The outside of Nikon’s Sendai Factory.
Japanese publication AERAdot has reported Nikon is ending domestic camera production in Japan. According to the report, Nikon will be moving camera production from its Sendai Nikon factory in the Tōhoku region North of Tokyo to its Thailand factories in an effort to reduce costs.
Nikon’s Sendai factory covers nearly 27,000 square meters and has been…
Gear of the Year: Dale's choice - Fujifilm X-Pro3
December 21, 2020
Photo: Dan Bracaglia
I think we can all agree that 2020 has been an unpredictable year, so it seems appropriate that my gear of the year is a camera I wouldn’t have predicted a few months ago: the Fujifilm X-Pro3.
But first, a bit of context.
Some of my earliest…
iPhone security flaw let spies hack dozens of Al Jazeera journalists
December 21, 2020
Journalists appear to have fallen prone to a particularly sophisticated digital espionage campaign. According to the Guardian, Citizen Lab has discovered that operators using NSO Group software, nicknamed Kismet, hacked the iPhones of 37 journalists (most from Al Jazeera)…
This week’s top stories: Apple vs Facebook, AirPods Max, iOS 14.3 features, and more
December 21, 2020
In this week’s top stories: iOS 14.3 released to everyone, Apple vs Facebook, new features for the Apple Watch, additional AirPods Max tidbits, and more. Read on for all of this week’s top stories.
AirPods Max
Apple’s new AirPods Max over-ear headphones are officially available. Over the last week, we’ve learned more about the headphones, including the controversial Smart Case.
EFF sides with Apple, slams Facebook’s criticism of iOS 14 privacy features as ‘laughable’
December 21, 2020
Facebook has spent the last week publicly criticizing Apple’s plans to add new privacy features to iOS 14 in early 2021. While Facebook has slammed Apple’s planned changes, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has now come out on Apple’s side, saying Facebook’s…
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla plans to release its Full Self-Driving software package as a monthly subscription service as soon as “early 2021”.
Be ready for a surprisingly high price.
Earlier this year, we reported on indications that Tesla is working on a…
Google, in collaboration with NASA, has replaced their homepage logo in the Northern Hemisphere with an animated Doodle celebrating the winter solstice and suggesting that you keep your eyes to the skies for the current “great conjunction” of Saturn and Jupiter.
This year, December 21 marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and on this longest night of 2020, an incredible…
Razer's BlackWidow Elite keyboard returns to record low of $85
December 20, 2020
You can drop a ton of money on mechanical keyboards but now you can grab a great one from Razer at its lowest price ever. The Razer BlackWidow Elite mechanical gaming keyboard is on sale for $85 at Amazon, and that sale price is good for the models with green and orange…
If you thought you knew all of the mid-drive motors in the e-bike world, think again. The French company Valeo has just unveiled a radical new type of mid-drive electric motor that adds a built-in automatic transmission.
Automatic transmissions alone aren’t unique in the…
Apple iPhone 13 to come with WiFi 6E
December 20, 2020
The iPhone 12 lineup introduced this year comes with Wi-Fi 6, but Barclays analysts predict the iPhone 13 series coming next September will support the Wi-Fi 6E standard.
Wi-Fi 6E comes with the features of Wi-Fi 6 but extends into the 6 GHz frequency band, offering increased bandwidth and less interference for supported devices.
The analysts over at Barclays also indicated that some iPhone 13…
