We’ve gone Plaid #

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Danny and Alex were back together to riff over a the…

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‘Horizon: Zero Dawn’ is reportedly coming to PC this year

Other details on the port are scant at the moment. For instance, we don't know if Sony will include the game's excellent Frozen Wilds downloadable content in whatever base package it sells. However, as with most PC console ports, you'll likely be able to play the game at a higher frame rate than the 30FPS…

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Porn cam network leaked sensitive data for thousands of models

Data leaks by their nature subject people to some kind of unnecessary risk, but this latest could be genuinely dangerous. Researchers at vpnMentor have discovered that a porn cam affiliate network, PussyCash, left nearly 20GB of models' extremely sensitive data exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket. The repository included not only 875,000 keys for different…

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Fujifilm X-Pro3 review: One peculiar camera

These simulations aren't Instagram gimmicks and are often used by pro photographers. If you'd rather not muck around in Lightroom, they'll give you a great, consistent look, in-camera.If you'd rather shoot with RAW and apply your own looks or treatments, Fujifilm's 14-bit RAW files give you plenty of data to work with. Below ISO 6400…

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Bose is closing down all of its US and European stores

All of the Bose retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia will close, marking a total of 119. Elsewhere in the world, 130 stores will remain in Greater China and the United Arab Emirates, with a smattering of other locations in India, Southeast Asia, and South Korea.Bose has not revealed how many employees…

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Star Trek-inspired medical bed could make X-rays more affordable

Where familiar X-ray techniques are effectively analog and involve bulky arrays of rotating tubes, Nanox is using a digital system that's much cooler and can get away with stationary tubes that are much smaller and cheaper. The only thing that needs to move is the gantry holding the X-ray ring as it scans different parts…

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‘1917’ VFX Artists Had to Completely Rethink How Films Are Made

There’s a moment in 1917—the World War I blockbuster which hit cinemas on Friday—where a plane comes crashing down from the sky. Normally, in producing such a scene, the director would have a very important tool in their arsenal in convincing the audience that what they’re seeing is real: the ability to cut to other…

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Apple TV+ Nabs Spike Jonze’s Beastie Boys Doc

Greetings, and welcome to another edition of The Monitor, WIRED’s culture news roundup. This week’s news has been dominated by politics, but there have been a few interesting tidbits to come from the world of entertainment. For one, there’s a new Beastie Boys documentary coming to Apple TV+. For another, Amazon is getting into the…

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