Author: Zach_Wilson

Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices

Amazon’s plan to launch a paid version of Alexa is part of a strategy change to reverse the over $25 billion in losses that its devices business incurred from 2017 to 2021, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The AI-supercharged Alexa, which is rumored to cost up…

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Fujifilm GFX 100 II: The king of medium-format mirrorless cameras

You can’s say Fujifilm is boring. It stuck to APS-C sensors instead of going full-frame like everyone else, while releasing cool and weird models like the X100 VI. That strategy has been refreshing in a conservative industry and undeniably successful. It also went big by introducing its first medium-format camera…

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Angry Miao’s new $559 mechanical keyboard has Game Boy vibes

Between the Analogue Pocket and the proliferation of game emulators on Apple’s App Store, retro gaming is more than chic in 2024. So, it’s not terribly surprising that boutique keyboard maker Angry Miao is getting in on some of that sweet nostalgia with its latest mechanical board, the Game Boy-inspired…

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Largest US trial court forced to shut down following ransomware attack

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the largest in the United States, has suffered a ransomware attack which forced it to close down its entire operation for a day. A statement posted on the court’s website stated all 36 courthouse locations, as well as external systems like the MyJuryDuty…

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Over 750 million records exposed by ERP firm data breach — find out if you’re safe

A major Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) firm from Mexico kept an unprotected database containing sensitive information on hundreds of thousands of users online for anyone to view. A report from cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who discovered the archive and reported his findings to Website Planet, noted the database, available to…

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Adobe’s Photoshop can now generate AI images via prompts like Dall-E or Midjourney

Adobe has widely released a new and potentially contentious feature: text-to-image generation for Photoshop powered by Firefly, first teased in April. As with LLMs like Dall-E and Midjourney, you can use it to create an image from scratch by typing a description into Photoshop's updated generative AI tool.  I tried…

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