Fujifilm GFX100RF review: one sensor, nine cameras

Fujifilm GFX100RF review: one sensor, nine cameras

Source: The Verge When Apple introduced the iPhone 15 Pro, Greg Joswiak, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said the device’s three rear cameras would give consumers “the equivalent of seven camera lenses in their pocket.” We could spend multiple podcasts debating the technical validity of that statement, but what Joswiak was trying…

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People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas

People keep putting fake walls in front of Teslas

Source: The Verge Someone has responded to YouTuber Mark Rober’s Tesla fake wall test with a video that also tries to address the question of whether the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) features would detect a Wile E. Coyote-style road obstruction in the real world. Creator Kyle Paul posted his video Thursday and included two Teslas…

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No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair

No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair

Source: The Verge Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US…

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Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again

Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again

Source: The Verge Congress’ least favorite law is once against facing an existential challenge by bipartisan opponents. Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, are planning to reintroduce a bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in two years. Repealing the bill, first reported…

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Drama over quantum computing’s future heats up

Drama over quantum computing’s future heats up

Source: The Verge On March 18th, Chetan Nayak, a physicist leading Microsoft’s quantum team, presented new data on the company’s quantum computing chip at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California. It was meant to calm a raging debate among physicists, but researchers remain skeptical of the results. “I never felt like…

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