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DJI Mavic 3 Pro Launches With First Triple Camera Setup
More than a year after DJI's flagship Mavic 3 was launched, the leading drone company now readies a refreshed "Pro" version. Reminiscent of Apple's strategy with the iPhone, DJI most notably adds an additional camera to the setup.Running with a triple camera system for the first time, the Mavic 3 Pro is as versatile as ever. A Hasselblad camera captures 12-bit RAW photos with a native dynamic range of up to 12.8 stops while videographers have up to 5.1K at 50 fps and 10-bit D-Log at their disposal. The Hasselblad is joined by an upgraded 166mm tele camera and an all-new 70mm f/2.8 medium tele camera.The drone has up to 46 minutes of flight time and a 15 km max transmission range with omnidirectional obstacle sensing. Highlight features include an auto-lock FocusTrack function and Advanced ...
The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
Verge Favorites Stream Deck fever has hit The Verge — here are some of the uses that we put ours to. Recently — this week, in fact — I purchased my first Stream Deck. Specifically, I decided to try the Stream Deck Mini, the smallest and most inexpensive model. Why? Because I saw how much fun many of my colleagues were having with theirs. The Stream Deck is a device that lets you program a series of physical buttons (and, in the case of the Plus, knobs) to perform a single task or a series of tasks on your computer or on your home’s smart devices. In other words, it lets you do something that usually demands several keystrokes — say, starting a new email, dropping in a template, and sending it to a specific contact list — with a single button press. Neat, right? Well, several staffers at Th...
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work
/ Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image: Getty Geoffrey Hinton, who alongside two other so-called “Godfathers of AI” won the 2018 Turing Award for their foundational work that led to the current boom in artificial intelligence, now says a part of him regrets his life’s work. Hinton recently quit his job at Google in order to speak freely about the risks of AI, according to an interview with the 75-year-old in The New York Times. ...
MSCHF Launches Online Chatroom “Hot Chat 3000”
After launching a Tax Heaven 3000 dating simulator that files your income taxes, MSCHF is back with an online chatroom site titled Hot Chat 3000."MSCHF's creation has people in an absolute stir. Hot Chat 3000 uses advanced AI to rate a person's hotness and match them with someone equally hot or not to chat with," says the reporter in the trailer clip.Clicking into hotchat3000.com, users are asked to either take a photo or upload one from their library. The prediction server rates the attractiveness of a person on a scale of 1 to 10 based on their submitted photo, and users are only allowed to chat with others in their attractiveness range (e.g. 5.0-5.9). The large machine-learning model used for the site was trained by OpenAI. Trained on a dataset of 400 million image-text pairs, the mode...
Recordings of Full-Length Movies Are Being Posted on Twitter
To say Twitter has been in a state of volatility since Elon Musk's interest -- and eventual purchase -- of the platform is a gross understatement. It recently tossed its verification system out the door (after doing the same with many of its employees) and has continued its rollout of its paid membership plan, Twitter Blue. With blue checks disappearing left and right, the company is scrambling to turn a profit -- going so far as having Musk personally pay for the Twitter Blue subscription of various high-profile celebrities.The latest problem to surface? Recordings of full-length movies are being uploaded to the platform illegally. In December of 2022, Twitter experimented with new limits for its Blue subscribers by implementing a new 4,000 character maximum per tweet, an up to 60 minute,...
Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in May
Tech/ Twitter / Elon Musk calls it a ‘win-win for both media orgs and the public.’ We’ll see. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Full-time Twitter CEO and part-time Tesla enthusiast Elon Musk said on Saturday that users of his social media platform will be able to avoid media subscriptions and pay per article starting “next month.” Musk says that Twitter’s forthcoming “one-click” service “should be a major win-win for both media orgs & the public” by allowing media companies to charge a higher per article price to...
The Stream Deck mastered the LCD key by making it peripheral
/ Button of the Month bonus: we made our own Stream Deck plugin for you! *:last-child>*:last-child]:mb-0″> a:hover]:text-black [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-e9 dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray-63 [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-13 dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63″>Left: a Photoshop layout. Right: a Quake layout with fewer keys used.a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The Stream Deck immediately pitched itself as a purpose-built tool right down to its name, giving you handy buttons to ...
The entire Super Mario Bros. movie keeps getting posted to Twitter
/ A major social media platform with no moderation team is a major social media platform with hilarious DMCA problems. It’s a long-standing belief here at The Verge that copyright law is the only real law on the internet, because it’s the only speech regulation most people on most platforms will accept. (At least in the United States.) Post something that blatantly infringes someone else’s copyright, and most platforms will spring into action to take it down, because they are protected from liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act if they take action in a reasonable amount of time upon request. And the way the DMCA influences user behavior on platforms is really well-known: we have been writing about “no copyright intended” for over a decade now. There are lots of and lots of p...
Teenage Engineering Introduces a Tiny Studio Microphone
Building off of the success of its flagship products such as the game-changing OP-1 Field Synthesizer, Teenage Engineering has gone on to introduce a number of carefully-designed miscellaneous products as of late including custom duty bags and a field desk. Returning to its original specialty of portable audio equipment, the company now previews a tiny studio microphone titled the CM-15.Arriving as the latest addition to the Teenage Engineering field system, the battery-powered microphone comes with a 3.5 mm jack, a built-in USB-C audio interface with a built-in pre-amp, and a 48v phantom-powered mini XLR allowing the device to seamlessly pair on the road or in the studio. Inside the small frame is a 1-inch diaphragm capsule manufactured by Peluso, an analog-to-digital converter, and OPA 1...
B&O’s New Beosound A5 Speaker Features a Built-In Wireless Phone Charger
Swedish consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen has launched its newest offering, the Beosound A5. Consisting of a two-way setup with four drivers, it runs the most powerful woofer in B&O's current lineup.Highlights include a Qi wireless phone charger mounted on the top of the speaker, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity with Beolink Multiroom functionality, and RoomSense that adapts playback based on your space. Delivering a product in which portable and home audio meet, the speaker has an IP65 water and dustproof rating with over 12 hours of playtime.Its modular design allows it to be easily serviced and repaired to extend its lifetime if needed with the option to exchange front covers. The hardware is paired with B&O's Mozart platform which provides the most up-to-date feat...
Skateboard NFT: Pharrell Pack Launches During Something In The Water Weekend
Pharrell Pack, a new collection of digital, physical wearables and redeemables, was curated by Skateboard P himself. The post Skateboard NFT: Pharrell Pack Launches During Something In The Water Weekend appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
The Google Pixel Fold looks nearly gapless in first leaked marketing images
/ Not the first renders of the Pixel Fold, but these ones are almost certainly Google’s. a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&>a]:shadow-underline-gray-63 dark:[&>a]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a]:shadow-underline-gray”>Image via Evan Blass (@evleaks) You’ve seen renders. You’ve seen a little footage. You’ve heard the marketing leaks. Now, you can feast your eyes on what are almost certainly the first images from Google itself of the leaked Pixel Fold. And if you haven’t looked at this story in a while, there’s a new third image as well: a:hover]:text-gray-63 [&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&>a:hover]:text-gray-bd dark:[&>a:hover]:shadow-underline-gray [&am...
