Sony ups its new A7R VI to 66.8 megapixels and jumps the price to $4,500

Sony announced its new flagship high-resolution camera, the A7R VI. The standout feature is its fully stacked full-frame sensor with 66.8 megapixels of resolution and up to 16 stops of…

Microsoft is trying to stay out of Musk v. Altman

Maybe I’m just punch drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don’t…

Swatch’s latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch

Depending on the size, features, and finish, Audemars Piguet’s Royal Oak watches can range in price from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Audemars Piguet x…

Why does the Googlebook exist?

Google announced its new Googlebook laptop platform yesterday, and so far I’ve been left asking, “Why?” Why is Google blowing up its Chromebook and ChromeOS platform for this? I’ve been…

The border is everywhere | The Verge

No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the sense that they…

Alexa is moving into Amazon.com

Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Amazon.com, integrating its LLM-powered AI assistant directly into the company’s shopping experience. Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon, you’ll be talking…

Unitree will sell you a massive ‘transformable mecha’ for $650,000

Unitree is already one of the most recognizable names in the humanoid robot industry, but now it’s pursuing even nicher sci-fi tech: giant mech suits. The Chinese robotics company has…

Microsoft’s Xbox PC app hints at China expansion for Game Pass

Microsoft appears to be working on expanding its Xbox Game Pass subscription to China. References to “Project Saluki” have been discovered in a recent update to the Xbox PC app…

The Apple Studio Display could have been so much more

For the better part of 12 years, Apple owned the 5K monitor world — primarily because it made basically the only options. LG’s 5K UltraFine was a solid, if bland…

Data centers are coming for rural America

At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people — until a pulp digester exploded in…