Month: May 2022
Ford F-150 Lightning first drive: quiet storm
I am driving a pickup truck through Texas hill country. The buzzards are circling overhead, the road is empty as a moonlit prairie, and all’s right with the world. Or at least it should be. There is a noticeable lack of engine noise coming from under the hood of my…
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AMD is improving its Nvidia DLSS rival – these are the PC games that’ll get FSR 2.0 first
Audio player loading… AMD has just unleashed some new RDNA 2 graphics cards, and with those refreshed GPUs comes news of the launch of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) version 2.0, along with the games that’ll support it first. In case you’ve forgotten, FSR is AMD’s equivalent of Nvidia DLSS –…
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Google IO live blog: All the details on the Pixel 6a, Pixel Watch and Android 13
Refresh 2022-05-11T07:48:48.269Z (Image credit: Google) Goooooooood morning, tech fans! It’s that time of year when stuff starts to get announced again, things begin to happen and we get ready for another round of launches, unveilings, and big events. The iPhone 14 launch isn’t too far away. Amazon Prime Day is…
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Sony’s Xperia 1 IV smartphone features ‘the world’s first true optical zoom lens’
Sony has heavily leveraged its camera expertise to create its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Xperia 1 IV, it announced. It offers a slew of innovative, image-oriented features including what it calls the "world's first true optical 85-125mm zoom lens, true 4K at 120fps, livestreaming and external monitor capabilities and a…
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Sony’s Xperia 1 IV is a pricey proof of concept
Smartphones have point-and-shoot cameras (remember those?) beat in a lot of ways, but there’s one thing traditional cameras still do better than phones: zoom. The new Sony Xperia 1 IV aims to change that with a true continuous optical zoom lens. It’s a technical achievement, for sure, but at this…
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Sony Xperia 1 IV launch live blog: watch the new camera phone heavyweight debut
Refresh 2022-05-11T09:06:50.279Z The continuous optical zoom is quite an exciting feature. For casual phone users, it sounds like ultra-wide cameras are super popular, which is why budget and mid-range handsets keep using them despite eschewing zoom lenses. But for photographers, there’s nothing quite like a telephoto or periscope lens to…
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