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Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Leica M EV1: two-minute reviewThe Leica M EV1 concept is polarizing: strip out the optical rangefinder that Leica M cameras have been famed for for over 70 years, and replace it with an electronic viewfinder (EVF).It’s yet another example of Leica tweaking and evolving its tried and tested rangefinder series design, however, and another reason that the oldest active lens mount still in production today has many years of…
2025 is nearly over and we’re ready to call the hits and misses of the year in TV, starting with the misses. A lot of high-profile shows aired in 2025, both old favorites returning for another season and brand new series out to prove themselves. In this article, we’ll talk about the ones that didn’t. We’ll talk about the shows that returned but didn’t meet expectations. We’re not saying all of these shows are terrible or even that bad, just that they let us down for one reason or another. IT: Welcome to Derry IT? More like… IT: Welcome to…
Redmi started teasing the global Note 15 5G a few days ago, first confirming its 108MP main camera, then its 5,520 mAh battery with 45W wired charging support. Now there’s a new reveal, and this time we get one of the most important specs: the chipset powering the device. The Redmi Note 15 5G will use the Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC, which was quietly unveiled in September. If you’re familiar with the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2, this is really similar. The Snapdragon 6 Gen 3’s CPU has four Cortex-A78 cores clocked at up to 2.4GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores…
Presented by TwilioThe customer data infrastructure powering most enterprises was architected for a world that no longer exists: one where marketing interactions could be captured and processed in batches, where campaign timing was measured in days (not milliseconds), and where "personalization" meant inserting a first name into an email template.Conversational AI has shattered those assumptions.AI agents need to know what a customer just said, the tone they used, their emotional state, and their complete history with a brand instantly to provide relevant guidance and effective resolution. This fast-moving stream of conversational signals (tone, urgency, intent, sentiment) represents a fundamentally different…
Earlier this month, Amazon revealed a new feature that aims to use AI to recap its Prime Video shows. The tool, now deployed in beta form, generates everything from narration, dialogue, and music to summarize key plot points, allowing fans to quickly catch up on their favorite shows. At least, that was the idea. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the AI tool has already made an enormous mess by bungling up the details of a hit show, suffering from the common shortcomings of the tech we’ve become all too familiar with. As GamesRadar reports, the recap of Season 1 for the company’s popular…
For anyone looking to buy their first VR headset as a gift this Christmas, or to upgrade to something newer, this deal on the Meta Quest 3 is well worth getting. For those who are yet to be introduced to the wonderful world of Meta’s VR, this $407.10 Meta Quest 3 512GB bundle (was $499.99) could bring lots of holiday joy. This includes a three-month trial of Meta Horizon Plus (the company’s flagship VR platform), where you can enjoy over 40 games, helping you to get the most out of the device right from the off. Save over $90 on…
RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook website to continue using the popular messaging service. Though originally launched at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Messenger’s desktop app couldn’t handle as many video call participants as business-focused rivals like Zoom, and didn’t offer screensharing or easy-to-share URLs. The writing was on the wall for the app’s declining importance to Meta, even before the company announced its shutdown plans this October. In 2023, Facebook…
Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityWe’ve seen some unexpected battery behavior in the Pixel 10 series. Battery life is typically okay for us on Google’s latest, but depending on the workload, Pixel 10 phones sometimes offer shorter battery life than last year’s Pixel 9 series did. Stranger still, the Pixel 10 Pro XL in particular can be annoyingly inconsistent. Curious to know more, we started asking how you all feel about battery life in Pixel 10 phones beginning in October — and now, nearly two months on, we’ve got the results of that polling.According to our poll, most readers —…
We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (with a shoutout to Cohere in Canada and Mistral in France). But now a Korean startup is making waves: last week, the firm known as Motif Technologies released Motif-2-12.7B-Reasoning, another small parameter open-weight model that boasts impressive benchmark scores, quickly becoming the most performant model from that country according to independent benchmarking lab Artificial Analysis (beating even regular GPT-5.1 from U.S. leader OpenAI). But more importantly for…
It is rare for the richest person or the richest family to double the wealth of the next richest. Bill Gates achieved this in 1999 when he reached $90 billion while Warren Buffett was at $36 billion, and was close in 2001. The Walton family also achieved this in 1993 and 1994. As of December 2, 2024 the net worth of the five richest individuals in the world wasElon Musk: $353BJeff Bezos: $231BMark Zuckerberg: $210BLarry Ellison: $198BBernard Arnault: $171B As of Dec 15, 2025 Elon Musk has $509 billion and Larry Page has $252 billion. (per Forbes). This is missing…