Tag Archives: image

You Now Can Tell DALL

DALL-E, OpenAI’s online service that uses artificial intelligence to generate images from text you type in, now can make bigger images for more creative noodling. When DALL-E first arrived in April, it could turn a text prompt like “portrait of a blue alien that is singing opera,” “3D rendering of a bouldering wall made of …

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Vimgo P10 Ultra

The Vimgo P10 is one of the seemingly countless projectors on Amazon I’m going to christen as “ultra budget.” Its price varies between $200 and $250, similar to the AAXA P8, the cheapest projector we’ve reviewed thus far. To answer the most obvious question up front: Yes, the Vimgo P10 does actually work.  I was all ready with a long …

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Disney Plus’ Cheaper Tier With Ads Set to Guard Its Family

Disney Plus cheaper, ad-supported tier is being designed to safeguard the service’s family-friendly image. The company said Tuesday that the service won’t run any advertising related to politics or alcohol and will keep ads out of sight of preschoolers when it launches in the US late this year. At the tier’s launch, profiles sets up for preschool-age viewers won’t have any …

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Stop Google Photos From Showing Painful or Uncomfortable Memories

If you use Google Photos, you’re probably familiar with the Memories feature, which resurfaces photos from the same date in previous years. While it can be fun to look back and reminisce on certain events, not all memories are ones you’d necessarily want to relive — like a painful breakup, the loss of a loved one or the beginning of …

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Anker Nebula Capsule Pico Projector Review: Phosphorescent Pocket Pal

Let’s say you and the fam are going camping. Maybe it’s a national park, maybe it’s your backyard. Watching a movie under the stars is the perfect end to a summer day, and the Anker Nebula Capsule is miniature ticket to outdoor theater bliss. Smaller than any of the portable projectors we’ve reviewed recently, it’s the size of a can …

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How We Test Projectors

One of the most difficult aspects of shopping for projectors is trying to compare specifications. Does Projector A’s 5,000:1 contrast ratio actually look better than Projector B’s 4,500:1? How much brighter is Projector C’s 1,000 lumens compared to Projector D’s 800? Let me tell you a little secret: These specs are largely meaningless. In broad strokes, sure, a 3,000-lumen projector …

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Customize Your iPhone Home Screen With Aesthetic Apps and Widgets

Apple’s iPhone has always lagged behind Android phones in terms of customizing its home screen, but last year’s release of iOS 14 changed quite a bit. iPhone users now have the ability to create home-screen themes filled with their own unique app icons and widgets. When paired with custom wallpaper, personalized themes can create quite an aesthetic effect. And with …

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Epson Home Cinema LS11000 4K Laser Projector Review: Big Tech Promises

The Epson Home Cinema LS11000 is a higher-end 4K projector powered by lasers rather than the traditional lamps used by most of its competitors. A lamp happens to power Epson’s own Home Cinema 5050 too, a projector we loved and which stays in the company’s lineup. The LS11000 costs $1,000 more and promises a significant leap forward, with more pixels on screen …

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T

The past two years have been a whirlwind for everyone. For T-Mobile, adjusting to the pandemic came on top of wrangling with a new company identity and new CEO. As a company used to playing disrupter in the wireless industry, it faced a few big disruptions of its own.  On April 1, 2020, T-Mobile finally completed its drawn-out merger with …

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iPhone SE vs. iPhone 13 Pro Photo Test: It’s Surprisingly Close

Apple’s iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max have some of the best cameras ever seen on a phone. With its 4K video recording, an ultrawide and a 3x telephoto lens, the two most expensive iPhones in Apple’s lineup can take stunning photos. But, as many of its photographic features like Deep Fusion trickle down to other iPhone models– including the …

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