President Trump and administration officials claimed this week that no classified information about war plans was shared with a journalist, despite The Atlantic report that specific plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen were included in a Signal chat the reporter was inexplicably invited to.
The Atlantic initially declined to publish the exact text of the most specific message sent in advance of the bombings but changed course after the Trump administration’s denials. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters that “nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.” At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that “there was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group.”
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said at the same hearing that “my communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.” Trump himself said the information shared was not classified.
Nearly ten years ago, Netflix moved in to become one of the early adopters of content featuring High Dynamic Range (HDR) with the HDR10 format. Now, the company will finally be including the improved HDR10+ format on both existing and new titles, so long as a device supports the AV1 codec. This will especially be music to the ears of Samsung
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If you’ve got an Android phone, there’s a good chance it’s either one of Google’s Pixels or Samsung’s Galaxies. Luckily, both the entire Pixel 9 lineup and every Samsung Galaxy S25 are discounted for Amazon’s Big Spring Sale event. While Pixels are most well known for their exclusive software features and a unique camera bar, Samsung is instead a great choice for anyone prioritizing camera fidelity or raw performance.
Samsung Galaxy S25
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Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S25, this phone runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy, a custom version of Qualcomm’s reliable mobile chips. It’s also got three rear lenses, including a 50MP wide-angle lens, and a 6.2-inch and 120Hz OLED display. Memory is a generous 12GB, while storage options start at 128GB.
If 6.2-inches isn’t quite big enough for you, there’s also the Galaxy S25+, which shares most of the base model’s specs, but bumps up the screen size to 6.7-inches and the starting storage to 256GB. As a plus, it’s also got a bigger battery (at 4900mAh vs. 4000mAH), which helps make use of its extra size.
Finally, there’s the Galaxy S25 Ultra. This is where that camera pedigree really shows, with the wide-angle lens now being a whopping 200MP, while the Ultra Wide lens jumps from 12MP to 50MP. It also gets an additional, 50MP telephoto lens. But cameras aside, there’s also now a 5000mAH battery, the screen is even bigger at 6.9-inches, and there’s a titanium frame, as well as an included stylus. About the only thing that doesn’t get a bump here is performance—the chip and memory loadouts are the same, although you can chalk that up less to the Ultra being underpowered and the base model being fairly generous on the internals.
Depending on your needs, any of these phones could be a great choice for you, and while Pixel does have its unique Google software, Samsung isn’t slacking there, with One UI 7 coming with a number of exclusive media and notifications features.
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Roboquest VR shows promise with compelling FPS roguelike mechanics, and we recently previewed the PC VR version.
Out of Flat2VR Studios’ six upcoming games, Roboquest VR is easily my most anticipated title yet. I’ll admit that I wasn’t familiar with the flatscreen Roboquest before last year’s announcement, yet the comic book-inspired art style and roguelike gameplay immediately had me intrigued. Now that I’ve gone hands-on with the fast-paced FPS, I’m impressed by what I’ve seen.
Testing this during GDC 2025 with a Pimax Crystal, a futuristic world soon greets me followed by hordes of mechanical foes, and I briefly tried the flatscreen version’s demo for comparison after getting home. Your goal involves navigating procedurally generated environments and taking down bosses, facing some fearsome foes along the way as an upgradeable guardian. After selecting my weapon, I soon got underway across three runs.
My demo was limited to the first biome with little story context beyond destroying these robots, and it’s faithfully adapting the flatscreen game so far. Swapping from mouse and keyboard to motion controls feels great, and some welcome changes include manual reloading. It’s a straightforward process that involves using a face button to empty the clip, grab ammo from over your left shoulder, and slot it in. Nothing too in-depth, but does what you need it to.
Roboquest VR is playable across four difficulty options, and the action certainly feels intense on higher settings. There’s strong enemy variety in the earlier areas, ranging from on-foot troops, aerial drones, and giant bug-like bots with giant laser cannons before reaching the area’s boss. Each robot also suffers from obvious weak spot syndrome, where hitting the red eye deals additional damage.
Two failed playthrough attempts were needed to find my footing, though the action feels great once you get into the swing of it. Roboquest has a way of making you feel badass as you take down these enemy troops. Whether that’s sliding by pushing the right thumbstick in and shooting through these waves or grinding across the rails, you feel stylish knocking them down one by one.
Different weapons spawn on different runs. So far, I’m not quite as sold on the weapon variety, though I understand Roboquest VR is adapting the existing game’s arsenal. The bow and arrow doesn’t feel great to use; it’s rather fiddly and slow when you need speed. However, throwing a hand axe like Kratos does and calling it back can deliver some great kills. That’s also true when blasting through foes with a powerful shotgun or slicing them up with a katana.
It’s clear many UI aspects were still a work-in-progress as development continues adapting the flatscreen game, so I won’t discuss the presentation too much for that reason. However, Roboquest VR remains a frankly gorgeous game with its vibrant cel-shaded art style and while I’m unsure of the PC specs used, the PC VR build’s performance ran smoothly.
I’ll reserve further judgment for the finished release since there’s still more work to be done, but the core gameplay feels like a strong fit for headsets. There’s a satisfying premise that quickly got me invested and if Flat2VR Studios gets this right, I can see Roboquest feeling right at home in VR.
Zwift’s Epic Race Series is known for its longer events, which many find especially welcome on weekends. Heading into April, organizer James Bailey has tweaked the series based on racer feedback. Key changes include:
Mass Start (with categories): these races have always been mass start, to help give everyone someone to ride with. They still are, but riders will be signed up to racing score-based categories.
Riders will be forced into the proper category (to counter some of the complaints about people racing up to reduce their racing score.)
Each category will wear the same kit, so you can easily spot the riders you are racing against.
Apart from the changes above, series distinctives remain: races are around 50km in length, without powerups.
Amazon has updated Kindles with a new way to navigate books. While nothing will recapture the tactile pleasure of physical page turn buttons, anyone with a Kindle running Version 5.18.1 of Amazon’s software will now be able to double-tap the side or back of their e-reader to turn pages.
“Double Tap to Page Turn” can be turned on in the Settings menu under Device Options. Amazon says it works for more than just turning pages. You can also use double taps to scroll through your Home and Library pages, too. Interestingly, the option doesn’t use the touchscreen at all. Good E-Reader speculates Amazon is relying on the accelerometer inside Kindles to detect taps.
Along with the update, Amazon is also adding a feature it calls “Recaps for Books in Series.” These are short summaries “for thousands of bestselling English language Kindle books in series you have purchased or borrowed.” The company already does things like automatically group books from the same series to make them easier to find, but this should save you the trouble of looking up a summary of A Dance with Dragons before diving into The Winds of Winter — assuming it’s ever released.
The 5.18.1 update is rolling out now newer Kindles, like the Kindle Colorsoft, and devices as old as the 10th generation Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite. It will also be available on the last of Amazon’s e-readers to have physical buttons, the Kindle Oasis. If you don’t see it on your device now, you can manually download the update from Amazon’s website and install it yourself.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/the-latest-kindle-update-lets-you-turn-pages-by-double-tapping-175452454.html?src=rss
Microsoft last year announced the open-source Hyperlight project as an embedded VMM for use as a micro-VM manager of sorts that can be run within Windows and Linux applications. This VM-based security for small embedded functions now has its scope expanded with the open-source release today of Hyperlight Wasm for bringing in WebAssembly to the party…
Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder[he]#039[/he]s Edition and in this article are some initial Linux gaming/graphics performance benchmarks for that new graphics card competing with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series.
It might be hard to believe, but it’s nearly April already. Really. Feels like this year has flown by and yet it also feels twice as long as usual. Anyway, as is tradition when we reach the end of a month, Sony has revealed the upcoming free upcoming games for PS Plus members, and next month’s bunch includes the…
While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the “x86/bugs” pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel…
The navigation app Waze is dropping Google Assistant support for iPhones, citing “ongoing difficulties” with integrating the service. The company says it plans on replacing it with an “enhanced voice integration solution” at some point in the future. Google Assistant will still work for Android users.
This is happening a full year after iPhone users began reporting issues related to Google Assistant, with many people noting that voice commands were totally broken. Waze says that it has “not been working as intended for over a year” and that it would rather “phase out Google Assistant on iOS” instead of “patching a feature that has faced ongoing difficulties.”
As previously stated, Google Assistant for Waze will continue to work on Android phones. However, there’s a valid question to be asked about how long Android users will continue to be able to issue voice commands in the app via the digital assistant. Google has pledged to transition users away from Google Assistant to Gemini.
As a matter of fact, the company said that “the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices” as the year winds on. It’ll also no longer be available for downloads on app stores starting later this year. Waze has already begun testing Gemini within the platform, which allows users to use natural language to report traffic incidents.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apps/waze-is-officially-stopping-support-for-google-assistant-on-iphones-173545610.html?src=rss
One of the big selling points of Pokémon Legends: Z-A is that the Switch RPG is bringing back Mega Evolutions. These are temporary transformations that only a handful of Pokémon get that alter their look and give them a major power boost. However, when Game Freak finally showed the game in action, it didn’t reveal any…
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Amazon’s Big Spring Sale is in full swing, and we’ve done some work to weed out the duds and highlight the best deals available—it may not be Prime Day, but the sale still has deals worth checking out.
As Lifehacker’s deals writer, I use price tracking tools to vet deals and will keep rounding up the best tech ones I find throughout the sale. Here are the best deals I’ve found so far:
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1800W (Peak 2400W) Solar Generator, Full Charge in 58 Min, 1056wh LiFePO4 Battery for Home Backup.
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Solar Security Camera, Wireless Security Camera Outdoor, 2K Resolution, Continuous Power.
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AeroFit Open-Ear Headphones$49.99 (originally $129.99). I’ve been using these open-ear headphones around the house and occasionally on runs for over a year. They’re easy to use, sound great for the price and being open-ear headphones, and come with a companion app that makes the experience better with EQ and other features.
Anker Space A40 Earbuds$49.99 (originally $99.99). The A40 have the same companion app as the AeroFit and are a great value for budget ANC earbuds that you can read more about here.
Anker MagGo Magnetic Charging Station$49.99 (originally $99.99). I’m a fan of charging stations because they satisfy both my need for organization and practicality. This one from Anker has MagGo for wireless iPhone charging, three outlets, two USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, and a magnetic pad.
Anker SOLIX C1000 Portable Power Station$449 (originally $999). It’s hard to predict when you’ll need a portable power generator—and when you need one, you usually really need one. This model is from a trusted brand and has a solar generator to make it fully off-grid. At 55% off, it’s a great deal.
Eufy Security SoloCam S220$64.99 (originally $129.99). I love Eufy cameras because they’re subscription-free. The SoloCam S220 also has a solar panel to make it self-sustainable, meaning you can easily install it somewhere with direct sunlight and let it do its thing.
Eufy Digital Bathroom Scale P2 Pro$37.98 (originally $79.99) with code P2PROUSA at checkout. You can buy digital smart scales that read your body fat percentage from any no-brand company for cheap, but why not get it from a trusted brand also for cheap, after a 50% discount?
Roborock Q5 Pro+ Robot Vacuum and Mop$299.99 (originally $699.99). Roborock has a lot of deals on robot vacuums right now, but if you’re looking for a good one with must-have features at a price point under $300, the Q5 Pro+ is it.
Eufy Permanent Outdoor Lights E22$99.99 (originally $199.99). I love outdoor lights and have more than I probably should. These ones from Eufy work on a reliable app and have a wide range of color temperatures (1500K to 9000K).
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The United States has won far more Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry, and medicine than any other nation, with the UK and Germany following in second and third place, according to an analysis of nearly 900 prize-winning publications.
Universities account for roughly three-fourths of Nobel Prize-winning research, with a small number of elite institutions producing a disproportionate share of winners. Cambridge University leads with 32 prizes, followed by Harvard (22) and Columbia (13). While prizes are concentrated among researchers from the US, UK, and Germany, 43 countries have produced at least one scientific Nobel laureate.
Outside Europe and the Anglosphere, Japan leads with 11 prizes, while Argentina, China, and India have only one or two each. The average age of Nobel Prize winners has steadily increased from about 45 in the 1920s to 65 in the 2010s, though the age at which scientists perform their groundbreaking work has remained relatively constant at around 40.
Version
0.11 of the Neovim text editor has been released. Notable changes
in this release include simpler Language Server Protocol (LSP) client
setup, improved tree-sitter performance, better emoji support, and
enhancements for Neovim’s embedded terminal emulator. See the release notes for
a full list of changes.
Canon is expanding its vlogging lineup in a big way with two new models, the R50 V mirrorless and PowerShot V1 compact, both designed to take on cameras in Sony’s vlogging lineup. The PowerShot V1 has an interesting new 1.4-inch sensor that’s considerably larger than the ones on most compact cameras. The R50 V, meanwhile, matches features from Sony’s ZV-E10 II but at a considerably lower price.
PowerShot V1 compact camera
The PowerShot V1 was already announced and released in Japan, but it’s now set to come to North America. It effectively competes with Sony’s ZV-1 II 1-inch sensor compact but has a much larger 1.4-inch 22.3MP sensor that’s roughly the same size as Micro Four Thirds, but with a horizontal aspect ratio better suited for video. That larger size, along with the 17-52mm (3.1x zoom) f/2.8-4.5 lens, should make it superior to its rival in low light while also offering shallower depth of field.
I’ve only had the PowerShot V1 for a day, but it’s heavy for a compact camera at 426 grams (15 ounces) and fairly thick. There aren’t many manual controls other than the top mode dial, a rear setting dial for burst, exposure compensation and other functions, a lens dial for aperture, a camera/video switch and a zoom dial, along with several buttons. It has a 3-inch, one-million-dot fully articulating rear display but no electronic viewfinder, just like the ZV-1 II.
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It can shoot 4K 30 fps supersampled video using the full sensor width, 4K 60p video with a 1.4 times crop or 1080p at 240 fps. Also supported is Canon C-Log3 with 10-bit 4:2:2 capture to improve dynamic range and allow for easier grading. Optical along with digital enhanced stabilization are available and to allay overheating it comes with a built-in cooling fan that allows unlimited shooting times at all resolutions.
Like the ZV-1 II, the PowerShot V1 supports several shooting modes aimed at creators. Those include a “close-up demo mode” that’s equivalent to Sony’s “product showcase,” allowing the camera to quickly focus on an object you hold in front of the camera. Another is “smooth skin mode” for beauty-style shooting, plus “movie IS mode” for vloggers that stabilizes any jolting movements like walking.
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The PowerShot V1 uses Canon’s Dual Pixel II autofocus system with subject detection and face/eye tracking and includes a “subject tracking IS” mode that automatically adjusts cropping to center the subject in the frame. You can use it as a 1080p webcam via the USB-C port, while connecting to your smartphone for live streaming. For photography, it sports a physical mechanical shutter and can shoot bursts at up to 30 fps with autofocus in electronic shutter mode. A welcome feature is a built-in ND filter (equivalent to three stops of light reduction) that will allow creators to add more bokeh on sunny days.
Other features include support for a smallish LP-E17 battery and a single UHS-II card slot along with microphone, headphone and microHDMI connectors. However, the PowerShot V1 isn’t cheap at $900. It’s set to arrive in April 2025.
EOS R50 V
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The R50 V is Canon’s first true mirrorless vlogging-specific camera and is clearly designed to go up against Sony’s ZV-E10 II. It’s slightly taller than the PowerShot V1 but has largely the same dimensions otherwise, and weighs just a bit more if you include the new 14-30mm (21-45mm full-frame equivalent) f/4-6.3 power zoom lens.
It has a nice array of manual controls including a primary control dial on top, a zoom rocker for supported lenses and an unusual mode dial that lets you select multiple custom video and vlogging modes including Movie Auto Slow Shutter, Slow/Fast Motion Recording and Movie IS Mode. For vloggers it has a fully-articulating 3-inch display but again, no electronic viewfinder.
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The R50 V comes with a 24MP APS-C sensor like the EOS R50, while also including features from Canon’s Cinema EOS system like C-Log3 capture and 10-bit 4:2:2 video. It can capture supersampled 4K 30 fps video using the full sensor width, 4K 60p video with a crop or 120 fps 1080p video. It’s not a bad camera for photographers either, letting them shoot 12 fps bursts using the first-curtain shutter or 15 fps with the electronic shutter, all with continuous autofocus enabled.
Like the ZV-E10 II it lacks in-body stabilization but does offer optical stabilization with supported lenses, along with electronic stabilization. For situations that require extra shake reduction, the optical and electronic stabilization modes can be combined and there’s an enhanced IS mode for abrupt movements like walking.
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The R50 V has vlogging-friendly modes like a product showcase-type function along with focus breathing correction. You get Canon’s latest Dual Pixel II autofocus system that includes face and eye detection as well as subject tracking for people, animals and vehicles (along with an auto mode). A dedicated button allows you to livestream instantly with four modes supported: UVC/UAC, HDMI, Camera Connect, and Live Switcher Mobile multi-camera. It comes with a single UHS-II card slot and an LP-E17 battery, along with microphone, headphone, microHDMI and USB-C ports.
The R50 V will cost $650 for the body only or $850 with the new RF-S14-30mm F4-6.3 IS STM PZ lens (sold separately for $330). Canon also announced the $1,700 RF 20mm f/1.4L VCM full-frame lens, the latest in its fast hybrid cinema-friendly series that includes the RF24mm f/1.4, RF 35mm f/1.4 and RF 50mm f/1.4 models. As mentioned, I’ve only had the R50 V and PowerShot V1 cameras for a short time but you can expect a full review of both models shortly.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cameras/canon-goes-all-in-on-vlogging-with-the-powershot-v1-compact-and-r50-v-mirrorless-cameras-170047522.html?src=rss
There is more to Monster Hunter Wilds than taking on gigantic animals with over-the-top weaponry. The Forbidden Lands is teeming with much smaller creatures categorized as Endemic life, and one of the first available side quests tasks you to find a Tracktail Lizard somewhere in the desert.
There’s a new “exciting, small EV” on the way, to be launched early next year by Also, a spinoff of the electric vehicle maker Rivian. Details are light on exactly what that product will be, but don’t go expecting a $20,000 electric hatchback or the like—think more like an e-bike. Also will be into micromobility, not competing with Mini or Smart.
Also started out as an internal project to see if Rivian could use its knowledge of electric powertrains, vehicle electronics, and software to build other “small vehicle form factors.” In fact, in 2023, news broke of a Rivian e-bike in the works at Rivian, although it was unclear if it would be something with pedals or more like an electric motorcycle.
Things are still rather vague. Also’s announcement says its “flagship product” will launch in early 2026 and that the company will focus on the US and Europe at first. It will build “an exciting range of electric vehicles that are efficient, sustainable, and delightful to use,” using in-house technology.
I’ve heard tales of people willingly and happily spending an hour or two—sometimes even three or more—in a game’s character creator. Folks craft celebrity lookalikes, themselves, and their ideal vision of the perfect hero. Personally, I’m in and out in five minutes, ready to play. But what happens if you speed through…
Here’s one more reason to cling to a steady job: It doesn’t pay to quit. From a report: Typically workers who snag a new position see higher pay bumps than those holding down the same job. But in February, median wage growth of 4.4% for job stayers surpassed a 4.2% gain for job switchers, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. The change, as measured by a three-month moving average, is yet another sign of a softening labor market. White collar workers have been clinging to their jobs in the face of widespread layoffs and workplace reductions. Last month, employers announced the fastest pace of job cuts since 2020, when factoring in government job losses. And now an oversupply of job seekers means workers are having to settle for smaller pay bumps, said Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
“That certainly sounds like a big slackening of the job market,” Cappelli said. It’s a major reversal from the “Great Resignation” a few years ago, when workers left their jobs at unprecedented rates, demanding more benefits and higher pay from employers. At a peak in July 2022, workers who got new jobs saw their wages grow by a whopping 8.5% compared to 5.9% for those who stayed loyal to their company, Atlanta Fed data show.
