Technology

After exploring the relationship between creativity and technology with Sunni Colón, Xiaomi enlists photographer Juliette Cassidy for the latest episode of its visual project celebrating creators from various disciplines spanning music, photography and design. HYPEBEAST teamed up with the tech brand to follow Cassidy on her daily journey, as she uses her new Xiaomi 12 Pro to capture her surroundings and gather inspiration for future studio shoots. Having studied in Boston before settling in London, the Spanish photographer uses her experiences to develop her visual style, “I had a very classic aesthetic. For a long time I was only interested in black and white photography,” she explains. With every shot comes growth, and the ability to tell a story through a still image is an art form Cass...

Twitter has launched a new limited experiment that will see it promote developers’ third-party safety tools natively on its service, TechCrunch reports. The test will initially focus on apps like Block Party, Bodyguard and Moderate, which can help block harassment and other toxic content on the platform. With this experiment, select users will see these services promoted with a new prompt when they mute or block another account on Twitter. It highlights apps featured in Twitter Toolbox, a recently launched initiative that currently promotes third-party Twitter tools in an online hub. “The Twitter Toolbox offers more solutions to improve your experience on Twitter,” the prompt reads, before listing a selection of services. The experiment is Twitter’s attempt to promote third-party tools on ...

I’m in Baltimore, riding in the passenger seat of an electric delivery van — one of the first in the world, I think — when we pass a white Rivian R1T electric pickup truck. In some respects, it’s like seeing a ghost. The buzzy EV company began manufacturing the R1T last year, and since then has only delivered around 2,500 of them. Rivian is also building electric delivery vans for Amazon and other companies, but it won’t say how many it has made so far. The van I’m riding in was made by BrightDrop, an electric delivery company that spun-out of General Motors last year. The occasion is a world record that BrightDrop is attempting to set for “the longest distance traveled by an electric delivery van on a single charge.” I’m riding shotgun, if somewhat uncomfortably. Delivery van jump seats a...

With summer just around the corner, EcoFlow is now here to help you power your next camping or fishing trip with its new RIVER mini power station. Designed with portability in mind, the RIVER mini manages to pack quite a big punch in a relatively small form factor, providing 210Wh of power (or roughly 58,400mAh) in a sleek black body that’s easily carriable by hand and weighs just slightly above six pounds. With a 300W output, it’ll power more than 90% of all household devices you’ll have, including your smartphone, tablet, Bluetooth speakers, laptops, or even your camping lights and fans. With two AC ports, one DC car port, four USB ports and a 15W wireless charging bay up top, you’ll be able to charge up to eight devices at any given time. As for charging the power station itself, a 300W...

Teenage Engineering has now unveiled its ultra-portable TX-6 stereo mixer. Building on the success and popularity of its previous offerings, the innovative Swedish tech company has now created yet another device with a minimalistic, retro-styled six-channel mixer that fits in the palm of your hand. The entire device is clad in a Braun-like CNC-machined aluminum case sitting under a customizable knob layout and also doubles as a synthesizer and sequencer. Eight built-in effects give you more to play with while a DJ mode also lets you turn the TX-6 into a DJ mixer, crossfading between channels five and six. Other features include sleek, super slimline cables, wireless connectivity, and both 6.3mm and 3.5mm outputs. For those interested, Teenage Engineering’s TX-6 stereo mixer is now availabl...

With Earth Day around the corner, it’s that time of the year again, when companies start doling out sustainability pledges like candy. Unfortunately, some of those promises can be misleading. So,The Verge spoke with sustainability experts for tips on how to tell whether or not a climate pledge is legit. They also shared advice on what companies should aspire to if they want to have a meaningful impact on climate change. It truly is tough to suss out stronger corporate climate pledges from weaker ones. Most companies just aren’t transparent enough on what the climate commitments entail. And even if there is fine print, it’s definitely not fun to sift through. Some of those promises can be misleading. “They’re not as easy as calories on a package — where we can look at two packages in the gr...

Valve has quietly updated the specs to its still-unreleased official dock for the Steam Deck handheld gaming PC, as reported by Review Geek. The Steam Deck tech specs page originally said the dock would have one USB-A 3.1 port, two USB-A 2.0 ports, and an Ethernet port for networking, but the page now says that all three USB-A ports will use the much faster 3.1 standard, and it now specifies that the Ethernet port will actually be a Gigabit Ethernet port. According to the Wayback Machine, Valve’s Steam Deck tech specs page listed the original specs as of February 12th, and the accompanying diagram of the dock pointed to an “Ethernet” port for networking. But by February 22nd, the specs were updated to list the three USB-A 3.1 ports. And by February 25th — the first day Valve began selling ...

A former president of the United States has their pick of big problems to tackle once they leave office. Jimmy Carter worked on housing. Bill Clinton spent much of his time working to fight HIV and AIDS. Barack Obama, who has been out of office for six years, has so far led a fairly quiet post-presidency. But in recent weeks, he has begun drawing attention to an issue that advisers say has become increasingly important to him: disinformation, and the broader problems with our fractured information ecosystem. In the months after President Donald Trump was dislodged from office, what could feel at times like an all-consuming focus on disinformation in the tech and political press began to fade into the background. The shift is understandable: Trump had been the most prominent spreader of dis...

Earlier this week Netflix reported quarterly earnings results that showed its subscriber numbers dropping for the first time in a decade, but not every streamer is experiencing that kind of pullback. Even though AT&T has offloaded HBO and the rest of WarnerMedia to their new home with Discovery, it still had one more set of subscriber numbers to reveal with its own earnings report Thursday morning. The numbers showed HBO added nearly 13 million subscribers last year across both traditional HBO and HBO Max, including growth of three million in the last quarter. Now both services combine for 76.8 million subscribers worldwide, which is still dwarfed by Netflix’s 221.64 million subscribers and even the most recent Disney Plus count of 129.8 million. As we noted in January, HBO Max is doin...