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* Viltrox has announced its new AF 26mm F2.8 EVO lens * It's available in Sony E and Nikon Z-mount versions, and costs $299 / £279 * It measures 23.8mm thick and weighs 4.6oz / 130g Chinese lens manufacturer Viltrox is having a prolific year, and it's now
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Lumix L10 Panasonic made quite a splash when it announced the Lumix L10 at its Lumix 25th anniversary event in May this year. I called it 'Panasonic's prettiest Lumix in years', and many tech journalists, myself included, have compared it to the viral Fujifilm X100VI. These
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It's England vs Argentina in the World Cup semi-finals as Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham look to end Lionel Messi's dream of retaining the trophy. Both sides have had to work hard to reach this stage, but it's winner takes all now, with a
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Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped, a machine learning company that specializes in real-time recommendation and search systems. The deal is meant to strengthen Whatnot’s discovery and personalization capabilities as the platform continues to expand across new product categories and millions of buyers. According
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In Brief 10:00 AM PDT · July 15, 2026 The AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media. The hacker told the publication that they used a supply chain attack to access an employee’s credentials, allowing them to then access source code showing how
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Solar power may seem like the perfect source of energy. Once you’ve got a solar panel, you can get all the energy it is capable of producing for free — at least as long as the sun is shining. But in reality, there’s more to it than that. The
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Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvidia’s newest GB300 chips. Nebius confirmed the deal. Its shares
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China’s biggest memory chipmaker is about to test the public markets. ChangXin Memory Technologies, known as CXMT, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 8.66 yuan ($1.28) a share, the South China Morning Post reported. The sale will raise about 57.9 billion yuan, or $8.5bn. That
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TL;DR South Korea opened bidding for a free, unlimited AI chatbot for all citizens. At least 50% must use domestic models. Beta in September, full launch by year-end. South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on July 13 for a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service
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TL;DR OnePlus is exiting the US and Europe as early as this week. Realme exits China. OnePlus will shut down globally by 2027. The memory shortage killed its budget lineup. OnePlus, the Android brand that built a cult following with aggressively priced smartphones, will begin to cease operations in
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Chai Discovery’s $400m raise triples its value to $3.8bn in seven months. It is the latest sign that AI drug discovery has moved from promise to deployment. AI drug discovery just minted another fast-rising star. Chai Discovery has raised a $400m Series C that values the San Francisco
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
