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07 Mar

Spotify is mad at the French government, and taking it out on users

John RoutledgeLatest News

Spotify said on Thursday it will raise its subscription prices in France in response to a new tax designed to support the nation’s music industry. CEO Daniel Ek wrote an open letter denouncing the tax, which France’s government passed in late 2023. The streaming service hasn’t yet said how high the price hike will be, other than teasing, “French users…

07 Mar

Leica’s SL3 mirrorless camera offers a 60-megapixel sensor and 8K video

John RoutledgeLatest News

Leica's SL family has always been the most "mirrorless" looking of its cameras, offering pro photographers handling that's similar to rivals like Canon and Sony. That continues with the launch of the SL3, a 60-megapixel (MP) model that looks nothing like its famous rangefinder cameras, offering a new phase-detect autofocus system, 8K video capability and more.The new model has the…

07 Mar

Sony A6700 review: The company’s best APS-C camera yet

John RoutledgeLatest News

Sony is so closely associated with full-frame mirrorless cameras that it’s easy to forget it also sells the A6000 APS-C lineup — particularly since the last one, the A6600, came out five long years ago in 2019. The flagship A6700 finally arrived last year, though, with a feature list that appeared to be worth the wait.It’s the same price the…

07 Mar

Prime Video’s latest Fallout trailer deftly captures the tone of the games

John RoutledgeLatest News

Amazon has released a full trailer for the live-action Fallout series that's coming to Prime Video soon. It's our most in-depth look yet at the show and early indications suggest that the creative team has captured the distinct blend of irreverence and violence that helped Bethesda's game series become so successful.The clip focuses on Lucy (Ella Purnell), a young woman…

07 Mar

The Tesla Model S shook the industry, but its echo is fading

John RoutledgeLatest News

The consumer electronics industry has changed radically over the past two decades. AR/VR devices have come and gone and come again, smartphones have grown from filling our pockets to dominating our lives, and the tendrils of connected services now touch everything we touch.Yet, for me, the most exciting to watch has been the development of technology that moves us. I…

07 Mar

Microsoft’s neural voice tool for people with speech disabilities arrives later this year

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At its 14th Ability summit, which kicks off today, Microsoft is highlighting developments and collaborations across its portfolio of assistive products. Much of that is around Azure AI, including features announced yesterday like AI-powered audio descriptions and the Azure AI studio that better enables developers with disabilities to create machine-learning applications. It also showed off new updates like more languages…

07 Mar

MacBook Air M3 13-inch and 15-inch review (2024): Excellent yet unsurprising

John RoutledgeLatest News

It's hard to expect much from Apple's new M3-equipped MacBook Airs. The 13-inch M2 model, released in 2022, was the first major redesign for Apple's most popular notebook in over a decade. Last year, Apple finally gave its fanatics a big-screen ultraportable notebook with the 15-inch MacBook Air. This week, we've got the same two computers with slightly faster chips.…

07 Mar

The Dream Vapor Xbox Wireless Controller drops to a record low of $58

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Do you really like the aesthetic of bowling but have no interest in the game itself? In January, Xbox released the special edition Dream Vapor controller with swirls that look like they've been pulled right from a bowling ball. Now, the Dream Vapor controller — which is a great accessory for the Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One or Windows —…

07 Mar

Why Jack Dorsey thought Elon Musk could fix Twitter

John RoutledgeLatest News

Of the many bizarre moments that preceded Twitter's change in ownership, one that’s always stuck out to me was Jack Dorsey’s tweetstorm that “Elon is the singular solution I trust.” His insistence that Musk was uniquely positioned to “extend the light of consciousness” was a strange endorsement, even by Dorsey’s usual weird-guy standards. But Dorsey had long idolized Musk and…

07 Mar

MacBook Air 13-inch and 15-inch review (2024): Excellent yet unsurprising

John RoutledgeLatest News

It's hard to expect much from Apple's new M3-equipped MacBook Airs. The 13-inch M2 model, released in 2022, was the first major redesign for Apple's most popular notebook in over a decade. Last year, Apple finally gave its fanatics a big-screen ultraportable notebook with the 15-inch MacBook Air. This week, we've got the same two computers with slightly faster chips.…