge / The Huawei Mate 60 Pro+. It’s a phone made without most of the traditional US-allied suppliers. reader comments 36 Counterpoint Research has an interesting new report on the return of Huawei in China. Market share for the Chinese government’s favorite tech company has shot up 64 percent for the first six weeks of ..
reader comments 13 The Nothing Phone 2a in black. A white version. The back design is complicated but doesn’t really represent anything. On the back you get two rear 50MP cameras and some lights. It would be nice to be able to access those screws, but they’re locked away under a plastic back. The camera ..
reader comments 65 Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux past the 3 percent milestone it reached in June 2023. While we’re still far from the Year of the Linux Desktop, interest in Linux has somewhat grown lately. Statcounter says it gets ..
Enlarge / A collage of some of the “interactive environments” generated by Genie from static images or text prompts. reader comments 41 At this point, anyone who follows generative AI is used to tools that can generate passive, consumable content in the form of text, images, video, and audio. Google DeepMind’s recently unveiled Genie model ..
Enlarge / Apple’s M3 MacBook Pro should be able to drive a pair of external displays soon, as long as the lid is closed. reader comments 31 One long-standing limitation of Apple’s most basic Mac chips—the no-adjective M1, M2, and M3—has been their inability to work with more than a single external monitor at a ..
Getty Images reader comments 86 Any Linux user trying to send the highest-resolution images to a display at the fastest frame rate is out of luck for the foreseeable future, at least when it comes to an HDMI connection. The licensing group that controls the HDMI standard, the HDMI Forum, has reportedly told AMD that ..
reader comments 21 For the third year running, Microsoft is releasing a batch of small- to medium-sized Windows 11 updates in February. This year’s collection of tweaks includes the now-obligatory smattering of generative AI features but also some window-snapping changes, better Android phone integration, and accessibility upgrades, among other things. Starting with the non-AI features: ..
