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It’s hard to imagine a company with a greater influence on consumer electronics than Sony. You can trace a direct line from the Walkman -- the first portable media player -- to the smartphone. Today Sony is a massive force in gaming, making the PlayStation and publishing games for it and other platforms. Sony image sensors are in iPhones as well as its own mirrorless cameras. Not to mention the OLED TVs; smartphones; noise-canceling headphones; music, tv, and film publishing; and, yes, robot dogs.

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Brandon Widder and Antonio G. Di Benedetto
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Umar Shakir
Umar Shakir
How about 20 minutes flight time instead of 12?

Sony just announced upgraded software and accessories for its $9,000 professional Airpeak S1 drone released in 2021.

The new, denser 3,938mAh battery packs ($400 each) enable the increased flight time, along with a new lighter-weight Gremsy gimbal ($4,000) that is designed for more accurate imaging in industrial applications. It works better with smaller lenses like the 24mm f/2.8 G.

And with Sony’s new RTK kit ($4,000) the Airpeak can be controlled more reliably and accurately, especially around areas of strong interference — think wind turbines. It also enables repeat missions with centimeter-accurate positioning compared to the previous meter-accurate GNSS system.

Sony’s fully decked-out Airpeak S1 with new RTK kit.
Sony’s fully decked-out Airpeak S1 with new RTK kit.
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David Pierce
David Pierce
Today on The Vergecast: HBO Max is out and Max is in, everybody’s quitting Twitter, and Sony’s finally doing cloud gaming.

Listen, I’m just saying, CNN Airport would definitely be a better name for a streaming service than Max. We tried to figure out what’s next for this service, then looked into Twitter’s big fight with Substack, Sony’s cloud and mobile gaming plans, and more.

Also: Nilay is still wrong about CarPlay. That’s the main takeaway from this episode.

This is the best time in a decade to splurge on a premium OLED TV

LG’s G3 and Samsung’s S95C promise the brightest, most impressive picture we’ve ever seen from OLED TVs — and that’s on top of other advantages like perfect blacks and excellent gaming performance.

Chris Welch
What we’ve learned about Sony PlayStation’s new smartphone games teamWhat we’ve learned about Sony PlayStation’s new smartphone games team
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Raspberry Pi and Sony strike AI deal.

Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi, on Sony’s minority investment and AITRIOS deal that extends the companies’ existing relationship:

“This transaction will allow us to expand our partnership, bringing Sony Semiconductor Solutions’ line of AI products to the Raspberry Pi ecosystem, and helping our users to build exciting new machine-learning applications at the edge.”

Raspberry Pi Receives Strategic Investment from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

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Becca Farsace
Becca Farsace
Becca <3 CineVlog.

Are a cinemascope aspect ratio and color profile really all Sony’s new $2,199 ZV-E1 full-frame camera has over an iPhone 14 Pro? I spend a week with it to find out.

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The best Bluetooth speakers to buy right now

Water resistance and lengthy battery life are now standard

Chris Welch
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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Finally, a remote for anime nerds.

Sony’s shipping a new remote control with its 2023 lineup of Bravia TVs, and it comes with a button that leads you directly to Crunchyroll.

While it’s nice that at least one TV maker’s acknowledging us anime fans, it’s hard to view the move as anything other than a way for Sony to promote another one of its businesses.

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Tom Warren
Tom Warren
A mysterious PS3 firmware update appears.

Sony has published a new PS3 firmware update today, version 4.90. The notes just say the update “improves system performance,” but it comes weeks after methods to extract working PS2 and PS1 BIOS from PS3 firmware were discovered. That’s got PS3 owners wondering exactly what’s in Sony’s latest firmware update.

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