This week on the Engadget Podcast, we've got our first impressions of Valve's pricey Steam Machine, and we chat about Sony dumping PlayStation discs in 2028.
A long-defunct developer returned from the dead promising to revive the 3DO, but quickly pulled its pledge when it became apparent it didn't have the right to.
Alice Newton-Rex, WhatsApp’s head of product, said she had heard from users that they didn’t always want to share their phone numbers in order to be in contact with others, particularly in group chats.
She said she hoped the feature would „give users control over how they choose to show up“ on the app.
The secure messaging app Signal introduced an identical service in 2024.
Apples RAW-Unterstützung wurde über die Jahre zwar kontinuierlich um neue Kameramodelle erweitert; die Engine verharrte dagegen auf RAW 8. Version 9 ist der erste große RAW-Qualitätssprung seit fast einem Jahrzehnt.
A typical RAW pipeline involves demosaicing (reconstructing full-colour pixels from the captured RGB mosaic), noise reduction and other adjustments. But with RAW 9, demosaicing and AI-powered denoising processes happen simultaneously rather than as separate steps. According to Apple, this produces cleaner, sharper, more detailed results.
Apple showed off some ‘before and after’ examples – see below. The improvements were stark, with eye-popping reductions in noise and meaningful gains in detail. Apple also claimed the new processing is fast and responsive – if more resource-intensive. It’s also easy for app developers to integrate, due to requiring only a few lines of code.
Ich belaste mich nicht mit digitalen Umzugskisten, in denen ein Altbestand an RAWs verstaubt, freue mich jedoch sehr auf künftige Bearbeitungen. Das „eingebaute RAW-Prozessing auf OS-Ebene“ dürften alle Apps, die ich benutze, direkt einbauen.
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