Tag: author_name|Mat Smith
The Vivo X300 Ultra is a powerful camera phone aimed at videographers
Chinese phonemaker Vivo has been pushing the limits of smartphone photography in the last few years. However, the availability of its phones — like last year’s X200 Ultra, with its beefy add-on telephoto — has been intermittent in the West. The company says the X300 Ultra its first global flagship…
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The Morning After: Meta is reportedly working on an AI model of Mark Zuckerberg
If you were looking for the worst AI project announced so far this week, try Meta. According to a Financial Times report, the company is developing its own Mark Zuckerberg AI, training it on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements. AKA, the good stuff. (Will it smoke meats?) The…
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The Morning After: Apple’s foldable iPhone may be delayed
Apple has run into “more issues than expected” with its foldable iPhone, which may delay its release, according to the Japanese business newspaper Nikkei. Multiple sources report issues that apparently occurred during early test production phases and may delay first shipments by months. Component suppliers have supposedly been notified that…
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The Morning After: Meta tests Instagram Plus subscription service
Screenshots promoting "Instagram Plus" have been spotted by users in the Philippines and Mexico in recent days. According to social media consultant Matt Navarra, a subscription to Instagram Plus includes several Story-focused features not otherwise available to Instagram users. This includes the ability to create multiple audiences for Stories posts,…
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50 years of Apple pushing tech forward, for better or worse
Over the last 50 years, Apple reimagined personal computers, catalyzed the era of the smartphone, enlarged an iPhone and called it the iPad and garnered a strong position in wearable tech through its Watch series and its AirPods. It also popularized software and services like its App Store, FaceTime, iCloud,…
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The Morning After: Sony and Honda’s debut EV is dead before it even arrived
Honda and Sony announced that they are discontinuing both the Afeela 1 and 2, their electric cars. The company is reviewing its “business direction,” but it's hard to expect much from a car company that’s cancelled all of its cars. The Afeela 1, casually called the PlayStation Car, was meant…
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