Even photographers who were around during the advent of digital photography may not be familiar with the EPix Pro that James Warner recently tested. It’s an obscure prosumer camera that debuted in 1996 with advanced features like a beam splitter for its optical viewfinder, support for C-Mount lenses, and both encryption and watermarking capabilities baked in.
Ford is now accepting sign-ups for preorder invites for the upcoming Ford Fathom, the automaker’s $28,350 electric truck that’s coming out next year. Keep in mind, no one has seen this truck beyond a few camouflaged images. But with the average transaction price for a new vehicle over $50,562, it couldn’t hurt to get in line for Ford’s new ultra-low-cost EV.
The Today I’m Toying With giveaway is still going strong. I start a new giveaway each Wednesday, each runs for one week, and you can enter as many of them as you’d like — as long as you enter each one before its deadline of 9AM ET Wednesday! Here’s how to enter TITW Giveaway #16. Tell a friend!
The Greatest is an eight-episode series premiering November 4th that looks at the life of one of the greatest sportsmen to ever grace the Earth. Jaalen Best stars as Ali, and Michael B. Jordan is an executive producer.
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
In return for feeding a ‘digital twin’ my metabolic data, it predicts how I’ll react to certain foods — and one day, maybe medicines.
I’ve really warmed up to the game’s art style, especially in this new trailer. And after reading my colleague Cameron Faulkner’s hands-on preview, I’m looking forward to returning to Hyrule even more. The game launches on Switch 2 on November 5th.
RedLynx, which made the Trials games, is being closed down, while 70 jobs have been “impacted” at Ubisoft Singapore, which made Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, Eurogamer reports.
Ubisoft said in July that Resynced had sold 3.5 million copies, “exceeding annual expectations within its first 14 days.”
The hard-to-explain game, which was recipient of the Seumas McNally Grand Prize at this year’s Independent Games Festival Awards, is launching October 29th on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Android, and iPhone. It initially released in April on Steam. It’s weird, but definitely worth checking out.
Meta’s Muse app has topped the iOS App Store chart in the US since it launched in early September, but now it’s lost that position to an unexpected tender contender: Dave’s Hot Chicken. It presumably has little to do with AI capabilities, and more the extremely popular free slider promotional offer than ran yesterday, but lets see how long Dave’s can keep the top spot.
Steam Frame Hub reports that the Steam Frame kernel source code includes branches referencing a “Plano” device and says the headset will have a resolution of 3552 × 3840 per eye (higher than the Frame) and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip (same as the Frame). Valve watcher Brad Lynch speculates that it could be Valve “just trying to prototype headsets with this optical stack based on what’s already lying around.”
For what it’s worth, Valve released the Steam Deck OLED more than a year and half after the original Deck.
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A wallet tracker isn’t much good if a pickpocket immediately spots and discards it. So Statik’s $29.99 SmartCard Incognito is camouflaged to look like a credit card with a fake chip and magnetic strip. It’s compatible with Apple and Google’s tracking networks and its wirelessly-charged battery is good for up to 11 months.
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The image was generated with ChatGPT as a prank, but spread online and sparked phone calls to the police until eventually wildlife rangers were sent out after the non-existent bear, Reuters reports. The woman who confessed to creating the image was fined 15,000 roubles ($178).
Read a chapter from Jason Jones’ An Oral History of Humanity’s Final Invention, one part of an ambitious multimedia plan.
Last Saturday, The Verge won a New York Emmy Award for our 2025 video about how electric cargo bikes are reshaping cities. It won in the “Environment / Science” category, which is fitting since e-bikes are proven tools for combating climate change.
On a personal note, it was especially gratifying to win an Emmy for a video that featured the bike bus I helped start in my town in New Jersey. Kids should be able to bike safely with their friends to school! And electric cargo bikes help make that happen.
In a post spotted by Android Authority, leaker Roland Quandt says the audio-only version of Nothing’s rumored glasses won’t have cameras, similar to Meta’s new audio-only Ray-Bans. Quandt adds that Nothing’s glasses will also have “auto tinting photocromic lenses,” and says there will be a camera-equipped version with ChatGPT and translation features.
Asus is announcing the ExpertBook A7: a 14-inch laptop with a 120Hz OLED display and an Intel Core 5 320 chip. It’s available today, starting at $1,299.99 with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
But coming in the new year is an 8GB / 256GB version for a more affordable $899. 8GB felt workable in the XPS 13, and it didn’t have a fancy OLED, but it cost $200 less.
Update, October 14th: The entry-level ExpertBook will have 12GB of RAM for $899, not 8GB. See new post here.
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The screen is gorgeous, the hardware works, and it finally runs full Android. But there’s too much Amazon in my tablet.
