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Insta360’s face-tracking webcams get bigger sensors and more expensive

Insta360 has announced new Pro versions of its Link 2 and Link 2C webcams that first launched in September 2024. As with the previous versions, the new Link 2 Pro and 2C Pro can track the movements of onscreen subjects to ensure they’re always in frame, making them ideal for those presenting on a video […]

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PC shipments just grew unexpectedly amid RAM shortages

The PC market is bracing for a turbulent year ahead, but shipments managed to exceed expectations in the recent holiday quarter. IDC reports that shipments grew nearly 10 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2025, reaching 76.4 million in total. Microsoft’s end of Windows 10 support undoubtedly helped push PC shipments up, but IDC […]

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Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android

Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it’s known to most, will no longer be supported on February 9th and the app won’t be functional after March 9th. The portable scanner features of Lens are available in OneDrive instead, making a […]

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Framework hikes desktop PC prices as RAM shortage drags on

Just weeks after raising the price of its RAM modules, Framework has announced that it’s also increasing the price of its desktop PC in response to the global memory shortage. The Framework Desktop with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen AI Max 385 chip now starts at $1,139, instead of $1,099. “We held off […]

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Meta plans to lay off hundreds of metaverse employees this week

Meta’s Reality Labs team is expected to lose around 10 percent of its staff, with layoffs concentrated on the division’s metaverse employees, as reported by The New York Times. The layoffs are apparently a side effect of Meta’s AI ambitions, which are pulling focus away from its virtual reality division. According to the Times, Meta’s […]

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Baseus’ retractable travel adapter is on sale for more than 50 percent off today

If you’re planning on traveling at all this year, the Baseus EnerCore CG11 Universal Travel Adapter is worth a look. The adapter can power up to six devices at once, and now through the end of today, January 12th, it’s on sale for just $34.19 (about $36 off) at Amazon, matching the all-time low price […]

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UK pushes up a law criminalizing deepfake nudes in response to Grok

The UK is bringing a law into force that makes creating non-consensual intimate deepfake images, like the ones that have proliferated on X because of the Grok AI chatbot, a criminal offense, as reported by the BBC. “The Data Act, passed last year, made it a criminal offence to create – or request the creation […]

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Anker goes big with new whole home backup system

Homeowners in search of grid independence have another option today with the launch of Anker’s Solix E10 big-ass battery system. It joins companies like Tesla and EcoFlow in offering whole-home backup solutions in the US market meant to counter blackouts and reduce monthly energy bills, or even eliminate them completely. The base $4,299 E10 system […]

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Amazon has started automatically upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus

Over the past couple of weeks, users on the r/alexa subreddit have reported getting automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus as a perk for their Prime memberships. The update doesn’t appear to be opt-in, but there’s an option to roll it back. Screenshots of a message from Amazon sent to users state that, “After your device […]

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