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Ricoh to Stop Mass Producing Cameras, Sell Direct to Consumer Only

Ricoh’s President and CEO Noboru Akahane has announced that the Pentax and GR camera brands will undergo a dramatic restructuring that will see mass production end. It will also end distributor relationships and go direct-to-consumer. Akahane says that Ricoh Imaging will be “reborn” starting on April 1, 2022 and that it will build a new business structure for its camera brands that…
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Some Nest and Google Wifi routers have been going offline at random for months

Google’s Nest Wifi and Google Wifi routers make mesh setups easy and, for the most part, pretty reliable while being relatively cheap. However, over the past few months, some Nest Wifi and Google Wifi owners are reporting that their networks have been going offline at random for months, and it seems Google has no concrete fix. First reported all the way back in September, one Nest Wifi owner…
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Google finds what Material Design app transition users like the most on Android

An interesting – albeit specific – user experience (UX) study from Google’s Material Design team today goes into what transition animation people prefer the most in Android apps. Researchers on the Material team set out to “learn which transition best suited a grid of cards.” The context was specific to the fairly common interaction of using a food ordering app, but it applies to any…
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Samsung teases February event for ‘Note-worthy’ Galaxy S22 w/ better low-light camera

In a blog post from Samsung’s head of mobile business, the company has officially confirmed a February event for the Galaxy S22 and teased some areas of focus, too. Samsung’s TM Roh offered up Samsung’s first official teaser for the Galaxy S22 series by first looking back at the company’s Note lineup and the Galaxy Z series. For this year, Roh says that Samsung’s next lineup will bring…
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