Vivo’s X500 Pro Max has 17 stops of dynamic range and 4K240 slo-mo
Vivo’s X500 Pro Max has 17 stops of dynamic range and 4K240 slo-mo

Vivo’s new X500 flagship phones have arrived in China, and as usual the company’s focus is firmly on photography. The X500 Pro Max – a new tier in its lineup – is the first phone to use new sensors and silicon from Sony and MediaTek that enable impressive dynamic range and slow-motion video recording. The […]

Nuclear Reactors Are Shrinking. Some Will To Float

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at the economics of Tesla’s Cybercab and Mazama Energy’s CEO on the benefits of super-hot-rock geothermal energy

Microsoft Teams is finally boosting security controls to let admins block custom file extensions
Microsoft Teams is finally boosting security controls to let admins block custom file extensions

Microsoft is set to give admins more control over specifically which file types can – and can’t – be shared on Teams.

TypeSafe AI’s Jev offers an alternative to LLMs that claims to be 193x faster and 445x cheaper
TypeSafe AI’s Jev offers an alternative to LLMs that claims to be 193x faster and 445x cheaper

Last week saw the debut of TypeSafe AI’s Jev, its first “System One” model. Rather than chatting with users like conventional LLMs, it’s strictly designed for statement evaluation and decision-making, for programming purposes.

DeepL boss: Being private right now has a "lot of advantages"

The CEO of language translation AIscaleup DeepL has downplayed reports that the company is likely to IPO soon,saying there are a “lot of advantages” to being a private company right now.Speaking on th…

Tesla and Sunrun’s virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid
Tesla and Sunrun’s virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid

Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded.

The dispatch pooled more than 140,000 home bat…

Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs

Corridor focuses on SMBs, which it says traditional brokerages often overlook because small accounts generate lower commissions than larger accounts. 

These are the first five Googlebook laptops
These are the first five Googlebook laptops

Google and partners are finally announcing the first laptops under the new Googlebook banner. There are five models from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo to kick things off. They’re available for preorder starting today and arrive in stores on October 4th. Starting prices range from $899 to $1,299, putting the Googlebooks in the same […]