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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Ring cameras now support 2K across the line.

The home security company launched two new products today: the Ring Spotlight Cam (2nd Gen) at $169.99 and the Ring Floodlight Cam (2nd Gen) at $199.99. Both feature Ring’s Retinal 2K video resolution, bringing higher-res support to Ring’s base models.

Increased resolution provides clearer video and better zoom capabilities and feeds richer data into Ring’s AI features, such as Search Party, AI-generated text descriptions, and search history. The cameras will be available on June 3rd.

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<em>The Floodlight Cam is a wired camera with 2000-lumen floodlights and Retinal 2K video.</em>
<em>The Spotlight Cam has a 550-lumen spotlight and Retinal 2K video. It can<em> be plugged in, powered by solar, or via battery. It has </em>a dual-chamber battery holder and is compatible with the new Quick Release Ultra Battery Pack. </em>
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The Floodlight Cam is a wired camera with 2000-lumen floodlights and Retinal 2K video.
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
VisionQuest finally has a release date.

It’s been a while since we heard anything new about Disney’s Agatha All Along followup, VisionQuest, but Disney has just pegged the series for an October 14th premiere.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
“I feel like I used to have a parakeet.”

The new extended scene from episode 4 of Pluribus doesn’t include any major revelations, but it is an entertaining three minutes of Rhea Seehorn tripping out.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Never change, Google.

When it announced the new Googlebook laptops yesterday, a few commenters noticed the name seemed familiar, but only one realized just how familiar.

BlueClouds:

There is Google Play Books (to buy ebooks), Google Books (to search books), and now the Googlebook.

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The Apple Studio Display could have been so much more

The Studio Display is barely changed from 2022, but now it has competition.

John Higgins
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Xiaomi 17, but make it bigger.

That’s the pitch for the 17 Max, a new phone Xiaomi is teasing on Weibo. It looks exactly like the regular Xiaomi 17, but has a 6.9-inch display — the same size as the 17 Pro Max and Ultra. That’s all we know so far, but it launches in China this month.

Blue Xiaomi 17 Max in front of a white background
White Xiaomi 17 Max in front of a white background
White Xiaomi 17 Max from the side in front of a white background
Black carbon fiber Xiaomi 17 Max in front of a white background
Blue Xiaomi 17 Max in a man’s hand
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Data centers are coming for rural America

And the jobs they promise don’t really exist.

Abigail Bassett
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Here’s every Android phone getting AirDrop support ‘soon.’

In case you missed it, yesterday’s Android Show stream included a brief list of every phone with current and confirmed plans for AirDrop support in Quick Share. Google also told The Verge that Xiaomi is planning support this year, though we don’t yet know to which phones.

Screenshot showing list of current and future Android devices with AirDrop support
Screenshot: Google
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Intel is on board for Googlebook.

It seems that x86 hardware will be part of Google’s new laptop platform, although Intel doesn’t specify what processors it’ll be using:

We’re thrilled to partner with @Google on something we’ve been building with them - Googlebook. Premium, powerful devices designed for Intelligence. We can’t wait to get it into your hands this fall.

Googlebook is also expected to support ARM-based chipsets from other vendors, so perhaps the partnership isn’t exclusive.