Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks
Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks Two former employees at cybersecurity firms – one of whom was a ransomware negotiator – have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks in 2023. The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas on Tuesday, saying 40-year-old Ryan Goldberg and 36-year-old Kevin […]
GameSir put a tiny force feedback steering wheel on its new Swift Drive controller
GameSir put a tiny force feedback steering wheel on its new Swift Drive controller GameSir is no stranger to experimenting with unique controller features – its Tarantula Pro can automatically swap its face button labels to accommodate alternate layouts, and its Pocket 1 clamps Game Boy controls onto your phone. What sets its new Swift […]
Anker’s portable backup battery is an even better investment now it’s nearly half off
Anker's portable backup battery is an even better investment now it's nearly half off Anker’s 521 PowerHouse can power up to six devices. Winter storms across the country are bringing heavy snow, rain, and — in some cases, as this Californian who briefly lost power a few days ago can attest — outages. If you […]
This smart garden turned my black thumb green
This smart garden turned my black thumb green The Gardyn Studio is that rare piece of tech that looks good inside my home. I can’t grow anything. Multiple attempts to create a cottage garden, first in Idaho and now in South Carolina, have brought disappointment. Both are challenging climates, but where others have succeeded, I’ve […]
The Canon EOS R6 Mark III is great, but this lens is amazing
The Canon EOS R6 Mark III is great, but this lens is amazing An f/1.2 aperture is a beautiful thing. Canon’s new EOS R6 Mark III is an excellent camera. It’s not a groundbreaking upgrade to the 3-year-old R6 Mark II, but it takes the same body with great ergonomics and adds more resolution, video […]
LG is announcing its own Frame-style TV at CES
LG is announcing its own Frame-style TV at CES In just the past couple years, the art TV category that’s been dominated by Samsung’s The Frame has seen growth, with additions from both TCL and Hisense. Now LG has announced its own entry, the LG Gallery TV. The TV will leverage the Gallery+ service that […]
How to tweak your online platform algorithms
How to tweak your online platform algorithms Here’s how you can see more or less of certain content being pushed to you on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and more. Love them or hate them, more than half of the world’s population interacts with algorithmic recommendations in some way every day. Algorithmic recommendations play an integral […]
This experimental camera can focus on everything at once
This experimental camera can focus on everything at once Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mellon University A camera lens, historically, can only focus on one thing at a time, just like […]
Xiaomi’s 17 Ultra Leica edition has a rotatable camera zoom
Xiaomi's 17 Ultra Leica edition has a rotatable camera zoom It’s also the first Xiaomi phone to include Leica’s little red dot logo. Xiaomi used the Christmas period to launch its top flagship phone for the year, the 17 Ultra. It drops the extra rear display that’s the key selling point of the 17 Pro, […]
Windows on Arm had another good year
Windows on Arm had another good year In 2024, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chips finally made Arm-based Windows laptops viable. Unlike previous Arm laptops that struggled to even run Windows well, this new class offered solid performance and the best battery life on Windows, and they impressed us in Microsoft’s own Surface Laptop and Surface Pro […]