MobileNews

Pixel Buds get $20 discount on the Google Store this weekend only

December 12, 2020
Google’s primary Black Friday-Cyber Monday deals have passed, but the official US (and Canadian) store now has a rare $20 discount on the Pixel Buds. This is a limited offer that’s only available until Sunday. Until December 13, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. PT, you can get the second-generation Assistant headphones for $159 in the US. Before today, the Google Store has not offered a discount on the…
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NewsPhotography

Video: Capturing video and portraits with a Canon 65mm F0.75 x-ray lens

December 12, 2020
French photographer Mathieu Stern has built a large following on YouTube adapting distinct, vintage lenses to his mirrorless Sony cameras. He has used many wild lenses, including optics from night vision cameras, security cameras, early 20th century camera systems and even a lens he constructed himself using ice. You may also recall an article we published earlier this year in which Stern taught…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI Weekly: NeurIPS 2020 and the hope for change

December 12, 2020
On Monday morning, organizers of NeurIPS, the largest annual gathering of AI researchers in the world, gave Best Paper awards to the authors of three pieces of research, including one detailing OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model. The week also started with AI researchers…
DefenseNews

Congress Wants to Beef Up Army Effort to Develop Counter-Drone Weapons

December 12, 2020
U.S. Army Sgt. Gage Stancell, right, looks through binoculars as Sgt. Gentry Squier describes where he saw a drone during an unmanned aerial system training exercise at Erbil Air Base in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, April 24, 2020. (U.S. Army/Spc. Angel Ruszkiewicz) The Army could be required to find a new capability for countering the increasing threat of enemy unmanned drones and get it ready…
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MobileNews

Concept: Getting more value out of Apple’s MagSafe Sleeve for iPhone 12

December 12, 2020
Nearly all of Apple’s MagSafe accessories for iPhone 12 provide a decent amount of value. But one of them has so much underutilized potential coupled with an astronomical price tag. Of course, I’m talking about Apple’s new MagSafe Sleeve. Apple has been making really high-quality leather sleeves for various products for a couple of years now but the MagSafe Leather Sleeve is unique. Not…
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