This week we kicked off our full reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6, saw Amazon recall more than 400,000 harmful and defective products, and learned how an Olympic photo was taken with a Nikon Z9.
In case you missed this and much more, we have this consultant to keep you up to date with the biggest tech news of the week. Scroll down for quick summaries of everything you want to know and links to more stories so you can stay more informed. if you like.
Don’t come back next week for another ICYMI recap, but for now, let’s move on to our first story. . .
Samsung may not have done enough to replace its foldable product lineup, such as very few camera upgrades and insufficient redesign, but from our perspective, Samsung has taken the most productive of the foldable genre and tweaked and subtle it. All this.
The new look is incredibly stylish and durable, and what the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 lack in primary photography upgrades, they more than make up for with impressive AI improvements. There are so many cool things you can do with those new foldables, like create pro-level art from doodles, load photorealistic elements into images on the Fold 6, and perform incredible symbol edits or load post-capture videos in slow motion. on the Flip 6.
The Fold is more expensive than ever, but those foldable form factors, especially in the case of the Fold 6, give you two devices in one. It would be wonderful if the Z Flip 6’s display did more, but it still scores major points. in terms of tenderness. The Fold 6, on the other hand, is a rugged, big-screen phone with a cute 7. 6-inch tablet tucked inside. In a word, we are conquered.
Countless TV shows like Living With Yourself have explored the concept of cloning yourself to share life’s beloved tasks, and this week, Meta brought the virtual with its new AI Studio. The new US-exclusive feature allows professional Instagram creators to “create an AI as an extension of themselves” to reply to their DMs and story replies.
If that’s not scary enough, you can also create “AI characters” based on your selected interests so you have a virtual gym friend on hand to answer your questions. Meta at least retired its AI celebrity avatars this week. But with similar concepts explored this week via the strange AI Friend Necklace, it definitely feels like we’ve entered a dystopian Black Mirror timeline.
The developer betas of iOS 18. 1, iPadOS 18. 1, and macOS Sequoia 15. 1 have finally shown us an early form of Apple Intelligence, suggesting that rumors about its delay may have been greatly exaggerated.
When it launches, Apple Intelligence promises to provide features such as typing assistance, natural language search, contextual patience in Siri and much more, although not everything that can be had with this first version. It focused on generative writing tools, email summaries, and some natural language search features in Photos, with the creation of Genmoji, photo cleanup, and ChatGPT integration all absent.
Google and Samsung have a significant advantage in the smartphone AI game, and while this gradual arrival is a start, Apple will have to be able to surprise us when iOS 18 fully launches later this year.
It’s almost too surreal to be true, but the viral photo from the 2024 Olympics immortalizes the moment when Brazilian surfing star Gabriel Medina celebrated a near-perfect score of 9. 9 with a “kick-out”: several meters in the air, like a superhero. and perfectly covered next to his surfboard. Taken by French photographer Jérôme Brouillet with the Nikon Z9, the photo will go down in surfing and Olympic history, just like Medina’s individual record.
Despite having a professional camera capable of taking photos at up to 20 fps at full quality or 120 fps with cropped JPEG files, Jérôme had time to capture four photos of the moment, one of which is the one that appears on everyone’s feeds.
Placed in the correct position on a boat, Jerome said capturing the symbol is a matter of “preparation, dedication, timing and a touch of luck,” and we are the lucky ones that all the elements arrived here in combination on this day, there .
We got our first look at the slim, sleek, all-new Google Nest Learning Thermostat, thanks to a TikTok user who managed to get his hands on not one, but three of the unreleased devices. The fourth-generation thermostat has a virtually frameless curved glass front, a metal casing that’s more stainless than plastic, and a customizable display. It’s also smarter than its predecessor and can recommend adjustments to your heating program that will help you save energy.
We’re not sure if the update will be as obvious as dropping your old Learning Thermostat and sliding the new one into the holder, but everything will become clearer at the Made by Google event on August 13.
The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (FDA)The U. S. Centers for Drug Administration (CSPC) has asked Amazon to recall 400,000 harmful parts sold in its store this week. The attractive thing is that those pieces were not sold through Amazon; instead, they are part of more than 60% of sales through independent distributors who simply use Amazon as a virtual marketplace.
Amazon plans to appeal the decision, arguing that it already does enough to protect its customers. However, the CSPC believes that Amazon meets the legal definition of “distributor” and does more.
This move may not only affect Amazon, with potential repercussions for other popular marketplaces like Temu, but we’ll have to see how things play out.
We don’t want to buy a small drone, but DJI is about to test our low solution soon, according to new leaks of its new Neo. If those rumors are correct, the Neo will be the usual lightweight drone and virtually portable without its propeller guards.
What will the Neo actually do? Apparently, its 4K camera and AI-powered subject tracking can make it the ultimate selfie drone for travel photography and video. It’s also conceivable that it’s compatible with FPV (first-person view) headsets so that you’re capable of taking stunning pictures. indoor videos. Anyway, we’ve put the Kinship Circle Cat up for sale in anticipation of a full release soon. . .
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