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We’re six weeks into 2026 and there have been three major camera launches so far; the Leica Q3 Monochrom, Ricoh GR IV Monochrome and Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema.That’s two pricey black-and-white-only compact cameras and a Super 8-style instant camera…that also shoots video.In one sense, I’m hardly surprised. Compact camera shipments for 2025 rose by 30% year-on-year, driving the first real overall growth in camera shipments for many years. You may like And judging by 2025’s top-selling cameras, there’s seemingly a continued hunger for simple retro tech too – Fujifilm remains a popular pick with its X100VI, and older Canon…

The UniFi 5G Max (model U5G-Max) and the Outdoor variant (U5G-Max-Outdoor) are among the few 5G solutions Ubiquiti unveiled in late 2025. At their core, these are modems designed to connect to a UniFi network via a Power over Ethernet (PoE) connection, providing cellular Internet access to the entire system. Here’s the bottom line: If you have a system powered by a UniFi Cloud Gateway (a.k.a UniFi “router”) and need cellular backup, the UniFi 5G Max (or the Outdoor variant) is a must-have. The thoughtful design, plug-and-play setup, and stellar performance make the relatively high $399 price tag easy to…

On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it. One adversarial session reportedly prompted the model more than 100,000 times across various non-English languages, collecting responses ostensibly to train a cheaper copycat. Google published the findings in what amounts to a quarterly self-assessment of threats to its own products that frames the company as the victim and the hero, which is not unusual in these self-authored assessments. Google calls the illicit activity “model extraction” and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given…

Killing Satoshi, an upcoming biopic about the elusive creator of Bitcoin, will reportedly rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate locations and adjust actors’ performances, Variety reports. The film was announced in 2025 as being directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, The Edge of Tomorrow) and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in undisclosed roles, but its connection to overhyped technology was previously understood to begin and end with cryptocurrency.According to a UK casting notice viewed by Variety, the producers of Killing Satoshi reserve the right to “change, add to, take from, translate, reformat or reprocess” actors’ performances, using…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a mix of a little bit of everything. It helps if basketball is your game. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.Connections: Sports Edition is published by The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by The Times. It doesn’t appear in the NYT Games app, but it does in The Athletic’s own app.…

China successfully extracted kilogram-level uranium from seawater under real marine conditionsOceans contain far more uranium than all known land-based deposits combinedSeawater uranium concentration is extremely low, making recovery technically demandingChinese scientists have revealed successful kilogram-scale uranium extraction from seawater under real marine conditions, a milestone which moves the concept beyond laboratory testing.The announcement came through state-linked nuclear institutions, and was tied to the operation of a dedicated offshore test platform in the South China Sea.Seawater contains uranium at extremely low concentrations, roughly 0.003ppm, which makes recovery technically demanding and energy intensive. You may like Seawater uranium attracts long-term interestDespite this…

This post lists the five best NAS devices among those I’ve reviewed and used extensively. They are truly battle-tested servers. Network-attached storage devices are designed to provide large amounts of storage space to the entire network—they connect to the network’s router (or a switch) rather than to a peripheral port, such as USB or Thunderbolt. NAS server explained: Redundancy and the basics of accessing shared network storage NAS servers are similar to traditional servers (computers) in terms of functionality, except they don’t require a keyboard, mouse, or screen. Instead, they are managed via a web-based user interface and are suitable…

But 1,000 tokens per second is actually modest by Cerebras standards. The company has measured 2,100 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 70B and reported 3,000 tokens per second on OpenAI’s own open-weight gpt-oss-120B model, suggesting that Codex-Spark’s comparatively lower speed reflects the overhead of a larger or more complex model. AI coding agents have had a breakout year, with tools like OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code reaching a new level of usefulness for rapidly building prototypes, interfaces, and boilerplate code. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have all been racing to ship more capable coding agents, and latency has become…

During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it’s a doozy. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5) will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17.Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac’s third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his protégé Miles Morales. Each Spidey has his own skill tree and moveset to master.Traversing New York (with a lot more of it explorable than in previous entries) has never felt better thanks to…

It’s rare that I spot something at the grocery store that makes my heart cry out with unbridled, capitalistic desire. Yes, both the wine and fancy cheese departments sometimes have fun finds, but otherwise, there are only so many ways to remix the foodstuff canon. It wasn’t something edible that recently caught my eye, though, but rather a genius bit of infrastructure. And it was brightly colored packaging, in fact, but not in the processed-food department or the produce aisle. I spotted them in a fellow shopper’s cart: four technicolor shopping bags, one of them insulated, designed to fit inside the…