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Comment: Google Now, Glass, & Wear — The future we lost by making watches miniature phones

Tomorrow will hopefully mark the beginning of the Apple Watch getting a serious competitor in the form of Samsung hardware running Google software. The wearable space is in serious need of competition, but it’s unfortunate how the two competing efforts are fundamentally the same. That similarity has deep ramifications for how we will experience technology for the foreseeable future. The great…
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Nintendo will showcase more indies on August 11

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nintendo announced today that it will host another Indie World showcase at 9 a.m. Pacific tomorrow, August 11. The 20-minute show will give Nintendo a chance to highlight some of the biggest indie games coming to the Switch for the rest of this year and beyond. The console has some major first-party releases on the way…
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Krafton shares close 9% down after PUBG maker’s IPO

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Krafton raised $3.75 billion in on public offering, but the maker of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) saw its share price close 9% down in the first day of trading Tuesday. The South Korean…
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Radioactive Lenses and Everything About Them

There’s a lot of misinformation about radioactive lenses – from scare stories about growing an extra arm and getting cancer, all the way to saying that radioactive lenses are entirely harmless. The truth is somewhere between the two extremes and requires careful…
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Elinchrom ONE: Its First Battery-Powered, 131 Ws, HSS Monolight

Elinchrom has announced the Elinchrom One, its new portable off-camera battery-powered monolight that the company says has been requested for a long time. It features an integrated battery, 725 full-power flashes per charge, high-speed sync, and 131 watt-seconds (Ws) of power. Elinchrom says the One is a “rugged and dependable” flash that is also small and lightweight. It weighs 1.5 kilograms…
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Xiaomi Launches the Mix 4 with its First Under-Display Selfie Camera

Xiaomi has announced the Mix 4, the latest in its Mix series that generally has highlighted cutting-edge technology and sleek design. The latest has an impressive array of main cameras but also features the company’s first commercial launch of an under-display front-facing camera. Xiaomi’s Camera Under Panel (CUP) is similar to the one that was launched by ZTE and also the prototype that was…
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