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Bringing the total to three fixed-focal-length lenses, the new 32mm f1.2 looks to be the highest quality yet. One of the hardest parts of making an interchangeable-lens camera series attractive to people who use more than just the two basic slow zooms is the process of ramping up the lens selection. It’s been a year [...]

commentary By promoting the celebrity and ingenue music makers on the platform, Twitter is defending its prized “follow graph” against competitors. Twitter #Music is about augmenting its follow graph, an important asset that sets Twitter apart from Facebook and others, with explicit data on what members care about. Twitter’s follow graph is a phrase the company [...]

Terms of service warn users that their $1,500 high-tech specs will be deactivated if they try to resell or loan them to another person. If all you envisioned developing by being an early recipient of Google Glass Explorer Edition was a quick resale profit, think again: Google has rules against reselling the wearable tech without [...]

Smartphone advancements are on the edge of transforming in some crazy ways, but it isn’t like you think. The HTC One has a gorgeous chassis and a ton of camera tricks, the Samsung’s Galaxy S4pauses and unpauses video when you avert your gaze, and in the Lumia 920, Nokia was the first to introduce wireless charging and an ultrasensitive [...]

An Apple hybrid MacBook is an enticing idea. Should the company try to pull it off? Windows 8 hybrids are out in force. Should Apple join the fray or just stay away? An Apple patent, which came to light this week, proposes a convertible laptop featuring — in certain configurations — a touch-capable detachable display and a [...]

Police in South Korea searched the company’s headquarters on Monday as part of an investigation into the alleged technology theft, Bloomberg says. Samsung found itself the target of a police raid in South Korea on Monday over the alleged theft of OLED display panel technology. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency investigated Samsung’s headquarters in Asan, South [...]

Panasonic’s 2013 plasmas promise to be its best range yet, but the company is contemplating shutting the division down. That would be a tragedy for people who care about picture quality.   Panasonic confirmed this week that it’s in discussions over whether it will jettison its plasma TV business. For me, it’s deja vu as yet another [...]

Take a Windows 8 tablet. Add Nvidia graphics. Add a snap-on controller. Add a TV-friendly dock. Suddenly, what was a gaming PC in theory can become a console; suddenly, a tablet becomes a gaming handheld. This is the promise that the Razer Edge provides: a Surface for the gaming set, if you will. It’s a [...]

After using BlackBerry phones for years before switching to an iPhone, I was intrigued to see whether the Z10 could tempt me back. But glitches and a lack of apps left me cold. My story begins back in the spring of 2010, when I first became a BlackBerry user. Two years and four BlackBerrys later, [...]

It looks like the PS4 has a tough uphill climb, but the keys to success are simple enough…if hard to execute. It’s been weeks since the PlayStation 4 event underwhelmed many people. Myself included. But as time has passed, my mind’s become clearer as to why, exactly, I was so disappointed. It’s a challenge for [...]