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Sony ups its new A7R VI to 66.8 megapixels and jumps the price to $4,500 https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/929667/sony-alpha-a7rvi-mirrorless-camera-price-specs
The UK's Royal Household plans to spend £3 million ($4 million) on a new finance system to replace one that is more than 15 years old, the Buckingham Palace-based organization said in a procurement no…
Garmin’s mini satellite communicators are on sale for up to 40 percent off https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/928854/garmin-inreach-mini-2-3-blink-outdoor-4-floodlight-security-camera-deal-sale
Meta Employees Launch Protest Against Mouse-Tracking Tech At US Offices https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/12/2242241/meta-employees-launch-protest-against-mouse-tracking-tech-at-us-offices?utm_sour…
Swatch’s latest luxury collaboration is a $400 pocket watch https://www.theverge.com/tech/929625/swatch-audemars-piguet-x-swatch-royal-pop-pocket-watch
Why does the Googlebook exist? https://www.theverge.com/report/929374/google-googlebook-laptops-aluminium-os-questions-concerns-ai-gemini
Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets Are the pockets of Jeff Bezos not as deep as everyone thinks? https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/blue-origin-may-need-external-…
One of the UK's biggest health regions has doubled down on its decision not to join the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP), owing to concerns over its lead supplier, Palantir, and a lack of evidence fo…
SpaceX has named the earliest date for the next Starship launch – May 19. The company has already completed a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) so the next step is to cross fingers and launch the stainless st…
Microsoft claims to have achieved a "leap forward" in performance for WinUI 3, the current native framework for Windows apps, with a 25 percent improvement for the parts of File Explorer coded using t…
Alexa is moving into Amazon.com https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/929457/amazon-announces-alexa-for-shopping-ai-assistant-rufus
Daredevil: Born Again S2 gives us a darker, grittier canvas Cinematographer Hillary Fyfe Spera on how she kept things visually fresh for Born Again ’s second season. https://arstechnica.com/culture/20…
GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22 GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early…
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The border is everywhere https://www.theverge.com/report/928726/border-security-expo-cbp-ice-dhs-surveillance
Nintendo says it has more Switch 2 games in store for 2026 https://www.theverge.com/games/929527/nintendo-switch-2-release-schedule-2026
Canon’s latest EOS R6 camera goes V for video https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/929377/canon-eos-r6-v-mirrorless-video-camera-price-specs
London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is giving its six-month trial of static live facial recognition (LFR) cameras credit for helping it secure an arrest every 35 minutes. The Met's LFR chief sa…
Microsoft is getting to grips with Windows drivers that leave the operating system in an unstable state with a proactive rollback dubbed "Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery." "When a driver is identified…
Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/rivian-adds-a-new-onboard-a…
Unitree will sell you a massive ‘transformable mecha’ for $650,000 https://www.theverge.com/tech/929487/unitree-gd01-giant-mech-suit-robot
