Month: August 2026
I shot the Perseid meteor shower after the eclipse with my Pixel and a pro Nikon camera — here’s which one I’d recommend for the spectacular celestial show tonight
This year’s Perseids meteor shower is active up until August 24 It peaked on August 12-13, but will be clearly visible in the Northern Hemisphere again tonight Head to a dark sky area and look up any time between 11pm and 5am As if a total eclipse before sunset across…
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This is Instagram’s new logo
Instagram has unveiled a new wordmark, moving away from the recognizable cursive typeface it’s used over the last decade. The updated wordmark is a strange mix of half-cursive half-print that’s somehow less legible than its predecessor. Like, that totally says “Instagzam”, right? “The wordmark at the top of the app…
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The largest battery-electric plane ever made has flown for the first time
Heart Aerospace's X1 all-electric demonstrator flew for 27 minutes on just $5 of electricity. Source
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Does Google even want to win at AI?
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean,…
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1 in 3 Windows users have ‘fallen into a reset trap’ and can’t escape Edge — I think it’s high time Microsoft stopped messing around with default browser choices
Microsoft is again under fire for aggressively pushing Edge A survey conducted by the Browser Choice Alliance shows how deep some problems run That includes encountering ‘challenges’ while attempting to change default browsers, and users who get stuck with Edge when they don’t want it Microsoft has again come under…
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Good news, 4K Blu-ray fans: Dolby confirms that Dolby Vision 2 HDR can work on existing players and disc tech — bad news: it’s up to the manufacturers, and Sony already said ‘we do not plan to provide an update’
Dolby confirms that Dolby Vision 2 HDR can come to existing 4K Blu-ray hardware, including both discs and players However, it will require the player manufacturers to work with Dolby on updates, and Sony says it has no plans to update, with no comment from Panasonic or Magnetar Dolby says…
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