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The Air Force has captured jaw-dropping footage from inside the eye of Hurricane Melissa, which is expected to cause widespread devastation as it makes landfall in Jamaica.The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the “Hurricane Hunters,” entered the hurricane on Monday morning (Oct. 27) to collect data for the National Hurricane Center, News18 reported.The Hurricane Hunters were met with a gigantic wall of swirling clouds, videos on the social platform X show. The eye appears eerily calm in the videos and has an almost-enchanting quality to it, yet the storm will be anything but for people in its path. The…
Oppo announced the Find X9 and Find X9 Pro in China earlier this month, and now it’s almost ready to take them to global markets as well. The company is live-streaming the global unveiling on YouTube, and you can find the stream embedded below. The event starts on October 28 at 3 PM GMT / UK time, 4 PM in Germany and France, 8:30 PM in India, 8 AM in California, and 11 AM in New York. The duo’s European pricing surfaced last week, with the X9 allegedly starting at €999 and the Pro model going for €1,299. In China,…
The BBC has today announced Doctor Who will return for a Christmas Special in 2026, with news of the next series to be revealed “in due course.” The broadcaster says the special will be written by current executive producer Russell T. Davies, putting to rest more than a year’s worth of doubt.For the unaware, Doctor Who has been a mainstay in the BBC schedules since its 2005 revival, but the BBC felt it couldn’t sustain the show’s budget alone. In 2022, it partnered with Disney, which bankrolled the show in exchange for the right to stream it globally on Disney+.The…
Comparing Our Favorite Vacuum CleanersHonorable MentionsBlack and Decker Dustbuster Flex for $89: This is another cool handheld vacuum that’s great for cars, or even indoor areas like staircases. It has a 4-foot hose, longer than most compact vacuums, and has a handy little charging mount that the accessories clip into. And thank goodness for the charging mount, since the battery only lasts 15 minutes.Dyson Car+Boat Handheld Vacuum for $280: Dyson’s latest handheld vacuum was designed specifically for cars (and boats!) in mind, so if you have a vehicle to clean, this is made for it. It’s got a fantastic battery…
Motorola is about to dunk its feet into the slim smartphone game internationally with the Edge 70, which is expected to be a rebranded X70 Air, a model that made its debut in China earlier this month. As we wait for the global launch, a couple more press renders have been outed showing the Edge 70 and confirming some of its specs – the 4,800 mAh Silicon Carbon battery with 68W wired charging support, the 5.99mm thickness, the 159g weight, and the 50MP main camera. Motorola Edge 70 in Pantone Bronze Green (left) and Pantone Lily Pad…
Sure, you can use your regular laptop for gaming, but those machines won’t really give you the immersive experience you’re hoping for. Even the supposedly powerful machines can struggle when it comes to demanding titles, which is why if you want to game seriously or maybe even work on creative tasks, you need hardware that’s specifically built for this. Asus makes some of the best options out there, and right now, you don’t have to break the bank to grab one. Currently, the Asus TUF F16 Gaming laptop is going for just $1,660, thanks to a 54% discount on its…
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots might give you more accurate answers when you are rude to them, scientists have found, although they warned against the potential harms of using demeaning language.In a new study published Oct. 6 in the arXiv preprint database, scientists wanted to test whether politeness or rudeness made a difference in how well an AI system performed. This research has not been peer-reviewed yet.To test how the user’s tone affected the accuracy of the answers, the researchers developed 50 base multiple-choice questions and then modified them with prefixes to make them adhere to five categories of tone: very…
Amazon has announced an approximately 14,000 person reduction in its corporate workforce. The news follows an earlier report from Reuters that up to 30,000 people could be let go. Amazon has confirmed to Engadget that the 14,000 roles were eliminated today.Amazon declined to comment on which departments are impacted, but Bloomberg reports that layoffs occurred within teams such as video games, logistics, payments and cloud-computing.The impetus for this reduction is, of course, AI. In the announcement, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience and technology, states that Amazon is “performing well” but “that the world is changing quickly.”Galetti…
According to a new report, Apple is about to launch four new apps for iPadOS. These are Pixelmator Pro, MainStage, Motion, and Compressor. They would join Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, both of which arrived on iPadOS in 2023. The four apps that are supposedly coming to an iPad near you are at the moment only available on macOS. Apple acquired professional image editing app Pixelmator Pro this year, while MainStage is a Logic Pro companion app for live performances, Compressor is a Final Cut Pro companion app for compressing audio and video files, and Motion is a…
Spotify has the best music discovery algorithms and the slickest, snappiest user interface. It leads me down rabbit holes to find new artists and old favorites, based on what I’ve already liked and listened to on the app.The free tier, with advertisements, defaults to a low-quality 96-Kbps streaming bit rate, but you can bump that up to 160 Kbps. For $12 a month (a $1 increase from the last time we updated this story in January 2024), the Premium tier ditches ads entirely and streams up to 320 Kbps, which is the standard streaming quality these days. These are bit…