Sony ups its new A7R VI to 66.8 megapixels and jumps the price to $4,500
…The A7R V debuted Sony’s AI-based autofocus system, and the VI is claimed to improve on it with Real-time Recognition AF+. There’s also a new 9.44 million…
Search
Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone
…AI coach had recommended several ways in which he could dramatically improve his testosterone levels. Not because he was deficient, but because they were at “not sick” levels. Whoop optimizes for performance…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…How do you measure chat at human-level performance? Well, I think many people are having long, meaningful conversations with AIs at human-level performance. The quality is exceptionally good. It has…
Elon Musk
…Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people Public opinion of the AI industry is already sinking. A parade of untrustworthy executives makes it look worse. Hayden Field May 18…
Dyson finally made a better robot, but a worse vacuum
I’m deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It’s the company’s best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and…
Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…about performance-enhancing drugs, medical supervision, and the philosophy of adequately compensating athletes. A QR code periodically flashed, encouraging spectators to send in selfies that were then turned into AI-generated portraits…
Larry Ellison’s betting everything on OpenAI. Will it pay off or pop the bubble?
…including its generative AI. This has, perhaps understandably, freaked people out. Oracle has a history of unauthorized data collection — in 2024, it settled a class-action lawsuit claiming that the company…
The SpaceX IPO is a trillion-dollar gamble on the future of space
…There have been suggestions that there’s money to be made in mining asteroids, or extracting rare earth elements from the Moon, or performing drug research in microgravity, but there is vigorous…
Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’
…a Ryzen AI 5 340 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB storage, but you’re theoretically getting a lot more for the cash — and not just in terms of performance, battery life…
PC Gaming
…Hopefully, this will mean smoother screen capture on my Fedora PC and better Discord performance overall for the record number of gamers using Linux . Cameron Faulkner May 12 Scuf’s new pro…