Leica’s latest black-and-white-only camera is the $7,800 Q3 Monochrom
Leica is announcing a Q3 Monochrom, its latest digital camera that captures only black-and-white photos and video. In many ways, the Q3 Monochrom is the same as a standard Q3, but with its 60-megapixel sensor modified to not record color, and dressed up in a stealthier logo-less design. It’s available today for $7,790, a $1,055 […]
Brendan Carr’s FCC launches probe into BBC’s Trump edit
FCC chair Brendan Carr has reportedly written to the BBC, PBS, and NPR announcing an investigation into whether a controversial BBC documentary with a misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech was ever aired in the US. Breitbart obtained a copy of the letter, which hasn’t been shared publicly by either Carr or the FCC. […]
Verizon is laying off over 13,000 workers
Verizon is preparing to lay off more than 13,000 employees, or about 13 percent of its workforce. In a message to employees, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says that the reductions come as part of plans to cut costs and “reorient” the company “around delivering for and delighting our customers,” as first reported by The Wall […]
The FCC wants to roll back steps meant to stop a repeat of a massive telecom hack
After one of the biggest telecom hacks in US history, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to enforce strict standards on carriers' cybersecurity measures. On Thursday, the agency is set to vote to roll back those requirements, arguing they were an unnecessary overstep of its authority. The China-linked Salt Typhoon hack revealed last year impacted […]
Camera support could be the boost Matter needs
It's finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home devices: cameras. The Matter 1.5 spec, announced today, adds support for all types of video cameras - from indoor and outdoor, wired and battery-powered cameras, to video doorbells, baby monitors, pet cams, and more. Matter support should […]
Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes
Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year on, Windows on Arm is a lot more ready for gaming, thanks to emulator improvements, driver updates, a new Snapdragon Control Panel, and Qualcomm’s work […]
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the Attorney General, "whose sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws." According to a draft of the […]
Netflix signs a three year deal to stream MLB live events and games
Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year. […]
Nvidia says its AI GPUs are sold out, grows data center by $10B in a single quarter
Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it's ever sold before, blowing past its estimates in its Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57 billion in revenue - and roughly $4,000 of pure profit per second - it grew its data center business by $10 billion in a single quarter […]
Google’s new Scholar Labs search uses AI to find relevant studies
Google has announced it's testing a new AI-powered search tool, Scholar Labs, that's designed to answer detailed research questions. But its demonstration highlighted a bigger question about finding "good" science studies. How much will scientists trust a tool that forgoes typical ways of gauging a study's popularity with the scientific establishment in favor of reading […]