Sony After taking the title for the top-selling full-frame camera brand, Sony is funneling that technology into a smaller, APS-C mirrorless shooter. On Tuesday, January 15, Sony unveiled the A6400, a mirrorless camera that takes some of the same technology inside the full-frame A7 III and A9 series and repackages those features into a $ […]
[embedded content] Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer. Powerful inter-dimensional beings are wreaking havoc across Europe, Spidey finds a new ally in Mysterio, and Aunt May is getting it on with Happy Hogan in the first trailer for Spider-man: Far From Home. (Spoilers for Infinity War below.) When we last saw Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Andrew Holland), […]
Like a passing storm, CES 2019 has come and nearly gone. With it, we’ve seen a very impressive lineup of laptops from manufacturers ranging from Lenovo and Dell to MSI and Razer. Each individual laptop has its pros and cons, but we saw some broad trends across almost every device. These are the trends that will define […]
Hillary Grigonis/Digital Trends When Eastman Kodak unveiled the Brownie camera in 1900, it was a cardboard box with a lens and a roll of film. As basic as it was, it was revolutionary in democratizing photography. In those days, buying a camera was simple. Fast-forward more than a century later, and modern cameras are so […]
Les Shu/Digital Trends Gear announcements and industry trade shows go together like lenses and filters — and the Consumer Electronics Show tends to bring the first photo products of the year. This year is no exception. While CES 2019 didn’t unveil any new mirrorless or DSLR cameras outside a prototype stage, the show floor brought […]
A sex toy designed for women has been banned from the technology show CES. Lora DiCarlo said it had been invited to display its robotic Ose vibrator at CES, after winning an innovation award. CES organiser the Consumer Technology Association, which granted the award, said it had included the device by mistake and could withdraw […]
Gamers who want Nvidia’s latest RTX graphics in a more mobile laptop form factor will soon be able to experience all the promises of ray tracing on Asus’s ROG Zephyrus S GX701 and the GX531 models. Despite packing in the performance, both laptops maintain a slim profile by using Nvidia’s Max-Q design. The main difference […]
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Facebook is scanning nearly every post on the platform in an attempt to assess suicide risk. Facebook passes the information along to law enforcement for wellness checks. Privacy experts say Facebook’s failure to get affirmative consent from users for the program presents privacy risks that could lead to exposure or worse. In […]
When you work for the digital marketing team of a smartphone manufacturer, the last thing you should be doing is using a rival’s hardware to post messages on behalf of the company. But that’s exactly what happened at Huawei on New Year’s Eve. The story’s a little more complicated than that, though. As The South […]
Fresh greens in space? Recent research has looked into how plants respond to low levels of gravity and a particular hormone which can help plants grow in challenging space conditions. Now, new research has succeeded in growing plants in high-tech planters which use artificial soil made from lava rock. Plants in climate-regulated growth chambers Silje […]
Netflix Apple stands to lose a substantial amount of revenue after Netflix dumped iTunes billing. Netflix is currently the highest grossing app on the App Store and has to hand Apple up to 30% of user subscriptions billed through iTunes. The streaming giant will force new and lapsed users to pay through its website rather […]
A Chinese lunar rover has reportedly made history by landing on the far side of the moon and transmitting back the first images to Earth, Chinese state media announced this week. According to China’s National Space Administration, the Chang’e 4 probe landed in the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin crater late Thursday evening, Beijing time. The probe […]
Next week I’ll head off for my annual holiday from gaming as I focus on covering technology at the CES 2019 event in Las Vegas. Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the lobbying group that puts on the biggest tech trade show, told me that the event will draw 180,000 attendees and 4,500 […]
When CES 2019 kicks off on January 8 in Las Vegas, Google’s focus on Google Assistant and the company’s smart home ecosystem is poised to outdo last year’s massive presence, when “Hey Google” ads and signs were everywhere you looked. Google Booth CES 2018 Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends The CES 2019 exhibitor list shows Google will have an […]