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The carrier now offers 500Mbps, 1 Gig, and 2 Gig plans for fiber connections, starting at $80 per month.
The Wyze Bulb Cam combines surveillance with illumination, no wiring required.
It’s been years since we saw an entry in Digimon’s Story series, and now it’s returning with Digimon Story Time Stranger on October 3rd, 2025. The game’s description says it tells an “epic story that unravels the mystery of the world’s collapse” as you carry out turn-based battles with a variety of Digimon collected throughout the game.
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Fujifilm’s been quiet about its upcoming medium format cinema camera, but it’s trickling out just 10 initial features. These include: an optical lowpass filter, available sensor formats, in-camera codecs, custom LUTs, film simulations, film simulation-based 3D LUTs, custom framing guidelines, remote multi-camera control, Bluetooth, and LCD / on-board menu display specs.
Much of that sounds typical for any high-end cinema camera, but of course Fujifilm is flexing its film simulation muscles.
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0Isn’t it funny how all these tech and science men have ties to Epstein? I wonder why! Anyway, Epstein invested with Thiel’s Valar Ventures — and that investment hasn’t previously been disclosed. Guess what that means? “There’s a good chance much of the windfall will not go to any of the roughly 200 victims whom the disgraced financier abused when they were teenagers or young women.”
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Microsoft’s tablet and laptop hybrid now has the right mix of design, power, and battery life.
The original Switch capped the number of screenshots you could save to a meager 10,000, but for the Switch 2 Nintendo has increased the limit to 30,000, according to NintendoSoup. That’s split between the console’s system memory and a microSD card, with each having a capacity of 15,000 images.
The Switch 2 can also store up to 6,500 30 second videos — 1,500 in its system memory, and an additional 5,000 on a microSD card.
[nintendosoup.com]
The public’s negative response to previous instances of major Hollywood firing up the generative AI slop machine might make you think that entertainment execs have cooled on the technology. But a new report from Vulture makes it sound like more and more studios are jumping on the bandwagon and trying very hard to keep it a secret.
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0Using an R&D kit from a company called Etherdyne Technologies, Matthew Perks created a wooden desk that’s capable of powering everything on it, including a mouse, keyboard, speakers, and a display, without a single visible wire.
The technology is similar in principle to what’s found in Qi chargers but a hidden wire running around the perimeter of the desk generates a 3D field capable of wirelessly powering devices at a short distance.
Google is rolling out a new Gemini AI-powered feature to users with eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plans that pops up a “Catch me up” shortcut to go over recent edits in Google Docs, as well as comments on other types of files, complete with a warning that “Gemini may display inaccurate info.”
It’s supposed to roll out over the next couple of weeks, providing either a high-level summary across all of your files in the sidebar or overviews of changes to a specific file via a new activity indicator.
The New York Times is reporting on Ripple, a Washington Post initiative that’s apparently looking to open up its opinion pages to writing from “...from other newspapers across America, writers on Substack and eventually nonprofessional writers.”
That last bullet point would reportedly be assisted by the “Ember” AI writing coach with a paint-by-numbers approach to creating strong stories. As Liz’s thread goes on to point out, beyond the Forbes and Huffington Post echoes, it’s also a reminder of Tribune Publishing’s short “content curation and monetization engine” era as Tronc.
Samsung is hinting strongly at an Ultra-branded foldable coming soon with this new press release referencing a foldable with a “powerful camera,” which is traditionally a weakness of folding phones. The attached image is also named “Galaxy Z Fold 7 Z Flip 7 Pre tease,” so there’s that too.
Between this Ultra model and a rumored FE version of the Z Flip, we might have a whole bunch of new folding phones on our hands later this summer.
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CEO Chris Best drops that fact onstage at The Information’s “Future of Influence” event in Los Angeles. He also says Substack was “accidentally cash flow positive” in the first quarter of this year, but isn’t planning to be profitable soon. “We’re focused on growth,” he says. “It turns out that when you do that, it makes the business grow really well, too.”
